Ewan goes into more detail on how well Nokia's new breed of music smartphones (starting with the 3250 and N91) work with Windows Media Player. Music on your smartphone suddenly got a lot more practical!
Read on in the full article.
Nokia's new breed and Windows Media Player
In the article, Ewan said :
the capability to play back stereo music files has been one that has been available to Series 60 owners since the 6630
I beg to differ. I have listened to stereo music on my N-Gage Classic and also Sendo-X, some friends of mine used their Siemens SX1 as stereo music player. All these S60 are released before the 6630 😉
Infact, on the N-Gage Classic, it acts as an external drive when connected to PC via USB. I dragged and dropped my music files into the MMC with ease.
Cheers!
My bad, I should have added in S60 v1, but note the 6630 was the first to be really pushed as a music device with the Music bundle.
In fact Ewan's original text said "7650" and I changed it to "6630". The point is that music isn't really music unless it's in stereo and the 6630 was the first device with stereo audio built into the OS.
The N-Gage, Sendo X, SX-1 etc all had extra, custom hardware support. Anyway, suffice it to say that music's been around for a while in the S60 world, in one form or another 8-)
Steve Litchfield
Its quite interesting how this has developed. I remember the old days of Nokia Audio Manager for the 5510 and mental anguish i went through with that, then my dismay that it hadnt changed much for series 60 phones.
My joy and relief when i found out that i could use Windows Media Player 10 to sync music to an memory card. Its what i've been using for many months now and its been great. The fact that now i dont need to remove the card from the phone to do this and its all seamless, that makes me very happy and i look forward to my purchase of the 3250.
The only drawback i found so far, notably with syncing to a memory card, is that it ignores any folder heirachy and just places the music files in the root directory of the card. This considering that i am impressed at the accurate and ordered approach WMP10 places ripped music on a computer...namely in their respective folders by album and artists.
Is there any evidence of how WMP stores the files on the new equiped handsets, for example the 3250?