The E6 music player is practically useless-

…compared with the music player in E71 (S60 ver. 500.21.009)
1. Missing is the incremental real time search in any list of songs which searched in any part of the name - not just the beginning. It worked by just starting to type on the hardware keyboard at any time while in the "All songs" list for example.
2. Missing are the categorized lists by:
All songs
Artists
Albums
Genres
Composers
Most annoyingly the above two features still exist in the Ringtone selection screen (when customizing a profile) exactly as they were in the E71 - this means that the underlying database is still intact and could support the functionality.
3. It is impossible to add the currently playing song to a play list from the "Now playing" screen. You need to hit "back" to go to the "Songs" screen and long-tap the song to get "Add to playlist" from the context menu.
4. The shuffle mode is switched off after almost any operation - most notably selecting a new song to play, or even tapping the currently playing song in the "Songs" list to go to the "Now playing" screen.
5. The keyboard is TOTALLY unused! There is no more previous, next, play, pause with the direction keys... which makes is impossible to do any of those operations "by touch" when the hone is in your pocket.
6. And when the phone is in your pocket with the music application in the foreground the screen will auto lock, therefore doing anything but adjusting the volume requires taking the phone out, unlocking it and using the touch screen - which does not work with gloves for example!
7. The "fancy 3D scrolling album art" screen is completely useless for a big collection of unrelated songs from different artists/albums.
I understand that Anna was developed for full screen touch phones without a hardware keyboard like the X7, but the music player is a HUGE step backward from what we had in the E71. In it's current state it is almost unusable and is the most annoying part of the otherwise beautiful E6.
After contacting Nokia support directly three times all I got was a "we don't know, we don’t care" attitude to my completely reasonable questions of whether and when the music player will be fixed and if it is possible to have the old one form the 5x version ported and released for Anna. The functionality in the ringtone selection screen proves that the supporting infrastructure is intact and the problem is purely in the (brain damaged) design of the new music player.
P.S. I am using the current 022.014 software release.
P.P.S. I did read the "fix your Album artist ID3 tags" (e.g.) /t5/Software-Updates/Symbian-Anna-Troubleshooting/td-p/1127953 it is impractical for a collection of 2391 songs, does not address any of the points above and is a lame excuse for a broken application.

I had precisely the same problems. E6 a great phone, but the music player sofware really really sucks and very difficult to use.
Anyone knows if any of the problems listed above by 'ruevs' been solved by a sofware update ?
I had a E5 previously and music player so much better to handle.
Another problem I have with E6: when I open 'messages' via the shortkey long press button, it opens at 'messaging' listing all my 'sent items'.
Can the settings be changed to open via the short key in the 'Folders' option, which gives you all the options to choose from 'Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Outbox, etc'. Or is this a software setting I cannot change ?
In the E5 it has this option of opening 'Folders' with messaging short key.
or:
if I open the 'Inbox', it gives me 'all the folders' option on the top of the screen to choose from, which is good. Can the short key message button settings be changed to open in 'Inbox' option directly ?
If not, then it is another problem and not better than the E5 which had these options.
Another question: can the options on the homescreens only be selected by touch, not also by the Scroll key ? Can it be changed in a setting to use the scroll key also in home screens ?
In other screens the scroll key works, but not in homescreens ?
Thank you for the answers, I appreciate it.

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He couldn't give me an answer and said that maybe down the line they would start supporting it again, and that I should request the feature to be added to future iOS versions via the iPhone feedback page... https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
He just kept on emphasising that it was "NOT A BUG OR ISSUE", trying to cover up the problem because the info on the site wasn't updated to show the current iOS devices. Which in itself is wrong, looking at the page it says "Supported iPod and iPhone models (make sure you have the latest iPod or iPhone software)"
iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS only go up to iOS 6, so that contradicts itself when the latest version is iOS 8.
The info is out of date and needs to be updated. So in August I was told, "we found the issue and will look into it" and a few months later, "it's not an issue", what's a cop out.
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So this is my next step to try and get this problem seen and out in the open more. The more people who know about it and are aware of the issue, the better.
Hopefully more people can get the word around and get this noticed by Apple and finally fixed.
I've uploaded some test files below to show the problem. The files are mp3's and aac, and have been ripped from cd using the latest version of iTunes. The mp3's are the ones with the issue, but the aac play with no problem. If you listen to the transition at the end of track 2 (2-02 Colours (JH Re-Edit)) going into the start of track 3 (2-03 Your Body), you will notice the split second pause / jump. But listen to the aac version and compare it to the mp3 version and you will hear that it plays back fine, just as it's supposed to. Try them in iTunes too and both versions playback fine, no jumps or pauses.
You can download them here, all links have the same files, I just uploaded them to different hosts for other people's choosing...
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=86512332626247919914
https://www.mediafire.com/?w5wvi50er96b14s
http://www42.zippyshare.com/v/37047710/file.html
https://www.sendspace.com/file/lubcmc
More files can be provided if needed to show the problem happening on various other albums.
I really hope that people can spot this issue too and help get this fixed, I know this gapless playback feature might not be important to some people, but like I said at the start, it's an essential function for me in a music player and I use it on a daily basis when I listen to music.
Thanks for reading this long rant of mine, appreciate it.
Ger

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