Cramming more music in to your N82 [Part 2] - February 6, 2009
In the last few days I decided to try out my last post of converting my entire music library and putting it on my N82, as I will be leaving for university soon and having my entire music library in my pocket does make the long plane trips much shorter.
So here’s how the Music Player looks when the initial loading screen is done:
![Cramming more music in to your N82 [Part 2]](http://www.cyberblackcat.net/wp-go.php?url=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CZ1t0O5fcWE/SJ0tF5GqumI/AAAAAAAAAXI/NCpvLELv4Kc/s1600-h/Screenshot0009.png "Cramming more music in to your N82 [Part 2]")
The worst part is when you turn your phone on first thing in the morning and waiting for the Music Player app to finish loading – it takes much longer on average to get songs playing.
Update:
So here’s my first impressions on cramming 2700+ songs on the N82:
First things first – loading the Music Player app from a cold boot (turning the phone on using the power button) takes roughly 15 seconds or so. The ‘Loading’ bar keeps moving before you can see the number of songs and podcasts you have on your phone.
Clicking on ‘All Songs’ in the main menu takes a very long time to load – something like 10 to 20 seconds, depending on whether you’re opening the list for the first time since you turned your phone on.
Loading a particular song becomes a nightmare. If you select a song to play, it takes about 10 seconds before the music player menus are accessible again. The phone lags for about 10 – 15 seconds before you start hearing the song play in the background. In some cases, you may not be able to fast forward or pause the music as the menus are lagging – you may have to wait up to a total of 30 – 40 seconds before being able to access them again.
Skipping songs also becomes problematic – the menu lags for up to 30 seconds, during which you cannot skip the song as the controls don’t respond. It doesn’t happen every time but it does happen often enough to get you pissed off.
Searching for a particular song takes a while, as character input becomes extremely laggy while having something like over 2500 songs in the list. Instead of snappy word input expect something of a 1 second lag as the character changes from ‘a’ to ‘b’.
Lastly, your phone may get random ‘System Errors’ while executing and running the Music Player app, thus crashing the application (but not the entire operating system).So that’s more or less the experiences I have had while using the Music Player app in the last 2 days. Its totally degraded my music experience on this Nokia flagship; I suppose the N82 (or the N95 for that matter) wasn’t catered to play this many songs in mind. But again, I’m sure many readers have a library that’s much larger than the one I placed on the phone, so what were Nokia thinking?
You can expect me to take most of my songs, save for about a couple hundred, from this phone. So what’s the point of a 32GB microSDHC card for this phone in the first place?
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