By keeping your player up-to-date with the latest software, you could give your iPod a performance boost. As it finds ways to better battery life, it rolls those tweaks into its iPod software updates. Use the Latest iPod SoftwareĚpple continues to work on increasing battery efficiency. Press Command-V to paste in the second part of your track, and export this as well. (Later on, you can open iTunes and convert the files you created in GarageBand to AAC or MP3 format.) Next, delete the first part of the track (the one you just exported). Select Share: Send Song To iTunes, which will save the remaining segment as an AIFF file in iTunes. Choose Edit: Split, select the second half of the track, and press Command-X to cut it. To do that, drag the track into GarageBand to import it and then move the playhead to the spot where you’d like to split it. If you want to play long tracks-endless podcasts, for example-consider using an audio editor such as Apple’s GarageBand to split files into shorter segments.

You can adjust these settings by going to iTunes: Preferences: Advanced: Importing and choosing an encoder from the Import Using pop-up menu.

To create slim files, use iTunes’ AAC or MP3 encoder to rip CDs or convert uncompressed audio files. That’s why Apple recommends that you stick to playing files that are under 9MB. With larger files-for instance, those encoded in the AIFF, WAV, or Apple Lossless format-the hard drive has to spin up more frequently, thus draining the battery more quickly. To preserve battery life, the iPod spins up that drive, loads data into a 32MB SDRAM chip (the 60GB fifth-generation iPod is the only one with a 64MB chip), and then spins down the drive. While you’re in the Settings menu, make sure that Sound Check and Backlight Timer are both set to Off.Īvoid Large Audio FilesĚll iPods except the shuffle and the nano store files on a hard drive. This tells the iPod to ignore any equalizer settings your tracks might contain. Just navigate to Settings: EQ and choose Flat. If you’ve added equalizer effects to songs in iTunes (by clicking on the Equalizer button at the bottom of the window and applying one of the settings), it’s easy to undo them on your iPod.

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