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Nokia N8: How To Use The Music Player
By Phil Barker on March 3,
 2011 at 00:00,

Along with being a great smartphone when it comes to photography, the Nokia N8 also excels when it comes to being a music player. Copying music across couldn't be easier, and accessing your favourite albums from the music player is also a simple task. Join us after the break to find out everything you need to know...

Using your Nokia N8 as a music player is one of the easiest things you can do. Simply plug it into your PC using the USB cable, select Mass Storage and copy all of your albums across to the mass memory or your memory card. If you've got a microSD card adapter, it's also easy to copy music by taking the card out and copying your files across straight onto that.

Check out our Nokia N8 Ultimate User Guide!

There's no complicated menu system to use – all of your songs will automatically be added to the Music Player's library. To get started, click on Menu, and Music Player. Your albums will all show up in a list – using album art if you copied across the right details as well.

You can view the albums by album art rather than details – simply tilt your Nokia N8 on its side, and the covers will get a lot bigger. Flick a finger to the right or left to browse through the albums.

Once you've opened a song you like, you'll see pause and skip buttons taking up the bottom of the screen (or the right-hand side in landscape mode). If you're playing an album, simply click on skip to go through the different songs.

Clicking Back takes you back to the album list – and if you go to the top you'll also see a Shuffle option. Click on Options and you'll be able to create playlists, or pick music by genres. You can even go straight to the Ovi Store, to buy and download the latest tracks.

If there's anything else you want to know, check out our Nokia N8 Ultimate User Guide.

Confused? Have a look at our Nokia N8: How to use the music player photo album below:

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  • http://www.waja3ras.com Tarek

    I seriously don’t get the music player and this is my eighth Nokia phone… Why did they merge the albums and artists into a single category?!?! Sometimes, I want to listen to “Pink Martini” music by playing all their albums. Before I had that option; Now I don’t…

    And now I can’t select an album per se. I have to find the artist, then find the album under the artist and then play the music.

    The merge of “Artist & Albums” just doesn’t make sense especially when you have compilation albums that’ll have multiple artists, or when you have albums with the singers being x, and then x feat. y.

    It was much better done as it was on the N97, N91, etc…

  • http://na KD

    Hi,

    I cant seem to find this on ovi sotre. Can someone assist?

  • hamaslskn

    I perfectly agree with Tarek. Please Nokia improve it !

  • gaurav

    this music player is a mess.
    like tarek commented finind your slbum is a difficult task. movie music that has various artists how can you know who is the first one???
    I can play recent songs, but if I want to add to a playlist I cant…
    Why cant there be only one touch FM activation on/off why three times?? first you touch FM then you tuch ‘on’ and then ‘OK’. What times you areliving NOKIA?

  • No nokia

    Some albums work some not cant edit yeah its a real mess to complicated nameless albums this sucks

  • Myname

    Has anyone noticed that the ‘shuffle’ on the N8 music player is hopelessly non-random. I have in excess of 1,500 music tracks on my N8 but for some reason, out of every 10 songs, it ends-up playing at least two Jimi Hendrix songs every single time (even though there are only 26 songs on the phone). I mean don’t get me wrong I like Jimi, but I don’t want to hear him every 10-15 mins. Perhaps the phone just likes him more than I do :-)