N1 as a music player?

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How many of you use your N1 as a music player? I dropped my ipod at the gym and i think its slowly on its way out.

Would it be worth investing in a 32GB micro SD card for the phone and use it or just stick to ipod's?

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Originally Posted by zok-star

How many of you use your N1 as a music player? I dropped my ipod at the gym and i think its slowly on its way out.

Would it be worth investing in a 32GB micro SD card for the phone and use it or just stick to ipod's?

I use mine all the time. I have a 16gb. I think $130 for a 32gb is crazy. $30 for a 16gb is smart until prices drop.

I use a custom rom that ups the media volume and a new pair of Sony Headphones and this thing is rocking Pandora and my local library with ease.

I also have the trackball skip mod that skips to the next song by double tapping the trackball when the screen is off.... my sony headphones also have a track control.

I now use my N1 for everything. I take it with me to the gym or when I go out for a jog. I use it to stream internet radio or internally stored music through the bluetooth in my car (and gps).

On a recent road trip my wife wanted to watch a movie on hers so she connected to the cars bluetooth, mounted her N1 and watched the movie with surround sound on the road.

I have a 16gb card now but I think I'll be going to 32gb soon.

The N1 can replace pretty much everything in my opinion.

Originally Posted by Enndr

I now use my N1 for everything. I take it with me to the gym or when I go out for a jog. I use it to stream internet radio or internally stored music through the bluetooth in my car (and gps).

On a recent road trip my wife wanted to watch a movie on hers so she connected to the cars bluetooth, mounted her N1 and watched the movie with surround sound on the road.

I have a 16gb card now but I think I'll be going to 32gb soon.

The N1 can replace pretty much everything in my opinion.

haha thats pretty good!! How long does your battery usually last for? 1.5 days?

Im not totally sure. If I'm at work listening to it or playing with it I have the chance to toss it onto the charger alot. In my car I charge too.

The few times I've forgotten to charge it while at work I get to my car at the end of the day and there is anywhere from 60-75% battery left after listening to music for part/most of the day.

When it comes to video or the screen being on you're not going to last long, on any phone.

My work days are typically 8am-5pm with an hour lunch in there somewhere. The music isnt going constantly because I have work related stuff that I need to pause it for but I've been know to polish off three to four 1 hr+ long podcast a day on rare occasions, lol.

I use my N1 for music, too - I have it syncing with MediaMonkey quite nicely for local music, plus Last.FM and a few other streaming apps.

I only have 2 real complaints about it:

1. No genre support - I listen to my music like I listen to FM radio - by genres. I.e. I'll be like, 'hmm, think i want to listen to some Country music today' as opposed to album or artist. I have all my music tagged with the correct genre, but I have yet to find an Android music player app that reads this particular tag and lets me browse by genre. It's really quite frustrating. The only one I know of is the music player in Sense UI, but I obviously don't have (or really want) that entire UI on my N1.

2. Doesn't sync back ratings or last played/playcount meta - Since I only have an 8GB microSD, I have a few autoplaylists setup in MediaMonkey that are limited in size and populate themselves with music from a specific genre that I haven't listened to in the past 30 days - it's a great way to keep my collection fresh. Unfortunately, syncing these to my phone is pointless because the phone doesn't track that I've listened to them, if that makes sense?

Aside from that, it's great. I connect the thing to everything - I have a pair of Bose in-ear earphones that fit *awesome*, and I just picked up a pair of Plantronics Backbeat 903s that work great, too. I have a 3.5mm audio in on my truck that I use when I'm in the car, too.

Originally Posted by the orange bandit

I use my N1 for music, too - I have it syncing with MediaMonkey quite nicely for local music, plus Last.FM and a few other streaming apps.

I only have 2 real complaints about it:

1. No genre support - I listen to my music like I listen to FM radio - by genres. I.e. I'll be like, 'hmm, think i want to listen to some Country music today' as opposed to album or artist. I have all my music tagged with the correct genre, but I have yet to find an Android music player app that reads this particular tag and lets me browse by genre. It's really quite frustrating. The only one I know of is the music player in Sense UI, but I obviously don't have (or really want) that entire UI on my N1.

2. Doesn't sync back ratings or last played/playcount meta - Since I only have an 8GB microSD, I have a few autoplaylists setup in MediaMonkey that are limited in size and populate themselves with music from a specific genre that I haven't listened to in the past 30 days - it's a great way to keep my collection fresh. Unfortunately, syncing these to my phone is pointless because the phone doesn't track that I've listened to them, if that makes sense?

Aside from that, it's great. I connect the thing to everything - I have a pair of Bose in-ear earphones that fit *awesome*, and I just picked up a pair of Plantronics Backbeat 903s that work great, too. I have a 3.5mm audio in on my truck that I use when I'm in the car, too.

Those additions would be awesome to be honest. When you have large libraries of music it can get to be a bit much if you're wanting a specific genre at the time. I usually just shuffle all but it would be nice to have this.

Originally Posted by the orange bandit

1. No genre support - I listen to my music like I listen to FM radio - by genres. I.e. I'll be like, 'hmm, think i want to listen to some Country music today' as opposed to album or artist. I have all my music tagged with the correct genre, but I have yet to find an Android music player app that reads this particular tag and lets me browse by genre. It's really quite frustrating. The only one I know of is the music player in Sense UI, but I obviously don't have (or really want) that entire UI on my N1.

Mixzing allows playing by genre and has a free version (with ads) plus a non-free one.

Originally Posted by the orange bandit

I use my N1 for music, too - I have it syncing with MediaMonkey quite nicely for local music, plus Last.FM and a few other streaming apps.

I only have 2 real complaints about it:

1. No genre support - I listen to my music like I listen to FM radio - by genres. I.e. I'll be like, 'hmm, think i want to listen to some Country music today' as opposed to album or artist. I have all my music tagged with the correct genre, but I have yet to find an Android music player app that reads this particular tag and lets me browse by genre. It's really quite frustrating. The only one I know of is the music player in Sense UI, but I obviously don't have (or really want) that entire UI on my N1.

2. Doesn't sync back ratings or last played/playcount meta - Since I only have an 8GB microSD, I have a few autoplaylists setup in MediaMonkey that are limited in size and populate themselves with music from a specific genre that I haven't listened to in the past 30 days - it's a great way to keep my collection fresh. Unfortunately, syncing these to my phone is pointless because the phone doesn't track that I've listened to them, if that makes sense?

Aside from that, it's great. I connect the thing to everything - I have a pair of Bose in-ear earphones that fit *awesome*, and I just picked up a pair of Plantronics Backbeat 903s that work great, too. I have a 3.5mm audio in on my truck that I use when I'm in the car, too.

I don't think you said what you use to play back the music, I'm guessing the built-in media player? Never used it myself... bTunes has a genre browser and you can play from it..

Just wish bTunes didn't insist on looking like an iPhone, stupid quirky fake looking interface..

I sold my ipod because i have a 16gb card but i still get kinda anal because my battery still deosn't last very long and listening to music alot shortens it even more