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Old 07-22-2008, 04:53 PM   #1
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It brings a tear to my eye to declare my poor iPod dead in the water and since I'm about to sink some serious cash in to my BlackBerry soon (Upgrade is this weekend, finally) I can't really replace it so I had an idea. I've decided to deviate from my plan to get an 8830 to instead get an 8330 (The keyboard won me over!) and I see that the Curve has a 3.5 mm headphone jack in it.

Here is my query: Would the Curve work well as an MP3 player? I've purchased an 8GB microSD card for it and I plan on bringing my earbuds over from the iPod. It would be nice to be able to just throw my earbuds in, and listen to music on the Curve. Also, if I holster it with the RIM leather holster with sleeper magnet, will the music playback override that, or will the phone sleep anyway and halt playback? I'm not an intense audiophile so as long as the sound is decent and audible without distorting I'm happy.

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Old 07-22-2008, 04:57 PM   #2
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I use my BB for an mp3 player all the time. Any songs you purchased from iTunes won't work though, due to DRM restrictions.
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Old 07-22-2008, 04:59 PM   #3
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But it will work fine for normal mp3s. It is not an iPod, but you will get decent quality playback from the BB. The iPod is a dedicated device, so don't expect ALL the same features, but the BB will serve you decently in that regard.

And no, the sleep function will not kill the playback when inserted in the holster. The BB will shut the light off, but the music lives on forever.

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Old 07-22-2008, 05:09 PM   #4
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Old 07-22-2008, 05:13 PM   #5
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Excellent! I'm very happy to hear that, even better than I hoped. I'm not looking for anything more advanced than playlists, shuffle play and volume control and such. I rip all my own music so no DRMs there. Thanks!
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Old 07-22-2008, 05:49 PM   #6
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Silly question, but I assume when the phone receives a call, it pauses the music, which I knew about, but does it make any distinction that a call is coming in? I ask because my intended ringtone is a song I listen to quite often and I'm a little worried if I'm not paying very close attention it will cause me to just assume its the music and ignore the incoming call, heh.
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well this is going to be quite interesting then...

Give your phone calls a vibrate in addition to ring.
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Old 07-22-2008, 05:59 PM   #8
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I seem to recall converting itunes files into mp3 files (for music I owned). I haven't done this with my curve, but my pearl 2 worked great as an MP3 player. nice and simple drag and drop. I did not use VZWs roxio media manager. It was pretty much useless.
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Old 07-22-2008, 06:39 PM   #9
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Back when I used iTunes, I used this program (mods: May I disclose what program I used?) to break the DRM outright. To my amazement, I was able to load the un-DRM'ed files to the BB straight and have them play. Now I buy all my music from Amazon, and now you know why DRM sucks.
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Old 07-22-2008, 07:51 PM   #10
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I am in the middle of reinstalling the OS on my device after buying the same card and only having it recognize 4GB of memory instead of the 8. Reading the site makes you think it is easy to upgrade the OS so that you can get all 8GB. Now, 3 hours later, I am hoping that my BB comes back to life. Fun fun fun.

For what its worth, it works ok as an MP3 player but it is a pain in the ass to make the thing stop. It needs shortcut keys.
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Old 07-23-2008, 09:01 PM   #11
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For what its worth, it works ok as an MP3 player but it is a pain in the ass to make the thing stop. It needs shortcut keys.
Shortcuts: On a curve the speaker on/off button at the top of phone will pause the music even if ur not in the music player app. Also I set my left side convenience key to the media option , then pressing the side button twice it will put me right back to the music player. When in the music player app P=previous, N=next, Space=play/pause
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When not in the media player if you push and hold the volume up/down keys it will skip to the next or previous song.
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Old 07-23-2008, 09:23 PM   #13
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There are even programs you can use to sync your blackberry with your itunes playlists, such as iTuneMyWalkman.
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Old 07-23-2008, 09:28 PM   #14
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MediaSync was just released today by RIM for syncing the BB with iTunes.

http://www.blackberryforums.com/gene...-promised.html
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thats the kicker with BB - I have a ton of itunes.. really wish I could use them. After all the only think i always have with me is my phone. It'd be nice to have some decent tunes.
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If they're DRM protected then NO other media player will play them. If they're standard mp3's or m4a's you can play them on the BB.
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MediaSync only works on windows. iTuneMyWalkman is for mac.
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Old 07-24-2008, 04:25 PM   #18
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Cool stuff but I didn't use iTunes with my iPod, I used Winamp which has excellent support for mobile devices and will probably handle the BlackBerry well, I might have to 'teach' it the directory structure but otherwise it should work fine.
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Well I got myself a nice shiny 8330 Curve from VZW and so far its doing very well as an iPod replacement. The ONLY complaint I have is no way to change tracks while it is holstered/locked. Otherwise it actually outdoes my iPod. Seeking to a song with a keyboard is way nicer and the sound quality is actually better than the iPod was. So if someone knows of a way to solve that one gripe it will be perfect!
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Old 07-28-2008, 10:59 AM   #20
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Yeah, my 8310 rocks as an mp3 player. I was on the train a few weeks ago and forgot my Ipod so I used my BB. I was impressed with the sound and the ease of playing/finding the music with the built in media player.

I don't think you will be to change anything in those stats without accessing the media player directly.


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