•Use solutions that may be available from third-party software developers (sold separately) that facilitate the transfer of music files to your smartphone. For more information about the availability of third-party solutions, open the browser on your computer and go to hpwebos.com/sync-solutions.

•Listen to music files received as email attachments (see Open email attachments).

•Listen to music files received as part of a multimedia message (see Receive and view text and multimedia messages).

•Sync with HP Play on your computer (see Use HP Play to sync music from your computer to your smartphone).

•Buy music using the Amazon MP3 app if it's available on your smartphone (see Amazon MP3).

The following table lists music formats that you can play on your smartphone:

Table 4. Music formats playable on webOS smartphones

File format

Play in Music/

Download from

Download from

 

Copy to USB

Email

MMS

 

storage

 

 

 

 

 

 

AAC

√

√

 

AAC+

√

√

 

AMR

 

√ (see Note)

√ (see Note)

MP3TM

√

√ (see Note)

√ (see Note)

WAV

√

√ (see Note)

√ (see Note)

NOTE You can download and listen to MP3, WAV and AMR files in Email and from an MMS in Messaging, but files you download from Email or Messaging are not saved to USB storage and they are not listed in Music. MMS attachments sent to your smartphone in the WAV and AMR formats are converted and delivered to your smartphone as MP3 files.

Listen to music

After you begin to play music, music continues to play if you switch to another application, turn off the screen or slide the ringer switch off. If a call comes in, music pauses automatically and resumes when you hang up or ignore the call.

If you put the Music app in the background while you work in another app, a music notification icon appears at the bottom of the screen. Tap the icon to display the music playback controls. You can use the controls even if the screen is locked.

1Add music files to your smartphone. See Get music onto your smartphone.

2Open Music .

3Do one of the following:

•To listen to all songs on your smartphone: Tap Songs. Tap the first song.

•To listen to a specific song: Tap Artists, Albums, Songs, Genres or Playlists to search that category. Continue making selections until the song you want appears. Tap the song name.

•To listen to all songs from an artist: Tap Artists and tap the artist name. Tap the first song.

•To listen to an album: Tap Albums and tap the album name. Tap the first song.

•To listen to all songs in a genre: Tap Genres and tap the genre name. Tap the first song.

•To listen to playlists you synchronised to your smartphone: Tap Playlists. You can use HP Play (see Use HP Play to sync music from your computer to your smartphone) or go to hpwebos.com/ sync-solutionsto see if there are third-party solutions (sold separately) available for your smartphone that you can use to sync music and playlists from your computer to your smartphone.

•To browse a music store to preview or purchase songs (if available): Tap the music store name. Continue making selections until the song you want appears. Tap the song name.

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