Installing Simplify Music 2.0 on the iPhone or iPod touch

Download Simplify Music 2.0 from the Apple App Store with iTunes or on your iPhone or iPod touch.

Simplify is listed in the Music category.

Once it is installed, click the new icon to launch Simplify Music.

Sign in with your Simplify Media screen name and password.

If you don't already have a Simplify Media screen name, create one from your iPhone or using Simplify Media on your PC, Mac or Linux computer. It's free.

You then need to install Simplify Media on your desktop in order to access all of your music from your iPhone or iPod touch.

Download Simplify Media for PC or Mac

Download Simplify Media for Linux

Pick a remote computer to get started.

When you sign in, Simplify Media builds a list of the available computers you are connected to. It will take a few minutes for all of the music to appear, but you can start browsing and playing right away.

Tip: the first time you run Simplify, songs will load faster if you are connected over WiFi and have your device plugged in to prevent sleep.

Pick a playlist or category.

Simplify shows you all of the available playlists on that computer.

You can browse by album, artist, genre and song. Use the A-Z bar for for faster navigation.

Or, search across all of your remote libraries. Enter any combination of artist, album or song.

Pick a song to start playback. Buttons at the top let you toggle between song information, artist bio and lyrics.

This is the artist bio view. Tap on a playback screen to bring up the scrub bar.

With the scrub bar you can advance or rewind to any point in a song, audiobook or podcast.

This is the lyrics view.

Select the + icon to add a song or an album to your Favorites list.

Add, delete and re-arrange your Favorites to create a playlist on-the-fly.