Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 NOOK For Dummies

Chapter 13

Singing and Dancing in the Galaxy

In This Chapter

Playing music

Making playlists

Watching your own movies

Now, I’m not going to compare the quality of sound you hear from the tiny speakers on the Tab 4 NOOK — a nevertheless amazing pair of devices about the size of the head of a matchstick — with the sound from a much larger system.

And although the LCD screen of the Tab 4 NOOK is beautifully colorful and quite detailed when you’re looking at it from a distance of a foot away, it doesn’t match the visual thrills of a 90-inch HD screen or the astounding experience at an IMAX theater.

But the Tab 4 NOOK fits in your back pocket or a small purse. And it can be a source for audio and video when you connect it to a larger system. This chapter looks at playing items from your well-honed, tasteful collection.

Starting with the Hardware

First of all, there is the internal and external memory, each of which can be used to store files. Since this is, at heart, a computer, those files are digital representations of sound and imagery: 0s and 1s that can be converted by the microprocessor ...