Adding Digital Booklets in iTunes

iTunes has created the ability for music users to customize their songs, albums and artwork for everything they listen to and transfer to an iPod. You can change the ID3 titles, upload your own artwork and even change titles, artists and other pertinent information to your liking. Now, iTunes has introduced digital booklets as another way to customize your listening experience.

At the moment, digital booklets can only be viewed on a computer. The iPod, iPhone or iTouch does not recognize them as playable files. When they are downloaded along with an album or song, they are considered an unknown file format to your device. If you double-click on the file, it will open up in Adobe Reader and you can flip through it. You can store it on your computer or you can transfer it to your device if it is set-up to operate as a hard drive disk.

Since the files are PDF ones, you can actually add to or create your own digital booklets. You can store guitar tabs, scanned CD booklets or anything else to a song or album within your music library. In order to do this, you will have to change the tag information for an album or song within iTunes itself. Once you open up to change the ID3 tags, you want to match the tags to the PDF file's tags so everything matches up appropriately. You will note that within the PDF file itself, the album artwork cannot be changed, because it is considered a form of artwork itself and correlates to its corresponding album, song and artist.

Digital booklets give you the chance to include CD-like booklets to your music collection. Many music buyers enjoyed flipping through the sleeves that came with their CDs, and now iTunes Music Store buyers can do the same thing. It gives listeners just another way to interact with their music as the way music sharing continues to change.