For Those About to Rock

If there’s one thing I don’t enjoy too much about Nokia’s Comes With Music, its having to browse through several pages worth of search results just to get to what you want. If anything the results are a motley, like a library full of books but without a system to properly catalogue them.

It’s almost, what’s the word for that term; saturated?

But before I continue, I would need to talk a little bit about Comes With Music, or at least from its user interface point-of-view. Being a massive Akka Dakka (AC/DC in Aussie) fan, I decided to do a little search of the band on Ovi Music.

Naturally, Ovi Music lands you with roughly 10 search results per page, although the search results didn’t tell me what I was looking at. Was I looking at albums, artistes or songs, which was confusing, given that I was returned with 292 different results, or in other words, 30 pages of results.

Normally, this wouldn’t have been a problem on my PC, but on a 3-ish-inch screen with limited processing power?

Where’s Back in Black? Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap? And who the heck is this AC/DC Tribute Band? And what’s the deal with these bands having a female silhoutte right next to bands without profile pictures? Also, how did Sentieri Selvaggi get to the top of the list (Ludovico Einaudi is still good, if you like contemporary minimalist classical, however)?

Fair enough, if AC/DC hasn’t given Nokia the permission to put its tracks up on Ovi Music, which seems to be the case.

I wonder if this is Nokia’s way of helping me to discover new types of music. If so, no thanks. I think I’ll stick to Allmusic.