As many people do, I would like to use my E61 as a music player. I have a couple of questions here.
Firstly adapters - I have bought a cheap headphone apadpter from Ebay - this claimed to be stereo, but does not seem to give me stereo sound. Do I need to purchase the much bulkier (and more expensive) Nokia AD-15 adapter to get decent sound quality
Secondly, getting music onto the phone. I use Windows Media Player and store my music as WMA files. Using the Nokia music converter is slow, repeatedly crashes and often cannot conver files. If I copy AAC file accross to the memory card directly it file data (track name etc) is not carried over. So- is there a way i can copy WMA files across and play them directly, or does anyone have any tips on how to make the music copying utility work better?
Thanks,
jon
The E61 doesn't have native/built-in WMA support (like some other models, such as the 3250 or N91), so you have to convert first.
JonWill wrote:
Firstly adapters - I have bought a cheap headphone apadpter from Ebay - this claimed to be stereo, but does not seem to give me stereo sound. Do I need to purchase the much bulkier (and more expensive) Nokia AD-15 adapter to get decent sound qualitySecondly, getting music onto the phone. I use Windows Media Player and store my music as WMA files. Using the Nokia music converter is slow, repeatedly crashes and often cannot conver files. If I copy AAC file accross to the memory card directly it file data (track name etc) is not carried over. So- is there a way i can copy WMA files across and play them directly, or does anyone have any tips on how to make the music copying utility work better?
That won't help much but i was in the very same situation as you. I bought a cheap adapter which turned out to be mono and the sound was awful. Plus the built-in music player didn't recognize the tags of my AAC files putting them all under the Unknown Album / Unknown Artist category. OggPlay didn't do any better. Since i did not fancy converting all my music files to MP3 or Ogg (and the sound quality with my adapter was crap anyway), i simply gave up. Doesn't matter much though, my iPod still works very well despite its age.
If you do find a solution for the AAC files tags, i'd love to hear it.
An alternative might be coreplayer: http://coreplayer.com/
According to the developers, it should be released this week-end for symbian. Not free though (a free version with less codecs will be made available in the future). In theory, this player should be able to play just about any audio or video format you throw at it. Judging from the feedback in their forums (it's been released last week for Pocket PC and Windows Mobile), the first version has some quirks but let's just wait and see.
The difference between CorePlayer and the other media players on symbian is that, if I understood properly, they do not rely on the built-in media playing APIs of the device to play files but have implemented their own codecs. So on top of supporting more formats than any other player, it might also work better than other players even with already supported files formats (I do not know whether it reads tags properly).
Hi,
Try apple's iTune. It will convert WMA to AAC automaticly.😊
JonWill wrote:As many people do, I would like to use my E61 as a music player. I have a couple of questions here.Firstly adapters - I have bought a cheap headphone apadpter from Ebay - this claimed to be stereo, but does not seem to give me stereo sound. Do I need to purchase the much bulkier (and more expensive) Nokia AD-15 adapter to get decent sound quality
One more on this one:
I got a crappy little adapter from eBay too, sounds really awful together with my KOSS 'ThePlug' - earphones. Furthermore, a so-called 'stereo'- headphone I purchased from eBay for few bucks sounds not much better, while the original mono Nokia one sounds also very poor.
ANY advice which headphone to pruchase to get a decent sound quality with the E61 and how much to 'invest'?
I just remember my old Siemens SX1 - great and powerful sound quality with the bundled stereo earphones! Maybe I should downgrade 😉
Cheers,
B.
I've got the pop port adapter (not original) that has 2 black rings on the pin. I suppose this means its stereo. I've a sanheiser earhone and it plays fantastic music on my Palm z72 pocket tunes. But with the same combo, music and adapter, playing on my e 61 it sounds monotonous,bland and unexciting
I wonder if the E62 plays better sound cos it has the 3.5mm jack rather then the pop port!
Has anyone experience fantastic sound on thier E 62?
nutrinos wrote:I've got the pop port adapter (not original) that has 2 black rings on the pin. I suppose this means its stereo. I've a sanheiser earhone and it plays fantastic music on my Palm z72 pocket tunes. But with the same combo, music and adapter, playing on my e 61 it sounds monotonous,bland and unexciting
I wonder if the E62 plays better sound cos it has the 3.5mm jack rather then the pop port!
Has anyone experience fantastic sound on thier E 62?
have you tried the equaliser settings to liven up your music, though with v2 firmware everytime the track is changed you will have to change the volume to invoke the equakiser setting, i have been told this is fixed in v3 firmware.
I am still on v1. Will wait untill the new fw is rock solid. Despite fidelling with the equalizer, it makes no dramatic improvements to the sound dynamics especially with base. One sound, the boom effect of a firing canon is so paperish if u get what i mean. The e61 just doesnt have depth in sound. The equalizer set to deep base only makes distorted/shattered base so i'm really pissed.
Now again, is that due to the pop port or better sound from the e62 3.5mm jack?