![]() It’s sometimes a bit buggy and slow, but it’s a prettyĪndroid’s stock music player is something of a joke in the smartphone world. It is oppressively ugly, with a black, gray, and green interface. The “Now Playing” screen looks like something out of a cheap South Korean MP3 player circa 2006. It has no first-party desktop software with which to sync either media or apps. It is, in short, the clearest demonstration of Android’s raw, Linux roots: a technically functional but completely unappealing and unexciting bit of software. Even its newest Froyo version is lackluster. Apple‘s iPod app blows it out of the water, as does Microsoft‘s Zune app.īut Android is not iPhone–Google is perfectly content to allow developers to fill the gap their own apps leave behind. ![]() bTunes, MixZing, Cubed, TuneWiki, and others have delivered respectable apps. MixZing and TuneWiki add social networking features, and Cubed offers a goofy cube-based navigation system. Yesterday marked the debut of DoubleTwist’s Android app, which functions pretty similarly to the stock app, but with a nice-looking skin applied.īut what’s embarrassing, from my point of view, is that bTunes is the best media player on Android, because bTunes is a facsimile of the iPhone’s music app. Even better, it syncs properly with the DoubleTwist desktop software. You can sync music, video, photos, podcasts, and even e-books easily, and browse through the Android Market for other apps (though you can’t actually download apps with the software, you’ll have to scan in the QR codes for later). It essentially gives Android users the iTunes experience with extra freedom but without an accompanying store. It’s not perfect, by a long shot–it’s early in the app’s life, sure, and it’s still slower and jerkier than bTunes. It’s missing both a widget and lockscreen controls, though DoubleTwist says the former is coming soon.
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