Android 2.3 User Manual

Music

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Android User’s Guide

Playing music

You can listen to music by using the phone’s built-in speaker, through a wired headset, 
or through a wireless Bluetooth stereo headset that supports the A2DP profile. See 
“Connecting to Bluetooth devices” on page 64 and refer to your phone’s owner’s guide 
for more information about the headset that comes with your phone.

Play music

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Touch a song in your library to listen to it.

OR

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While viewing a list of tracks in an album, press Menu

 and touch 

Play all.

The Playback screen opens and the song you touched or the first song in the 
album or other playlist starts to play. The tracks in the current playlist play in order 
until you reach the end of the playlist (unless you choose a repeat option). 
Otherwise, playback stops only if you stop it, even when you switch applications or 
receive a phone call.

You can return to the Playback screen from most other screens in the Music 
application by pressing Menu

 and touching 

Playback.

You can return to the Playback screen from any other application by opening the 
Notifications panel and touching the ongoing music notification. See “Managing 
notifications” on page 29.

Touch to open the current playlist.

Touch to shuffle the current playlist.

Touch & hold to search for information.

Skip tracks or pause and resume 
playback. Drag the slider to go directly to 
a section of a track.

Touch to repeat the current playlist; 
touch again to repeat the current track.