n95 8 gb, adding music??

[RC4]

hi all just swapped my k850i for n95 8gb,aded ll my photos and vids from memory crd off my sonyericsson but cant seem to add music??? via laptop through usb cable,it keeps dding to plylist then dissapering oh and the battery life is shite! just ordered off ebay,charger,new battery,blue tooth dongle,screen protector,car charger,car cradle,leather pouch,and 3 other things for £24.99 help with the music thing mucho appreciated

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[BM08]

Hi there, great choice of phone, im into 2months of owning mine and i love it

When you say battery life is shit how long you talking? mines fine.

Be wary of buying batterys off Ebay there is alot of fakes doing the rounds which will be complete rubbish! brand new official batterys range from £15-25 depending on where you buy. There should be a nokia hologram on the back and its a BL-6F model(with the old silver n95's having the less powerful BL-5F).

Music, when you add mp3s using the cable just select data mode then go into the phones memory that way and just drag/drop the mp3's from the pc folder to the phones memory folder, if that makes sense.

Ive only done it using bluetooth though(best/easiest way), you just recieve the mp3s as a text, you open the text and click save and it saves to your music folder

[BM08]

Also does your phone have the lastest firmware? if its really old firmware thats another factor to poor battery life as they increased the life a fair bit in the newest firmware

[Thrush]

Originally Posted by BM08

Ive only done it using bluetooth though(best/easiest way), you just recieve the mp3s as a text, you open the text and click save and it saves to your music folder

Best? Easiest? Err - NO!

Okay, so it's nice and simple if you just wanna send over one or two songs, but what if you want to upload 30 albums with 10 tracks each? Thats 300 tracks - and 1) Bluetooth FTP is sloooooooow, and 2) thats 300 "text messages" to open, select track and save to library, and 3) it's still 300 messages that need deleting so you don't have duplicates of everything in the phone memory...

There are two quick and easy ways of doing it - quicker and easier than Bluetooth FTP. One way is to use the supplied Nokia PC Suite : plug phone into USB cable, fire up PC Suite, select the "Transfer Music" application and away you go, or what I always did was to stick the memory card into my computers card reader, open it up, open the MUSIC folder that was on it, drag in all the music I wanted (lets say the aforementioned 300 tracks) and then stick the card back in the phone. Fire up the Music Player on the phone, and in the options menu, select "Update Library" (or something like that) and the phone would scan the music folder on the memory card, and add all the track info to the library. And provided all your ID3 tags are sorted (artist/album/track title) they would be organised there and then.

USB2 being FAR quicker than Bluetooth, and the library integration being SOOOOO much easier than opening 300 text messages and saving each track manually

[BM08]

Originally Posted by Thrush

Best? Easiest? Err - NO!

Okay, so it's nice and simple if you just wanna send over one or two songs, but what if you want to upload 30 albums with 10 tracks each? Thats 300 tracks - and 1) Bluetooth FTP is sloooooooow, and 2) thats 300 "text messages" to open, select track and save to library, and 3) it's still 300 messages that need deleting so you don't have duplicates of everything in the phone memory...

There are two quick and easy ways of doing it - quicker and easier than Bluetooth FTP. One way is to use the supplied Nokia PC Suite : plug phone into USB cable, fire up PC Suite, select the "Transfer Music" application and away you go, or what I always did was to stick the memory card into my computers card reader, open it up, open the MUSIC folder that was on it, drag in all the music I wanted (lets say the aforementioned 300 tracks) and then stick the card back in the phone. Fire up the Music Player on the phone, and in the options menu, select "Update Library" (or something like that) and the phone would scan the music folder on the memory card, and add all the track info to the library. And provided all your ID3 tags are sorted (artist/album/track title) they would be organised there and then.

USB2 being FAR quicker than Bluetooth, and the library integration being SOOOOO much easier than opening 300 text messages and saving each track manually

Ive only ever sent over a few at a time as im not that into music so i just stick a few on just in case, hence using bluetooth.
I agree its not the best way for transfering loads, the pc suite is best for that, or doing it the way i said in data mode using the cable, never tried but cant see any reason you couldnt do it that way, and easily?

Plus the 8GIG doesnt have a removable memory card, its built in, so you cant use a card reader on it