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> Music

> The Music tab allows you to visually browse through albums and music tracks that are on your device and play music. The albums and music tracks that you see on the Music tab are from the Now Playing list of the Library. You can also access the Sprint Music Store from this tab.

> Note | Your device searches for all music files that have the following audio formats: MP3 (.mp3), WMA (.wma), AAC/AAC+ (.aac), and MPEG-4 (.m4a). It searches for music from the following locations: Device: \My Music (including all subfolders) \My Documents (including all subfolders)
> Storage: \Internal Storage (including all subfolders)

> Playing Music

> On the Music tab, flip through albums and all the music in each album, and then touch the Play icon ( ) to start playback.

> 1 | Swipe upward/downward on the screen or press the Navigation Control up or down to flip through albums and the music or songs in an album.
> 2 | Touch Library to access the Library. See "The Library" for details.
> 3 | Touch Sprint Music Store to download music from Sprint Music Store. See "Sprint Music Store" in this section for details.
> 4 | Touch the Up arrow icon to go to the previous album or the previous music in the current album.
> 5 | Touch the Play icon to play or the Pause icon to pause playback. You can also press the ENTER button to play or pause.
> 6 | Touch the Down arrow icon to go to the next album or the next music in the current album.
> 7 | Touch Menu to set music playback to Repeat, turn Shuffle on or off, and more.

> To advance forward or backward in the music:

> | Touch and hold on the thin bar below the album art to display the progress bar:

> Drag your finger right or left on the progress bar to move forward or backward in the current music.

> - or -

> | Slide your finger around the Navigation Control as follows:

> Slide your finger clockwise to advance forward in the music.

> To move backward in the music, slide your finger counterclockwise.

> To set repeat and shuffle modes:

> |  | Touch Menu > Repeat and choose whether to repeat once, repeat all, or do not repeat. To toggle shuffle mode on and off, touch Menu > Shuffle and then select Shuffle On or Shuffle Off.

> The icons on the upper-right side of the Music tab show whether repeat and shuffle modes are enabled.

> | Repeat [One] |  | Repeat [All] |  | Shuffle [On]

> The Library

> The Library organizes music into categories, such as Now Playing, Artists, Albums, Genres, All Songs, and more. When you add more albums or music tracks to your device, go to the Library to locate and play the new albums or music tracks.

> To browse and play music in the Library:

> 1. | On the Music tab, touch Library to open the Library screen.

> 2. | The tabs at the bottom of the Library screen correspond to the different categories. To browse music under a certain category, slide to the tab that corresponds to the desired category.

> 3. | Tap a music track to play it.

> Note | When you select a category in the Library such as Artists and play its music, the Now Playing list will be replaced with the music tracks from that category.

> Playlists

> You can group your favorite music into a playlist and then play back the playlist.

> To create a new playlist:

> 1. | Select the desired music on the Music tab or the Library.

> 2. | Touch Menu > Add to Playlist.

> 3. | Touch <New Playlist>, enter a Playlist name and then touch OK.

> To add more music files to a playlist:

> 1. | On the Playlists tab, touch a playlist to open it.

> 2. | Touch Menu > Edit.

> 3. | Touch Menu > Add.

> 4. | Select the check boxes of the music you want to add to the playlist, or touch Menu > Select All to choose all the music.

> 5. | Touch OK three times and then touch Up to return to the Playlists tab.

> To play back a playlist:

> 1. | On the Playlists tab, touch a playlist to open it.

> 2. | Touch the first song in the playlist. The Music tab starts playing the first song. After each song, the next one in the playlist will be played.

> Note | Playlists are not automatically updated when music files have been deleted from the device memory or internal storage.

> Types of Playlists

> There are two types of playlists that can be shown on the Playlists tab:

> | Custom playlists. Playlists that are created on the Music tab.

> | Windows Media® Player playlists. Playlists that are in Windows Media® Player Mobile’s Library (which is synchronized with Windows Media® Player on your computer). They are indicated by the Windows Media® Player icon ( ). These playlists cannot be edited.

> Note | If a Windows Media® Player playlist contains a combination of music, video and image files, only music files in the playlist will be synchronized to your device and other media types will be filtered out.

> Sprint Music Store

> The Sprint Music Store enables you to purchase and download digital music files to play on your device.

> To access the Sprint Music Store:

> You can access the Sprint Music Store right from the Music tab on the Home screen, anywhere on the Sprint National Network. When you enter the store for the first time, you will be prompted to set up your user identification and password.

> 1. | On the Music tab, touch Sprint Music Store.

> 2. | Follow the onscreen instructions to establish your User ID and password.

> Tip | Your User ID for the Sprint Music Store is your 10-digit wireless phone number. The password may be any 4-digit number.

> 3. | After you have entered your password, highlight Create New Account and tap OK.

> 4. | Use the Navigation Control to explore the store.

> To purchase and download music:

> Now that you’re in the store, you can shop for songs to purchase and download to your device’s internal storage.

> 1. | From the Sprint Music Store opening page, select an option to browse the store:

> |  | Featured Music offers a revolving selection of highlighted songs and artists.

> |  | Categories allows you to choose from categories such as Top 10s, New This Week, What’s Hot, Songs You Know, and specific musical genres.

> |  | Search gives you the option of searching for specific songs or artists. Just use your keypad to enter your search criteria in the available field.

> 2. | Select a song and tap OK. (The song information screen will be displayed.)

> 3. | Select an option and tap OK:

> |  | Preview to play an audio clip of the selected song.

> |  | Buy Song to purchase the song and download it to your device’s internal storage.

> |  | When you select Buy Song, the file will download to your device’s internal storage. (If there is not enough free memory space on the device, you will see an alert.)

> |  | Once the song has been downloaded to your device, you will see options allowing you to listen to the song, add it to a playlist, or continue shopping.

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