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) Winamp MediaMonkey MusicBee Foobar2000.
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.
There's no way this can be true. I've never understood all the hate that iTunes gets on Windows. Winamp Media Player - MP3, Video, and Music Player - Winamp. Winamp 2012 | 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.
Music Management Compare MediaMonkey Winamp jetAudio J. Virtuosa Gold CATraxx RealPlayer SP Blaze Media Pro ZenPoint DigitalCenter SoundTaxi Click to Enlarge When you launch this music organizing software, you can upload your iTunes library or manually upload files. This music management software is compatible with portable devices. Winamp contains conversion software. You can play a selection, add files to a playlist, copy the contents to your hard drive and more. Music Player This music database software has a standard equalizer. WinAmp 5.56 Review | Anything But iPod.
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 can be downloaded from WinAmp.com. During install, you will be prompted to choose what files to associate with WinAmp, so make sure you tweak these options if you don’t want WinAmp to take complete control of the media on your computer.
Skins and extensions WinAmp is one of those applications that rely heavily on plugins and skins, and the layout of the application changes in some ways from theme to theme. Media Library The WinAmp media library is more or less completely text based, and frankly looks more like an ebook than anything else. Other features Video Podcasts Internet radio and services CD ripper Browser Playback Syncing Conclusion.
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. doubleTwist for the PC What first struck us about the doubleTwist PC app is how much faster it is than everything else we've used.
The thing we like is that it gives you some flexibility. The initial music scan was pretty pain free. AirSync doubleTwist for Android Simple and brilliant. 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! Which is not to say that those with small collections will find it cumbersome – it is suitable for everyone. My personal favourite feature of MediaMonkey is that it is also a fully integrated CD and DVD burner, so gone are the days when I used to encode files with one program and then burn them with another: MediaMonkey does both, and extremely well.
MediaMonkey is pretty much your one-stop solution with respect to anything you can conceivably do with your music and video files. MediaMonkey can also be synchronized with portable devices such as iPods, which means that your music will not be marooned on your computer’s hard drive. MediaMonkey 3.1.1 Review | Anything But iPod. 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. Read on to see how it holds up. Download and installation MediaMonkey can be downloaded from their website either as a free application with some limitations or as a “gold” edition with added functionality.
Being an older application MediaMonkey doesn’t run on any fancy (read: useless) software platform like Adobe Air and installation is therefor straight forward. Music Library As with SongBird, MediaMonkey apparently haven’t heard of Windows 7 yet and doesn’t support the library feature. Another issue is also that the free version of MediaMonkey requires you to manually tell it to update the library as it won’t watch any folders for changes. Playback Id-tagging Music stores Podcasts Internet Radio Party mode Playlists Skins. MediaMonkey 2012 | 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. For these reasons and more, MediaMonkey is our TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award winner. Music Management Compare MediaMonkey Winamp jetAudio J. Virtuosa Gold CATraxx RealPlayer SP Blaze Media Pro ZenPoint DigitalCenter SoundTaxi Click to Enlarge MediaMonkey keeps the data for your files so you don't lose anything if you transfer the music to another application.
It's easy to add music to your library. Music Player Help & Support. 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. Probably I cannot write about everything because there is just too many and you do not want to read hundredths of pages. ;-) Download and Installation As said before MusicBee is free (MediaMonkey or J.River's offer a payable edition but there is not any payable version of it (hopefully it will be free in the future)). Music LibraryScanning Media Let me begin with the import of files into the library: there are various options how to do it.
Quite nice: you can manage many libraries on one computer. Browsing Media There are four different ways to browse through the library: Via the Library Explorer (which reminds me on Foobar), a Track Browser (has up to four user specific lists), a A-Z Jumper or the normal Folder Browsing. 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. MusicBee's creator says this step is necessary to play back M4A files, because if he were to include BASS_AAC.dll with the app, he would be faced with patent fees. See all: PC Advisor software downloads. iSyncr | 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. You’ll be happy to know that you don’t have to ditch iTunes in order to enjoy powerful media management, though, thanks to iSyncr. I’d go as far as saying it’s even better than the native iTunes and iPhone syncing mechanism and you’ll quickly forget about that “other” phone. iSyncr is very simple to set up and easy to use. The base application works much like the iPhone/iTunes hookup as it uses your USB port to transfer files to and from your phone.
From here, you’re presented with an interface that’ll allow you to select which playlists you want to sync. Pros: Cons: Some DRM-protected content is not eligible for transfer or playback, but that’s expected from a non-official solution. iSyncr for PC. TuneSync Sync Android™ with iTunes over Wifi for Windows or OS X.