Browsing in the iPod Library

You’ve already seen the Browser a couple of times. Now it is time to put it to work:
1. Select the Library on the Source List.

2. If the Browser isn’t showing, click the Action button, which is now labeled Browse (it looks like an eye). The Browser will appear. The Browser has three columns: Genre, Artist, and Album. The columns start on the left with the most general category, Genre, and end on the right with the most specific category, which is Album. If you don’t see the Genre column in the Browser, open the General pane of the iTunes Preferences dialog box and check the Show Genre when Browsing check box.
The contents of the “path” selected in the Browser are shown in the Content pane that now occupies the bottom part of the right side of the window. At the top of each column is the All option, which shows all the contents of that category.
For example, when All is selected in the Genre column, you will see the contents of all the genres for which you have music in the Library. At the bottom of the screen, you will see Source Information for the selected source.

3. To start browsing your Library, select the genre in which you are interested by clicking it. When you do so, the categories in the other two columns are scoped down to include only the artists and albums that are part of that genreSimilarly, the Content pane now includes only jazz music.

4. To further limit the browse, click an artist in which you are interested in the Artist column. The Album column will be scoped down to show only those albums for the artist selected in the Artist column. Also, the Content pane will show the songs on the albums listed in the Album column.

5. To get down to the most narrow browse possible, select the album in which you
are interested in the Album column. The Content pane will now show the songs on the selected album.

6. When you have selected the genre, artist, and album categories in which you are
interested, you can scroll in the Content pane to see all the songs included in the group of songs you are browsing.

To make the browse results less narrow again, choose All in one of the Browser’s columns. For example, to browse all your music again, click All in the Genre column.
Hopefully, you can see that you can use the
Browser to quickly scan your Library to locate music that you want to hear or work with. As you use the Browser more, you will come to rely on it to get you to a group of songs quickly and easily.