Controlling Your Music

You can play your music in a variety of ways, whether the music is on an audio CD or from a collection of digital audio files. To play songs, simply do the following:

  1. Start iTunes.

  2. (Optional) Insert an audio CD into your Macintosh.

  3. (Optional) Clear the checkboxes of the songs you don’t want to hear.

  4. (Optional) Select ControlsShuffleBy Songs, By Albums, or By Groupings to scramble the order in which your songs will play.

  5. Click the Play button in the upper-left corner of the iTunes window or press the spacebar. The iTunes program starts playing the song at the top of the list.

Rewinding (and Skipping) a Song

Normally iTunes plays an entire audio track from beginning to end. However, if you want to replay part of an audio track ...

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