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Re: N900 Owners Thread (First impressions, ...)

Speaking of the music player, anyone notice that it doesn't sort a set of songs in an album by the Track Number in the ID3 tag. As a result, some of the albums are sorted incorrectly.

Re: N900 Owners Thread (First impressions, ...)

I'm surprised the hidden playlist thing still hasn't been resolved from its older tablet roots (even then you wouldn't know how to set one up unless you experimented or looked it up).

Headset control means a button to say pause/play. It's something that can done if it's not in the n900 already considering we have a thing called headset control on other tablets. ;)

Re: N900 Owners Thread (First impressions, ...)

From the other thread my version of instructions for the playlist creation. It is easy once you know how, but it should be possible from the playlist list too! I agree that needs changing.

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Personally I think the media player in Maemo is fine, just like that with the iPod, one just has to embrace the logic in which Maemo works and so far it seems quite intuitive for me - different from the iPod of course. That doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement of course. For example, I agree it would could to be able to create a playlist from the playlist list directly.

1. Click the header while listening to music and click save playlist to start. You can then add new songs to it, for example, by clicking a song title in a list until a context menu appears that allows you to add it to the list - or you could do this from the title menu to add all songs in an album for example. "Total shuffle" you can get from the media player main menu.

2. According to the manual physical controls in headsets are not supported as the third connector is used for video out apparently. I guess the Bluetooth ones would work. I agree this is something that needs changing when Maemo goes mainstream! For a mobile computer, though, I don't mind - I never used remote with iPod touch either personally.

3. What is slow with the desktop widget in your phone? Seems OK to me. I think the updating frequency of the equalizer is quite lax, though.

Re: N900 Owners Thread (First impressions, ...)

@ Ny900
Thx

But I really can't do it, I tried but when I long press a single track, it comes out the menu add to playlist but It add all the track.. and then when it's paplying I have the whole music library... I hate it..
I know you already did it but I am a terrible noob and I can't make it work... Can you try again? :-)

Re: N900 Owners Thread (First impressions, ...)

Why I can't select a single song to play and it's always all library...

Re: N900 Owners Thread (First impressions, ...)

Had a go at the Bounce Evolution (download it at maemo.nokia.com):

http://maemo.nokia.com/images/app-sc...e1-500x300.png

http://maemo.nokia.com/images/app-sc...e2-500x300.png

Just a two level demo from what I gather, but some really nice promise there. Very good 3D graphics thanks to the resolution and nice motion controls.

One level is the peaceful forest with huts and bridges and ponds, and a scripted event, the other is fact-paced time-limited roll in space-age track spiralling all over in space.

Framerates and speed is nice!

Re: N900 Owners Thread (First impressions, ...)

Yes any time I choose a single song ALL THE LIBRARY goes is NOW PLAYING... and so what... I save all the library in a playlist and then remove each track... OMG

Re: N900 Owners Thread (First impressions, ...)

Well I am stupid but this way of making a playlist is far more stupid than me :-)

Re: N900 Owners Thread (First impressions, ...)

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Originally Posted by Endri (Post 389050)

First, make sure when you go to music that you sort your music by artist or album, otherwise it just lists every mp3 on your device.

Then to find a specific song after you have sorted all the music select the artist, then click, on the artist to see their albums, then click on the albums to see the songs in the albums. When you see a song you want to play/ add to a playlist, don't click on it or highlight it first.

Once you see a song you want, even if it's not highlighted, just press and hold it. If you're in 1 album and selecting one song it, the option to add to playlist should come up to let you add it to the playlist.
Maybe yours has a glitch?:confused:

I think you may be adding all library to playlist because you're selecting the song from the listing of every mp3 on your device(all library) instead of sorting them by Album or by artist first.

Hope this is a little helpful.

Re: N900 Owners Thread (First impressions, ...)

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Originally Posted by ny900 (Post 389132)

I'm probably the last person that should be using a swear word of any kind on any forum, but that process is totally assinine and nothing near intuitive towards the experiences releated from *several* other mobile music devices.

A person should not have to *go to the right listing* in order for a playlist to appear. That's a solution which happens because the user interface design team did not think the process through simply enough.

What it should be:
- go to music player
- tap on music library icon*
- tap on artist/album/song (the appearance and order of these should be a preference setting customizable for the user)
- see song, notice (+) sign at the right side of the song list
- tap (+) sign to add song to current playlist, or be prompted to create a new playlist if you've not saved one
- item starts playing with visual indicator in the top right of the page while user is still within the playlist area to select new songs

* Alternative method to tapping on music library icon is that person slides out hard keyboard and just starts typing the name of an artist, song, or playlist. Items being showing in a list format, with the ability to click on the (+) to add to playlist or just tap on the song name to play.

That's a UI, and that's what users coming to this device will expect. Saying that a person has done it wrong because the UI didn't get these two paragraphs of attention says more about the community's lack of involvement with its development (me included) than anything else.

Add: Brainstorm Proposal to Improve the UX of Playlist Creation (go vote on it, or develop solutions, just stop harping on it)