| Say What? For this increase to happen, the equipment must get better. We have two different kinds of music-centric cell phones in our family. My kids have a Chocolate (LG VX8550) and I have the Moto Krzr K1M. Neither of them are better than an MP3 player IMHO. It's much easier to transfer songs to my MP3 players as I can just plug it in, then drag-and-drop songs to it. With the cell phones, I have to buy a special cable which is only $5 to be sure. Then I make sure the proper drivers are loaded, put it in sync mode, fire up the special program, and I forget the rest because it's been such a pain to do.
I'm sure most of you have read that Verizon is now promoting the Rhapsody service. This MAY take off, but I doubt it. So far I haven't even been able to get the program to run reliably on my Vista machine.
In order for mobile music sales to increase, I think they need to make multimedia capable phones better and easier to use. |
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Decatur, GA | jhacker that relly depends on the phone you have. A lot of phones have an micro sd card slot. They are now selling 8GB micro sd cards. So all they have to do is pop that baby into a card reader and transfer the songs that way. I will agree with you that cell phones are not even in the same ballpark sound quality wise as the great majority of mp3 players.
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Drag n Drop | 
Motorola Phone Tools | 
Rhapsody on Vista |
No idea what your phone interface looks like, but this Motorola V3(NOT exactly an MP3 player but...) shows in it's own window(Bluetooth Information Exchanger)
Drag n drop works - even over Bluetooth.
Motorola Phone Tools makes it have a GUI.
Rhapsody on a Vista Machine? Works fine on this VAIO(Vista Home Premium).
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| I don't have Moto Phone Tools, but I do have BITPIM. Normally if I want music on my phone I just take the microSD card out of the phone and insert it into the card reader. I guess the point of my original post is that they have to make things easier and better for non-techies if they want to capture a bigger share of the music audience.
I haven't spent much time trying to get the Verizon/Rhapsody program to work. This is mostly because of my work schedule. So far every time I scan my library for music it crashes. Plus, it won't automatically load the proper drivers for my phone but I do know where to find them. I already had them loaded with the old VCast program and BITPIM, so I don't see why there is a problem. I just haven't been persistent enough to work out the problems yet. Maybe tomorrow when I FINALLY have a day off work.
I also have a question. Can you use the Verizon/Rhapsody subscription service with your MP3 players also, or do you have to hold a separate Rhapsody subscription for that? |
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