 <p>You can either pass the object to the ng-click function:</p> <pre><code>&lt;div ng-repeat="record in records"&gt; &lt;button ng-click="play(record)"&gt;Play&lt;/button&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>or call a function on the record in the ng-click:</p> <pre><code>&lt;div ng-repeat="record in records"&gt; &lt;button ng-click="record.play()"&gt;Play&lt;/button&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre>