Intuitive playlist management with The Filter

The Filter is a free S60 3rd Edition app that offers a clever way of navigating your mobile music collection.

The app will scan your handset for any playable music files to create its database and then let you scroll through a list of artists, titles or genres to build up a playlist of tracks.

The clever part is the ability to select an artist and push right on the joystick to search by recommendation.  This feature searches through your collection to find similar artists.  So, as in the example given in this video, you can select ‘The Strokes’ and get a recommendation that Beck, Doves and The White Stripes would go well with them in a playlist.

Actually building a playlist can a one-click process, although that does assume that you want all tracks by that particular artist.    The developers recommend that you have a least 200 tracks on your phone in order to get the most from the app.  Nokia N95 8GB users, start your engines..

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