I don't think I'm the only one around who uses their Nokia N82 as their portable music player, their point-and-shoot camera, as well as a phone. Yes, I know, it can be used in many other ways too, but that's not the point. The point is that with a 8GB memory stick, I can probably fit 1500 songs in the phone, before running out of space for taking photos and storage for other stuff too.
What, only 1500 songs, despite compressing the music files to 128kbps, MP3 files?!
It so happens that there's another format to optimise your music on the N82. Instead of transferring MP3 files over, next time you might want to consider eAAC+ files (.m4a). AllAboutSymbian has a great article introducing users to the eAAC+ format and how you can fit plenty of songs easily on a 8GB stick - so you can basically take your entire library out when you're out of town. I quote: "My collection of mostly 320 kbps encoded mp3's (some are 192 kbps) on my home PC requires about 26 GB of diskspace. Converting it into eAAC+ at 48 kbps reduces it into 4.65 gigabyte. Not bad for 'good' not excellent rated compression. We are talking here about 9 days of continuous music."
It just seems too good to be true.
Update: I've decided to do a complete, in-depth review of this trick on my N82, so you can head over the Part 2 to see how well it fares in real life and decide whether you do want to shrink your entire music library in to your smart phone.
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