If you have an iPod or other portable digital music player, you can put it aside because your iPad essentially duplicates all the features of an iPod (except for the smaller size). Besides listening to music, you can also listen to podcasts, audiobooks, or even iTunes University lectures.

Before you can play any audio files, you'll need to load them into your iPad, as explained in Chapter 18 and Chapter 21.

In this chapter, you will learn how to listen to and control audio files on your iPad.