You may recall that I recommended Mobbler on your Nokia phone so you can stream music depending on tags, keywords, or recommendations. However, you probably noticed that it struggles when you are multitasking. Steve Punter made some modifications to the official version that fixes that problem. You can download it now before the official version gets an update.

Update: Mobbler 0.3.4 was released moments after publishing this post, implementing Steve’s modifications. Go to the official site.

Dubbed Mobbler MOD 5, Steve explains:

The big change in this one is that I’d moved the sound rendering engine to its own real-time priority thread. The upshot of this change is that the music now plays UNINTERRUPTED by anything you do on the phone.

Until now, the sound on Mobbler would pause whenever the processor was busy, like loading an application, doing graphics-intensive jobs, etc. Essentially, Mobbler only worked well if you didn’t do anything else on your phone.

MOD 5 puts an end to that. The music is now as solid as the built-in MP3 player. You can surf the web, use Google Maps, etc without affecting the sound in any way. This really solidifies Mobbler as the music player to have on S60 phones.

Here’s the link to the file.

Since MOD 5 was created, Steve became part of the Mobbler development team. Some his modifications will be featured in the next official Mobbler release including the uninterrupted playback. They hope to release version 0.3.3 soon, but you can used MOD 5 until then.