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Enjoying your music is fun and easy using HP TouchSmart Music.
From the HP TouchSmart home page tap Music to view your music library.
This is your album library.
Scroll or flip right and left to view your albums.
Tap an album to see the songs in that album.
Scroll or flip to find the song you want to play.
Tap to play the song.
To stop playing the song
tap the Pause button in the music control bar on the upper right.
Tap the up arrow to go back to your albums.
While browsing a specific album,
instead of going back to the tiles to look for others
another option is to just scroll the album list at the top.
Tap an album name to open it.
Tap the up arrow to go back to your albums.
You can also see your music by artist
or genre,
or tap Song to see in alphabetical list of every song.
Another fun way to browse your HP TouchSmart music library
is to use what we call Fan View.
To get started,
tap the album fan in the lower right.
Scroll the fan left and right.
Tap an album to select it.
The album's songs are listed below.
Scroll up or down.
Tap a song to play it.
Tap Pause in the music control bar to stop the song.
Tap the "Back to Normal View" button in the lower right to go back to your
albums.
To see where your music is stored,
tap the house icon in the upper left.
Tap the Windows icon.
Tap the Microsoft Windows Start button,
then tap Music.
Copy your digital music files into this folder to play them in HP TouchSmart
Music.
If you prefer you can also install iTunes.
An HP TouchSmart can access your iTunes music library.
Let's tap the house icon in the taskbar to go back to HP TouchSmart.
Building playlists is quick and easy using HP TouchSmart.
The albums in your music library are on the left,
and the playlist is on the right.
Scroll to find an album.
Drag an album out of your library and over to the playlist to add it.
All of the songs in that album are added to the playlist.
Let's switch to Song.
Here are all the songs in our library.
Scroll to find a song you want to add.
Drag a song out of the list and over to the playlist.
If you want to add songs quickly,
tap "Add to list" at the top of the playlist.
Tap on green plus signs to add songs.
If you want you can also add all the songs from an artist,
or even a genre
into the playlist.
Each playlist can hold up to 500 songs.
When you're finished tap Done.
To change the order of the songs in a playlist,
drag a song out of the list and
move it to a new spot.
To remove a song from the playlist,
drag it out of the list and drop it into the trash can down below.
To play a song in the playlist,
just tap it.
A speaker icon appears next to the side but
currently playing.
The song name is displayed in the music control bar in the upper right.
Tap Previous or Next
to skip through the songs in the playlist.
Tap Pause to stop.
Tap the house icon to go to the home page.
Other HP TouchSmart programs work in a similar way. You can use the same
techniques you've learned here, such as tap,
scroll and flip.
To browse and play with your photos, videos, and other content.