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List Land
The iPod program begins with lists—lots of lists. The first four icons at the bottom
of the screen represent your starter lists, as follows:
• Playlists. A playlist is a group of songs that you’ve placed together, in
a sequence that makes sense to you. One might consist of party tunes;
another might hold romantic dinnertime music; a third might be drumheavy
workout cuts.
You create playlists in the iTunes software, as described on page 238.
After you sync the iPhone with your computer, the playlists appear here.
Scroll the list by dragging your finger or by flicking. To see what songs
or videos are in a playlist, tap its name. (The > symbol in an iPod menu
always means, “Tap to see what’s in this list.”)
Here’s a universal iPhone convention: Anywhere you’re asked to drill down from
one list to another—from a playlist to the songs inside, for example—you can
backtrack by tapping the blue button at the upper-left corner of the screen. Its
name changes to tell you what screen you came from (Playlists, for example).
To start playing a song or video once you see it in the playlist list, tap it.
For details on the On-the-Go Playlist, which is the first item in Playlists, see page
90.
• Artists. This list identifies all of the bands, orchestras, or singers in your
collection. Even if you have only one song from a certain performer, it
shows up here.
Once again, you drill down to the list of individual songs or videos by
tapping an artist’s name. At that point, tap any song or video to begin
playing it.
• Songs. Here’s an alphabetical list of every song on your iPhone. Scroll or
flick through it, or use the index at the right side of the screen to jump
to a letter of the alphabet. (It works exactly as described on page 35.) Tap
anything to begin playing it.
Videos. • Tap this icon for one-stop browsing of all the video material on
your phone, organized by category: Movies, TV Shows, Music Videos, and
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