iTunes on your (non-iPhone) phone: nuTsie reviewed

by Chris Ziegler posted Jun 14th 2007 at 4:58AM

Alright, alright, let's move past the ROKR and V3i and start looking at some more creative ways to shoehorn iTunes onto our phones, mkay? (And no, not the iPhone either -- we said "creative.") Enter "nuTsie," a music client that streams your iTunes library not by actually streaming your media -- that'd be pretty tricky with the DRM and all -- but by reading the names of your songs and matching them to tunes on nuTsie's server. According to LAPTOP Mag's testing, performance is solid (and super quick over a 3G connection) but there are a handful of bummers; some of the tested phones couldn't rock nuTsie and A2DP simultaneously, and worse yet, some clamshells closed the app when the flip was closed. The list of supported devices is pretty anemic at the moment, but it's still in beta so we might see beefier compatibility by the time 1.0 rolls around.

Filed under: Multimedia, Software

Tags: itunes, music, nutsie, review

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greenlight @ Jun 14th 2007 7:22AM

The issues don't really have anything to do with their app, it's more to do with the fact that Samsung and Motorola phones just plain suck. Being a J2ME app I doubt there's anything nuTsie can do to change that. But honestly, someone who buys a Samsung or Motorola really doesn't deserve any better...

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Ian Rendall @ Jun 14th 2007 10:40AM

"...the fact that Samsung and Motorola phones just plain suck."
I entirely agree. Motorola couldn't produce a decent interface for anything.

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Anthony @ Jun 14th 2007 10:43AM

I wonder how successful this would be for some of us. I don't have an inventory, but I would say my collection of 1500 or so discs (many 7"s), supplemented w/ things I acquired online means hundreds of imports, many languages, etc.

How successful will this be if you go in & see "not found" again & again.

This will definitely be a 'see to believe' one for me + 3G isn't all the places I go...

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sam sears @ Jun 14th 2007 2:08PM

the idea that you can only listen to your own music collection in "shuffle" mode is positively moronic.

orb and mercora do this much, much better...

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Brian @ Jun 14th 2007 3:38PM

1) The "3G" is cute... considering the iPhone doesn't have 3G. (Why, Apple, Why did you give us dial-up speed on a multimedia phone?) [Oh yea, it's so they can sell you iPhone2]

2) Samsung makes good phones. The A900 is the best phone I've owned. (I've owned the Samsung N400, Samsung A600, Treo 600, Motorola Q [would have been great if the battery lasted more than 24 hours], and the Sanyo M1)

The body of the A900 is the most sturdy I have held, and feels... substantial. It has the best screen on any clamshell phone, a great camera (compared to other cell phone cameras)

I guess if you're talking about the pos "FREE" phones that cell providers give to their broke-ass customers, all cell manufacturers suck, and all cell networks have terrible reception.

You get what you pay for, (except with the iPhone... $450 for image, $150 worth of tech).

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dave @ Jun 15th 2007 5:46PM

"orb and mercora do this much, much better..."

Don't mercora and orb require to connect to some computer at home? and you have to leave it on? and figure out how to work back through your network and firewalls? Sounds like a job for someone much more technical than me.

I had an iPod shuffle and always listened in shuffle. Even now that I have a video iPod, I still always listen in shuffle. I read (I think from Apple) that most people do. Works for me.

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marked1234 @ Aug 8th 2007 4:46PM

Has anyone tried the website they have now added a share and add button so that you can share and add playlist along with sharing and adding friends. Also there is a google search bar at the top so you can really listen to anything that you want if you just search it.
Oh yeah and it always plays in shuffle for those of you who like that.

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