How well does it work as an mp3 player? Anyway to have the media player just play mp3's? so that when you're listening to your mp3's it doesn't jump into a movie or something? Also is there any shuffling of songs possible? Is the headphone jack a standard 1/8"?, should I sell my ipod yet? Also what's the best way to transfer songs? Bluetooth from the computer or card reader. Any problems with drm? Thanks in Advance.

The default Media Player is fine at playing mp3s, and it won't "jump into a movie" under normal circumstances, even if you ask to play all tracks. The Media Player maintains a library of media files and you play your music media having selected by Album, Artist, Genre etc. via a hierarchical list. Playlists are also supported.

The headphone jack is the standard 3.5mm socket.

The Media Player supports Random and Repeat play modes.

Sell your iPod? Yes, it will help finance the two 8GB SDHC cards you'll be needing to feed your N800.

The best way to transfer music is to mount the SD cards on your PC in a card reader. Alternatively you can mount the N800 as a USB mass storage device and copy the files, but this will most likely be slower than mounting the cards directly in a card reader.

"Any problems with drm?" - yes, it sucks but that's probably not what you meant. DRM isn't supported on the N800, so tracks with DRM won't work.

Yes, I do. And it works very well. I too have an iPod, and no, I won't be selling it in favor of the Nokia. The N800 coupled with eMusic work very well together. I can download songs from eMusic and immediately listen to them with media player. Also my music that I download is always available for re-download for no additional charge unlike iTunes. The quality is very good but not iPod quality. Hope this helps.

i have a 5th gen ipod, and i dont use it for the video... i had a 770 until yesterday (sold it and will get the n800 shortly...) , and i would use it for video over an ipod or psp any day.

i use my ipod becuase i have the itrip for it, and can listen to my ipod over my car or home stereo. also, the 4500+ mp3s i have wouldnt fit on two 8GB SD cards, though i could get rid of what i dont listen to, and prune the collection down a bit.

i run linux on my rig at home, and i use amarok which handles ipods and works with my nokia for managing mp3s and playlists. i much prefer it than that ghastly itunes crap.

I I use Canola Player for mp3 playback and the internal player. They work fine. Found
the fm radio plugin, and it works great as well, especially with my Bose qc2
headphones. The N800 is really the swiss army knife of gadgets! I am writing this post using the finger keyboard, and my hometown's wifi network, while sitting outside at a coffee shop. The N800 is really the swiss army knife of gadgets!

i have often regarded "swiss army knife" syndrome as doing many things, all of them poorly. i find that not to be the case with the IT devices. "Jack of All Trades" has the short coming "Master of None". does anyone know of a cliche to accurately capture the versatility of these devices with their uncomprimising quality? Hmmm...

I tried to use N800 as an audio player when Canola came out. I abandoned the idea for now and switched back to my old Samsung Yepp, mainly because software (built in Media Player, Canola, mplayer, Ogg Player) is just not good for this. The first two are built around the idea of a media library automatically built from media discovered on your memory cards. Unfortunately this is limiting to the point of being unusable: audio files I collected over the years are in different formats (mp3s, oggs, even mp2s and wavs) and very few of them are properly tagged. All of them, however, are well organized in folders and files have useful names. So all I need is to say play all from this folder, and there is no player on N800 (as far as I know) that would do that. Ogg Player is very limited in many respects. MPlayer is almost does it for me, even though using it from command line on N800 is rather painful, but unfortunately it resets the volume to default value for each song it plays, and that kills it as an audio player.

Also, the process of crawling the file system to build media library (done both by Media Player and Canola, I believe) is quite intrusive - takes up CPU and sometimes prevents mounting of memory cards when connecting the device via USB. This is just annoying...

Quality of N800's sound is not bad though. All we need is right software...

II use mine to play audiobooks all the time. I have considered jogging with it, but it
doesn't seem well suited to that task; finding the volume icon would be a hassle, for example.

I don't know about "Swiss Army Knife" but I just realized today that the N800 has the same speed processor and twice the on board RAM as my first Sony Vaio notebook...

With 2, 8 gig cards it will have 33% more storage than the Sony's 12 gig hard drive.

well, I use it and I don't like it, the software just sucks. 770's default media player was better in terms of usability. I even blogged about it at http://www.maemopeople.org/index.php/disq