Playing Music in Your Music Library

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When you are listening to your Library, I don't recommend that you uncheck a song's check box in the Library or move songs up and down in the list to control how they are played. Use playlists for that kind of customized listening instead (playlists are explained in Chapter 18, "Creating, Configuring, and Using Playlists"). Changes you make to songs in the Library can result in unexpected things happening if you forget to undo a change before making a playlist, burning a CD, and so on.

Remember earlier when I said that you use the same listening techniques to listen to music in your Library as you do when listening to a CD? Now it's time to prove my words.

When you listen to music in your Library, you start by choosing the scope of the music you want to hear. You do this by browsing or searching for music. (If you don't know how to do this, here's a hint: Read the previous two sections.)

After you have the group of songs to which you want to listen showing in the Content pane, use the listening tools you learned about in the previous chapter to listen to your music. For example, you can click Play to play the songs, use the Repeat button to repeat them, sort the Content pane by one of the column headings to change the order in which the songs play, and so on.