8 ways to play music from a Nokia N95

Wow thats great!!!

Heres a few more:

- Use portable speakers
- Use the tv-out to listen via your TV
- Plug the BH-500 to a line-in/mic port on a hifi

I'm sure there are more. Nice little video Steve, and it good to see you are having fun with the N95 even though you have the superior E90.

If you plug in an FM transmitter or use a tape converter in the car, how does also being connected to a bluetooth car kit affect this?

I have a Parrot CK3000 Evo car kit and all sounds made by the N95 are relayed through the car kit cutting out the car stereo so you hear the sound through the stereo speakers (in low quality so no good for music). Is this any different if you plug in something into the jack socket, and if so will it still take calls through the bluetooth?

Nice to see (or hear) I'm not the only one who still likes the Stranglers !!!

I'll testify that the sound through the jack using a cassette in car is really very good. It is honestly better than an iPod. I was amazed by that and a little dissappointed in the ipod!

I'm using the m4a files itunes created from my cd's on the N95. They are the same ones that the ipod uses. Go figure.

The Nokia Music Player is a turd compared to the iTunes on the iPhone.
- no gapless playback
- no Cover Flow
- no custom smart folders
- primitive UI

Nokia will realise this on the US market in a hard way in the next months LOL

ok, ok, I can't resist responding to a fan-boy troll.....

1) How do you know - have YOU listened to music quality from an iPhone? Thought not.
2) iPod output quality is known to be average at best - maybe they'll be using the same chips for the iPhone?
3) Only a tiny fraction of AAS readers will even have the chance to buy an iPhone, as it's only going to be available on ONE network in the USA for the first few months.
4) Calling the N95 Music Player a turd is just plain immature. Get the average person to listen to music on a selection of S60 and dedicated MP3-playing devices and very, very few will be able to tell the difference.

Steve

Even average Nokia fanboys can tell the difference between having annoying gaps between the tracks of a live album and not having.

Macboy, it looks like you never heard of third party software which can do this. All the mac fans are so narrow minded?

Put the MP3 files in the web directory of Nokia's version of Apache then listen to them from a computer or other mobile device.

hi!

have you found a way to stream music from the computer to the N95?
Thanks!

There are several ways to stream Music but I will address using UPnP over WiFi connections.
1. Stream music located on N95 to UPnP media rendering device. UPnP Media Renderer Device is a special category that allows music to be "pushed" to it from a controller (Control Point in UPnP terms). Think of the N95 as a WiFi remote control. This also requires that there is a Media Server Device which is built-in to the N95 along with the control point. Now all that is needed is a Media Renderer Device. Philips makes a few for you bloakes in Europe and for us yanks in the US, the D-Link DSM-510. The N800 will work as well.
2. For a little more complex streaming, let's modify things so that the music will come from a third device acting as the Media Server Device. Microsoft has Windows Media Connect and ships on all Vista PCs as well as XP with Windows Media Player 11. Intel also ships a Media Server with their Viiv platform PCs avaialble from many OEMs. TwonkyVision also has a very nice server for Windows, Mac, and Linux. So using the N95 you can browse your home network and find a Media server. Search for something to play and then select Play over Home Network. You can then choose a Media Renderer device and it will stream directly from the server to the renderer.

Hi,

first of all, if you have an N95 and a laptop that has built-in wifi you can easily set up UPnP with Nokia's own (well, somewhat own...) media center software (go to www dot simplecenter dot com slash nokia). If you configure an ad-hoc network on the laptop and connect the N95 with that network you're ready to go in no time even without an access point. This setup is great for demo purposes.

Secondly, there is another way of listening to your music with the N95 and that's through the music gateway of the Nokia CK-20W multimedia car kit.

BR,
andreas

Hi again,

regarding UPnP I'm afraid it's not possible to play back music with a Nokia N95. At least with my device it's not possible. On my N93, though, it is.

What you have to do is you go to the Galery, go to your Music Files, choose a song and through the Options menu you play hte song back on the home network. So far so good on the N93.

But if you open your music files through Galery on an N95 you'll be taken directly to the music player which does not offer the home network playback option. On an N93 the UPnP music playback through the Galery and the music player are two seperate things. I can play back music through the home network and play a different song through the music player at the same time.

Since the N95 doesn't have the music section in the Galery, it's not possible to play back music through the N95 directly.

There are possible work around, though
a) you copy the music from the N95 to the laptop using hte SimpleCenter UPnP software
b) you allow access to the music files on the N95, take another UPnP-Device (like another N95, or an N93, or an N80), look for servers in your home network (under Galery), choose the N95 as the server and the laptop as the playback device. That way the music is indead coming from the N95 and going to the laptop, you just can't control the playback directly on the N95.

I don't know but does this all sound like a bug to you, too?

andreas

The only way I've found to stream music from your PC to the N95 is using Orb. If you have a uPnP-enabled router, Orb detects that you're both on the same public IP address and streams directly across the WLAN rather than to California (or wherever) and back.

I terms of playing music in the car, personally I think it's worth forking out a few bob and fitting a 3.5mm input jack, or paying somebody to do it. In the past I've found the FM re-transmitters dodgy and the cassette thingies give fuzzy sound.

Fuzzy sound from the cassette adapter? Hmm must have been your tape heads and / or adapter.

I used one several years ago before I bought an in car MP3 headunit and it gave sound as clear as if it had been a direct CD playing.

Has anyone been successful in sending Video & Pictures from the Nokia N series phones via UPnP to a Media Player / UPnP renderer, under the control of the Mobile Phone? If so which Media Player have you used? Sending music in this way seems not to be a problem I've don it using my D-Link DSM-520. Trying to do the same for Video or Pictures results in nothing being displayed. I've proved the video file is compatible by putting it on a USB stick directly connected to the DSM-520.

Many Thanks

An obvious one, but another way of listening to music on the N95 would be by the inbuilt FM radio.....
Oh, and internet radio?

� n95 does not require you to have itunes to upload your music
� n95 has a2dp bluetooth (iphone doesn't) you probably don't know what that is.
this will allow one to stream wirelessly to bluetooth capable headphones, home stereo and last but not least, a car stereo. You could feasibly be listening to an album in the car, walk in the house and continue the album with a simple bluetooth reconnection.. no wires involved.
� n95 is open to endless formats, ogg, mp3, wav, acc and all future codecs not realized (that's where third party comes in)
� have fun sending your iphone in to have it's battery changed
� have fun using google maps without a gps
� have fun asking why you can't record a video, mms or transfer files via bluetooth.
� have fun surfing without 3g
� have fun surfing without Flash, limited javascript and limited frame support
� have fun with your 10 applications vs. nokia's 1000+

This guy is such a looser ... Wasting his time like this...

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