HOWTO:  Use Nokia Audio Manager to make playlists on your MMC

For this guide we used:

Windows XP Desktop PC / Nokia DKU-2 USB Cable / Nokia 6230 / Nokia PC Suite 6.2 / MobyMemory 1Gb MMC memory card

Nokia Audio Manager (NAM) is part of the Nokia PC Suite. Installation of which is discussed in another HOWTO guide:

HOWTO: Install Nokia PC Suite and Connect your mobile phone

NAM is the official way to get your music tracks onto your MMC, and/or to create playlists to reference those tracks. The reason playlists are useful (other than to classify the tracks you wish to play into different categories) is because with the Nokia 6230, all tracks have to be on the root folder of your MMC card if you want the music player to find them. But, because of filesystem limitations with the FAT filesystem (see discussed here: Max no. of files in root folder of Memory cards, putting music files (.aac or .mp3) in sub-folders gets around this limitation.

So, it is important to know how to reference music tracks that are stored in sub-folders of your MobyMemory MMC card.

The quickest way to get those tracks onto your 512mb or 1Gb MMC is through using a USB2 memory card reader connected to your PC. Having done this, replace your MMC into your Nokia mobile, and connect your mobile to the PC (through USB DKU-2 cable, or infra-red or bluetooth etc..) For this guide, i will make a playlist for my Black Eyed Peas-Elephunk CD which i ripped with dbPOWERAMP onto my PC (as MP3) and then transferred to my memory card via one of our USB2 12-in-1 card readers.

Now you are ready to open up the Nokia Audio Manager application.

When it opens up, make sure that the Phone segment of the app (lower half) has your mobile listed in it. (If your phone is not listed properly, then you will need to verify your connection is working correctly; see this article: HOWTO: Install Nokia PC Suite & Connect your mobile 

Next step is to create a new (empty) playlist in the music studio section. Do this by right-clicking on the empty plalist section of the music studio (as below).

Select [Create New Playlist] from the menu options, and name you new playlist file (*.m3u) and press Save..

Now you should your new playlist listed.. In order to get it from the PC Music Studio to you mobile, you need to drag & drop the playlist file to the playlist section in the Phone segment (as below).

Your playlist file should now appear in the [Playlist] folder of the A: drive in your phone. Click on the playlist folder to check it is there.

Now, to add your music files into the playlist file, right-click on it and select [Add] from the menu.

Now all the music files on your MMC should appear in the pop-up list so you can select the ones you want to select for this playlist. Press OK to confirm the list of tracks. 

That's it. You now know how to create playlists to reference your music files in sub-folders of your MMC card.

We will look at an alternative product for making playlists (and other things like managing images, tones, etc) namely, MobiMB in a later article.

I have a MMC card reader but nothing to connect my PC to my phone. I therefore created the playlist .M3U file on my PC with Nokia Audio Manager. I then edited is file with Notepad and changed the drive letter referenced to B: and saved it to the MMC card. I then put the MMC card back into the phone and transferred the playlist file from the MMC card to the phone's \Playlist folder.

Problem is that the phone does recognise the format of the Playlist file.

Any ideas why?

Is it that an .M3U file is coirrupted by saving with Notepad? Could it be that the filename is xxx.M3U?

Mike

My problem is that my music files on my mmc card never appears, and i cant understand why? Any suggestions ? (only the files on the mobile phone appears)

I've got firmware 03.15, anyting to to with that ?

skrhel

skrhel,

does your mmc card appear under the Nokia 6230 icon in Nokia Audio Manager.? IF not, then i think your phone is struggling to recognize the card. Sometimes to fix this, you can rename the memory card from within the phone. (don;t format, just rename).

When it is recognized properly, the MMC card should appear with the name you have assigned it, under the phone icon in Nokia Audio Manager..

Once you can see the icon for your MMC card, then you can just expand it to see the tracks on the card.

let me know if this helps.

Hi!

I dont think thats the problem. Becouse i can see my mmc card in nokia audio manager, it is the folder witch is called "minnekort" on the picture above. I can also transfer mp3 files to the mmc-card in aduio manager. The mmc-card only have 32mb memory and it is the card that came with the mobilephone.. anything to do with that ?

Do you have any further suggestion ?

Have you reformatted the card externally?
If you have, is it formatted in FAT and not FAT32? Windows will show a card is formatted in FAT32 by default, best check. If you have checked already then sorry.