Creating a Music Playlist

Personalize the music experience on your phone by creating a playlist in the Music application. Make a playlist containing just your favorite songs or create one to match your mood for the day. You can make as many playlists as you like and listen to them on the go with the Music widget on your Home screen.

Before you can create a music playlist, you need to have music files on your phone. You can copy music files to your phone by following the instructions in Copying Photos and Music to Your Phone.

1. Press HOME, and then tap the All Programs button.



2. Tap Music. Music opens on the Now playing screen.
3. Tap the Library button in the lower-left corner of the screen.



4. Your music library opens and shows all of the music on your phone, organized alphabetically by artist name. The bottom row shows other ways you can view your music, such as by album name, playlists, or song name. Tap or slide your finger on the bottom row to change to the Playlists view.
5. Tap Add playlist to begin creating your playlist.
6. Enter the Playlist name, and then tap Add songs to playlist.
7. Tap or slide your finger on the bottom row to change among the different views of your music to find the songs you want to add to your playlist. If you change to the Songs view, you can view a list of all of the available songs on your phone making it easy to build your playlist.
8. Select the songs you want to add to the playlist and then tap Add.
9. Tap Save. Your new playlist appears in the Playlists view.

To add songs to an existing playlist, tap the playlist in the Playlists view. Press MENU, and then tap Add songs. Select the songs you want to add to the playlist and then tap Add.

Listening to a playlist with the Music widget

With the Music widget, you can control the playback of your music directly from the Home screen. To listen to a playlist with the Music widget, you first need to open the playlist using the Music application.

1. Press HOME, tap the All Programs button, and then tap Music.
2. Tap the Library button in the lower-left corner of the screen.
3. In the Library, tap or slide your finger on the bottom row to go to the Playlists view.
4. Tap a playlist to open it and display the list of songs it contains, and then tap a song to begin playback.
5. Press HOME, and then slide your finger left or right across the Home screen to find the Music widget.
   If you do not find the Music widget on the Home screen, you can add the widget by following the instructions in Personalizing Your Home Screen: Widgets.
6. You can use the controls on the Music widget to play or pause your music, skip to the next song in the playlist, or go to the previous song.