iPod mini MP3 Music Player - Apple Manual Support Features Review Guide

This season’s must-have accessory? Your music. Listen in style with iPod mini. Like any classic fashion icon, iPod mini goes with everything: Macs, PCs, sequins and tees. And with up to 18 hours of battery life, it’ll outlast the latest trend. Choose from 4GB or 6GB (super)models in kicked-up colors and show off your music collection.

From Runway to Subway

Weighing in at just 3.6 ounces and showing off in three new shades, iPod mini fits your lifestyle and your bag, whether it be cocktail purse or messenger duffle. The chic, matte anodized aluminum case resists stains and scratches, all the while protecting your iPod mini — from, say, the jostle of overzealous paparazzi. Recessed in the case to keep its surface pristine, the 1.67-inch (diagonal) backlit screen displays full song and album titles, artists’ names and more. And iPod mini lasts up to 18 hours on a single charge⁽¹⁾: enough for a transatlantic flight, the limo ride to your hotel and a few solid hours of boutique shopping. Of course, iPod mini works just as well for your everyday pursuits. With up to 25 minutes of skip protection, you can even walk the dog in style.

Music is the New Black

Set your iPod mini to stun with more vibrant color choices to fit every mood (or outfit). Whether you prefer “Pretty in Pink” or “Yer Blues,” iPod mini turns heads with every tune you play. Find the hue that suits you. Love The Clash but hate to clash? Not to worry. Now even the Click Wheel control icons match your iPod mini.

Put on Some Tunes

So light and colorful, iPod mini yearns for the limelight. Indulge in a little scene-stealing yourself when you wear your music on your sleeve...or around your neck. With optional accessories, including a stylish lanyard and mix-and-match armbands, your iPod mini becomes an ensemble essential. Wear it running a trail or walking the red carpet. iPod mini complements any look, from track suit to tiara.

Under Your Thumb

Always striving for perfection, Apple engineers moved the iPod’s buttons under the wheel. The iPod mini Click Wheel — complete with color-coordinated icons — takes best advantage of miniscule space and lets you scroll single-handedly through up to 1,500 songs from your iTunes music collection. You’ll find such thoughtful construction only from Apple. Because, try as they might, the competition can’t touch this.

One-Stop Song Shop

Build a collection of music on your iPod mini with songs downloaded from the iTunes Music Store. Choose from more than one million songs and more than 9,000 audiobooks, any of which you can preview and buy with just one click. The iTunes Music Store stays open 24/7 — right on your Mac or Windows PC. Within a minute of finding a song you like, you can own it. Make unlimited playlists, burn individual songs to CD as many times as you’d like and take all your music with you wherever you and your iPod mini rove.

Sync to Fit

With iTunes 4.8 you can easily organize your music on your Mac or Windows PC and automatically transfer it to iPod mini. Whether you’ve imported your CD collection in MP3 format, bought music from the iTunes Music Store or created your own original compositions with GarageBand, you can take it all with you. Your iPod mini includes a USB 2.0 cable for high-speed transfer from your Mac or PC. In fact, you can move an entire album from your computer to your iPod mini in seconds flat. With the industry’s only true Auto-Sync, your iPod mini is always up to date, mirroring the latest changes you’ve made in iTunes. And if the collection on your computer is bigger than iPod mini, you can let iTunes automatically choose a selection of songs to fill it up.

Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced. Battery life and number of charge cycles vary by use and settings.

Sure, iPod mini takes your music places: Cruising in the car, relaxing in the backyard, jogging along the beach. But with up to 6GB of storage, it holds a lot more than songs. Think of iPod mini as a stylish electronic attaché. Pack it up and carry on.

Easy Listening

iPod mini includes features that make it even easier to access — and have fun with — your music. Take, for example, the Apple Click Wheel. With the Click Wheel, which debuted on iPod mini, you can select playlists, scroll through a long list of albums or artists and choose just the song you want to hear without ever lifting your thumb from the wheel. Taking a long trip? iPod mini offers up to 18 hours of battery life.⁽¹⁾ And with the 25 minutes of skip protection iPod mini provides, you can jump for joy and the music will keep playing.

More for Your mini

iPod mini lets you do more than enjoy your music. Much more. For example, you can use the included USB 2.0 cable or optional FireWire cable (sold separately) to connect iPod mini to your computer and copy files. Word documents. Keynote presentations. Excel spreadsheets. Photoshop files. You name it. After all, iPod mini has up to 6GB of hard drive space⁽²⁾, and while you’ll want to reserve most of it for your music and audiobooks, you may also like to use a bit of it to tote documents, too.

Where Am I at 2 p.m. Tuesday?

If you’ve ever forgotten a dental appointment, you’ll be pleased to hear that iPod mini also lets you take your calendar with you. Many applications — iCal, Microsoft Entourage and Palm Desktop, to name a few — export calendar files in vCalendar or iCalender formats, both of which iPod mini supports.

Sorry, Wrong Number

Little black address books are so last millennium. Thanks to its support for industry-standard vCard files, iPod mini lets you store and access all your important contact information — names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses — with the spin of its handy Click Wheel.

Play Games

You know what they say about all work and no play. Navigate to Extras and you’ll find Games: Music Quiz, Solitaire, Brick and Parachute, four popular games you can play anywhere (like when you’re waiting for the movie to start at the multiplex).

Store Text Notes

You’ve got playlists. You’ve got To-do Lists. And you can carry both with you on iPod mini. iPod’s Notes Reader lets you take text-based information — such as news downloaded off the web, stock tips, your workout regimen, restaurant reviews, directions, even your shopping list — with you on your travels. Just transfer it via FireWire or USB 2.0 to iPod from your Mac or PC.

Rise and Shine

Did you know that iPod mini has a sleep timer that lets you fall asleep to music? And if you like to wake up to music or need the blare of an Alarm Clock to jolt you awake, iPod is just as accommodating. You’ll find settings for the Alarm Clock and Sleep Timer in the Extras menu. Both features work very well, by the way, when you connect a pair of portable speakers made just for iPod mini.

Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced. Battery life and the number of charge cycles vary by use and settings.

The digital shelves of the iTunes Music Store are stocked with more than 9,000 audiobooks, so you can catch up on your reading wherever iPod mini takes you. And your iPod mini will set a bookmark for you when you stop “reading,” letting you pick your book up right where you left off.

During Your Commute

Eliminate road rage: Play music from your iPod mini through your car stereo speakers.
Take the edge off your bus or train ride with some music played through noise-reduction headphones.

At Work

Store files you’d like to take home or review with a client.
Stay organized on the road: Keep your calendar, contacts and to-do lists on iPod mini.

At Home

Connect iPod mini to powered speakers or a stereo system.
Purchase music from the iTunes Music Store and use Auto-Sync to transfer it to iPod mini from your Mac or PC.

On Campus

Save space in your dorm room: Connect iPod mini to a pair of powered speakers.
Download lessons from your language lab and practice between classes.
Don’t miss class: Use iPod mini’s built-in Alarm Clock to get you out the door in time
Transfer assignments from your dorm to a computer lab — and vice versa.

On Vacation

Hike the backcountry with up to 18 hours of battery life.⁽¹⁾
Listen to your favorite tunes in the car or cruising at 30,000 feet.
Download guides to restaurants and other attractions.
Bring portable speakers and use iPod mini as a travel alarm.

At Play

Create playlists that will raise the roof at any party.
Take requests and create On-the-Go Playlists.
Stay motivated at the gym with hours of music.

Technical Specifications: iPod mini

Capacity

4GB or 6GB hard disk drive⁽¹⁾
Holds 1,000 to 1,500 songs in 128-Kbps AAC format⁽²⁾
Stores data via FireWire or USB 2.0 hard drive

Display

1.67 inch (diagonal) liquid crystal display with blue-white LED backlight
138 x 110 pixel resolution, 0.22-mm dot pitch
Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Audio

Up to 25 minutes of skip protection
Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (32 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV
Upgradable firmware enables support for future audio formats

Headphones

Earbud-style headphones with 18-mm drivers using Neodymium transducer magnets
Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Impedance: 32 ohms

Mac system requirements

Macintosh computer with USB 2.0 or FireWire port
Mac OS X v10.2.8 or v10.3.4 or later

Windows system requirements

PC with FireWire or USB 2.0 port, or FireWire or USB 2.0 card
Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2

Customizable settings

Customize main menu
Create multiple On-the-Go playlists
Adjust audiobook playback speed
Clicker playback through headphones
Rate songs
Shuffle songs or albums
Repeat one or all
Sound Check on or off
20 Equalizer settings
Backlight timer
Display contrast
Alarms on, off or silent
Sleep timer
Date and time
Display time in menu bar
Contacts sort and display by first or last names
Clicker on or off
Menu Languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Display Song, Artist and Album Info in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Ukrainian

Environmental requirements

Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C)
Non operating temperature: -4° to 113° F (-20° to 45° C)
Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)

Input and output

Dock connector
3.5-mm stereo headphone jack
Wired remote connector

Power and battery ⁽³⁾

Built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery
Playtime: Up to 18 hours when fully charged
Standby time: 1 month when fully charged
Charging via USB 2.0 or FireWire to computer system or power adapter
- Fast-charge time: about 2 hours (charges up to 80% of battery capacity)
- Full-charge time: about 4 hours

Size and weight

Height: 3.6 in
Width: 2.0 in
Depth: 0.5 in
Weight: 3.6 oz (103 g)

1GB = 1 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity less.
Capacity based on 4 minutes per song and 128-Kbps AAC encoding.
Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced. Battery life and number of charge cycles vary by use and settings.
iPod and iTunes are for legal or rightholder-authorized copying only. Don’t steal music.

Fast, effortless, simple. That’s Auto-Sync. To keep your iPod mini filled with the newest tracks in your iTunes library, just plug it in. iPod mini and iTunes take care of the rest.

iTunes for Your Tunes

Whether you use a Windows PC or a Mac, iPod mini offers a superior solution. You can synchronize your music and data effortlessly, without having to tweak settings each time you transfer files between iPod mini and your computer. Simply add new music to iTunes by downloading it from the integrated iTunes Music Store or importing it from your CDs in MP3, AAC, or the new Apple Lossless format. Mac owners’, can also export their GarageBand compositions to their iTunes music library.

Transfer Your Music Automatically

Once you connect iPod mini to your Mac or PC, iTunes automatically begins to update its contents. You don’t even have to press a button. iTunes becomes aware that you’ve connected iPod mini and displays it in the Source column. In fact, you can see your music and playlists at a glance. If your iTunes library exceeds the storage capacity of iPod mini, you can let iTunes fill it for you. iTunes will create a playlist that fits your style — and your iPod mini’s capacity. iTunes also notes the presence of any On-the-Go playlist you may have created on iPod mini and syncs it to the iTunes library on your Mac or PC. For finer control over your portable music collection, you can turn off Auto-Sync and select the songs you want to tote on your iPod mini manually.

Fast Transfer Times, One Simple Connector

iPod mini can transfer the contents of an entire CD in as little as ten seconds, so even if you change the entire contents of iPod mini, you won’t be waiting very long at all. Of course, total time varies depending on how much music you want to add or replace. The handy dock connector found on the bottom of iPod mini lets you connect it to your computer, recharge the battery and sync files blazingly fast via the included USB 2.0 cable or optional FireWire 400 cable (sold separately).

The Versatile Dock

Apple makes a dock — the iPod mini Dock — expressly for iPod mini. You can order it directly from the Apple Store when you purchase your iPod mini or afterwards, if you prefer. The Dock makes charging and syncing easier than ever. Leave the iPod mini Dock connected to your Mac or PC via USB 2.0 or FireWire. Then, when you’re ready to charge or Auto-Sync, just dock your iPod mini, and iTunes will automatically get to work. You can also connect the iPod mini Dock to a stereo system or pair of powered speakers.

With iTunes 4.8 you can:

Copy photos to and view them on an iPod photo
Search for duplicate songs and, delete those you’d like
Receive an “Artist Alert“ when music by your favorite artists arrives on the iTunes Music Store
Stream music wirelessly to your home stereo or powered speakers using AirPort Express with AirTunes
Print CD inserts complete with album cover art
Easily backup your music on CDs or DVDs
Create mixes automatically with Smart Playlists
Burn CDs at full speed
Play the DJ with Party Shuffle
Find new music on the iTunes Music Store with Quick Links
Import music in Apple Lossless for highest quality audio at about half the space of uncompressed audio
Publish your playlists as an iMix on the iTunes Music Store

On-the-Go Playlists

Inspiration can strike any place and any time. When you’re sitting in front of your computer, or while you’re waiting at the bus stop or standing in line at the post office. Now you can seize those opportunities and create an On-the-Go playlist just by selecting the title of a song, album, or existing playlist using iPod mini’s Click Wheel and holding down the Select button until the title flashes. Found a song that just isn’t playing nicely with the other tunes in a playlist. Use iPod mini’s Click Wheel to delete it on the fly. Best of all, iTunes will Auto-Sync your new On-the-Go playlist the next time you connect iPod mini to you Mac or PC.