Nokia 6230 - Alternative MP3 player software?

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Is there any alternatives to the built in MP3-player software?

Sincerely
/Jan

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> what ist that you dislike about th built-in one?

No working playlist and not able to play MP3's in different folders.
Heard of any alternative?

/Jan

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Try UltraMP3 works like a charm....

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On 11 Feb 2005 10:04:06 +0100, "MaX" <ehhhh@191.it> wrote:

>> No working playlist and not able to play MP3's in different folders.
>> Heard of any alternative?
>
>Yes, you have to update your firmware because the new version (5.24 or 5.27)
>will fix it.
>
>BadK.
>

i have firmware 4.44 on my 6230. playlists work great and i have
several folders for mp3s.

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On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:03:49 +0000, eggster2k
<eggster2k@nospambreathe.com> wrote:


>>
>>Considering ergonomic aspects, the 6230 is a lousy MP3 player, even with
>>firmware 5.24.
>
>i take it you don't have a 6230?

I'd agree with the OP. I've had a 6230 since release day in Europe
and love it.

However, even though the audio quality is very good and you can use
MMCs up to 1 gig (making it better than most solid state players) the
actual _ergonomics_ of mp3 playback are awful.

It's a real waste of great hardware. Nokia should pull their
finger out and make a more ergonomic mp3 player on the phone. It
should be easy to select and play individual mp3s and playlists. A
good random facility is needed and directory skip functions.

Gav

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On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:34:43 +0100, "Greg N." <yodel_dodel@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Gav wrote:
>
>> It should be easy to select and play individual mp3s
>
>That's easy through the Gallery app.

Sure - but then the backlight doesn't go out (unless they've fixed
that on later firmware) running down your battery extra fast. Not
much use really.


>> and playlists.
>
>Playlists are fine but the dang thing should be acceptably usable
>without playlists, like any good MP3 player.

Playlists are a PITA to implement. You can either spend ages
fiddling around making them on the PC and then transferring them
along with your MP3s via the PC application suite (forget about using
a memory card reader for fast transfer if you want playlists) ... Or
mess around with the 'hack' of creating empty playlists and then
adding files to them. You should be able to create a playlist on the
phone and add easily add files/directories to it.

>
>> A good random facility is needed
>
>ok
>
>> and directory skip functions.
>
>What we'd need is simply a way to play a specific folder.
>
>Or an option for "Gallery/open in sequence" to play complete tunes.
>I'd say 99.9% of the required code is in the phone already.

It would be so easy for Nokia to really improve in this area. With
the MMC support they really need a better way to navigate large
numbers of music files.


Gav