Doubletwist music player for android for mac#
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Doubletwist music player for android android#
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Manual panning around to seek to a new position in an audio file works GREAT in doubleTwist, but the expectation that IвЂ™m going to download new podcast episodes through the desktop app and then sync to my device, like iTunes, seems counter-productive when the device itself is fully capable of downloading podcasts on its own. The second nearly-as-bad deal breaker: IвЂ™m a HUGE podcast fan (again, the commute), and Google ListenвЂ™s playback engine just plain sucks when you try to manually seek through an audio file. I commute to work, and my Nexus One sits in a Google Car Dock during my 45-minute trip in each direction, and until this app can handle horizontal orientation, I have to pass on it. Maybe itвЂ™s my Froyo build, or maybe my Nexus One needs to be docked, but I couldnвЂ™t get the app to rotate itself when changing the phoneвЂ™s orientation from portrait mode to landscape mode.

The biggest deal breaker was lack of horizontal orientation support. Unfortunately thereвЂ™s no notion of an on-the-fly playlist queue system where you can add songs from the library on the device itself. Tapping the submenu button on your device will let you navigate back to the home screen (Library), or set the current track as your default ring tone, or view a play queue. Browsing back through artists/albums etc leaves a stub at the bottom of the device that shows the current track being played. Tapping on the album art hides or shows the repeat/random features. Jon also mentioned that thereвЂ™s a play counter somewhere, but I didnвЂ™t see any indication of it in the mobile app itself, perhaps that data is only sent to the desktop application. Music PlaybackД«y default, the audio player will show you a repeat and randomize buttons, and 5 dots which turn out to be a star rating indicator вЂ“ perhaps hollowed out stars that filled in when a user taps on them might have been more intuitive. If youвЂ™re like me, however, and have a huge music library, a search feature like Gesture Search might be quicker than scrolling through your whole library for a particular song if you canвЂ™t remember the title. Navigating by Song Title can be handy if youвЂ™re looking for a particular track. Similar to Artist navigation, browsing the library by albums will let you browse вЂvarious artistsвЂ™ compilation albums a lot easier. It looks to me like thereвЂ™s room for two more buttons, perhaps for the online radio and wireless sync options that Jon hinted at. Also included are buttons to browse any videos on the device, view Playlists, or view Podcasts entries. The introductory screen that you see when opening the app is well laid out, allowing users to quickly dive into their library using Artist, Album or Song Title navigation. Still, I give it two thumbs up for general users looking for a solid media playback application which pairs extremely well with the desktop app of the same name. The app is definitely well thought out and intuitive and looks great but IвЂ™ve found some bugs and missing features in the app that are worth mentioning as they quickly became a вЂњshow-stopperвЂќ for me to adopt it as my full-time media player. He also hints that online radio, and wireless sync is coming soon as well.

Doubletwist music player for android android#

Jon goes on to list the features of the new Android app such as music and video playback in the same app with a simple interface, playback of iTunes-created playlists, support for audio and video podcasts, and support for ratings and play counts.

Doubletwist music player for android software#

Google has built Android into a powerful, open platform however users have been unsatisfied by the default media software built into Android and are not fully utilizing the media capabilities of their phones. Today we launched our Android Player for music, podcasts and videos and itвЂ™s available in the Android Market as a free download.

Doubletwist music player for android for mac#

Jon Lech Johansen from doubleTwist wrote to us today to let us know that they have launched a free app in the Market to pair with their popular desktop sync software for Mac and PC: