Podcasts and Music

[Bob Campbell]

The N75 is not listed as a supported device.
But maybe  there's some way to make the audio player work on it.
They list the N81,  N82, N95 and N95 8GB.
I'm  wondering if there is a way to enjoy this player  on the N75?
I just got the 75 and can't upgrade for a while now.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Mosen" <jmosen at mosen.org>
To: "'The Accessible Phones Discussion List'" 
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Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 7:01 AM
Subject: Podcasts and Music


I found this really good article at
http://blogs.s60.com/s60multimedia/2007/12/categories_for_music_and_podca.ht
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and thought others on the list would find it helpful.



December 28, 2007 Categories for Music and Podcasts Posted by Kevin at 07:48
AM | Categories: Music

As many of you noticed the updated Music Player in S60 Feature Pack 1 lists
Music and Podcasts separately. Some of the S60 devices with the new Music
Player include N82, N95, N95 8GB, and N81. Now you may be wondering what's
the difference between Music and Podcasts, and how does the Music Player
know what is a Song and what is a Podcast episode?

The main difference between Music and Podcasts is that audio in the Podcasts
section will automatically save the place of where you last listened. It
works like this, let's say you have a 30 minute train commute to work and
you have an hour long episode of TWiT that you want to listen to. You start
listening to TWiT when you leave your home and head for work, when you reach
your work after listening for 30 minutes you Stop playing the Podcast
episode. When the playback is Stopped the position where it was playing is
saved. Then when you start playing the same episode of TWiT again on your
commute back home it will start playing from where you left off. The
position will also be saved if you are playing a Podcast and then skip
forward to another episode. The benefit of this feature of course is that
when you continue listening to a Podcast you already partially listened to,
there is no need to fast forward through the stuff you already heard. If you
want to start from the beginning of the episode again simply start playing
it then press Left on the keypad, this will start playing the episode from
the beginning and remove the previously Saved position. Music Tracks listed
in the Music category will not save the last played position when music
playback is stopped.

So now that you know the difference between the Music and Podcasts section
how does the Music Player know what's a Podcast episode and what's a Music
Track?

There are 2 ways that audio is categorized automatically as being a Podcast:

1. The audio file has Podcast as the Genre in it's meta data.

2. The audio file is saved in the Podcasts directory on the Phone Memory or
Memory Card.

If you use the S60 Podcasting application to download an audio episode, most
audio files will be saved in the Podcast/Sounds/ directory and thus will
automatically be categorized as a Podcast.



Tip: If you find a Podcast has been listed in the Music category you can
move it under the Podcast category in order to use the Last Played Position
feature. Highlight the Title of the track and press Options -> Song details.
Scroll down to the bottom where the last detail says Library: Music. Change
that from Music to Podcast and then confirm the move. The audio file will
then be moved into the Podcast section. To move a Music track from Podcasts
to Music view the Episode details then select Music as the Library instead
of Podcasts.



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