You might want to add often-used items to the iPod nano main menu. For example, you can add a "Songs" item to the main menu, so you don't have to choose Music before you choose Songs. To add or remove items from the main menu:

It's important not to disconnect iPod nano while music is being downloaded. You can easily see if it's OK to disconnect iPod nano by looking at the iPod screen. Important: Don't disconnect iPod nano if you see the "Do not disconnect" message. You could damage files on iPod nano. If you see this message, you must eject iPod nano before disconnecting it.

You can charge the iPod nano battery in two ways: Connect iPod nano to your computer. Use the iPod USB Power Adapter, available separately.

iTunes is the music application you use with iPod nano. When you connect iPod nano to your computer, iTunes opens automatically. This guide has information about how to use iTunes to download songs and other audio to your computer, organize them into lists of songs called playlists, downloadthem to iPod nano, and adjust iPod nano settings.

To listen to music on your iPod nano, you first need to get that music into iTunes on your computer.

If you have an Internet connection, you can easily purchase and download songs, albums, and audiobooks online using the iTunes Music Store. You can also subscribe to and download podcasts, radio-style audio shows. To purchase music online using the iTunes Music Store, you set up an Apple account in iTunes, find the songs you want, and then buy them. If you already have an Apple account, or if you have an America Online (AOL) account (available in some countries only), you can use that account to sign in to the music store and buy songs.

You can double-click a song or other item to listen to a portion of it and make sure it's the one you want. (If your network connection is slower than 128 kbps, choose iTunes > Preferences, and in the Store pane, select the "Load complete preview before playing" checkbox.)

If you have songs on your computer encoded in file formats that iTunes supports, you can easily add the songs to iTunes. To add songs on your computer to the iTunes library:

After your music is imported and organized in iTunes, you can easily download it to iPod nano. To set how music is downloaded from your computer to your iPod nano, you connect iPod nano to your computer, and then use the controls in iTunes to change iPod nano settings.

The settings for downloading podcasts to an iPod nano are separate from the settings for transferring songs. Podcast transfer settings don't affect song transfer settings, and vice versa. You can download podcasts to your iPod nano manually, or you can set iTunes to automatically update all podcasts or selected podcasts. To set iTunes to update the podcasts on iPod nano automatically: