iPhone Portable Genius, 2nd Edition

Chapter 8: How Can I Get More Out of Audio Features on My iPhone?

Although the eye candy of the gorgeous screen garners the lion’s share of kudos and huzzahs, your iPhone offers quite a bit of ear candy as well. With numerous audio accessories available, and with the built-in Music and iTunes apps, your iPhone packs a real audio punch. This chapter takes you on a tour of these audio features and shows you how to get the most out of them to maximize your listening pleasure.

Getting More Out of the Music App

Getting More Out of the iTunes Store App

Creating a Custom Ringtone

Working with Playlists

Customizing Your Audio Settings

Getting More Out of the Music App

Your iPhone is a full-fledged digital music player thanks to its built-in Music app, which you can fire up any time you want by tapping the Music icon in the Home screen’s Dock. In the next few sections, you learn a few useful techniques that help you get more out of the Music app.

Rating a song

If you use song ratings to organize your tunes (as I describe later in this chapter), you might come across some situations where you want to rate a song that’s playing on your iPhone:

• You used your iPhone to download some music from the iTunes Store, and you want to rate that music.
• You’re listening to a song on your iPhone and decide that you’ve given a rating that’s either too high or too low and you want to change it.

In the first case, you could sync the music to your computer and rate it there; in the second case, you could ...