Listening To Music; Reading Books; Obtaining Multimedia Files - Lenovo ThinkPad 1838 User Manual

Listening to music

Your tablet is preinstalled with the Amazon MP3 application and the mSpot Music application. Both
applications enable you to listen to, download, or purchase music from the Web sites.
Touch Listen from Lenovo Launch Zone to launch the default music player application.
To listen to music stored on your tablet, do the following:
1. Touch the applications icon
2. Touch Music. The Android music player is launched.
3. Touch an album and touch a song to play it.
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While viewing a list of albums, artists, playlists, or songs, touch the triangular menu button next to an
item and touch Play. The playback screen opens and the tracks on the current list play in order until
you reach the end of the playlist (unless you choose a repeat option). If you choose the repeat option,
playback stops only if you stop it, even when you switch applications.
4. Use controls on the screen to control playback.
Note: The Android Music application finds your music files anywhere you put them on your tablet.
You can return to the playback screen from any other application by opening the notifications panel and
touching the ongoing music notification. To open the notification panel, touch the time area from the system
bar; the notifications are listed under Details Status.
If you want to create a playlist of your favorite songs or sort songs by type, do the following:
1. Touch the triangular menu button to the right of an album, an artist, a song, or a genre, and touch
Add to playlist.
2. On the Add to playlist screen, touch New.
3. Type the name for your new playlist in the text field and then touch Save.
To remove a song from a playlist, touch and hold the song, and then touch Delete from the pop-up menu.

Reading books

Your tablet is preinstalled with the Amazon Kindle e-book reader and Zinio magazine reader.
You can touch Read from Lenovo Launch Zone to launch the default e-book reader application, or go to the
applications library to launch the Amazon Kindle application, the Zinio magazine reader, or other e-book
readers that you have downloaded from Android Market.

Obtaining multimedia files

Use any of the following methods to get pictures, music, books, and movies:
• Copy files from your computer using the Transfer files (Media Transfer Protocol) option when you
connect the tablet to your computer using the provided USB cable. See "Using the micro USB connector"
on page 46.
• Download multimedia files from the Internet. See "Downloading applications from the Web" on page 35.
• Copy files from other USB storage devices. See "Working with USB storage devices" on page 47.
• Receive from other Bluetooth devices. See "Transferring data between your tablet and a Bluetooth
device" on page 27.
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from the action bar to open the application library.