On another note, I tried MediaMonkey to update album art and tags. Worked really well. I’m not going to use it as my actual media player, but as for tags and possibly syncing, I’ll use it. Never touched Nokia Music and probably won’t until you give the go-ahead.

On another note, I tried MediaMonkey to update album art and tags. Worked really well. I’m not going to use it as my actual media player, but as for tags and possibly syncing, I’ll use it. Never touched Nokia Music and probably won’t until you give the go-ahead.

I partially agree with your last statements – streaming music is an increasingly large part of my mobile music experience, but I still want that full synchronization, because there are times when streaming just won’t cut it.

I partially agree with your last statements – streaming music is an increasingly large part of my mobile music experience, but I still want that full synchronization, because there are times when streaming just won’t cut it.

We are never going to see rated or favourited tracks until there is a standard for such things. I have not seen one and frankly don’t expect to.

That being said, I don’t really use it all that much. For simple music management, there are better apps out there, but i don’t really do that anymore, either.

Why?

Because a meticulously-managed personal music library downloaded (or sync’d) to one’s phone is just dead. It’s over. Even Apple is selling lesser capacity iPods (max size is 120, as opposed to 160 a year ago). People don’t want to own music anymore, they want to listen to what’s now and what’s new. This is done via streaming like Last.fm and Spotify. Or, through a subscription music service like ZunePass or Napster-To-Go.

If I want music, I either pull it up on a streaming app or simply say “xfer to device” and am done with it.

We are never going to see rated or favourited tracks until there is a standard for such things. I have not seen one and frankly don’t expect to.

That being said, I don’t really use it all that much. For simple music management, there are better apps out there, but i don’t really do that anymore, either.

Why?

Because a meticulously-managed personal music library downloaded (or sync’d) to one’s phone is just dead. It’s over. Even Apple is selling lesser capacity iPods (max size is 120, as opposed to 160 a year ago). People don’t want to own music anymore, they want to listen to what’s now and what’s new. This is done via streaming like Last.fm and Spotify. Or, through a subscription music service like ZunePass or Napster-To-Go.

If I want music, I either pull it up on a streaming app or simply say “xfer to device” and am done with it.

Please step up your game, Nokia.