If you choose to create a new playlist, type a name for the playlist and tap the OK button.
The song or album is added to the playlist you selected, or it’s placed into a new playlist you created. You can continue to add songs to the playlist by repeating these steps.
✓You can have as many playlists as you like on the tablet and stick as many songs as you like in them. Adding songs to a playlist doesn’t noticeably affect the tablet’s storage capacity.
✓To remove a song from a playlist, open the playlist and tap the Action Overflow by the song and choose Remove from Playlist.
✓Removing a song from a playlist doesn’t delete the song from the music library; see the next section.
✓Songs in a playlist can be rearranged: While viewing the playlist, use the tab on the far left end of a song title to drag that song up or down in the list.
✓To delete a playlist, tap the Action Overflow icon in the Playlist icon’s lower right corner (refer to Figure 13-4). Choose Delete and tap OK to confirm.
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Removing unwanted music
To remove a song or an album, tap its Action Overflow icon. Choose the Delete action. Tap the OK button to remove the song. Bye‐bye, music.
I don’t recommend removing music. Most music on your Android tablet is actually stored on the cloud, Google’s Play Music service. Therefore, remov- ing the music doesn’t affect the tablet’s storage, so unless you totally despise the song or artist, removing the music has no effect.
Some music can be stored locally by downloading it to the tablet. That way, the music is always available. See Chapter 15 for details.
Music from the Stream
Although they’re not broadcast radio stations, some sources on the Internet — Internet radio sites — play music. These Internet radio apps are available from the Google Play Store. Some free services that I can recommend are
✓Pandora Radio
✓Spotify
✓TuneIn Radio
Pandora Radio and Spotify let you select music based on your mood and preferences. The more feedback you give the apps, the better the music selections.
The TuneIn Radio app gives you access to hundreds of Internet radio stations broadcasting around the world. They’re organized by category, so you can find just about whatever you want. Many of the radio stations are also broad- cast radio stations, so odds are good that you can find a local station or two, which you can listen to on your Android tablet.
These apps, as well as other, similar apps, are available for free. Paid ver- sions might also be found at the Google Play Store. The paid versions gener- ally provide unlimited music with no advertising.
✓Google offers an unlimited music listening service. You can sign up by tapping the Get Unlimited Music button, found at the bottom of the Play Music app’s navigation drawer. The service is free for 30 days, and then a nominal fee, currently $9.99, is charged monthly.
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✓It’s best to listen to Internet radio when your tablet is connected to the Internet via a Wi‐Fi connection. Streaming music can use a lot of your cellular data plan’s data allotment.
✓Be wary of music subscription services offered through your tablet’s manufacturer or cellular provider. I’ve subscribed to such services only to find them terminated for various reasons. To avoid that disappoint- ment, stick with the services described in this section until you feel comfortable enough to buy into another service.
✓See Chapter 15 for more information about the Google Play Store.
✓Internet music of the type delivered by the apps mentioned in this sec- tion is referred to by the nerds as streaming music. That’s because the music arrives on your Android tablet as a continuous download from the source. Unlike music you download and save, streaming music is played as it comes in and isn’t stored long‐term.
Amazing Tablet Feats
In This Chapter
▶Waking up to your Android tablet
▶Making tablet calculations
▶Keeping your appointments
▶Reading digital books
▶Playing games
▶Watching junk on YouTube
▶Buying or renting films and TV shows
Even given the variety of things your Android tablet can do, you will find some limitations. For example, you cannot use an Android tablet as a yoga block. It makes a poor kitchen cutting board. And despite efforts by European physicists, the Android tablet simply
cannot compete with the Large Hadron Collider. Still, for more everyday purposes, I believe you’ll find your tablet more than up to the task.
This chapter corrals many (but not all) of the things you can do on your Android tablet. Among the devices it replaces are your alarm clock, calcula- tor, day planner, game machine, eBook reader, and even your TV set. That’s not even the full list, but rather everything I could legally cram into this chapter without violating the For Dummies chapter length regulations.
Clock
Your Android tablet keeps constant, accurate track of the time, which is displayed at the top of the Home screen as well as on the Lock screen. That’s handy, but it just isn’t enough, so the tablet ships with an app that tells the time and also may double as an alarm clock.
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The app may be called Clock or Alarm. If it’s called Alarm, it’s probably noth- ing more than a basic alarm clock. The Clock app, on the other hand, is more of a chronometric app, featuring a timer, stopwatch, alarm, and world clock functions. Of these activities, setting an alarm is pretty useful: In that mode, your tablet becomes your nightstand companion.
Here’s how to set a wake‐up alarm in the stock Android Clock app: