N81 part 3 - Music Syncing and Music Buying

Published by Steve Litchfield at 17:42 UTC, November 18th 2007

In part 3 of his extended review of the Nokia N81 8GB, Ewan experiments with music synchronisation, using both Nokia's music system and Microsoft's Media Player, before moving on to test the integration with Nokia's new Music Store. In summary, things went pretty smoothly, with a few caveats. As a music-focussed smartphone, the N81 8GB seems to be faring quite well.

"As I pointed out in part 2 of this review , the Nokia Music Manager program isn’t the greatest, and I suspect that, while a number of hardcore users will end up using the USB Mass Storage mode to directly access the N81’s 8GB memory and copy over music files that way, the majority of people are going to use Windows Media Player and the built in ‘synchronising’ capability.

While this isn’t as smooth as Apple’s iTunes, it’s a step up from the Nokia bundled software, and is reasonably smooth in operation, so for that reason alone the inclusion of Windows Media Player support is welcome.

First of all, and the big advantage over the Nokia solution, is that you can search through your music collection with Windows Media Player. Want to see everything by “Queen” in your collection? Drop it into the text box, hit search, and there you go. Putting all of the Queen tracks onto your N81 is now a matter of dragging and dropping the songs from this subset list, into the Sync List on the right of the view.

 

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News Discussion

jojosalami
personally i feel that nokia has done this well plus for people who have 5gb worth of music or for real ipod fans with 160gb worth of music they always have a way of organization so i wouldnt critisize the search features too much, i for example have different folders labeled metal, rock, jap - whenever i need it i open one and search the subfolders for the band i want - it isnt a matter of companies making it hard or easy anymore - it's a matter of whether the person using the tech WANTS to be organized or not - then only the person will be able to make it easier for themselves.
PaulyLaw
Good article as usual .. think you probably want to swap it for the final version though without Ewan's notes in it. Oops! ;-)
3HzT
1 question, how does album picture (album art called in N81) of the music automatically load/add when playing songs.

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