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In the last few days I decided to try out my last post of converting my entire music library and putting it on my N82, as I will be leaving for university soon and having my entire music library in my pocket does make the long plane trips much shorter.

So here's how the Music Player looks when the initial loading screen is done:


The worst part is when you turn your phone on first thing in the morning and waiting for the Music Player app to finish loading - it takes much longer on average to get songs playing.

Update:
So here's my first impressions on cramming 2700+ songs on the N82:

  • First things first - loading the Music Player app from a cold boot (turning the phone on using the power button) takes roughly 15 seconds or so. The 'Loading' bar keeps moving before you can see the number of songs and podcasts you have on your phone.

  • Clicking on 'All Songs' in the main menu takes a very long time to load - something like 10 to 20 seconds, depending on whether you're opening the list for the first time since you turned your phone on.

  • Loading a particular song becomes a nightmare. If you select a song to play, it takes about 10 seconds before the music player menus are accessible again. The phone lags for about 10 - 15 seconds before you start hearing the song play in the background. In some cases, you may not be able to fast forward or pause the music as the menus are lagging - you may have to wait up to a total of 30 - 40 seconds before being able to access them again.

  • Skipping songs also becomes problematic - the menu lags for up to 30 seconds, during which you cannot skip the song as the controls don't respond. It doesn't happen every time but it does happen often enough to get you pissed off.

  • Searching for a particular song takes a while, as character input becomes extremely laggy while having something like over 2500 songs in the list. Instead of snappy word input expect something of a 1 second lag as the character changes from 'a' to 'b'.

  • Lastly, your phone may get random 'System Errors' while executing and running the Music Player app, thus crashing the application (but not the entire operating system).
So that's more or less the experiences I have had while using the Music Player app in the last 2 days. Its totally degraded my music experience on this Nokia flagship; I suppose the N82 (or the N95 for that matter) wasn't catered to play this many songs in mind. But again, I'm sure many readers have a library that's much larger than the one I placed on the phone, so what were Nokia thinking?

You can expect me to take most of my songs, save for about a couple hundred, from this phone. So what's the point of a 32GB microSDHC card for this phone in the first place?

8 comments

  1. w@rd0e // August 13, 2008 10:44:00 AM HKT  

    Hmph what a joke. A multimedia phone cant deal with lots of music files, it cant even act as a mp3 or ipod replacement, so how can it even be a top multimedia phone?!

  2. ahd_55 // August 15, 2008 10:05:00 PM HKT  

    Hmmm...
    I might try that my music library ~1000 songs.

    I want to ask you a question.
    How did you transfer all the tags to the converted files is there a good app for that?
    and what setting did you use (bitrate...etc)

  3. xtream // August 17, 2008 1:25:00 AM HKT  

    @ahd_55

    I used Winamp to convert my entire library (from Windows Media Player) to eAAC+, then I synchronised the phone player with Winamp.

    As for bitrate, eAAC+ encoded at 48kbps is sufficient for most users. You won't notice the difference between that and a 128kbps MP3

  4. Viipottaja // August 19, 2008 4:45:00 AM HKT  

    An important question is also: which memory card are using? Some are significantly faster than others.

  5. ahd_55 // August 22, 2008 3:12:00 PM HKT  

    Wow..
    that's work that magic.
    unfortunately after i convert my collection the tags are fine but the album art tag is missing.

    nothing is perfect :(

    I'll try to find another software transfer all the tags

  6. nattjakt // September 10, 2008 5:24:00 AM HKT  

    Hm, strange that our experience differs so much. I've used the same exact encoding on my files, and put 3500 songs on my N82, and sure enough, things are rather slow, but manageable. There's maybe a 2 second lag every time I click an artist or album, but other than that no biggies. Searching is almost as quick as before.
    I've got a regular Sandisk 8GiB card.
    What I'd really like is for the music player to not read tags at all, and let me browse folders instead. That'd be much, much quicker.
    My two issues with S60 is the media player and the media library. I want them to be "dumber", and let me control exactly where they're supposed to look for files.
    Any ideas for good alternative media players? Haven't found any.. =( OggPlayer really sucks.. =(

  7. Anonymous // October 22, 2008 3:20:00 PM HKT  

    have you tried upgrading ur firmware? what version are you running?

  8. Anonymous // November 22, 2009 2:43:00 AM HKT  

    Who knows where to download XRumer 5.0 Palladium?
    Help, please. All recommend this program to effectively advertise on the Internet, this is the best program!