Music

Get to know how to use Music app  in your Galaxy Note 3 to play music, set a song as ringtone, share music via Group Play, create playlist, play music by mood.

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1) Playing music
2) Setting a song as ringtone
3) Listening to a song with others
4) Creating playlists
5) Playing music by mood

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Use this application to listen to music on Galaxy Note 3.

Tap Music on the Applications screen.

  • Some file formats are not supported depending on the software installed on the device.
  • Some files may not play properly depending on the encoding method used.

Playing music

Select a music category, and then select a song to play.

Tap the album image at the bottom of the screen to open the music player screen.

  • Scan DLNA-enabled devices.
  • Set the file as your favourite song.
  • Turn on shuffle.
  • Hide the music player screen.
  • Restart the currently-playing song or skip to the previous song. Tap and hold to move backwards quickly.
  • Adjust the volume.
  • Change the repeat mode.
  • Open the playlist.
  • Skip to the next song. Tap and hold to move forwards quickly.
  • Pause and resume playback.

To listen to songs at equal volume levels, tap  → Settings → Smart volume.

  • Smart volume may not be activated for some files.
  • When Smart volume is activated, the volume may end up louder than the device volume level. Use caution to avoid long-term exposure to loud sounds to prevent damage to your hearing.

To set a personalised sound while listening to songs with a headset, tap   → Settings → Adapt Sound → On

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When you turn the volume up to level 14 or higher, the adapt sound option is not applied to music playback. If you turn the volume down to level 13 or lower, the option is reapplied.

Setting a song as ringtone

To use the currently-playing song as ringtone, tap  → Set as → Phone ringtone.

Listening to a song with others

To share the currently-playing song with others, tap  → Play via Group Play.

Creating playlists

Make an own selection of songs.

Tap Playlists, and then tap  → Create playlist. Enter a title and tap OK. Tap Add music, select songs to include, and then tap Done.

To add the currently-playing song to a playlist, tap   →  Add to playlist.

Playing music by mood

Play music grouped by mood. The playlist is automatically created by Galaxy Note 3.

To use this feature, set the music square menu to appear at the top of the music library by tapping   → Settings → Music menu, and tick Music square, and then tap Done.

Tap Music square at the top of the screen, and select a cell of mood. Or select multiple cells by dragging your finger.

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  • On the note 2, it wont change to the next song when finished. Just plays same song over. How do I get it to switch on its own at the end of a song?

  • Before lollipop on note 3 i could put a picture for playlist cover, now i can't do that, or i don't know how to do that. Help

  • how do i play only 1 album or playlist without it automatically playing the next song album or playlist? I'd like to only play 1 song and then stop. Thank you.

  • How do you make the player shuffle all your music. Not just one album. You know pick different songs from different artist?

  • Hi, I have uploaded the songs in my device but my music library is not getting updated with the newly added songs though I could manually to go that file location and play the song.please help

    • It depends on how you uploaded them. If you connect the phone to the PC through USB cable, then it should be updated in the music app. But if you copied them through other methods, the music app may not update. You may try to reboot the phone, then check it in music app.

    • I don't think there is noticeable break between songs in the list.

      How long is pause for your playlist? Did you try other music players, e.g. Google play music or VLC for Android?

  • I just want to ask.... how do I add picture to music files? For exaple.. when i download song and the music file does not include picture of album how can I add it? :) Thank you very much ^^

    • The album arts are either embedded in the music files or fetched by the music player.

      For individual mp3 files, you can use mp3tag to embed a picture. But you can only do this on a pc. I am not sure whether there are any android apps for this.

  • How do I make the player re-scan the phone for added/moved files? For example: When I download a zip file from LibriVox and unzip the audio book, the player does not see the files until after I have re-started the phone. Another example: If I move the audio files from one folder to another again the player will not notice that the files have moved until after I re-start the phone. Is there a re-scan function or is the scan only done during the boot sequence? I have tried to stop and re-start just the Player's process but that did not cause a re-scan.

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