Some of you may have already picked this up or bothered to read the on-line guide but if you double click (press) the home bottom regardless of where you are it brings up the music controls.... so if you're listening to music when the unit if off and on hold you can double click and just the music controls will come up (this saves from turning the screen back on) or if you're surfing the web or using youTube you can do the same... it will just silhouette the music controls over the top of whatever you're doing..... saves from returning to home and selecting iPod then going back into Safari etc.....