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BINGO!!!
How to delete artists and albums in music player!
You can not delete Artist or Album Folders. “General: feature not supported” is showing up.
Yes, you CAN !!!!
1. Delete songs from your N95 ”Media player” folders till they are empty.
Artist and Album empty folders are still there. Don’t worry!!!
2. Go to your PC Explorer > Tools > Folder Options > View ( Tab ) > click:
Show hidden files and folders > OK
3. Make empty folder on your PC HD e.g. ”erase empty Artist folder”
4. Connect your N95 with PC via USB cable and choose “Data transfer” > OK
5. On the “Removable Disk” window you can click cancel
6. On PC open Windows Explorer
7. Click “Removable Disk” on left Folder column
8. On right side copy all files and paste them TO folder you’ve just made
(”erase empty Artist folder”)
9. Delete all things from the memory stick of your N95 “Removable Disk”
10. Copy everything from ”erase empty Artist folder” and paste to N95
“Removable Disk”
11. From Taskbar of PC Safely Remove Hardware “ USB Mass Storage Device
12. On N95 > OK Remove USB cable and go to N95 Music player
13. Click OK to refresh and just wait.
By the way. Nokia DISCONNECTING Familys by making such a products. I have spent many nights to figure out how to do simple things. Manual is for Nokia not for users. Mostly
there is written what can U DO but not HOW !!!!
Sorry For my English, I am 48+ with basic skill of this language.
Have fun guys
Jacek Mazur

Answer 1

Hi all
I have another solution / workaround. It allows you to add artwork to albums reliably and allows you to delete albums created this way.
I am using Nokia Music Manager 2.0. The fix is simply to convert the files to AAC rather than to M4A. After this simple change everythig worked find for me. I can add and delete albums from Nokia Music Manager 2.0 (don't forget to refresh on the phone afterwards) AND reliably add Album Artwork.
So here is how I have been working.
1. Set the conversion format to AAC. I have been using 'Ultra high' quality setting. Options Menu >> Setting >> Conversion Tab.
2. Next put in a CD, select all the tracks and choose copy to my collection.
3. While this is going on I find the artwork on the Web. A simple Google Image search with the album title and artists last name / band name seems pretty 100% to get the on the first page. Download image to My Documents / My Pictures.
4. Once the CD Rip is complete they will all appear in My Collection. I select all the tracks in my collection for the album in question, and then right click on one of them and select Edit.
5. I then attach the Album Artwork by clicking on the blue folder and choosing it from my, MY Pictures folder.
6. Finally select Copy to Phone from the File Menu.
This has worked for me so far 100% and I have done 20 or so albums.
NOTES:
To get Nokia Music Manager 2.0 I uninstalled the version of Nokia Phone Suite that came with my phone and went to
http://europe.nokia.com/A4144905I (or seach Google for "nokia phone suite"
I chose the N95 8GB downloaded and installed. At some point shortly after install Phone Suite informed me that there were updates available and Nokia Music Manager 2.0 was one of these.
I was originaly using this and suffered all the problems you guys have. After searching the web and finding no solution I decided to do some experimenting.
Hope all this helps.
PS If you need to delete all your legacy album folders, this is the fix I found on this same site. You can do this at any time.
1. Enable the option to be able to see Hidden Files and Folders in your Windows Explorer.
2. Connect your n95 8gb to your computer and choose data transfer mode.
3. Go to My COmputer >> Nokia Phone Browser >> Nokia N95 8GB >> Memory Card E:
3. If you have selected Show Hidden Files and Folders (see 1) you should see a folder called Private.
4. In the Private folder you need to delete the contednts of three folders
\private\101FFC31 (mpxv1.mpd and pcv5.mpd)
\private\101f8857\Cache
\private\101ffca9
In all the 3 folders delete all the files Not the FOLDER
Next time you restart the music player it will rebuild the indexes without the deleted albums folders.