Nokia Ovi Player has replaced Nokia Music for PC as your central music player and integrated music score for your laptop or Nokia Booklet 3G. As it’s a core app we use every day we thought it best to give it a test run. Find out how w got on with our Nokia Ovi Player review…
Nokia Music for PC works reasonably well but it was buggy and slow at best. Thankfully, Nokia Ovi Player is an immediate improvement both in terms of usability and speed. Looking at the music player side first, you’ll find the interface is still nice and free from clutter with icons for your PC, your phone and optical drives highlighted on the left-hand side.
Your music sits in a large window in the middle of the screen and can be viewed in Artist, Album, Genre or even Most Recent, which is a neat touch as if you’re addicted to a couple of albums at any one time you’ll have them always sat there.
The music player as been moved into the top-right corner and has the same appearance whether you’re in full screen mode or switch it down to a simple player, which means it always has the same look. You can click the albums artwork and it will start to play. Double click and you’ll get more information, such as a detailed track listing, album artwork and other information.
What we like most about Nokia Ovi Player is that searching for your music is a lot easier, as the screen pop up a lot quicker. Also, now when you add new music it treats the files far more logically, allowing you to play them in track order, not in ‘as just added order’ as the old player insisted on doing – effectively playing the album from end to start! What’s more, you can always create Playlists from your music and adding a new playlist is easy – simply tap the + sign in the right hand corner.
Nokia Ovi Player is a solid move forward for playing music on your laptop. It’s still not perfect, Nokia Ovi Player doesn’t load as quickly as say Windows Media Player, but we like the changes that have been find and if you found Nokia Music for PC frustrating in the past, we’re recommend you try out this new version.
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