Recommended Listening Strategies for Audio Recordings.
This introduction has been developed to help you with
- Downloading and installing iTunes.
- Downloading a lecture & playing
it in iTunes.
- Understanding how the lecture was developed.
Downloading and installing iTunes
- A free download of iTunes is available by visiting http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
- At
the Apple iTunes download page choose your operating system, check or
uncheck for email updates, then insert your email address. You can
then click the “Free Download iTunes” button.
iTunes software is a free and you can download and install it
onto a PC or a Mac.
- After the executable for iTunes is downloaded double click
it to begin installing the program.
- Choose
a language, then click the “OK” button.
- Click
the “Next” button.
- Accept
the license and click the “Next” button.
- Click
the “Next” button on the “About” Page.
- Select
your preferences on the options page, then click the “Next” button.
- Select
a folder to install iTunes in, then click the “Next” button.
- Then
click “Next” for
the installation to begin.
iTunes @ PSU - ppt
- First You must have iTunes installed. (Click
her to learn how to install iTunes)
- Then click the link to iTunes U in your class
in ANGEL. This will take you into the iTunes music store
- You may need to authenticate (enter your Penn
State Access Account User ID and Pass Word) to enter into your
class in iTunes. This will launch iTunes on your computer and
take your into PSU's iTunes U.
- Then you can subscribe to your class podcast.
Later you will be able to sync and download future updates for
your class.
- Later, you will be able to

Understanding how the lecture was developed
This lecture was recorded using a microphone with an iPod. So,
you will be able to download the recording and drop it into iTunes
and even synch your iPod to iTunes to take the lecture with you.
But an iPod is not required to listen to the lecture.
You can listen to the
podcast with just your computer, iPods and mp3 players are not
needed if you do not have one. But you will be able to move the
lecture file into iTunes
and sync with an iPod.
Additional Information
Penn State on iTunes
- https://itunes.psu.edu/
Podcasts at Penn State
- http://podcasts.psu.edu/