Ovi Music- What can you expect?

So here's a bit more about my experiences of Ovi Music. When I first got my subscription for unlimited downloads I was like a kid in a sweet shop. I typed in an artists I liked and then just downloaded every album they had. For some, like Nina Simone and Billy Holiday this was just not possible as they had so many albums and collections so I went with some of the better known albums and the collections with lots of tracks. What I noticed very quickly though was that I soon filled up my PC's memory and that a lot of the tracks featured on more than one album. Also I got a lot of filler tunes which were not the best and finally I had about 2 months of music and would never had heard the same tune twice. So after a couple of months I decided to delete everything and start again from sctratch. This time though I decided to just download tunes I really liked. This gave me more time to listen to new tunes and artists that friends and Last.FM recommends, which are more more realisticly similar to what you are already listening to that those recommended by Ovi Music, which tend to be latest releases from more mainstream acts. When searching by genre though the artists on each genres home page does give you a pretty wide variety from that genre and so you can use the 30 second clip function to just get a taster of the tune before you decide to use up more memory. Talking of memory I highly recommend getting an external hard drive. You can get 1tb drives now for about £60-70 from maplins or Amazon and to make the most of Ovi Music I suggest you get one.
Depending on the phone you have also depends on the services you can get. If you have a touch screen phone you can now get a whole album from one click, just like on the PC version but on the non touch versions you have to click each track, wait while it downloads and then go onto the next one. Sometimes you find out that you have missed one or two tracks.
Since Nokia have relaunched as Ovi Music from Comes With Music the website has got a bit better. It's still fairly slow but the layout seems to be a bit better but it can still be hard to find individual tracks. What you do get now is a Top 40 Albums and Singles section, Top 20 Compilations, Artists Recommend sections which seem to be only updated once a month and have 4 or 5 bands or artists and a top 10 of their favorite tunes, a What's Hot section of most downloaded tracks and a then a playlist with some sort of theme, be it Intro to Punk or Oldies but Goodies or Boybands. Again these seem to change only once a month but the rest seem to change once a week or so, but some popular charty stuff seems to stay on the home page or the genre pages for a long long time. Occasionally there are Nokia Exclusives too.
So there you have it, Ovi Music has a simple layout, a search function and they are trying to make it easy to navigate and find what you are looking for but you do really need to get spelling spot on as it can't findeven similar stuff if you don't spell it correctly.