When you first tap a song or other audio file, the iPad's screen displays a large version of the album art. This makes your iPad more colorful to look at (while showing you which audio file is currently playing) but also gives you a few more controls to manipulate your audio file. You can control the iPod app from this screen, or you can go back to browsing for the next song.
To control your music as you play a song, do the following:
Find a song or audio file you want to play and tap it, as discussed in Choosing a Song in Choosing a Song.
The song's album art appears on screen. If you don't have the album art, a set of music notes appears.
Tap the image. Controls appear, as shown in Figure 23-9.
Try using the following controls:
Volume slider Drag this left and right to adjust the volume.
Playhead slider Drag this left and right to play different parts of the audio file. If you drag your finger down the screen as you drag left and right, you'll lower the "scrubbing rate," which will allow you to speed up or slow down so you can find a particular spot in a song or lecture.
Play/Pause Tap to pause or resume playing of an audio file.
Rewind Hold to rewind the currently playing audio file, or tap to play the previous audio file in a list.
Forward Hold to fast forward through the currently playing audio file, or tap to play the next audio file in a list.
Genius Playlist The iPod app will use the currently playing song to create a new playlist of similar songs stored on your iPad.
Repeat Tap once to make a playlist loop, tap a second time to make a single song loop endlessly, and tap a third time to turn off the repeat feature entirely.
Shuffle Tap once to shuffle your audio list; tap a second time to turn shuffle off.
Album/Episode List Tap once to view all the songs or episodes for that album or podcast/iTunes U course, as shown in Figure 23-10.
Return Tap once to display the iPod screen with the audio file's image shrunk to a thumbnail image in the bottom-left corner of the screen. You can go back to browsing and choose your next song from here, as discussed in Choosing a Song in Choosing a Song.
