Chapter 1

Tuning In and Listening with Music

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Looking at the Music app

Bullet Listening to audio in Music

Bullet Creating playlists

Bullet Tuning in to Music Radio

Bullet Browsing and buying from the iTunes Store

What do your Mac and the mullet hairstyle have in common? Both can be described as “business up front, party in the back.” When it comes to doing business, your Mac has you covered with apps such as Contacts, Calendar, Pages, Keynote, and Numbers, all of which I describe in detail in Book 5 (titled, appropriately enough, “Taking Care of Business”).

But if it’s partying you want, well, some would say that’s where your Mac really shines, thanks to its prowess as a media machine. With apps such as Music, Podcasts, News, TV, Books, and Photos at your service, you have endless ways to waste time, er, I mean, keep yourself entertained and informed.

The chapters here in Book 4 take you on tours of each of your Mac’s main media apps. In this chapter, you explore the Music app from Adele to ZZ ...

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