Nokia N97 support


Enjoy music on your phone


Learn how to play digital music with the music player in your device. Your music player supports file formats such as MP3, AAC, eAAC+, WAV and AMR. You can also install the Music player widget on your home screen to have quick access to your music. The widget lets you also control the music player from the home screen.


Play music or podcast

  1. Select Menu > Music > Music library.
    • You can also set the Music player mini-view on your home screen to have quick access to your music and to control the Music player.
  2. The music library shows the available music. To view all songs, sorted music, playlists, or podcasts in the music library menu, select the desired option.
  3. To play a file, tap it twice.
  4. To return to standby mode and leave the player playing in the background, select Back, or to switch to another open application, press and hold the menu key.

To stop playing, you can use the Play / pause key on the music player shortcut on your home screen or select Pause in your music player view.

You can modify the tone of the music playback by selecting Options > Equaliser.

If you want to play your music with shuffle, select Options > Shuffle play and choose On / Off.

To repeat the current song or all songs, select Options > Repeat and the desired option.

Note that when you play a podcast, shuffle and repeat are automatically turned off.

Music player

Three steps to install the Music player mini-view

You can install the Music player mini-view on your home screen to have quick access to your music and to control the Music player.

  1. When in Home screen mode, select Options > Edit content.
  2. Select an available place on your home screen by tapping, and select Add content.
  3. From the contents list, select Music player > Done.
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