iPod is a line of portable media players created by and marketed by Apple Inc.

The iPod line was announced by Apple on October 23, 2001, and released on November 10, 2001.

Discontinued models of the line include the iPod mini and the iPod photo, the former being replaced by the iPod nano, and the latter reintegrated into the main iPod line ( now the iPod classic ).

While the iPhone and iPad have essentially the same media-player capabilities as the iPod line, they are generally treated as separate products.

The iPod line came from Apple's " digital hub " category, when the company began creating software for the growing market of personal digital devices.

As ordered by CEO Steve Jobs, Apple's hardware engineering chief Jon Rubinstein assembled a team of engineers to design the iPod line, including hardware engineers Tony Fadell and Michael Dhuey, and design engineer Jonathan Ive.

In early 2006, BMW released a line of free " BMW Audiobooks " to take advantage of the iPod / mp3-player revolution ( and the fact that most BMW's came with the " iPod connector " pre-installed in their vehicles ).

It was the midrange model in Apple's iPod product line.

The game has also had a rerelease for the iOS line: The iPhone, The iPod Touch, and the iPad.

* qNormal: Command line tool written in Java, replaces the metadata tag which is used by iTunes and iPod music players for Sound Check volume normalization.

It was merged back into the standard iPod Classic line within eight months of its introduction on June 28, 2005 as the iPod ( with color display ).

iPod docking line: JBL On Stage Micro Blk, OS-400BLK, JBL On Time 400IHD, JBL On Time 200ID, JBL On Stage 400ID, JBL On Stage Micro Silver, JBL On Stage Micro Black, JBL On Stage III, JBL On Stage IIIP, JBL On Stage 200ID

In recent years, the company has expanded the Smartset line adding models with features including a time projector, Infrared touchless snooze control, CD-R / CD-RW, and an integrated " Made for iPod " top-mounting docking station.

Newer PDAs, such as the HTC HD2, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod Touch, and Palm Pre, Palm Pre Plus, Palm Pixi, Palm Pixi Plus, Google Android ( operating system ) include more advanced forms of touchscreen that can register multiple touches simultaneously.

Apple iOS devices, like the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, can use Apple's MobileMe subscription service to synchronize calendar, address book, mail account, Internet bookmark, and other data with one or more Macintosh or Windows computers using Wi-Fi or cellular data connections.

It can also play Speex files on supported players, such as the Apple iPod or the iRiver H10.

Fifth and sixth generation iPod classics, as well as third generation iPod nanos, can additionally play MPEG-4 ( H. 264 / MPEG-4 AVC ) and QuickTime video formats, with restrictions on video dimensions, encoding techniques and data-rates .< ref > The restrictions vary from generation to generation ; for the earliest video iPods, video is required to be Baseline Profile ( BP ), up to Level 1. 3, meaning most significantly no B-frames ( BP ), a maximum bitrate of 768 kb / s ( BP Level 1. 3 ), and a maximum framerate of 30 frame / s at 320 × 240 resolution.

Current specifications can be seen at iPod classic Technical Specs, and practical implementations can be seen in the libx264-ipod320. ffpreset and libx264-ipod640. ffpreset preset files for FFmpeg, as discussed in

Numerous video clips show interviews and performance footage, and extensive commentary and additional recordings are available via iPod audio guides ( specially programmed iPods that can be rented, for a fee, from a desk on the second floor ).

| XM Radio Online ( XMRO ), XM's Internet radio product, offers many of XM's music stations and can be accessed from any Internet connected Windows or Macintosh computer, or via the iPhone / iPod Touch SIRIUS XM app.

I guarantee you it will be hard to sell an iPod five or seven years from now when every cell phone can access your entire music library wherever you are.

iPhoto can also sync photo albums to any iPod with a color display.

It is officially supported on the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod Touch ( 4th and 5th generations ), iPad 2, and iPad ( 3rd generation ), but hackers have discovered that it can be installed manually on older devices using Apple's iPhone Configuration Utility application.

Keynote Remote is an iOS application that can control Keynote presentations from an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad over a Wi-Fi network or Bluetooth connection, and was released through the app store with a price of $ 0. 99

The 5th and 6th generation Apple iPod Nano has a built-in accelerometer in a Fitness app that can be used to record walking steps and runs.

( However, each iPod / iPhone can only have tracks from a maximum of five different iTunes accounts )

First, they employ the user keys from either the Apple servers, the iTunes key repository, or the iPod key repository, which ensures they can decrypt only files that are legally bought ; a user cannot use these applications to decrypt files that another user bought.

The villains are Lord iEvil ( not surprisingly, Monkey again ) and a " tiny, harmless " iPod which can transform into a giant robot ( unless the hold button is on ).

The recent development of an application played on iPhone / iPad / iPod touch to play lion dance instruments has contributed to the evolution of how people can play lion dance music.

* Small FM radio transmitters designed to hook to the audio output of an iPod or other portable audio device and broadcast the audio so that it can be heard through a car audio system that is not equipped with an audio input.

All devices with software audio decoding that are supported by Rockbox, including older revisions of iPod, can also play Musepack files.

ArtScroll has announced plans to produce a mobile app that can be accessed on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.

* Q7 offers a feature marketed as AMI, or Audi Music Interface, to allow user manipulation of an iPod or similar MP3-style player, which can play through the main sound system.

* In the movie Tropic Thunder, Tugg Speedman, portrayed by Ben Stiller, can be seen watching the fight between Captain Kirk and the Gorn on his iPod.

* Apple iPod range of music players do not support WavPack out of the box, but can through open source Rockbox firmware.

Rather than allow people to strip the DRM, DoubleTwist would license the ability to apply FairPlay to media companies who wanted their music and videos to play on the iPod, without having to sign a distribution contract with Apple .< ref >

This makes sure that the iPod has everything it needs to play the encrypted AAC audio stream.

The Harmony technology is built into RealPlayer and allows users of the RealPlayer Music Store to play their songs on the iPod.

It also included Jam Session, a feature that enables up to 4 iPhones, iPod touches, and / or iPads with GarageBand installed to play simultaneously.

For example, the interactivity of an iPod is not its physical shape and colour ( its so-called " design "), its ability to play music, or its storage capacity — it is the behaviour of its user interface as experienced by its user.

Apple devices such as iPod, iPad and iPhone cannot play Flash games as the technology is not supported.

Released on January 11, 2005, the first-generation iPod Shuffle weighed and was designed to be easily loaded with a selection of songs and to play them in random order.

iPod Shuffle cannot play music from music video files.

Nearly all DAPs consists of some kind of display screen, although there are exceptions, such as the iPod Shuffle, and a set of controls with which the user can browse through the library of music contained in the device, select a track, and play it back.

* ( 2005 ) One of the catchphrases for Apple's iPod shuffle is " Random is the new order ", which may be a double play on words.

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