of the screen represent your starter lists, as follows:
Playlists. A playlist is a group of songs that you’ve placed together, in
a sequence that makes sense to you. One might consist of party tunes;
another might hold romantic dinnertime music; a third might be drumheavy
workout cuts.
You create playlists in the iTunes software, as described on page 202. After
you sync the iPhone with your computer, those playlists appear here.
Scroll the list by dragging your fi nger or by fl icking. To see what songs
or videos are in a playlist, tap its name. (The > symbol in an iPod menu
always means, “Tap to see what’s in this list.”)
Here’s a universal iPhone convention: anywhere you’re asked to drill down from
one list to another—from a playlist to the songs inside, for example—you can
backtrack by tapping the blue button at the upper-left corner of the screen. its
name changes to tell you what screen you came from (Playlists, for example).
Artists. This list identifies all of the bands, orchestras, or singers in your
collection. Even if you have only one song from a certain performer, it
shows up here.
Once again, you drill down to the list of individual songs or videos by
tapping an artist’s name. At that point, tap any song or video to begin
playing it.
Songs. Here’s an alphabetical list of every song on your iPhone. Scroll or
flick through it, or use the index at the right side of the screen to jump
to a letter of the alphabet. (It works exactly as described on page 31.) Tap
anything to begin playing it.
Videos. Tap this icon for one-stop browsing of all the video material on
your phone, organized by category: Movies, TV Shows, Music Videos, and
Podcasts—video podcasts, that is. (You see only one listing for each podcaster,
along with the number of episodes you’ve got). A handy thumbnail
photo next to each video gives you a hint as to what’s in it, and you
also see the total playing time of each one.
You can probably guess, at this point, how you start one playing: by tapping
its name. But don’t forget to rotate the iPhone 90 degrees; all videos
play in landscape orientation (the wide way).
at the bottom of any of these lists, you’ll see the total number of items in that list:
“76 Songs,” for example. at the top of the screen, you may see the Now Playing
button, which opens up the playback screen of whatever’s playing.
