Using the Music App

YOU PLAY AND MANAGE your music using the Galaxy S II’s Music app. Tap the Music icon in the Apps Tray to launch it. The app organizes your music by five lists, through which you scroll like all other scrollable lists on the Galaxy S II:

All. An alphabetical list of every song in your music collection. It shows the song name and artist. Tap a song to play it.
Playlists. Here’s where you’ll find all your playlists—groups of songs that you’ve put together in a specific order for a specific reason. You might have several party playlists, a playlist of songs you like to listen to while you work, another for the gym, and so on.
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In addition to the Music app built into the Galaxy S II, Google also has a cloud-based music player app. With it, you can upload music from your PC or Mac to big Google computers called servers, and then play that music on your Galaxy S II, without actually having to store the music on your Galaxy S II. (Because your music lives in the cloud—get it?) The service and app are free and work like a charm. Download the app from the Android Market; search for “Google Cloud Music Player.” See Google Music Cloud Player for details about the cloud music player.
To see the contents of a playlist, tap the playlist. Tap any song to play it from that point until the end of the playlist. To add a song to the playlist, tap the Menu button, select Add, and then select songs to add from the list that appears. (You can also add songs to playlists while you’re playing them, and in other ways as well. See Creating Playlists for details.) When you tap the Menu button, you get other ways to manage your playlist, including changing the order of the playlist, removing songs from the playlist, editing its title, searching through the playlist, and changing settings (although for the entire music app, not just for playlists).
Albums. Lists all the CDs (albums) in your music collection. If a thumbnail picture of the album is available, you see it next to the album listing. Each album lists its name and its singer, composer, band, or orchestra. Tap the album to see a list of all the songs in the album. To play any song, tap it. The music app then plays from that point until the end of the album.
To add songs from an album to a playlist, when you’re viewing an album, tap the Menu button and select “Add to playlist.” A list of all the songs in the playlist appears. Tap any you want to add to a playlist, and then select the playlist you want to add it to, or create a new one.
Artists. Lists every singer, composer, and band in your collection. Tap the artist’s name, and you see a list of all of her songs. To play any song, tap it.
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When you’re in the music app, at the bottom of the screen, you see the name of the song you’re playing (or if you’re not playing a song, the last song you played). You’ll also see a control for playing the song. Tap it, and you’ll be sent to the full player. (See Playing Your Music for details.)
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The Galaxy S II can play a wide variety of music files, including AAC, AMR, MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC+, and MIDI. Android by itself won’t play WMA (Windows Music Audio) files, but Samsung gave the Galaxy S II a special piece of software called a codec so it plays WMA files. For the same reason, it can also play WMV (Windows Media Video) videos.
Genres. This lists all the of music you have on your Galaxy S II, such as Blues, Classical, Jazz, Rock, and so on. To see all the music you have in a genre, tap the genre. Tap any song to play it from that point until the end of the listing of songs.