Chapter 2: Playing Music on iPad

In This Chapter

check.png Creating playlists

check.png Searching for audio

check.png Playing music and other audio

check.png Shuffling music

check.png Using Ping and AirPlay

check.png Playing around with GarageBand

Almost everybody on Earth has heard of the iPod — that small, portable, music-playing device from Apple that’s seemingly glued into the ears of many. iPad includes an iPod-like app called Music that allows you to take advantage of the iPad’s pretty amazing little sound system to play your own style of music or podcasts and audiobooks.

In this chapter, you can get acquainted with the Music app and its features that enable you to sort and find music and control playback from your iPad. You also get an overview of the Ping feature of iTunes, which you can use to share your musical preferences with others; the AirPlay feature, which you can use to play music on your iPad over a home network; and GarageBand, ...

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