Thread: I'll Say It Again: The Media Player Stinks
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etuoyo is offline etuoyo
2010-02-11 , 00:17
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#42
Originally Posted by Bratag View Post
The issue with the album art has been addressed in at least 2 separate threads, the problem is how the songs have been tagged and solutions have been offered. Anything to do with iPhone is never going to be standard, iTunes is by definition a disaster.

And there us every excuse for a 500 pound device not being as good as playing music as a 40 pound mp3 player. ONE OF THEM IS AN MP3 PLAYER. That's all it does. It doesn't do anything else, the entirety of its existence is to play music. The N900's on the other hand is NOT solely to play music. As I said, when your 40 pound mp3 player can do ANYTHING else the N900 does I will be happy to listen to you compare the two devices.

I will now go back to trying to get my 3 year old mp3 player to play openarena. Its not working so well
I was not talking about the album art. I have almost fixed the problem of some tracks having missing album art and once I do I will start a thread saying everything that needs to be done to ensure every single album art displays as it should. Seems there are about five steps guaranteed to make it work and I am on stage four of five. Very painful process and it shouldn't really be so.

What I was talking about was the artist tags. For this I have found no fix. Has nothing to do with itunes. As I said I have used Windows Media Player, Media Monkey, Winamp and MP3 tag. None have fixed the problem. Not a problem with itunes just a problem with the N900. Have not had the problem with any other mp3 player and I am sure it would not even be a problem on Nokia N97, 5800 or X6.

If you know the solution I would be very very glad to send you a few of the tracks for you to work on and tell me how to get the device to show the correct artist tags.

As for suggesting a £40 mp3 player should be a better mp3 player than a £500 N900 I think is ridiculous. Was a valid argument years ago but certainly not in 2010. Any company holding that attitude or taking that approach in 2010 is going to lose some serious market share. Many don't want to carry around separate devices especially if one is as bulky as the N900. Especially since many will always have to carry a DS for which there is absolutely no substitute. So if your phone doesn't do mp3 playback properly you may have to carry at least three devices.