Nokia Music Updated and Now Called Ovi Player

Continuing on their efforts of synchronising all their symbian services under the Ovi hood, Nokia have rechristened their Nokia Music application to Nokia Ovi Player.

The latest update to the Nokia Music application, brings the new name along with several other improvements over the previous application. We gotta admit, there is nothing new in the Ovi player to get us all excited about but just the Ovi branding now gives the application a new identity and blends well with the Ovi suite, which was made public recently.

Here’s an excerpt from the ovi blog, just in case you wanted to know whats new in the ovi player:

For all those music lovers out there, I’ve got some good  news. It’s called Nokia Ovi Player. While not entirely new, I think there are some things you’re going like about this software.

Ovi Player is the new name for the earlier Nokia Music application. Ovi Player is not a ground-up rebuild of Nokia Music, but it does contain some new features that will make it even easier to use.

Ovi Player contains some new views to help you navigate and enjoy your music collection. The ‘recently added’ view is used by many people as a way of keeping track of their new music. This enhanced view shows your recently added music grouped by albums together with cover art. In addition, the introduction of a ‘filter column’ on the detailed view will also help you browse your music collection more easily.

We’ve also redesigned the player controls to be more compact and to offer a more responsive volume control and track position selector.

As you guys can see from the screenshot, there are no major changes in the interface of the player. Instead of just changing the name to Ovi Player, we wish our friends at Nokia could bring more content to the store along with something like the iTune’s Genius to shortlist similar tracks for us!

Download Ovi Player Here