Audio

Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz

Audio formats supported:

• MP3 16 to 320 Kbps (8 to 320 Kbps for iPod shuffle)
• MP3 VBR
• AAC 16 to 320 Kbps (8 to 320 Kbps for iPod shuffle)
• Protected AAC (from iTunes Music Store, M4A, M4B, M4P)
• Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4)
• WAV
• Apple Lossless
• AIFF

Upgradable firmware enables support for future audio formats.

Video (iPod Video only)

Video formats supported:

• H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per sec., Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48 kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
• H.264 video, up to 768 Kbps, 320 by 240 pixels, 30 frames per sec., Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48 kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
• MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per sec., Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48 kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats.

Upgradable firmware enables support for future video formats.

Photo support

Syncs iPod-viewable photos in formats:

• JPEG
• BMP
• GIF
• TIFF
• PSD (Mac only)
• PNG

Text support (except iPod Shuffle)

• TXT (.txt files)
• VCARD (.vcf files)

Note: iPod first and second generation models (iPod 1G & iPod 2G) are not supported. Upload to all the later models is supported via USB interface only.