Playing a Song in Different iPod Modes

The iPod app lets you choose one or more songs and play them on your iPad. When playing a song, you have three options:

  • Full screen mode Displays album art on the screen.

  • Browsing mode Displays album art as a thumbnail image while letting you browse in the iPod app.

  • Background mode Plays audio in the background while you run another app, such as Safari, Mail, or Contacts.

To see how to switch the iPod app into different modes, follow these steps:

  1. From the Home screen, tap iPod. The iPod screen appears.

  2. Tap Music in the Library category in the left pane of the iPod window. A complete listing of your songs appears in the right pane.

  3. Tap on a song that you want to hear. The Full screen mode appears, displaying the album art that the song came from.

  4. Tap the screen. Controls appear at the top and bottom of the screen, as shown in Figure 17-1.

  5. Tap Return (it looks like an arrow in a circle, pointing to the left) in the lower-left corner of the screen. The album art of the currently playing song shrinks to a thumbnail image in the bottom-left corner of the screen, as shown in Figure 17-2. This is the Browsing mode, which lets you browse through the iPod app.

  6. Press the Home button. The Home screen appears while your song continues playing in the background.

  7. Press the Home button twice. A list of app icons appears at the bottom of the screen.

  8. Swipe these icons to the right until you see the rewind, pause, play, and fast-forward, as shown in Figure 17-3.

  9. Tap iPod to return to the iPod screen (or tap the screen to leave the music playing in the background).

Tapping the screen in Full screen mode displays the Return button in the bottom-left corner.

Figure 17-1. Tapping the screen in Full screen mode displays the Return button in the bottom-left corner.

In Browsing mode you can hear and control your song while browsing through the iPod app.

Figure 17-2. In Browsing mode you can hear and control your song while browsing through the iPod app.

In Background mode, you can control a song through a miniature iPod window while running another app, such as Safari.

Figure 17-3. In Background mode, you can control a song through a miniature iPod window while running another app, such as Safari.

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