Nokia Multimedia Transfer 1.2 Beta for Mac
Fri, 2007-11-02 13:43
All you Mac lovers*, attention!
Nokia Multimedia Transfer 1.2 Beta for Mac just became available for download.
What's new:
* Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is now supported
* Improved Nokia Device Browser with folder view
* Ability to customise the transcoding of files in iTunes and iPhoto transfers
* Performance of iTunes and iPhoto transfers with a large number of files has been improved
* Many bug fixes and minor improvements
Note: we at Nokia Beta Labs didn't have anything to do with this launch, but I'll find out who are the right contact persons from the team, and make sure they will hear your feedback!
* = from now on, count me in this group, as I finally managed to convince my wife that a new Mac with Leopard would be a good investment...
Comments
Thank you very much!
I love whoever put this little application together. I get all my podcasts and revision3 shows via iTunes. Now it's really easy to watch gigaOM on my N80 without transcoding manually. I dont even bother with USB anymore. I'm sticking with 10.4 for now.
When I first tried the Nokia Multimedia Transfer, I was expecting something on the line of PC Suite (i.e. a heavy mishmash of applications that sometimes work and sometimes don't). I was totally surprised that the application was very useful and worked very well.
Why isn't a simple application like this available for Windows users? Just mentioning PC Suite causes people to flee in panic, but I've yet to find a person that would find Multimedia Transfer horrible. You can forward my greets to the team that did this one: good work, please help the PC Suite team :)
sadly it doesn't support the N95 8GB, funnily enough version 1.1 did work.
There is no official iSync plugin either.
I agree with Symbiatch, would be great to have an app that would easily transfer iTunes to the phone from a PC.
Guys, iTunes Agent works great on the PC to sync music to your S60 device. Google it, it's free.
@Tommi, a quick question... If this is a beta, why is it not listed on the Beta Labs pages? I would say that all Betas should be primarily hosted on the Beta Labs site and the 'official' pages should then host only the final, stable software, and link to the Beta Labs when they mention 'a new beta version is available'.
That way everyone will notice the difference between what's released and what's in Beta.
Just my opinion :o)
Duncan: you are absolutely right, all relevant Nokia beta stuff should be listed under Beta Labs.
Nokia consists of hundreds of relatively independent R&D teams, and I just haven't been in direct contact with this particular team yet.
I'm curious to use this, the 1.1 on Leopard crashed like a teen-aged automobile driver, constantly!
Trying this new version is fancy! Congrats on designing an app with user-flows that make sense.
So far two errors:
* -1728 AppleScript error during setup, I don't have my iTunes library filled up with data yet. The program crashes trying to open up that non-existant folder!
* Opening iPhoto with AppleScript I see it typing in some 9876543210+ thing, then the NMT app complains about an error.
thanks for this. just bought the 5310 xpress music. could you add support?THAT WOULD BE GREAT!!!!shouldnt be a big problem for you I think...
multimedia transport recognizes the phone...but says: no support...
Having a problem with refreshing of player library
So, all of my mp3's has CoverArt, they're perfectly transfers into phone but sadly can't refresh a phone database
Sadly my 6267 is not comatible whit the mac version! certenly as data ist works.. happy in fusion a windows 2000 works whit the pc version.
This is splendid. I've just upgraded from a battered E61 to a shiny E61i and it's great being able to transfer photos and music/podcasts to it quickly and easily. Thank you for remembering us Mac users.
Official banks
Support for 5310 Xpressmusic please!! Its a music phone for gods sake, isnt it just common sense to have Mac music software support?
Please support 5310 (ExpressMusic)! Thank you.
Looks like a great program, but i also have a Nokia 5310 xpress and my phone is recognized but sadly not supported... please add support for those of use with this! thanks in advance :)
We need support for the 5310 XPress Music
Yes it's true you can easily drag and drop , but you can't synchronize the phone like an ipod... which means you can't use itunes, ical, adress book...
Please support for 5310 Xpress Music, thank you
I was waitin' so long for this software.. BUT NOKIA MULTIMEDIA TRANSFER DOES'NT SUPPORT MY PHONE! AND MY PHONE IS DESIGNED TO LISTEN TO MUSIC (5310 XPRESS MUSIC)!
NOKIA PLEASE MAKE THE SUPPORT FOR THIS PHONE!
need as well support for 5310. w880i could play my AAC files without problem, why cant nokia's device do that?
Otherwise nice phone and for seroius music listening is still use an iPod !
5310 support +1
Please add nokia 5310 support. it would be great
5310 support +1
please!
Hey for those interested...
I found a way to isynch!!!
A great somebody has develloped something pretty usefull, go to this link and download, it works fine for ical and adressbook so now ,that makes of our phone a competitive one :
http://pyxx.org/nokia-5310-xpressmusic-isync-plugin/
I got this cool 5310 phone but I also found out I cannot sync my contacts from and with my Mac,, is the team going to have a look at this for us,, I mean the XpressMusic kit fits so well with iTunes on the Mac, but hey we would like to keep our lives ordered too,, help guys..
5310 support badly needed - bought on the assumption this would work! Can the developers look in to this please?
please ad 5310 xpress music support.
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Another vote for 5310 support...please!
Please, what can I do with a beautiful Nokia 5310 if it doesn't sync with mac nor see the PCsuite? So many promises for a device that works simply as the ancient cell phone, just to make and receive calls?! Please!!!!!! Nokia face it, users have Macs as well, please send me info how to make this beautiful useless device work with Mac. It doesn't even work as a modem. I just payed a full month internet fee to find out it will not work, it gives me an error message with the PPP server...
Sic... HELP!
Ha! I found out, how to transfer music to the Nokia 5310 from a Mac!
In the Connections-menu you choose the USB and there the last one (I don't know how it's called on the English mobiles, because I got a German one) In German it's "Datenspeicher". Must be something like "datamemory". Then you can find your mobile just like a normal USB-Drive in the Finder-Window and can drag and drop any mp3-file there. Afterwards you can find them again in the Gallery on the memorycard. When you open the Musicplayer it automaticallly updates itself and includes the new-found mp3-files.
(It also creates one folder with unknown interpret with some kind of Mac-waste, it doesn't need. In this folder there you'll find all titles again with a "_." before the filename. You can simply delete those)
Hope, this helps you.
Please excuse my bad wording..
Greets ^^~
this is discraceful Nokia, i bought this phone to use as a walkman......you do realise that many MANY people have macs??!
I couldn't get my 5310 to work with my imac until just now when i plugged it in and iphoto picked it up, and now my mac recognises the flash drive, did one of the mac updates have something in it?
Hey thanks David,, the software from your link works,, maybe the lab guys can look at it and incorporate it into PC Suite,, how's that?
when i try to download the software i get stuck on "location" i pick the hd but it says it cannot stor ein that location...help? also how come my iphoto will open but it will not reconosie the usb devise or give me a spot to drag mp3s?
help please.
Hei;
it would be nice to have a settings selection for where the images, et al, get stored ... when I installed 1.3 Beta onmy iBook, OS 10.4.10, all of the existing images just disappeared, and now, when my N95 syncs, I can't find the contents anywhere ...
Julia: Yes. 1.3 and 1.4 work with 5800. If it does not recognize the device try "check updates". If it still does not work, send feedback from the software.
Hi, does Nokia Multimedia Transfer work with Nokia 5800 XM?
I try to connect phone to Mac, but the process stops on searching of device.
PC Suite v15 or v16 came in the box with my phone. I complained and got a link to v17. What a huge, lunking beast of useless crap!!! Better than the original, but abysmally slow and lunking in operation. Easily wins the worst usability award for any interface ever written (and I've seen a few!).
I completely removed it months ago, but now have a handful of images to get off the phone (would be nice before 28/2/09). I am not going to install 31Mb+ of junk again and fight it for 4 images. Unfortunately the decent, working application runs on a Mac which I don't have. Maybe I should sue Nokia into buying me a Mac...
Soon Windows will be redundant anyway as I'm moving to Linux this year. Nokia, be there and ready with small efficient applications, or the next phone will not be a Nokia.
We really liked your blog and this info on the ad-supported model...we believe in it enough to have just pushed out BETA 2 of our site!
Sincerely,
The Songnumbers Team
Music transfer is fine with USB. Please support contact transfer
Hi there - I just upgraded from an N95 to an N97 Mini, and was stunned to see that Multimedia Transfer program (the latest version of which I've been using ver successfully with my N95, thanks :o) doesn't support my new phone. Are there plans to address this? If not, is there some alternative way I can synchronise from iTunes to my N97 Mini?
Thanks in advance,
Dale.
It's really fantastic software, but what is the latest version? Where I can download it?