Which Player Is Best For Syncing To Android? Syncing an iPhone with iTunes is about as seamless as it gets, while Andorid users are often left with a much clunkier experience — or at least having to figure out what desktop music player best fits their syncing needs.
Here’s how our favourite music players stack up against one another in Android-syncing prowess. We know the choice of desktop music player is an extremely personal one and you have so many great players to choose from. However, if you have an Android phone, you not only have to worry about features on the desktop, but also how well it syncs to your device — and sometimes that’s a bit harder to see. Every player works a bit differently, so we’ve tested them all and put together a handy chart to help you see which players are the most Android friendly, along with a breakdown of how each one performs.
A note about syncing playlists: For the most part, you manage your syncing preferences through the desktop players. iTunes (Via iSyncr) Music Player Showdown: Which Desktop Player Is Best for Syncing to Android? You totally forgot DoubleTwist, the simple fact that it interfaces with iTunes and allows Wifi syncing is amazing!
I left out DoubleTwist intentionally. None of us at Lifehacker really love DoubleTwist, and I don't understand why you would use it if iSyncr works just as well without an installation or all the other bloat. Then perhaps you should have mentioned that in the article, if for no other reason than DoubleTwist has a pretty sizable user base. Yeah, I just added a note, since everyone seems to be mentioning it. I didn't know people were still using it that much! I agree I have found DoubleTwist on the desktop to be buggy as hell, although only slightly more buggy than iTunes. I think the main point that you are missing with iSyncr is that it's available across almost all platforms... macintosh won't run an exe file... iSyncr is available on Mac.
Winamp Media Player - MP3, Video, and Music Player - Winamp. Read Reviews of Best Music Manager Software - TopTenREVIEWS. Winamp is music manager software that comes with thousands of skins and plug-ins. You can import your library from iTunes, and if you're missing any information about a song, you can auto-tag it. Winamp allows you to rip and burn CDs, encode MP3 files, listen to online radio stations and convert files.
It also supports 60 file formats. It helps you manage a large number of files easily. For these reasons and others, Winamp is our TopTenREVIEWS Silver Award winner. WinAmp 5.56 Review. Next up in my series of software reviews is an old champion that hasn’t changed much over the last few years. How will it hold up to the more updated music applications? Download and installation Like MediaMonkey, WinAmp is available as both a free, limited version and a premium paid version.
This review covers v5.56 free version. WinAmp Review. Enjoy your Music, Video, Radio & iTunes on Android - doubleTwist. DoubleTwist Review. DoubleTwist. APP OF THE DAY: doubleTwist with AirSync review (Android) Together, these two apps will give your Android phone a new music player that can sync music from your PC over Wi-Fi. There's also an application for your computer that manages your music library, plays music and lets you send music not just Android phones, but iPods (albeit over USB only) and other USB MP3 players.
Both doubleTwist for Android and Windows/Mac computers is free. The only charge comes if you want to sync wirelessly, and then you have to pay £3.99 for AirSync. It's worth remembering though, from time to time AirSync gets a price reduction. For example, when it first came out it cost just 60p. As all three components are important, we should deal with them all individually. MediaMonkey » Free Media Jukebox, Music Manager, CD Ripper & Converter. MediaMonkey Review. Perhaps surprisingly for a free player, MediaMonkey appears to be tailored to those who have truly enormous music collections that they want to organize and make the most of.
If you have 80,000 audio files on your hard drive and are dissatisfied with how they are currently organized, MediaMonkey is the perfect player for you! MediaMonkey 3.1.1 Review. Continuing my reader requested quest for the best music organizing software, I’ve made my way to one of the big ones in the field. MediaMonkey has been around for ages, and continues to stand as perhaps the single biggest independent music organizing application out there. Compare Pros & Cons of the Best MP3 Software - TopTenREVIEWS. MediaMonkey is music management software for people who are serious about music. It is the best MP3 software because it gives you more flexibility than other music management software. Additionally, it can manage more than 100,000 tracks, which is more than many other applications.
It also gives you the option to organize your music, videos, podcasts and more in a way that makes sense to you. MediaMonkey allows you to control the software in party situations, share your files on your DLNA and customize the interface. It's compatible with many formats, including MP3, WMA, M4A and M4P. MusicBee - Music Manager and Player. MusicBee review - Software. MusicBee (1.2.4120) After Songbird and MediaMonkey there is another animal in the business: MusicBee. It is actually an animal! It has countless functions out of the box and can be a really powerful program. The best thing about it: this program is totally free. MusicBee review. Your music collection may be gigantic, but your media player doesn't have to be. That's the idea behind MusicBee, a free music player for Windows PCs that's designed to deliver a simple but powerful way to manage your music collection.
MusicBee is simple and speedy to set up: once you download and install the app, you point it at your music collection and it automatically adds your tracks to its music library. It scanned my mid-sized music collection in just a few minutes; before I even had time to monitor the progress of the scan, my MusicBee library was complete. Unfortunately, playing back my tunes wasn't quite as easy. All 4,298 songs in my library refused to play until I either enabled QuickTime in MusicBee's Preferences screen or until I downloaded a file called BASS_AAC.dll. And while many freeware music players don't require this step, he says they should.
MusicBee's interface is a bit text-heavy, but it's easy to customize. See all: PC Advisor software downloads. JRT Studio. iSyncr for Android Helps You Sync Your iTunes Library Over USB or WiFi Effortlessly. Many converts from the iPhone look for solutions to keep their iTunes library seamlessly synced up with their phones without much of an effort. Third party applications providing this functionality is nothing new, but they often require the user to use a new media management application such as DoubleSync.
iSyncr for PC. TuneSync Sync Android™ with iTunes over Wifi for Windows or OS X.