Playing Your Music in Windows 8.1

The Music app is also opened from the Start screen and looks and works in a very similar way to the Video app. When you first open it, you are shown music that you can purchase online. Swipe left to view your own music collection (or move your mouse to the bottom of the screen and a scroll bar will appear that you can drag left).

The Music app will show your most recently added music first. Click/ touch the My Music link to view the whole music collection on your computer. Here you can arrange your music by Songs, Albums, or Artists by clicking the links on the left side of the screen . You can also view any Playlists you have created. More on creating playlists will follow shortly.

Note: You can create a new playlist at any time in the Music app by clicking/touching the + New playlist button on the left of the screen.

You can click/touch the Date Added link at the top of the screen to sort and arrange your music in different ways, including by genre or by A to Z. 

When you click/touch on an album, the screen changes to display a track list for that album. Here, you can click/touch on an individual track to play. Play, add to playlist, artist details, and more options buttons appear top center above the track list, and in the bot‐ tom right of the screen are next (and previous) track, play, and volume controls. 

At any time when music is playing, you can also click/touch the + button next to the name of the currently playing track to add the track to the end of the current music playlist.

Note: Open the App Bar at any time to display the play controls in the Music and Video apps.