Anyone successful using any other technique than O...

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OVI Music is virtually useless to transfer a large quantity of music. After anywhere from 0 to 50 songs, it just plain hangs even with the latest OVI and the newly released N97 firmware.
Has anyone found a viable alternative that works reliably? Perhaps some other music software's syncing; mass storage mode...anything??
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Success! 750 albums loaded, all appear in the N97 Music Player, and my home screen icons and music widget did not get corrupted (as it did each time with Nokia Music). And, the new N97 firmware refreshed the library in about 7 hours, twice as fast as the original firmware.
I appreciate all the responses. The common theme here is that using Mass Storage mode is faster and more reliable than trusting the Nokia software.
To recap the simple steps for anyone needing to load a large amount of music into the phone from Windows:
1) Make sure you have your Windows music library organized in folders, where each artist has a folder and each album for that artist is a subfolder. This step will make refresh and access by the phone's player faster.
2) Make sure your phone is fully charged if you need to transfer a lot of music!
3) Connect the USB data cable and select Mass Storage mode.
4) Open 2 copies of Window Explorer (will make it easier to see existing contents and what is being copied).
5) In one Explorer, navigate to the root of your music so that the list of artist subfolders is in the right pane.
6) In the other Explorer, navigate to the mass storage's assigned drive letter. You should see two drive letters for your phone, one for the phone memory and one for the mass storage. Open the mass storage drive and navigate to the "Music" folder to reveal its contents.
7) In the 1st Explorer, select all the artist's folders you want on your phone, then drag the group into the Music folder in the 2nd Explorer. For me, it took about 2 hours for 7000 songs. (That's about 10 times faster than using Nokia software)
8) When done, be sure to use the Windows System Tray icon to "Safely Remove Hardware" before disconnecting the USB cable from the phone!
9) Connect the phone's charger since the next step can take a very long time...and running out of battery during the refresh will be bad.
10) Lastly, go to the N97 Music Player, choose the Library, then select Options/Refresh Library.....and wait. until it's done.