How good/bad is music organization/mgmt/playing on Droid-based phones?

[yacoub]

As someone who is looking into a smartphone purchase and who has all their music organized in iTunes for my iPod touch, I would expect an iPhone would be the most natural smartphone for me to go with since I can make use of all of the apps/games and music playlists I already have set up in iTunes.

But I am curious: Do the latest Droid-based phones offer music management software as part of their package, and do they have a fully-functional playback setup like the Music app in iOS (iPod touch and iPhone)?

How do they compare?

 

[rudeguy]

DoubleTwist works pretty good for managing your collection. They just gave it some nice improvements. Its fairly easy to sort by artist, album, song, genre....

There are a TON of music players out there for Android. I use DoubleTwist to sync with my computer and whatever player I'm liking that week to play it on my phone.

 

[ChronoReverse]

With that said, the stock music player is extremely barebones =(

 

[Spoooon]

With that said, the stock music player is extremely barebones =(

I'm actually fine with barebones at this point. Well, MusicMod level of barebones.

 

[yacoub]

So you just point it to your iTunes folder and tell it what artist/album sub-folders of tunes you want it to load onto the phone?

 

[olds]

As soon as this thread is indexed bu google, they will start on a music app that will sync with gmail.

 

[Oyeve]

I have/had around 5 android phones. Droid, Behold 2, Droid 2, Vibrant, and Droid x. I have noticed that motorola phones suck suck suck with their native music app. no eq, barely presets (droid just plays music) and managment sucks. The behold 2, while having presets and an eq, sucks in management. The Vibrant, for stock, is actually pretty good. But I use Freetwist on my MBP for all media management.

 

[abaez]

I tried DoubleTwist and didn't like it much. But I do like MixZing. Reads straight from your tags, so if those are neat the navigation is perfect. If you add new mp3's it will automatically scan and add them. You can tell it that only one folder has your mp3's (instead of most programs scanning the whole phone). It works quite well and I'm looking to switch over to my phone as my main player soon enough. Also does playlists. It is kind of expensive though, so I still haven't bought it.

I use Mediamonkey to sync to the /Music/ folder on the sdcard.