# 2.2. Playing songs

To play a song, first open it, and then press on the Play button of the toolbar , or the `Play` entry of the `Song` menu, or just press the `Space` key. Note that when you open a file using Drag&Drop, KMid will start playing it automatically (if you drop more than one file, they will be added to a collection and they will be played sequencially).

Once KMid is playing a song, you can move the time slider, by pressing with the middle mouse button, to go to a specified position.

If a song is playing too fast or too slow for you, you can press on the arrows at both sides of the tempo LCD and make it play faster or slower. To get back to the default tempo, just do a double click on the tempo LCD.

The `Space` key is used for two things, when music is playing, and you press the Space key, it will act as when you press on the pause button or the `Pause` entry of the `Song` menu, that is, it will pause music . If you press the `Space` key when no music is being played, kmid will play it.