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Chapter 7
Get in Tune(s): Audio on Your iPad
mini
In This Chapter
Checking out your iPad's inner iPod
Browsing your library
Taking control of your tunes
Customizing your audio experience
Shopping with the iTunes app
The iPad is perhaps the best iPod ever — especially for working with audio and video. In this chapter,
We start with a quick tour of the iPad's Music app. Then we look at how to use your iPad as an audio
player. After you're nice and comfy with using it this way, we show you how to customize the listen-
ing experience so that it's just the way you like it. Then we offer a few tips to help you get the most
out of using your iPad mini as an audio player. Finally, we show you how to use the iTunes Store app
to buy music, audiobooks, videos, and free content such as podcasts and iTunes U courses (which you
view on your tablet with their eponymous apps, Podcasts and iTunes U, which are free in the App
Store). If you like free content, we suggest downloading them sooner rather than later.
We assume that your iPad mini already contains audio content — songs, podcasts, or audiobooks. If
you don't have any audio on your iPad mini yet, we humbly suggest that you get some before you
read the rest of this chapter (or Chapter
8
, for that matter). You can get audio by syncing (flip to
Chapter
3
and follow the instructions) or buying it from the iTunes Store (see the last section in this
chapter) or other sources on your iPad mini.
Okay, now that you have some audio content on your iPad mini to play with, are you ready to rock?
