First I’d like to start by saying that Nokia have one of the best music players around, the Music Edition phones/N95/N82 and probably all the new Nseries. By no means I’m complaining about it, and I’m aware that are third party apps that solve most of the issues I’m gonna talk about:
First, why I don’t use it as my main music player (not counting battery life, space etc… 80gb iPod ftw)
The volume: 10 steps are not enough, sometimes the best volume is something in between, like 45%. Or sometimes even 10% is too loud, for that case I use a equalizer setting that turns the volume lower than 10%:
lol, but it works, 30% using this setting is more or less equivalent to 10% in the flat setting .
Now the “music number “, I can’t really explain this, so I have an example; I went to my music library, picked an artist and an album, and selected a song on shuffle:
The little number in corner that reads “7/13″ as this is the seventh song in the album, but when you go back a couple of levels in the menu you get this:
Now it’s saying “1/13″ because it is the first song playing from my playlist (the album in this case), this way makes MUCH more sense and that’s the way iPods show it, I think it should be like in the now playing view too. Consistency please!
A more nit-picky complain of mine is the now playing view, as seen 2 screenshots above, it doesn’t show the album name, it doesn’t matter when you have album art, but there certainly is space for a third line of text to show the album name. They even have 3 lines of text in their most excellent Internet Radio app.
When you have album art brings me to my next point, album art is a pain to get in the music player, I don’t know about you, but it never recognizes album art on my mp3 files, only my m4a files (all managed with iTunes on Mac OS X), and until firmware V12, you could add the art manually with a downloaded pic from the browser then erase the pic in gallery and enjoy your album art; but now in V20 you have to keep the file, if you erase the file in the gallery, the music player stops showing it. A step backward in my opinion.
Nokia should just work on better recognition of album art embedded in id3 tag in future versions of the music player.
In iTunes (warning, huge pic :p):
In N95’s Music Player:
And that’s it for now, coming next is a piece on the bugs that I have noticed in V20, so stay tuned :P
EDIT: Also, why does this doesn’t show up anymore when the track changes:
(lol, old post, but I had this screenshot for a while on my phone)
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