Mobile software developer Virtual Views has just released BerryTunes, the first MP3 Player for the BlackBerry.
When I first read about BerryTunes on BBHub my first thought was “Finally, I can listen to music on my BlackBerry.” My second thought was, however, “Now that I can listen to music on my BlackBerry, will I really want to?”
Although I applaud the effort of Virtual Views to come out with a way to transfer MP3s to my BlackBerry, albeit only 12 MB or an hour’s worth of songs. Listening to music via the speakerphone just doesn’t sound all that appealing.
The limited memory and the audio quality of the speaker phone just don’t pass the bar. If you stroll through the electronics department of your neighborhood Wal-Mart you can find two or three MP3 players under $30 with 256 MB to 1 GB of storage that will play hundreds of hours of music through stereo headphones. These MP3 players are quite small as well so carrying them in addition to your BlackBerry isn’t really an issue.
Having the ability to play MP3s from your BlackBerry is kind of cool. Actually playing MP3s from your BlackBerry… Not so much. Not until a BlackBerry designed for MP3 playback comes out, that is…
I just got the Blackberry Pearl. It has a built-in MP3 player (it also plays ACC/M4A files), so there is no need for any additional software! It also supports stereo headphones. I picked up an inexpensive stereo headset from Plantronics that allows me to easily switch between talking on the phone and listening to MP3 in full, great sounding stereo! I also added a 2GB media card (MicroSD), so I can fit 400-500 songs on it. I have an 80GB iPod, but now I just leave it in the car and use my phone to listen to music while walking around. The Pearl is so much cooler than my previous 7100 series — GREAT JOB, R.I.M.!
I agree with Dave H. I tried an adapter to hook a standard set of headphones to my Perl and it didn’t work, just kept activating the speech command feature. Stopped at a T-Mobile store and got a set of the free stereo headphones that were suppoed to come with the phone and it sound great. Only complaint I have is the poor media player that is built into the blackberry. Can only play one file or one folder at a time. Cannot select a root director to play all of your music files. Unfortunately, I cannot justify spending money on any third party media player and end up not liking it.
Do you know how I can connect my Blackberry Pearl to my receiver to play my downloaded songs through the stereo?
I’m so not figuring this out… I got some music from iTunes and moved them to my blackberry pearl using the media manager. They are there on the phone, but it just doesn’t play… what am I doing wrong?
I don’t think you can play iTunes on anything but Apple stuff.
correct the apple file format is it’s own, it is not MP3 which is needed for the blackberry. I am only disappointed in the fact the it will only play one song at a time as well.
Same as the other Mark: it’s too bad the player only plays one song at a time (unless you put it in shuffle mode then it plays all the songs in any/all the albums but not one whole album in a row!). I use it for the streaming radio for kicks and use flipside for actually listening well to MP3s on my 8310.
eazy come eazy go
still a great program… 🙂
you can sync some stuff from Itunes to your bberry but alot of it has restrictions on it Iwas only able to sync about 1 third of my songs to my three g curve.