It is not simply a question of staying organised. All my music is organised. When I got an ipod touch I spent like a month tagging my music and downloading album art from various websites (because the album art view on the ipod touch is so beautiful you just have to have album art). I also went through each and every one of my 4000 songs retagging album artist (before I got an ipod touch I only had song artist tags but I had to do album artist tags to make album cover art flow work better). So my music is so well organised.

I transfer my music to the N900 and everything falls apart. For some reason for many songs it shows album artist rather than song artist. It is totally random. I have tried synching with Windows Media Player, Media Monkey, Winamp, drag & drop. I have tried tagging with those three programmes plus mp3 tag. Nothing makes a difference.

Most of my music is compilation albums, R&B or Hip Hop. If a media player is showing album artist for any of those it might as well not show anything. For compilation albums it will just show Various Artist because it is showing the album artist not song artist. For a Hip Hop song it could have five featured artist and the device will just show the person who has the album.

That is just one of the many problems I have with the media player. None of these are problems I had with my Creative Player of 10 years ago. And believe it or not the media player is meant to be an important aspect of the N900. I am sure the device would not have 32gb internal plus sd card slot if it did not have a media player.

There is really no excuse for a £500 phone with 32gb not having as good a media player as a £40 mp3 player irrespective of whether the £500 device makes coffee for some people.