Uploading files to a mobile phone through WAP

The couple back to the problem of organizing the music for me does not exist. On the family computer my whole range of MP3-files has been clearly laid out in folders with the artist name and album name (ID3-tags not particularly interested me). Audio CDs, which we listened to on the go on your MP3 / CD-player, ideally regulations have been placed on the shelves. Sometimes we sliced ​​a MP3-CD to get lost in the variety of them impossible to blah blah folder structure when you transfer music from your hard drive to a CD persisted.

It was a golden time. Lived would also be more relaxed, if not to progress, interest in the newly minted glands or avoidance carry branded drives along. Ideal variation - player with a hard drive. If the range is growing at a rate of 5-10 discs a week, a large memory capacity on a portable device is converted to a pressing need. Even in the 20-gigabyte model can fit a decent number of music. Next - better at what time the player is 40-gigabyte hard drive on, allowed a long time to say goodbye to the computer.

When the range of digital music reaches a certain size, the maintenance routines in it (whether on a computer or handheld player) begins to collect more and more and more effort.

Assume that the range of digitized music, but all the tracks indicated complete data on the composition. In this case, from the portable player needed only one thing: the ability to quickly find a desired album or song. Most of the players allow to find the right song or album through the artist name or album name. Almost not a single player manufacturer to offer a couple of different types of sorting compositions remains Iriver. C has also started.

iRiver

Players the iRiver, both on the hard drive-based, as well as flash-based memory, very easy to use. Firstly, as allowed to do without a program to organize and copy music on your computer. Just connect the player and copy the data. On the player the desired track simply sought in its own directory.

Advantages of this approach - to take care of the tags in music files does not necessarily common. Suffice it to spread music in folders and transfer them to the player. This is almost never the only feasible means of normal listening collections of songs such as "with the universe on a string." I have a collection (folder "Miscellaneous") occupies near half gigabytes and, if feed its program or device, sorted by artist or album, it just raspolzetsya on the playlist - back does not gather.

The disadvantage with this approach, there is also the impossibility of search data from ID3-tags. Without this, it is permitted to do, if you have a tag-filled mess, and pores on the economy in order to bring there. But if all or nearly all the music digitized from discs provided with tags and other information, it is much Speshnev find the artist and album, delving into the hundreds, but also the thousands of music folders.

The players Iriver is also possible the other way but with the use of proprietary software. I'm such a means would not extremely comfortable. Firstly, I would like to do without the extra programs. Secondly, even though the software from iRiver made good, but the functionality is inferior even Winamp, not to mention the monsters like iTunes.

It would be logical to expect compatibility with Windows Media Player, but practice shows that even formal compatible with the program does not guarantee of not having problems. Players often work with the brainchild of Microsoft ... so-so. Often, the speed of data transfer from the computer to the player want to leave chosen.

In any case, a definite plus iRiver players is that the manufacturer advises a couple ways to organize music. Other companies such freedom of the election does not alienate. In addition, the iRiver player operates its user-friendly, but not for the record companies: the music is allowed to copy not only from the computer to the player, but also a player on the computer. This is an undoubted advantage.

In practice, the "comfort" the iRiver player interface was tested on H-10 and H-340 models. In the main case, we own a compact player with a hard drive for five gigabytes. Authorized to search or folders with music, or information about the artist and so on. In both cases, the search for the desired track is quite convenient.

Not only worsens the impression rigid sensor strip. In contrast to the pressure-sensitive wheel to iPod, Touch Strip iRiver seems extremely rigid. Before a player can not time comes that you need to quickly scroll through a large list of files.

Lack as standard control panel seems not easier navigation process is "on track." With the speed of updating the menu, however, everything is in order. The player thinks a little at the entrance to the main menu, but also in the sub-menu built-in file browser, everything works without delay.

H-340 Model pleased button hasty transition in the file browser as the ability to instantly switch the play mode. Universal sentence for these pairs of players: due to a pair of sorting options musical range, iRiver overall wins two points in the competition. If we consider only the players in terms of usability, the iRiver does not inferior to competitors, even though some are also deprived of useful features, such as searching for files and tracks any clearer management. In any event, the first problem is solved - the desired track is quickly and without problems. Of course, if you did not forget, it is placed in a directory.

Creative

Creative has also contracted "touch" ailments. The Zen Touch models used sensor strip, but to work with it much more convenient than a similar control in iRiver players with either a mechanical rocker controls in the Zen Xtra.

Advantage Creative player to your hard drive: the ability to search by artist name, album or song. However, only in English. The obvious flaw: the impressive volume of the music player picks a range of brake terribly when overtures to bring a list of all artists or, even worse, all of the albums.

"Pensiveness" player Creative is also reflected in a friend: they are included immediately, but that's off on the team react seconds through 15. Very annoying moment, though in general Creative has a very high-quality players with excellent sound. And, are very competitive on price.

The rest are no miracles. Search according to data from the tags to the files. Naturally, the collections are allowed only to find the title of the album - in the list of performers, they crawl numerous creators. This is not exactly what you need. To be objective, one must say that the ability to group compilations eat only player software, hardware device is that it does not yet learned. Management clear enough and simple, if would not braking.

Universal verdict: fat plus the ability to search for and fat minus for "brake". Which of these arguments is more important - to choose you. I note looks like a separate button in the Zen Touch, including Shuffle mode.

The first and the main "chip" of the player was mechanical, but then touch the scroll wheel, which also provides an answer for navigation. We can say that Apple is the functional element of success. Wheel accurately follows your instructions, stopping there, where you need to also quickly scroll through long lists of artists.

On the other hand, in addition to browse music by artist, album or style, nothing nen. Search is absent, however, to switch playback modes for some reason, it was tucked in the configuration section (in new versions of firmware that omission corrected).

Despite this, the lack of available funds. Find the desired song is easy enough. Even the impressive range of music does not cause any difficulties - the player does not hesitate to display thousands of playlists.

Very disappointed that the player does not know how to group your collections into a separate folder. As already mentioned, this function is not in the hardware players in general, but in iTunes, this feature is available.

Another advantage - the ability to create smart playlists in iTunes and transfer them to iPod. Thus allowed to make a dynamically updated playlist of music with a rating of 4 or 5 stars. If you get tired of any song from this list, it is allowed to "throw" from the playlist by pressing the two buttons.

create playlists directly on the player functions not - eat only the possibility of adding and removing songs and entire albums in the playlist On-The-Go. In general, if not calculate the iRiver, organization system Apple iPod seemed most convenient, though the search still does not prevented.

Players from other manufacturers so or otherwise copy submitted schemes of music. Alas, none of the players can not be called ideal in terms of ease of use, if the word is moving to work with a range of five and more than thousand tracks. The main disadvantages: music collections in any way does not stand out, they are difficult to find in a digital library; information from the tags often have to correct (even if it is true), for example, to group similar albums by one artist.

It is especially difficult with the classics - there is available, the position, there is information about the composer, artist or conductor, creation name and information about the specific elements of the work. The bases of the type of CD data data data freedb shove as the spirit lay. Sometimes the track information is recorded in the artist field, whereby the disc is almost impossible to find in the database. You understand how the pores have to spend on it, in order to bring variety in order. Sometimes the only way out seems to be true raspihivanie music into folders according to their own preferences - so just allowed anything to find. The real solution to the problem is the issue of players (or update existing ones) with full support for one of the most popular programs for working with music. Let it be a real iPod, but with full support for iTunes functions. Or a player with support for Windows Media Player. Alas, that is up to it "perfection" in the distance. Although Creative has also created quite a successful software package MediaSource, with him that blah blah mountain that also iTunes - he is only compatible with "their" players. With the evident need for a universal solution. So now it's time to create their own range of music to listen to in the building of the route on a portable device - a solid compromise.