Issues with Music Manager

Question

Just got my Nokia 3250 last week. Cool phone and I really wanted it to replace my old MP3 player now I have a 1GB SD card for it, but there are problems with Music Manager which make it hard to justify ebaying the ZenMicro just yet. Music Manager is only v1.0 so hopefully Nokia are still working on improving it, but here's a list of what I'd like to see.
1) All my MP3s are already ripped and stored on an external HD - I want to be able to point Music Manager at my collection and for it to be able to remember this (I know I can do this now, but the warning in the settings says not to set My Collection to the location of your main music location)
2) More stable - MM keeps hanging when converting tracks, either right at the beginning of the process or every time it encounters a track with a question mark in the title
3) Better handling of MP3 tags - once copied to the phone and refreshed, MM seems unable to show the Artist, Album and Genre of MP3s. I'm not sure if AACs or M4As have tags too, but these aren't shown either
4) Support for formats that can't handle track numbers. I'm not sure if this is the fault of the phone or the AAC/M4A format or both, but the 3250 doesn't seem to hold a track number for songs converted to these formats. This is annoying as you can't play an 'album'. If this is the case there should be an option to add a track number to the title on conversion (not just the current option to add one on ripping)
5) Higher quality conversion setting for M4A. I set the quality to the highest possible (64kbps). This results in tiny files (5MB MP3 converted to 1MB) but the quality when listening on the headphones is awful - any slightly busy track pops and whistles along. I haven't tried AAC yet due to other problems above, but I don't mind sacrificing size for better quality.
Anyone got others to add to the list?Message Edited by licenced on 18-May-2006
09:46 PM

Answer 1

prospects for a better music manager a.k.a 2.0 or whatever they may call it...
1.better handling of tags (i agree to that; same problem). i also noticed this problem in PC suite version 6.7 with audio manager 5.0 in ripping to m4a or aac
2.more formats to choose from for ripping or transcoding purposes-i'd like to see wma and mp3
3.ability to read wma tags-after inserting my 3250, the music manager did not recognize the tags included in the wma files inside the memory card. it's bad for a app that supports such format but cannot read its tag.
4.overall stability-not only in converting tracks but also in searching for tracks because on one of my pc the app crashed after searching for all of the tracks which is a big problem!
i hope nokia's listening to this.
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