s60 SUCKS for music, any help?
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Brahamfam24
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What about music on the N73?
Ryan The Lion- RAWR!
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Lol. It baffles me that the album art thing comes up so often. I'd rather have a visualization than that, but people freak out if their album art isnt' shown. And mine doesn't have a gap or popping sounds between tracks, using wired or wireless headphones. Perhaps it's your mp3s?
Mrs.Ritschard
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ideed some people in my-symbian forums have reported to elliminate these mp3 distortions by formatting their miniSD cards to FAT32 with 4KB cluster size... try it, and let us know...
Flyoffacliff
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My problem with the built-in music player on my N70 is that since I updated to V5 from v2 of the firmware whenever I get a SMS the music stops. I tried playing with oggplayer but it keeps freezing. At least with Oggplayer it does pause for a moment then continues. Anyone have better results with some other players?
I saw this in another forum and jus pasted the word document here
Making a playlist in Real Player on Symbian phones:
Ok ppl
I have found a way to use rudimentary playlists in Real Player provided with Symbian S60 phone. I have tested this implementation on a Nokia 6630 and its working nice and I expect this to work on all Real Player versions across S60 phone butI have not tested it because I only have a Nokia 6630. (For NGage users - you can dowload Helix Player from www.helixcommunity.org. It supports a lot of content including real media. In this method whenever I say Real Player it will include Helix player too unless otherwise mentioned)
We will use songs from Julie encoded in ra format which is real audio, besides this files with rm extensions may work too and for Helix Player even Mp3 files may be used (I have not tested this either, so I request you to test this and tell me too.) Here goes...
Steps:
~ Firstly we will write a playlist in a text editor (You can even do this on phone but then your fingers might start crying so better do it with a Keboard instead of a Keypad.)
~ Make a new txt file and change its extension from txt to ram. Say from Julie.txt to Julie.ram
~ Now open this file in notepad.
~ In this file type:
file:///E:/MyMusicl/Julie/Aye Dil Ye Bata.ra
file:///E:/MyMusic/Julie/Bheegi Bheegi.ra
file:///E:/MyMusic/Julie/Dhadkan Ho Gayee.ra
file:///E:/MyMusic/Julie/Hum Tumse Dil (I).ra
file:///E:/MyMusic/Julie/Hum Tumse Dil (Sad).ra
file:///E:/MyMusic/Julie/Hum Tumse Dil (2).ra
file:///E:/MyMusic/Julie/Hum Tumse Dil.ra
file:///E:/MyMusic/Julie/Ishq Tezab.ra
file:///E:/MyMusic/Julie/Julie.ra
~ Now save it.
~ Now on your phone go to the memory card and make a new folder called MyMusic.
~ In the MyMusic Folder make a new folder called Julie.
~ Send all the songs and the ram playlist to the computer and paste all these files in Julie folder (For your comfort you can keep the ram file anywhere you wish but the song must be kept in this location).
~ Now all you have to do is open the Julie.ram file and It will prompt “ Connection to server needed. Connect? Choose Yes, (no you ill not be charged as you are only connecting to a folder in your own phone)
~ It will connect and Presto all songs will be played in the order in which they are mentioned in the playlist.
Precautions:
~ Remember that the playlist contains the path of the song on phone so be careful to keep the actual path of the song file and path mentioned in playlist same.
file:///E:/MyMusicl/Julie/Aye Dil Ye Bata.ra
Here whatever is followed by file:/// is the actual path of song on phone so be careful not to make the 2 different. If you are unsure you must use FExplorer by Dominique Hugo from www.gosymbian.com. Its a good file manager which can be used to find full pathnames which you can use.
~ Remember that if you choose No at the connection prompt The playlist will not play so you must choose Yes.
~ In the Real Player settings all repeat options must be set to off otherwise it will result in first song being repeated in an endless loop.
Known Issues:
~ This solution will only play songs in the manner in which they were coded in the playlist – No Random play.
~ You cannot stop a song in middle and jump to next or previous track as there are no controls for this. You must wait for its turn or play the song manually.
~ In the Real Player settings all repeat options must be set to off otherwise it will result in first song being repeated in an endless loop.
~ You cannot Stop and continue playing from same location to save your current location temperorily you must Pause the playback.
Making a playlist in Real Player on Symbian phones:
Ok ppl
I have found a way to use rudimentary playlists in Real Player provided with Symbian S60 phone. I have tested this implementation on a Nokia 6630 and its working nice and I expect this to work on all Real Player versions across S60 phone butI have not tested it because I only have a Nokia 6630. (For NGage users - you can dowload Helix Player from www.helixcommunity.org. It supports a lot of content including real media. In this method whenever I say Real Player it will include Helix player too unless otherwise mentioned)
We will use songs from Julie encoded in ra format which is real audio, besides this files with rm extensions may work too and for Helix Player even Mp3 files may be used (I have not tested this either, so I request you to test this and tell me too.) Here goes...
Steps:
~ Firstly we will write a playlist in a text editor (You can even do this on phone but then your fingers might start crying so better do it with a Keboard instead of a Keypad.)
~ Make a new txt file and change its extension from txt to ram. Say from Julie.txt to Julie.ram
~ Now open this file in notepad.
~ In this file type:
file:///E:/MyMusicl/Julie/Aye Dil Ye Bata.ra
file:///E:/MyMusic/Julie/Bheegi Bheegi.ra
file:///E:/MyMusic/Julie/Dhadkan Ho Gayee.ra
file:///E:/MyMusic/Julie/Hum Tumse Dil (I).ra
file:///E:/MyMusic/Julie/Hum Tumse Dil (Sad).ra
file:///E:/MyMusic/Julie/Hum Tumse Dil (2).ra
file:///E:/MyMusic/Julie/Hum Tumse Dil.ra
file:///E:/MyMusic/Julie/Ishq Tezab.ra
file:///E:/MyMusic/Julie/Julie.ra
~ Now save it.
~ Now on your phone go to the memory card and make a new folder called MyMusic.
~ In the MyMusic Folder make a new folder called Julie.
~ Send all the songs and the ram playlist to the computer and paste all these files in Julie folder (For your comfort you can keep the ram file anywhere you wish but the song must be kept in this location).
~ Now all you have to do is open the Julie.ram file and It will prompt “ Connection to server needed. Connect? Choose Yes, (no you ill not be charged as you are only connecting to a folder in your own phone)
~ It will connect and Presto all songs will be played in the order in which they are mentioned in the playlist.
Precautions:
~ Remember that the playlist contains the path of the song on phone so be careful to keep the actual path of the song file and path mentioned in playlist same.
file:///E:/MyMusicl/Julie/Aye Dil Ye Bata.ra
Here whatever is followed by file:/// is the actual path of song on phone so be careful not to make the 2 different. If you are unsure you must use FExplorer by Dominique Hugo from www.gosymbian.com. Its a good file manager which can be used to find full pathnames which you can use.
~ Remember that if you choose No at the connection prompt The playlist will not play so you must choose Yes.
~ In the Real Player settings all repeat options must be set to off otherwise it will result in first song being repeated in an endless loop.
Known Issues:
~ This solution will only play songs in the manner in which they were coded in the playlist – No Random play.
~ You cannot stop a song in middle and jump to next or previous track as there are no controls for this. You must wait for its turn or play the song manually.
~ In the Real Player settings all repeat options must be set to off otherwise it will result in first song being repeated in an endless loop.
~ You cannot Stop and continue playing from same location to save your current location temperorily you must Pause the playback.
if I really go that hardcore.....
I'd use tube amp with digital connection between amp and computers.....
I don't want to make any argument, but S60 has some issue to quality as audio player
I have been using 6630 and 6680, I found it has issue one phone itself and player software, there's always pop when pressing button, this is annoying, and possibly damage earphone (the pop is like turning on an amplifier, and it happens on AD15 and AD46)
the player software also has problem, both player applications (oggplay and supplied player) are unable to display Chinese, Japanese, Korean id tag correctly
lacking streaming audio capablilty is also an issue, realplayer is dying, and I even don't think it can live over 2008, we need a Symbian developer to pick up TCPMP source code to make it S60 version, this is the only hope to make S60 device as a decent audio/video/streaming player
about a2dp, I have a decent client (use my favorite earphones) that makes sound fine, it's used with laptop (no more cable clutter) and pda (that I don't have to worry to damage the unit when doing workout, just locate the unit secured), I dragged my 6630 down when using treadmill, luckily it survived, then I know the risk with cable
I'd use tube amp with digital connection between amp and computers.....
I don't want to make any argument, but S60 has some issue to quality as audio player
I have been using 6630 and 6680, I found it has issue one phone itself and player software, there's always pop when pressing button, this is annoying, and possibly damage earphone (the pop is like turning on an amplifier, and it happens on AD15 and AD46)
the player software also has problem, both player applications (oggplay and supplied player) are unable to display Chinese, Japanese, Korean id tag correctly
lacking streaming audio capablilty is also an issue, realplayer is dying, and I even don't think it can live over 2008, we need a Symbian developer to pick up TCPMP source code to make it S60 version, this is the only hope to make S60 device as a decent audio/video/streaming player
about a2dp, I have a decent client (use my favorite earphones) that makes sound fine, it's used with laptop (no more cable clutter) and pda (that I don't have to worry to damage the unit when doing workout, just locate the unit secured), I dragged my 6630 down when using treadmill, luckily it survived, then I know the risk with cable
don't have anymore s60's with me... but here's an idea..
does the music player pick up aac tones??? (nokia's standard ringtone extension)
convert all your ringtones to that.. leaving the player to pick up mp3, mp4, m4a only.. give it a shot.
i would try it but it might be another month till i pick up the n73 to play around with
or they can outsource the music development to SE
PS I'm really interested in the popping mp3 crackle sound thing.. it use to happen to me all the time espeically when multi-tasking so i blamed it on poor memory management is it just read issues? lol at nokia
does the music player pick up aac tones??? (nokia's standard ringtone extension)
convert all your ringtones to that.. leaving the player to pick up mp3, mp4, m4a only.. give it a shot.
i would try it but it might be another month till i pick up the n73 to play around with
or they can outsource the music development to SE
PS I'm really interested in the popping mp3 crackle sound thing.. it use to happen to me all the time espeically when multi-tasking so i blamed it on poor memory management is it just read issues? lol at nokia
doing okay
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Is there any way to add A2DP to an already bluetooth enabled phone? Could there possibly be an A2DP "system extension" (Mac terminology - I don't know the equivalent S60 term) that one could download and install which would enable stereo audio over bluetooth for the 6682?
He asked......hopefully.....
He asked......hopefully.....