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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
Since the N800 is not suitable as a portable media player, why am I successful taking it with me on 7-mi jogs every other day? Why have I listened to infinite numbers of audiobooks on mine? When you say not successful, you are overgeneralizing. It works great playing mp3s and other stuff. I have never been theoretically happy with the idea of playing videos on a small screen anyway. And while I'm jogging I don't usually want to watch a movie. Certainly I've enjoyed watching Textra often enough. And Katie Couric. And I did watch Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, and some Netflix films, and listened to infinite numbers of radio shows and Verdi operas and issues of the audible Economist and Russian lessons.

So, you are saying that none of these things work??
I'm not saying that they don't work. They do work, but not well enough. Encoding/re-encoding video is over the heads of 90% of the media consuming market. I'm not necessarily referring to myself, I come from a a/v background and can make "things work". It's just that as it stands, the N8X0 is not ready for mass consumption.

And in general, with Audio, the problem is no playback but rather with unpolished apps. Sure they will play media, but with lousy navigation and horrendous UI's for the most part.

Canola LOOKS great but has the worst navigation of all the major media apps. Media Box looks and navigates just the way I want it to, but gets stuck/crashes on trying to play .trashes. I've tried Kagu (which I kinda like), Kilikali, MediaBox, Canola, XMMS (or whatever the hell its called (worst ever)) and the nokia media player and I have to say that the Nokia Media player despite having the least features and ridiculous navigation, plays most reliably.