what is ipod.?

Answer 1

The iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Computer. Devices in the iPod family are designed around a central scroll wheel (except for the iPod shuffle) and the full-sized model stores media on an internal hard drive, while the smaller iPod nano and iPod shuffle use flash memory. Like many digital audio players, iPods can also serve as external data storage devices. Apple chose to focus its development on the iPod's simple user interface and its ease of use, rather than on technical capability.

As of 2006, the lineup consists of the 5th generation iPod that plays videos; the smaller, second generation iPod nano; and the display-less iPod shuffle. These models were updated in 2006.

The bundled software used for transferring music, photos and videos is called iTunes. As a jukebox application, iTunes stores a comprehensive library of music on the user's computer and can play, burn, and rip music from a CD. The most recent versions have photo and video synchronization features.

The iPod is currently the world's best-selling digital audio player and its worldwide mainstream adoption makes it one of the most popular consumer brands. Some of Apple's design choices and proprietary actions have, however, led to criticism and legal battles.

Answer 2

An iPod is a portable device for storing and playing audio files encoded by MP3 or AAC compression algorithms. Designed by Apple Computer, iPods have distinctive styling and can hold anywhere from a few hundred to ten thousand songs.

Released in 2001, the original iPod came with a body of white Lucite and chrome. Two years later Apple released the iPod Mini, approximately one-third the size of the original iPod and encased in a variety of shiny metallic colors. The smallest member of the iPod family, the Shuffle, reduced the size down to that of a package of stick gum and looked very much like the original. All iPods came with distinctive white headphones.

The larger iPod and the iPod Mini use an extremely small hard disk for storage. The Shuffle uses a type of memory known as flash; unlike the memory found in computers, flash memory does not lose its contents when the power is turned off. As the prices and capacities of both hard disks and flash memory continue to fall, the storage capacity of all three models has increased over time.

Apple's iPod continued the company's tradition of creating technology that is easy to use. When connected to a personal computer (PC), Windows or Macintosh, the iPod communicates with a piece of Apple software called iTunes. The iPod and iTunes work together to synchronize the songs available on the iPod to those available on the PC. This happens automatically, without any intervention being required from the user. This ease of use was a primary reason for the iPod's domination of the portable MP3 player market.

In addition to playing MP3 audio files, the iPod plays AAC. AAC, or Advanced Audio Coding, was developed by Dolby Labs as part of the MPEG-4 audio/video standard. While technically advanced as a compression algorithm, AAC's principle difference from MP3 is its ability to support Digital Rights Management (DRM). DRM is a response to the type of song sharing first enabled by websites like Napster. By encoding legally purchased songs with digital signatures, it increases the difficulty of sharing them inappropriately.

Answer 3

Ipod means Intelligent Playlist on Demand.

This is a strategic initiative of apple to enter the mobile music lovers market, just like the Sony Walkman years ago. The system uses flash memory, or hard disk memory to store songs recognised in different formats. Most popular being MP3. and uses its enhanced platform to play those files in a specified format.

The storage depends upon the model you choose, and ranges from 512 MB to even 60 GB. Not only songs but you can even use Ipod as data storage device.

Answer 4

The generic brand iPod refers to a class of portable digital audio players designed and marketed by Apple Computer. (Hewlett-Packard also markets the product under the name Apple iPod + HP.) Devices in the iPod family offer a simple user interface designed around a central scroll wheel. Most iPod models store media on a built-in hard drive, while a lower-end model, iPod shuffle, relies on flash memory. ...

Answer 5

The iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Computer. Devices in the iPod family are designed around a central scroll wheel (except for the iPod shuffle) and the full-sized model stores media on an internal hard drive, while the smaller iPod nano and iPod shuffle use flash memory. Like many digital audio players, iPods can also serve as external data storage devices. Apple chose to focus its development on the iPod's simple user interface and its ease of use, rather than on technical capability.

As of 2006, the lineup consists of the 5th generation iPod that plays videos; the smaller, second generation iPod nano; and the display-less iPod shuffle. These models were updated in 2006.

The bundled software used for transferring music, photos and videos is called iTunes. As a jukebox application, iTunes stores a comprehensive library of music on the user's computer and can play, burn, and rip music from a CD. The most recent versions have photo and video synchronization features. These features open up the possibility of playing back standard definition quality television and movies from the iPod onto a television set. In addition to iTunes others sources of legal television content prepared for iPods include Mobovivo and Google. Many of these services work only in the US, including iTunes.

The iPod is currently the world's best-selling digital audio player and its worldwide mainstream adoption makes it one of the most popular consumer brands. Some of Apple's design choices and proprietary actions have, however, led to criticism and legal battles.

The iPod can play MP3, M4A/AAC, Protected AAC, AIFF, WAV, Audible audiobook, and Apple Lossless audio file formats. The 5th generation iPod can also play MPEG-4 (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC), .mp4 and QuickTime video file formats, with restrictions on video dimensions, encoding techniques and bitrates. Apple does not support Microsoft's WMA audio format – unlike many other media players – but a converter for non-DRM WMA files is provided with the Windows version of iTunes. MIDI files cannot be played, but can be converted to audio files using the "Advanced" menu on iTunes. Alternative open-source audio formats, such as Ogg Vorbis and FLAC, are not supported, possibly because they were not developed by media standards bodies (such as the MPEG group) of which Apple is a member.

Each time an iPod connects to its host computer, iTunes can synchronize music playlists or entire music libraries and the user can choose for automatic or manual synchronization. Song ratings can be set on the iPod and synchronized later with the iTunes library.

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Answer 6

Hi
iPod is a device used to listen to music. U can store in audio and video files in it ( imported or copied from a computer ). The main or famous product is from Apple ( I have addedd the link of the website).

U hav iPods in different memory capacities.
And even u have iPods seperately for Audio and Video.

U hav
iPod Nano
iPod Shuffle
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U use iTunes(a software) to download music from system to iPod.

Now in market more companies have released PODs.

Answer 7

the only thing thats different from and iPOD and an MP3 player is the looks..i have an MP3 player and its just as good as an iPOD. itunes is where you buy music. and it does cost money..but for my mp3 player i can download songs..so there pretty much free.

Answer 8

mp4 player...
can play video.. watch movies.. picture slide show...
and play music..
with variable disk spaces....

from iPod Shuffle, Nano, and Video...