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Symbian-Guru: New Version of Nokia Music PC Client, I'm Back To iTunes

  • James Burland @ Nokia Creative · 1 year ago
    Genius Playlists, Podcast, Audio Books, Radio, TV Shows in HD, Movies, Party Shuffle, Library Sharing, One Click Download... Nokia have quite a bit of work to put in before the Nokia Music Client is even close to competing.
  • Micky · 1 year ago
    Aint that the truth.!
  • genXhippie · 1 year ago
    Yet, a clear example of being out of touch w/ the users' base needs, pity. :roll:
  • Gomcoite · 1 year ago
    I totally agree. had problems with library option and the software on whole was damn slow. Completely Avoidable.

    Have any of you tried Songbird aka Mozilla Client for Music?
    I used it for my iPod cause i hated iTunes and it was good. I'll try songbird for mobiles and will tell you how'd it go. i dont knw if it supports cellphones but ill give it a shot.
  • Ben · 1 year ago
    All of the features you are looking for, except for playlist size limit, exist in foobar2000. (And much much more)
    If you haven't tried it so far, I strongly recommend you do. I have a N95 and I manage my music on the device and on my computer from foobar.
    I also use it to automatically copy music to the device (using a smart file renamer/mover/copier which is an integral part of foobar).

    Seriously, Check it out. (Did I mention its completely free and extensible?)
  • ashu · 1 year ago
    iTunes is miles ahead. Nokia need to realise that their phones can do much better with an integrated app for music customizations.
  • Tony S · 1 year ago
    I haven't actually tried it with my N95 yet but an alternative to iTunes that can create and manage all sort of media, playlists and smart playlists, check out J River's Media Center over at http://www.jrmediacenter.com/. It's not free but it's fairly cheap and may do what you need.
  • Suraj V · 1 year ago
    Yes, the smart playlists on iTunes are brilliant. But I still want to use my iPod to listen to the songs I haven't played recently because the play count / last played info is updated in iTunes Library on the PC next time I sync my iPod. I really really need this. I don't want to listen to music on my nokia music player phone for only this reason. And that's very important to me. Otherwise, the music phone is much more comfortable than the ipod.
    The itunes is very sticky and its going to be very hard for nokia to get people move away from it after people have used it.
  • Chirantan · 1 year ago
    Hey Ricky it would be real nice if you could post a hows-to on using iTunes with a symbian device, i mean syncing creating playlists etc. i have never used iTunes before so would really like if i get a proper tutorial kinf od thing!
  • Jaclu · 1 year ago
    Chirantan: If you use a mac it's dead easy. Google&download Nokia Multimedia Transfer

    Then you get a library in iTunes named after your phone, any playlists put in this library can be played on the computer and phone, and will be synced automatically whenever you connect the phone.
  • Peter Schrijver · 1 year ago
    I used itunes before, it's too limited.

    try mediamonkey. It's the best!
  • Jonathan Gauthier · 1 year ago
    I have had good results with itunes + salling media sync + mediamonkey.

    iTunes of course is used to manage library and playlists.
    media sync does the sync to the Nokia E71
    mediamonkey I use only to get album art within the mp3 tag instead of outside like iTunes does it

    You would think that Nokia could make this work easier with iTunes already using .xml files for the library.

    The only thing I miss about my iPod now is the scroll wheel to quickly FFWD a song and the play count/ratings that I can adjust easily from my iPod and then get updated to iTunes.
  • Misty · 1 year ago
    No smart playlists -- that is disappointing. I just got the 5800 (!!!) and want to use it to replace my iPod, but I use smart playlists very heavily. I know I can use iTunes with the phone, but is there any way to have iTunes update the play counts, ratings, etc, based on things I set on the phone? Also I know that I can download podcasts directly to the phone, but it's very nice that iTunes will delete my podcasts once played -- I wonder if I can make iTunes play as nicely with the 5800 as with the iPod. Any tips on iTunes and S60 devices?
  • genXhippie · 3 months ago
    Yet, a clear example of being out of touch w/ the users' base needs, pity. :roll: