| IN THIS CHAPTER:  About Music and Video Formats
 Import a Music CD into iTunes
 Get CD Track Names Manually
 Add a Music or Video File to Your iTunes Library
 Import Your Existing Digital Music Collection into iTunes
 Add Album Art to Songs
 Submit CD Track Names to the Gracenote Database
 Import a CD with Joined Tracks
 Extract a "Secret Track" into the iTunes Library
iTunes' foremost function is as a digital music organizer, a way for you to replace your bulky CD collection with a flexible, programmable digital music library that fits inside your computer. To accomplish this, naturally, you'll have to get your music into iTunes somehow. Recently, iTunes has added video playback to its repertoiremusic videos, TV shows, short films, videos downloaded from the Internet, and even home movies that you make with your own camcorder. Even though the software is still called iTunes, its features include video organizing methods and playback functions that turn it into a complete multimedia jukebox that stores all your favorite pieces of entertainment. Music you add to the iTunes Library comes from any of the following sources: Imported (ripped) from CDs you already own Imported from your existing collection of MP3, AAC, or unprotected WMA files Imported as an individual music file that you receive or create yourself or one that you convert from an analog format such as a tape or vinyl LP Copied in automatically by iTunes during installation. (See  Run iTunes for the First Time) Purchased from the iTunes Music Store
Similarly, videos can come from any of the following sources: Created yourself using a camcorder and video editing software Downloaded from the Internet Purchased from the iTunes Music Store
The iTunes Music Store, the method for acquiring new music and videos that requires the least effort and the fewest middlemen, is covered in  Sign Up for the iTunes Music Store and related tasks in Chapter 4, "Using the iTunes Music Store." The tasks in this chapter cover the remaining methods of building your music and video collection, particularly the one for which the iTunes interface was primarily designed: importing music from your existing CD collection. The chapter begins with an introduction to the kinds of music and video files you will encounter while using iTunes, and the different types of entertainment items that iTunes organizes for you. | 