My New iPad 2

Controlling Your Music

When you first tap a song or other audio file, the iPad’s screen displays a large version of the album art. This makes your iPad more colorful to look at (while showing you which audio file is currently playing) but also gives you a few more controls to manipulate your audio file. You can control the iPod app from this screen, or you can go back to browsing for the next song.

To control your music as you play a song, do the following:

1. Find a song or audio file you want to play and tap it, as discussed in Choosing a Song on page 130. The song’s album art appears on screen. If you don’t have the album art, a set of music notes appears.

2. Tap the image. Controls appear, as shown in Figure 17-8.

   Figure 17-8. Tapping the full-screen ...