How to Listen to an iPod Touch
- 1). Connect your earphones to the bottom of the device. Go to the iPod touch home screen, and tap the orange music icon.
- 2). Browse your library by playlists, songs or artists using the icons along the bottom of the screen. Tap an icon to sort your music by that criteria. To sort music by album or genre, tap the "More" icon to see those options.
- 3). Tap once on the name of a song to begin playing it. Pause a song by tapping the two short vertical lines in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen.
- 4). Advance to the next song by tapping the icon of two right-facing arrows in the toolbar. Go back to the previous song by tapping the two left-facing arrows in the toolbar.
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