Chapter 7 : Photos, videos, and music 109
Music
Listen to music
You can listen to music through the speaker on the back of your phone,
through the stereo headset included with your phone, or through
headphones (sold separately).
To get music onto your phone, you can do any of the following:
• Copy music files from your computer (see Copy files between your phone
and your computer)
• Receive music files as email attachments (see Open attachments)
• Receive music files as part of a multimedia message (see Receive and view
text and multimedia messages)
You can also listen to streaming music from the web directly in the web
browser (see Web).
You can play music that you copy from your computer or stream from the
web in the following formats: MP3, AAC, or AAC+ format. For files received
as email attachments, you can play files in the MP3, AAC, AAC+, WAV, or
AMR format. For files received in a multimedia message, you can play files in
the MP3 format.
1 Open Music .
2 If the Music application finds no music files on your phone, tap Get My
Music to read information about how to get music on your phone.
3 Do one of the following:
• Listen to all songs on your phone: Tap Shuffle All.
• Listen to a specific song: Tap Artists, Albums, Songs, Genres, or
Playlists to search that category. Continue making selections until
the song you want appears. Tap the song name.
• Listen to all songs from an artist: Tap Artists and tap the artist name.
To listen to the artist’s songs in the order they are displayed
onscreen, tap the first song. The songs play one after the other in
sequence. To listen to the songs in random order, tap Shuffle All.
• Listen to an album: Tap Albums and tap the album name. To listen
to the album’s songs in the order they are displayed onscreen, tap
the first song. The songs play one after the other in sequence. To
listen to songs in random order, tap Shuffle All.
• Listen to all songs in a genre: Tap Genres and tap the genre name.
To listen to the songs in the order they are displayed onscreen, tap
the first song. The songs play one after the other in sequence. To
listen to the songs in random order, tap Shuffle All.
DID YOU KNOW? Music continues to play in the background if you switch to
another application, turn off the screen, or slide the ringer switch off.