Exploring the Music Library
iFocus@Hadley
Exploring the Music Library
Presented by
Douglas Walker
Douglas Walker
The Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired
presents: iFocus – tips on using the vision accessibility
features in iOS. In today’s installment, we’ll look at
exploring the music library.
Hello, my name is Douglas Walker. Today we are going
to explore the music library. We will be using our iPhone
for today’s demonstration. You know, I really am all about
music, and I love listening to everything from Sting to Keith
Urban to Frank Sinatra. I mean, there really isn’t a genre
of music that I don’t appreciate. As a matter of fact, we’re
going to kind of see this as we explore the Library tab
today.
Now, the Library tab actually includes any music that we
might have purchased from iTunes; it’s also going to
include any music that we have synced to our iDevice
from our computer, and it will also include any playlist that
we might have created. This is where we’re going to find
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all of our personal music that’s stored within our music
app.
Okay, so like we said, we’re going to explore our Library
tab, however, we’re also going to check out how to get the
most out of our music player interface. How about we go
ahead and we jump in and we check it all out? Okay,
you’re going to find all of our music of course in our Music
app and our Music app is right here on our desktop. How
about we go ahead and we just flick to it? We’ll just flick.
Voiceover
Music. Double tap to open. Actions available.
Douglas Walker
Great, so here’s our Music app, so we’ll just need to single
finger double tap to launch it here, so we’ll single finger
double tap anywhere on our screen here.
Voiceover
Music, Library heading.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so our Music app, of course, has opened for us, and
we have been placed on our Library heading at the top of
our Library tab here. Now, if we aren’t yet familiar with
how our tabs work, well, tabs are like buttons and our tabs
are typically located across the bottom edge of our screen
for us. Activating any of these tabs will give us a whole
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new screen in which we’re able to interact. It really is like
having several different apps within one app.
Now, our Music app actually has five tabs, and as we said,
our Library tab is currently selected. This is exactly where
we want to be, so how about we begin by first exploring
our Library screen or our Library interface here? Then
we’re going to check out our Artists list. We’ll then open
one of our artist’s albums and finally, we’ll check out our
music player. This is what Apple likes to call our Now
Playing screen.
Okay, so like we said, we’re currently on our Library
heading here, and of course, we’re at the top of our
Library tab here, so how about we go ahead and we just
right flick through our screen and see what we have here?
We’ll just right flick from here. We’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Edit button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our Edit button and our Edit button’s in the
top right-hand corner of our screen. Now, if we were to
activate our Edit button here, we would be able to select
from a list of possible categories that would be presented
here in our list that’s below right here. Now, we’re not
going to explore this Edit button, however, it’s good to
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know that we have the ability to customize the list that
we’re just about going to check out in just a second here.
Now, before we right flick again, let’s just quickly discuss
real quick what we’re going to encounter here. Now,
below, we’re going to find a list of different ways in which
we can access our music, and we have the ability to have
our music presented to us by playlists, artists, albums, or
even a list of all of our songs that we have. Let’s go
ahead and just check this out and we’ll do that by just right
flicking here. We’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Playlist button. Actions available.
Douglas Walker
Yeah, this is great because this is our Playlist button.
Now, if we were to activate, or double tap to activate our
Playlist button here, we would be given a list of all of the
playlists that we have created. Now, we’re not going to
check out our Playlist button today because we actually
have an iFocus video called Creating a Music Playlist and
it really does a pretty good job explaining exactly how to
navigate and how to create a new playlist for us, and that’s
pretty great. Let’s go ahead and just right flick from here,
and we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Artist button. Actions available.
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Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our Artists button, and you guessed it; if
we were to activate our Artist button here, we would
actually be given a list of all of our artists. Now, we’re
actually going to come back and we’re going to explore
our Artists button here once we’ve finished checking out
the rest of our screen here.
Now, we’ve heard voiceover announce on these last
couple of buttons that we’ve encountered that we have
custom actions available for us. Now, this means any time
we hear custom actions, if we were to flick up or flick down
our screen, we would have some tools available to us, and
in this case, our custom action allows us to delete these
current categories that we’re flicking through here. That
means that we could actually remove this artist option
from our list here if we’d like. However, we can always
add them back, these categories here back, by using our
Edit button that’s in the top right-hand corner that we saw
earlier.
Anyway, we don’t want to delete our artists from our list
here, so let’s go ahead and just right flick for now. We’ll
just right flick.
Voiceover
Albums button. Actions available.
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Douglas Walker
Okay, I think we’re kind of getting the idea. If we were to
activate, of course, our Albums button here, we would see
a list of all of our albums. Okay, so we’ll go ahead and
just right flick. We’ll right flick.
Voiceover
Songs button. Actions available.
Douglas Walker
Yes, and we could activate our Songs button here if we
wanted to flick through a list of all of our songs from all of
our albums and artists here. I guess that’s kind of cool,
too, but let’s go ahead and just right flick again, and we’ll
right flick.
Voiceover
Downloaded Music button. Actions available.
Douglas Walker
Great, and here is our Downloaded Music button. Now,
we would activate this Downloaded Music button if we only
wanted to see our music that is currently downloaded to
our device. I tell you, this is really important because if
we’re away from our Wi-Fi connection and we want to
make sure that we’re not streaming our music right from
iCloud – because I tell you, if we are streaming our music,
we really could eat up all of our cellular data.
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Now, we’re going to take a look at how to download a
song or an album in just a bit, but this is where we would
come to access all of our downloaded music or just the
music that’s downloaded to our device.
Okay, so that pretty much does it for this Library list that
we have here. However, we do have a few more items
here on our interface here, so how about we go ahead and
just right flick through these? We’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Recently Added heading.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and here’s our Recently Added heading for us.
Now, if we were to continue to right flick here, we would be
able to flick through all of the items or all the albums that
we have recently added to our music library. That can
really help to save some time if we’re maybe just wanting
to check out or to listen to something that we’ve recently
listened to.
Now, we aren’t going to keep flicking through our recently
added list here because we’re going to check out how to
move through our artists list. How about we just go ahead
and left flick back to our Artist button here? We’ll just left
flick a few times here. We’ll left flick.
Voiceover
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Downloaded Music button.
Douglas Walker
We’ll left flick again.
Voiceover
Songs button.
Douglas Walker
Left flick.
Voiceover
Albums button.
Douglas Walker
We keep hearing a click every time we left flick.
Voiceover
Artists button. Actions available.
Douglas Walker
Okay, this is great, because here we are back on our
Artists button here. Let’s go ahead and just single finger
double tap here to open up a list of all of our artists. We’ll
just single finger double tap anywhere on our screen here.
We’ll double tap.
Voiceover
Artists Library. Back button.
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Douglas Walker
Great, so our artists list here has opened for us, and we’ve
been placed on our Library back button in the top left
corner of our screen here. Of course, we would activate
our back button here if we wanted to go ahead and return
back to that main library screen again. You know, like we
said, our artists list for us has opened, and this is where
we want to be, so we’re ready to start exploring our artists
screen here.
How about we go ahead and just start right flicking? We’ll
go ahead and just right flick.
Voiceover
Artist heading.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our Artist heading in the top center of our
screen here, and of course, our heading’s usually just
below the time in our status bar. Now, when we right flick
again, we will be placed right in our artist list, and it really
is good to know that our artists are going to be listed
alphabetically by their first name. Let’s just right flick and
we’ll end up in our artist list here, so we’ll just flick here.
Voiceover
Cap A heading.
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Douglas Walker
Okay, here we are on our A heading, so we’ll just continue
to right flick through our artists here, and we’re going to
encounter our artists that begin with the letter A here.
We’ll go ahead and just flick.
Voiceover
AC/DC button. Actions available.
Douglas Walker
Great, so here is the first artist in our list, and we heard
voiceover announce, again, that we have some custom
actions. Now, of course, we would just single finger
double tap here if we wanted to select our artist AC/DC
and check out the album that they have here. However,
with custom actions, remember, we have a couple of
options, and just like before, to flick through these
additional options, we simply flick up or flick down our
screen. How about we do just that? We’ll just flick down.
We’ll flick.
Voiceover
Delete.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so voiceover announced delete, so if we were to
just single finger double tap, we would have the option to
delete our downloaded AC/DC album. Of course, it would
no longer show up in our downloaded music list, so this
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can really help maybe if you wanted to free up some
memory on our device.
Okay, so I think we only had a couple of actions or custom
actions here, so let’s go ahead and just flick down again
and check our other option out here. We’ll flick down.
Voiceover
Activate Default.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and voiceover announced activate, and it also said
that this is our default action, so we know that if we were
to single finger double tap, that our AC/DC artists here
would open up and we’d see a list of all of this artist’s
albums that we have. That is pretty great.
Now, we could just continue to keep right flicking through
our artist list here, however, we really do have a ton of
artists here, so let’s check out a much faster way of
quickly navigating or moving through our artist list here.
Now, just to the right edge of our screen, we have what
Apple calls a table index, and if we touch towards the right
edge of our screen and encounter this table index that we
have here, we’re going to be given some really great hints.
How about we do just that? We will just touch over here in
the far right-hand side of our screen until we find our table
index. We’ll just touch here.
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Voiceover
Table index adjustable. Swipe up or down with one finger
to adjust the value.
Douglas Walker
Great, voiceover announced, of course, that we touched
our table index and we were told then that we could swipe
up or down our screen with one finger and we could adjust
our table index value. Okay, now what this means is that
since our table index is now activated, every time we flick
up, we will more forward alphabetically, and we can flick
down to move back through our artist list alphabetically,
which is pretty cool. How about we go ahead and check
out how that works? Now, since we’re at the top of our
alphabet or at the As here, how about we just flick up and
we’ll quickly move forward? We’ll just keep flicking a few
times here, so we’ll flick up.
Voiceover
B selected.
Douglas Walker
Keep flicking up.
Voiceover
C selected. D selected. E selected. F selected.
Douglas Walker
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I’m flicking up every time we hear a new letter of the
alphabet.
Voiceover
G selected. H selected. I selected. J selected. K
selected. L selected. M selected.
Douglas Walker
Of course, the faster I flick up, you know, the faster I can
move through my alphabet here. Okay, so now that our
artists who begin with the letter M are visible here, we can
just touch near the top center of our screen to sort of enter
this artist list because remember, we’re still on our
adjustable bar over here to the right side of our screen.
We’ll just touch near the top of our screen here. We’ll just
touch.
Voiceover
Cap M heading.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and here we are in our Ms. There’s our heading
there, so we can just start right flicking from here to
continue to move through our artist list. Let’s do just that;
we will just right flick a few times here, so we’ll just right
flick.
Voiceover
Mark Owen button, Marcy Playground button.
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Douglas Walker
Yeah, and I’m right flicking here.
Voiceover
Martina McBride, Matt Kearney button. Actions available.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so that’s a way to be able to quickly move to our
artist playlist here, our artist list here. Now, let’s say that
we want to quickly move to our artists that maybe begin
with the letter Q. We’ll then of course just touch on our
table index of course along the right edge of our screen.
Let’s do that; we’ll just touch over here.
Voiceover
Table index adjustable. Swipe up or down with one finger
to adjust the value.
Douglas Walker
Yeah, and there it is, so let’s just flick up until we get to our
letter Q here. We’ll just flick up to our Qs.
Voiceover
N selected. O selected. P selected. Q selected.
Douglas Walker
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Great, and of course, here we are, and we’ll just touch
again near the top of our screen and we can enter our
artist list again. We’ll just touch here.
Voiceover
Artist heading. Queen button, actions available.
Douglas Walker
All right, and there you go. We’re back in our artist list
here, and here of course is our artist, our group Queen,
and hey, that’s pretty great. Okay, now we’ve mentioned
that if we were to single finger double tap on any of our
artists in our list here, that we would be presented with a
list of our artist’s albums. We can just flick between those
albums to choose from them. Now, again, we’re currently
on our artist Queen here, and we only have one album by
this artist, so let’s go ahead and check out how this looks.
We’ll just single finger double tap here and we’ll check out
our Queen artist in the album here. We’ll just single finger
double tap.
Voiceover
Select Queen. Artist back button.
Douglas Walker
All right, our artist Queen’s album list here has opened,
and we of course have been placed on our artist back
button in the top left corner of our screen here. We’d
activate this back button if we just wanted to move back to
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our artist list, but we don’t want to do that because we
want to go ahead and check out our Queen album list
here. Now, as we mentioned earlier, we only have one
album by Queen here, but let’s go ahead and check it out.
We’ll just right flick to our Queen album here, and we’ll just
right flick.
Voiceover
Queen heading.
Douglas Walker
Great, and here’s our Queen heading, and of course that’s
in the top center of our screen here, so let’s go ahead and
just right flick. We’ll right flick.
Voiceover
Shuffle All button.
Douglas Walker
Cool, so here we find our Shuffle All button and if we were
to activate our Shuffle All button here, well, all of the songs
in our Queen album here would be shuffled or randomly
played for us. That’s pretty great, but we’re going to go
ahead and just right flick from here. We’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
The Platinum Collection – Queen button.
Douglas Walker
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Okay, this is great because this is our Queen album, and
we heard that it’s a button, so all we would need to do to
open our Queen album here is just perform our single
finger double tap. However, before we do that, how about
we just right flick to one more button that we have here?
We’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
See More by Queen button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and now here’s our See More by Queen button, and
if we were to activate or double tap on this button, well,
then we’d be presented with a list of all of the Queen
albums that Apple Music has to offer. Now, we will have
to have an Apple Music subscription to be able to take full
advantage of this feature here, but I tell you, for me, it
really is worth the Apple Music subscription to be able to
do that. Okay, so let’s go ahead and move back to our
Queen album here, and to do this, of course, we’ll just left
flick from here, so we’ll just left flick.
Voiceover
The Platinum Collection – Queen button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, here we are back on our Queen album, so let’s go
ahead and just single finger double tap to open it up here,
so we’ll just double tap here.
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Voiceover
The – Queen back button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, our Queen album has opened here for us and of
course, we’ve been placed on our Queen back button and
you know, our buttons, our back buttons are typically in
the top left corner of our screen here. This is exactly
where we want to be to be able to right flick and check out
this whole album’s song list here. Let’s go ahead and just
start right flicking and we can check it all out. We’ll just go
ahead and right flick here.
Voiceover
Album artwork, The Platinum Collection image.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and here’s a picture or an image of our album’s
artwork, or what the cover of this album would look like for
us. Anyway, we’re just going to right flick past this here,
so we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
That Platinum Collection.
Douglas Walker
Good, now here’s the title of our Queen album which is
kind of good to know, right? We’ll go ahead and just right
flick from here. We’ll right flick.
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Voiceover
Queen button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, here of course is our artist Queen, and voiceover
announced that this is also a button for us, so if we were
to activate our Queen button here, we would once again
be presented with a list of all of Queen’s albums. Of
course, these are the albums that are currently available
for us in Apple Music, but remember, we’re going to have
to have an Apple Music subscription to be able to take full
advantage of all of the music here. Let’s just go ahead
and right flick from here, and we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Rock, 2001.
Douglas Walker
Great, so here’s our genre that our Queen album is listed
under, and we were also given the year that this album
was released, so some really great information for us
here. We’ll just right flick past this.
Voiceover
Download button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, now we mentioned earlier that we have the ability to
download our music to our device. Of course, our music’s
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always available to us in iCloud and we can always stream
or just play it across our Wi-Fi connection if we’d like.
However, if we’re going to be away from our Wi-Fi
connection and we want to take our music with us, well,
we could just single finger double tap here on this
download button and our Queen album would be
downloaded right to our device. Then, when we’re
traveling away from our Wi-Fi, we wouldn’t encounter or
incur any cellular data charges for this, so that’s pretty
great.
Okay, kind of important to know there. Let’s go ahead and
just right flick from here, and we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
More button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our More button, and I tell you, there’s
some really great tools in our More button here, so how
about we go ahead and activate this More button and
we’re going to check them all out real quick? We’ll just
single finger double tap, and we’ll do that.
Voiceover
More. Alert, play The Platinum Collection – Queen. Rock,
2001 button.
Douglas Walker
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Great, so a dialogue box here or what Apple likes to call a
popup menu has opened for us near the bottom of our
screen or about half way down here. Now, we’ve actually
been placed on our Play button at the top left corner of our
popup menu here, and we could just single finger double
tap here to get our album playing if we like, but we don’t
want to do that right now because we want to check out
the rest of our popup menu here. Let’s go ahead and just
right flick here. We’ll right flick.
Voiceover
The Platinum Collection – Queen. Rock, 2001 button.
Douglas Walker
Here’s our album’s title again, so let’s go ahead and just
right flick past this, so we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Download button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here we find another Download button and this is
great. Remember of course our music is always available
to us in iCloud, and again, we really could just continue
streaming or playing it. However, if we’re going to be
away from our Wi-Fi connection, this Download button
really is important, we could just single finger double tap
here to download our Queen album. Okay, so let’s go
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ahead and continue to right flick through our pop up menu
here, so we’ll just right flick here.
Voiceover
Delete from Library button.
Douglas Walker
Here’s our Delete from Library button. We don’t want to
do that unless of course we no longer want this album and
then we could just delete it right here. Let’s not do that
though, we’ll just right flick here, and we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Add to a Playlist button.
Douglas Walker
Here’s our Add to a Playlist button. I’m all about creating
playlists of my favorite music and this button would allow
us to add this entire album to one of our playlists. Again,
we’re not going to be creating a playlist today because,
remember we have an iFocus video called Creating a
Music Playlist that goes into detail about exactly to do just
that so you really might want to check that one out. Let’s
go ahead and right flick from here.
Voiceover
Play Next button.
Douglas Walker
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Okay, so this is our Play Next button. Now, activating our
Play Next button will actually queue this album to be
played next and it’s going to be played next in our music
player interface for us, which is kind of nice. Let’s go
ahead and right flick here, and we’ll right flick.
Voiceover
Play later button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, we had our Play Next button, now this is our Play
Later button and if we were to activate this Play Later
button, our Queen album would be played after the music
or the album we currently have playing in our now playing
screen. That can be a really great feature as well. Let’s
go ahead and right flick, and we’ll right flick.
Voiceover
Create Station button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, now here’s our Create Station button and activating
it will actually open our radio tab for us and we would have
the option of listening to a Queen radio station. Again,
we’ll have to have an Apple Music subscription to be able
to do this, but I tell you, that really is a cool feature. Let’s
go ahead and right flick, and we’ll right flick here.
Voiceover
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Share Album button.
Douglas Walker
Here we have our Share Album button, so this is kind of
cool because we can share information about this album
with a friend if we like and so that’s pretty cool, we actually
email them or text them information about this album, so
that’s kind of neat. Okay, so we’ll right flick from here.
Voiceover
Love button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our Love button. I guess if we like or in
this case love this album, and I really do, we can activate
our Love button here and this is going to allow us to find
more albums from groups like Queen in our For You tab.
Now, I really enjoy the for you tab, I tell you, I really spend
a lot of time in this for you tab down here exploring a lot of
new music so you might want to check that out later on,
but for now let’s go ahead and right flick through the rest
of our pop menu here, so we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Dislike button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so I guess if we have a Love button, then it kind of
makes sense that we have a Dislike button. I guess we’d
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activate our Dislike button if maybe we decided that we
didn’t want music from this artist to show in our for you tab
here. Let’s go ahead and just right flick here, and we’ll
right flick.
Voiceover
Cancel button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and here’s our Cancel button at the bottom of our
screen, at the button of our pop up menu here, so we’ll
just single finger double tap here and this will close this
pop up menu that has opened here. Then we’re going to
return; it’ll return us right back into our album’s song list
here, so how about we do just that? We’ll just single finger
double tap here, and we’ll single finger double tap.
Voiceover
Cancel – More button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, our popup menu has closed for us and we have
been placed right back on our More button, so let’s go
ahead and just right flick from here. We’ll right flick.
Voiceover
Shuffle All button. Actions available.
Douglas Walker
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Okay, so here we find another Shuffle All button for us,
and again, if we were to activate this Shuffle All button, our
Queen album would begin playing and all of our songs
that are in our album here would be shuffled or would be
randomly played. That’s pretty cool. Now, when we right
flick one more time, we’re going to be placed right in a list
of songs from out album here, so let’s go ahead and just
right flick. We’ll right flick here.
Voiceover
One – Bohemian Rhapsody. 5 minutes, 53 seconds
button. Actions available.
Douglas Walker
Great, so here we are on the first song in our album here,
and again, we hear that we have some custom actions.
Now, our custom actions here will give us the ability to
download this individual song here, Bohemian Rhapsody.
It’s also going to allow us to delete just this song from our
library, and of course, we’ll have the ability to double tap
and play our song. Now, we’re not going to cycle through
our individual song’s custom actions, but it’s great to know
that they’re available to us from right here.
Okay, so now that we’re in our song list, how about we go
ahead and take a look at how to play our song? Then
we’re going to – we’ll totally check out our player interface.
Now that we’re actually on a song here, all that we need to
do to get our song playing is just perform our single finger
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double tap. Okay, now remember, we’re currently on the
first song in our Queen album, Bohemian Rhapsody here,
so we’ll just single finger double tap and we’ll get it
playing.
Now, once our song begins playing, it really is great to
know that we can just perform our two finger double tap to
pause or to play our music at any time. We don’t actually
have to be on the song here, so let’s go ahead and give it
a try here. We’ll just single finger double tap and we’ll get
our song going here. We’ll just double tap.
Voiceover
Now playing Queen. Back button. [Music plays]
Douglas Walker
Of course, there it goes. Okay, and we just performed our
two finger double tap to pause our song there, and that’s
pretty great. I can listen to that song over and over. Now,
it’s also great to know, like we said, that we can perform
this two finger double tap at any time if we want to play or
to pause our music here. I tell you, it really is just as easy
as that.
Okay, so now that we know how to move all through our
My Music tab and we know how to check out all of our
music, well, how about we take a look at how to access
and get the most out of our music player interface or what
Apple likes to call our now playing screen? Okay, our now
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playing screen is currently collapsed for us and we’ve
been given what’s called a mini player, and it’s right
across the bottom edge of our screen and just above our
tabs here.
Now, we’re going to need to be placed in our mini player
before we can actually expand it to a full screen player. Of
course, we could just right flick through all of our songs in
our album here and we would eventually be placed in the
mini player, however, there really is a much faster way to
find the mini player and we can quickly find it – I guess we
could touch down here, but it’s easiest just to orient
ourselves to the bottom of our screen. How about we just
touch our Library tab in the bottom left corner of our
screen here? We’ll just touch down here to orient
ourselves.
Voiceover
Selected – Library tab. One of five.
Douglas Walker
Great, and here of course is our Library tab which is where
we currently are. Now, remember we said that our mini
player is located just above our tabs here and since we’re
on the first of our tabs, well, we can simply just left flick
from here and we’ll be placed right in our mini player.
Let’s do just that; we’ll just left flick here. We’ll just left
flick.
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Voiceover
Mini player – Skip button.
Douglas Walker
All right, we heard voiceover announce that we’ve been
placed, like we said, in our mini player, and we’re currently
on our Skip button, so this is pretty great. Now, we only
have five items within our mini player here and since we’re
left flicking here, we’re actually on the last of our items that
are in our mini player. As we heard, we’re on our Skip
button here. Now, you’ve probably already guessed that if
we were to activate our Skip button here, that we’d
actually just skip to the next song in our album song list
here, so that’s really great, but how about we quickly just
left flick and we’ll explore the rest of our little mini player
here? Let’s go ahead and just left flick. We’ll left flick.
Voiceover
Play button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and of course there’s our Play button, so we could
just single finger double tap here to get our song playing
again, but we’re not going to do that. We’ll just left flick.
Voiceover
Bohemian Rhapsody.
Douglas Walker
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Okay, of course, voiceover announced the title of our song
that’s currently playing, which is Bohemian Rhapsody
here, and of course, if we were to single finger double tap
on any of the rest of our three items that we see here, our
mini player would actually expand and we’d be placed
right in our now playing screen, but we won’t do that just
yet. Let’s just check out our two other mini player items
here. We’ll just left flick here.
Voiceover
Album artwork – image.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and here is our album artwork again, which is pretty
nice. We’ll just left flick again. We’ll left flick.
Voiceover
Double tap to expand the mini player button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, like we said, we could single finger double tap on
any of these last three buttons and they would have – any
of those would have expanded our mini player, however,
we’ve been given a button just for doing that, just right
here. How about we do it? We’ll just single finger double
tap anywhere now and we’ll watch our full screen player
here. We’ll just double tap.
Voiceover
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Dismiss now playing screen button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, our mini player has expanded here and our now
playing or our expanded player screen here is open for us.
We’ve actually been placed on our dismiss now playing
screen button. This button actually runs across the entire
top of our screen here. Of course, it’s just below our
status bar up here. Now, if we were to activate this
dismiss now playing screen button, this now playing
screen would simply just collapse back into its mini player
here and we’d be right back in our album’s song list here.
Okay, so now that our now playing screen is open, we
have a ton of really great tools here for controlling our
album or our music that we’re playing right now. How
about we go ahead and just right flick and let’s explore all
of our options here? We’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Album artwork image.
Douglas Walker
Great, so here’s an image of our album’s artwork for us,
maybe what the cover of our album looks like. Let’s just
go ahead and right flick past this. We’ll right flick for us.
Voiceover
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Track position – 18 seconds of 5 minutes, 53 seconds.
Adjustable. Swipe up or down with one finger to adjust the
value.
Douglas Walker
We’ll let those hints play on out there. Here’s the track
position of our current song, and when we heard those
hints, we heard voiceover announce that this is another
adjustable bar for us, so we know with an adjustable bar
that each time we flick up our screen, we’ll advance
roughly by 30 second increments through our song. Of
course, flicking down will jump us back by roughly the
same amount of time, so that could be really nice to
quickly advance through our song, but let’s just keep right
flicking for now. We’ll go ahead and just right flick.
Voiceover
Bohemian Rhapsody.
Douglas Walker
Great, and here’s our song title for us again, and like
always, that’s good to know, but let’s go ahead and just
right flick again.
Voiceover
Queen – The Platinum Collection button.
Douglas Walker
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Again, we find the name of our album, and just like before,
activating this button is going to take us right back into our
album. We’ll just right flick from here.
Voiceover
Previous track button.
Douglas Walker
Great, so here is our previous track button, and of course,
if we were to double tap and activate this button, we would
be taken back to our previous track in our album. If we’ve
already started playing our current song that we’re in, like
Bohemian Rhapsody here, we would simply be taken back
to the beginning of that song. Now, this previous track
button also serves as our rewind button, and of course, to
rewind our song that we’re currently playing, we would just
single finger double tap and hold on the second tap and
that would begin us rewinding through our current track
here.
Now, the key here is to hold on that second tap because
remember, if just simply double tap, we’ll just be taken
back to our previous song or our previous track. Now,
when we finish rewinding, we can simply just, of course,
lift our finger from our screen and it’ll begin playing from
wherever we lifted our finger from, so that can be really
handy there, how to rewind there. Let’s go ahead and just
right flick here.
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Voiceover
Play button.
Douglas Walker
All right, and of course, here’s our Play button again, and
of course, we would just double tap to activate or play our
song from here, but remember, we can always do that two
finger double tap that we like so much. Okay, we don’t
have to be on that play button then, we could just double
tap anywhere. All right, so let’s go ahead and right flick
again.
Voiceover
Next Track button.
Douglas Walker
This is great, because this is our Next Track button, and
activating of course this Next Track button is going to take
us to the next song in our album list here. We could
always double tap and hold on this if we wanted to fast
forward through this current song as well, which is nice.
Okay, so let’s go ahead and just right flick here.
Voiceover
Volume – 50%. Adjustable. Swipe up or down with one
finger to adjust the value.
Douglas Walker
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Yeah, so here’s our volume adjustable bar, so of course,
we could adjust our song’s volume from right here if we
like. However, we could also do that with our side volume
buttons as well here. Okay, so let’s go ahead and just
right flick. We’ll right flick.
Voiceover
Download button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, this is great because here we find another
Download button for us. Now, we really have encountered
several Download buttons which is really nice because it
gives us several options to do it from several different
places, which is always good. Okay, so let’s go ahead
and right flick.
Voiceover
Playback Destination button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our Playback Destination button. Now,
this is a really great feature, because this button allows us
to stream our music to another device wirelessly such as
our Apple TV or maybe a pair of Bluetooth headphones if
we have them, so it’s nice to have the ability to choose
between these different devices from right here. That’s
really great. Okay, so let’s go ahead and right flick from
here. We’ll right flick.
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Voiceover
More button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and here’s another More button. Now, we’ve
already encountered this More button when we were in
our album’s song list, and we spent some time kind of
going through, flicking through all of its features there, so
we’re not going to it right here. Now, when we right flick
again though, one of two things is going to happen for us.
We’ll either hear an end of list audio cue or one of those
end of page audio cues, or we’ll actually be taken to the
next button that we have, and that’s our lyrics heading.
Now, just because we hear this end of page audio cue,
unfortunately it doesn’t mean we’re at the end of the page.
We’ll actually need to perform a three finger flick up before
the rest of our tools here are visible to us. Anyway, it’d be
nice if Apple would sort of fix that little glitch, but anyway,
we’re going to flick and we’re going to see if we find – see
what we find here. Hopefully, we’ll be taken to that next
button, but if not, we’ll just do a three finger flick up our
screen. We’ll go ahead and right flick.
Voiceover
Lyrics heading.
Douglas Walker
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Okay, so we did go right to our lyrics heading here, but
again, if we hadn’t, we’d heard that end of list audio cue,
we just flick up with three fingers here. Okay, but as we
said, here’s our lyrics heading and I tell you, it really is
super cool that we have access to all of our album’s lyrics
from right here. Now, we’re going to need to activate our
next button which is our Show button before our song’s
lyrics are actually visible to us here. Let’s go ahead and
right flick to the Show button here. We’ll right flick.
Voiceover
Show button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and here’s our Show button and again, this really is
great, and of course, like we said, if we activate our Show
button, it’s going to actually list all of our current song’s
lyrics right here. Now, we’re not going to do that just yet,
but I tell you, it really is a super cool feature. All right, so
let’s go ahead and just right flick from here.
Voiceover
Up next heading.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our up next heading, and just below our
heading here, we’re going to have a list of the rest of the
songs that are in our current Queen album. Now, before
we actually hit that list, we do have a couple more tools
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here and these are important tools, so we really just want
to right flick through these real quick. We’ll right flick.
Voiceover
Shuffle off button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our Shuffle button, and we heard
voiceover announce that it is currently turned off, so we
could just single finger double tap here to turn on our
shuffle feature. Then we would know that all the songs on
our current album would be randomly played for us, so
that can be really great. Now, we’ll need to remember to
turn off our shuffle feature, otherwise, any future album
that we play is going to be automatically shuffled for us.
We might not always want that to happen for us, so we’ll
need to remember that we can turn on and off our shuffle
feature right here.
Okay, so we only have a couple more items here, so let’s
go ahead and just right flick here.
Voiceover
Repeat off button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our Repeat button and again, we heard it
is currently turned off. However, we could just single
finger double tap here and it’s really going to give us a
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couple of options. How about we just do that? We’ll do
just that; we’ll just single finger double tap and check out
these options. We’ll single finger double tap.
Voiceover
Selected – repeat all.
Douglas Walker
Okay, now our repeat all tracks option is turned on, so this
means that all of the tracks in our current album would
play and when they finish playing, our album would repeat
or would start from the very beginning again, which is
pretty cool. Okay, so how about we double tap here
again? We’ll single finger double tap.
Voiceover
Selected – repeat one.
Douglas Walker
Okay, we heard voiceover announce that our single track
feature is now selected, so that means our player will just
keep playing our current track, of course, until we activate
this repeat button again and turn it off. We don’t want to
hear – as much as we like Bohemian Rhapsody, maybe
we don’t want to hear it over and over again, so we’ll just
single finger double tap here one more time. We’ll single
finger double tap.
Voiceover
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Repeat off.
Douglas Walker
Great, so our repeat has been turned off and we’re back to
our default setting. Okay, so when we right flick again,
we’re actually going to be placed in our up next list. Of
course, this is simply going to be the rest of the songs in
our Queen album, so we’ll just right flick again. We’ll right
flick.
Voiceover
Another One Bites the Dust. Queen – The Platinum
Collection, 3 minutes, 35 seconds button. Actions
available.
Douglas Walker
This is great. We could just continue to right flick through
the rest of our songs here in our Queen album. We could
just single finger double tap then if we wanted and activate
any of them to get them playing right from here if we’d like.
Okay, so that pretty much covers all of the main features
that we will encounter all throughout our library tab. There
really are a lot of options here and it might make things
just a little easier if we maybe think of our Library tab as
moving through three totally different areas. First, we
have our artist list and of course, once we’ve selected one
of our artists, we then have our albums, song list, and then
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of course, after we expand our mini player like we have
here, we’re given our now playing screen for us.
I tell you, our music library really will get easier and easier
to use once we become more familiar with exactly how to
navigate through each one of these different areas. It’s
pretty great. All right, again, my name is Douglas Walker.
Take care and I’ll see you next time.
For more from the iFocus series including many other
topics of interest to individuals with vision loss, visit the
Videos@Hadley page on the Hadley Institute for the Blind
and Visually Impaired website at www.hadley.edu.
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