Importing Audio Book files into iTunes

You will need iTunes, your iPod, and the Companion Audio .zip files.

You will import the mp3 files into the iPod using iTunes. First, you will create a temporary playlist on the iPod. Then you will copy the files from the CD into this playlist. Next, you will sort the playlist into proper order and createa new, permanent playlist. Finally, you will clean up and delete the temporary playlist. Once you are done you will have have the Classroom Companion in mp3 audio on your iPod.

• Step 1: Create a temporary playlist on the iPod
  • Start iTunes and connect your iPod t your computer.
  • Click on the iPod icon on the left panel in iTunes and click on the new Playlist button, a new playlist will be created. We will use this to temporarly hold the files we import.
    
    
• Step 2: Copy files from the CDROM to the temporary iPod playlist
  • Next we will import the mp3 files from the CD-ROM into the iPod playlist we created.
    • Expand the .zip file of topic 1 audio using the Stuffit Expander software.
    • Select the 'topic 1 audio' folder and drag and drop it on the temporary iPod playlist
  • After you do this, iTunes will import the mp3 files into the playlist and the iPod. You can watch its progress in the song information panel. Once complete you will have all the files within the temporary playlist.
    
    
• Step 3: Create the final playlist after sorting the temporary playlist
  • Next we will create our final playlist. We do this by sorting our temporary playlist, selecting all the items in it, and then choosing the 'New Playlist From Selection' from the File menu. (note: this step is necessary due to a bug in iTunes. Newly created playlists do not seem to remember their sort order)
    • Sort the temporary playlist by clicking on the album column. In the Companion software, topic is equal to an 'album'. Therefore, we want to have the topics arranged in sequenial order.
    • Click on an item in the playlist and select Edit > Select All. All items in the playlist will be highlighted.
    • Next choose File > New Playlist From Selection
  • This will create a new playlist with the newly sorted items. Name this playlist 'Topic 1'.
    
    
• Step 4: Delete the temporary playlist.
  • The last step is to erase the temporary playlist you used to import the files.
    • Click to select the temporary playlist
    • Select Edit > Clear to delete th playlist.
      
      
• Step 5: Repeat these steps to import the next Topic files.
  

To import additional topic files, download the needed topic .zip file and repeat the steps outlined above.

Congratulations! You have successfully imported the Classroom Companion audio mp3 files to iTunes and to your iPod.

Using other MP3 Players

You can play the Companion audio files in any mp3 device or software. You are not limited to the iPod. This makes Companion files adaptable as the audio technology changes.

If your device supports ID3 tags, you will see the book and chapter information. Each book is grouped as if it were an 'album'. Sort your player files.

The following list provides an idea of the range of devices and software that can plaback the mp3 files:

• iTunes
• windows media player
• real audio player
• winamp software
• archos jukebox
• and many more (search google for "mp3 players" or "mp3 software"

Because the Classroom Companion iPod audio files are encoded as mp3 files, you can play them using any mp3 player.

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