FOR **** SAKE! It can't be this hard can it ?

Question

OK - admittedly I'm coming from the most intuitive music player (Creative) where you fill a folder with music on the PC, plug in the player, drag the folder across, then get the player to play the folder - no fancy software required, no playlists, no categorisation, just play that folder please.
So I thought - creme de la creme, Nokia 95 8G, does everything doesn't it? Smartest phone on the market isn't it? I can toss the old player away.
Bah. What a load of old toss.
Why does the Nokia system have to be so complicated ?
Firstly - why do I have to create a new file type - "Playlists.m3u" - why can't the damn thing take a folder full of music and play it ? If I try dragging across several folders of tunes onto the device it a) doesn't recognise the folder structure and just shows a long list of music files and b) doesn't automatically recognise the new tracks and requires a "refresh". I thought these were supposed to be "Smart" phones - so with all that computing power, how come it can't do something this simple ?
Synching with Windows MP is an effing joke. First there are the dreaded playlists, then there is the absence of being able to tell the thing to just send stuff to the N95 and it insists on doing a 2-way synch so I have to sit there while it tries to synch content back to the PC - most peculiar, all other synching programmes normally allow you to choose one- or two-way synching. S'Ok - I know this isn't your problem, just thought I'd let you know not to suggest that I use this inutile offal.
And so we come to the Music function on PC Suite. Well first I had to get rid of the **bleep**py N Series Suite because bizarrely it didn't have the PDA functions of calendar and contacts that the "normal" suite version 7 promises.
Then the old problem of the Nokia Music Manager not recognising the folder structure as a way of categorising music grouping (even rubbish old WMP 11 will do this!). So we're going to have to go back the the extra step of creating effing pointless playlists. Finally I work out how to see the folder structure by showing pathname and sorting on that - phew, one housepoint to the development team. then I select my chosen files, drag to "N95 8G" and while they're there automatically create a playlist. Wow. This is getting easier - am I done? Oh. No. Hang on - this doesn't actually appear to be the phone, just a holding directory called "N95 8G" on the suite - presumably I press a button to synch it into the phone ? No - the only button wants to send it to "My Collection" (for the life of me I haven't worked out what this is for - I thought my collection was the several hundred thousand carefully arranged tunes on my laptop ? what the hell is this for then). Re-selecting these files under My Collection ungreys an option under "File" to send to phone - my God ! am I finally here! something's happening! Icons are flashing, timer are counting down. Oh. There's nothing on the phone. Ah yes, I was forgetting - dumb phone - I have to "refresh". Still nothing. **bleep**. Didn't work. **bleep** software, **bleep** phone.
Just to recap the TEN (ultimately useless) steps: 1) Open Nokia Music Manager; 2) find the correct folder structure; 3) select songs; 4) copy to "N95" folder in Music Manager; 5) create playlist (note - effectively recreating the existing folder structure); 6) select all; 7) copy to "My Collection" folder in Music Manager; 8) select all; 9) under "File" menu select "copy to 'phone"; 10) refresh 'phone.
Come on Nokia and pull your **bleep** finger out. Away with your fancy graphics and synching options and BPM calculations and your "ooh, let me choose the perfect song for you to exercise by" drivel. Let me simply listen to my tunes in a simple way that doesn't require me to re-organise my collection. I want a cheese sandwich on white bread. I don't want or need Roquefort with grapes and pickled mice on multigrain focaccia.
Let me simply, in three easy steps:
a) create a folder on my PC with my file manager with my selection of music in.
b) using my file manager, let me drag that folder to my N95 under "Music".
c) let my N95 recognise that folder structure and play the songs inside a particular folder.
Please. Please. Before the whole lot gets slung out of the **bleep** window. Please. Look - you don't even need ot get involved in the first two steps! You don't need to rewrite any of that **bleep**py Music Manager software or update your stultifyingly useless help files - all you need to do is to include an extra category in the next firmware upgrade of the Music Player that recognises folders, as well as artists, genres, playlists etc.
Make this dumb phone smart !

Answer 1

Ummm, no. Frayed knot.
That's exactly what I want to do. Exactly.
I can easily and quickly drag several folders of music onto the phone. No problem. Part one of mission completed. Bypasses Music Manager, WMP, synching - the lot. Hip hip hooray.
The problem comes after a refresh. The phone shows all the individual tracks that it's found but doesn't respect the way in which I have chosen to group them in folders. It offers me the option to play by artist, by album, by genre, by playlist etc. It does not give me the simple option to play an individual folder-full of tracks.
The music player firmware doesn't seem to recognise this as a valid way of "grouping" music, presumably because it isn't buried as an attribute of the track or recognisable as a playlist instruction.
Perhaps I've been spoiled by the simplicity of the Creative system where even the most basic players work on this uncomplicated basis. Oh how I laughed at those Apple iDiots.
If anyone has a simple workaround for this - most appreciated.
Perhaps there's a "less intelligent" stripped down music player out there that works with folders that I can download to the N95 ?
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