Chapter 8

Music to Your Ears: Audio on Your iPhone

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Checking out your iPhone’s inner iPod

Bullet Bossing your tunes around

Bullet Tailoring your audio experience

Bullet Shopping 'til you drop

As we mention elsewhere in this book, your iPhone is one of the best iPods ever — especially for working with audio and video. In this chapter, we show you how to use your iPhone to listen to music and other audio content; in Chapter 10, we cover video.

We start with a quick tour of the iPhone’s Music app. Then we look at how to listen to music on your iPhone. After you’re nice and comfy with using it this way, we show you how to customize your listening experience so that it’s just the way you like it. Then we offer a few tips to help you get the most out of using your iPhone as an audio player. Finally, we show you how to use the iTunes Store app to buy music and more, and how to download free content.

We assume that you already synced your iPhone with your computer or with iCloud and that your iPhone contains audio content — songs, podcasts, or audiobooks. If you don’t have any audio on your iPhone ...

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