by caffeine » Sat Oct 26, 2013 3:25 pm
Thanks all! Roving Cowboy, thanks for the tip! ;-P
I grew to hate iTunes because it felt like a parasite on my computer. With ever update, performance just really sagged. It spawned background process that would eat up huge chunks of memory and CPU. And then at one point, iTunes would just open and close momentarily for like half a second, every ... I dunno. 10 minutes? I would see the GUI flash on and off regularly. It was awful.
Plus, I like FLAC for music I care about, so I was keeping 320 and FLAC versions of many albums for syncing to my phone and playing on my stereo.
Got my Android phone and used DoubleTwist for awhile, but that was just the same problem. It's essentially not usable without iTunes.
Found MusicBee, but it felt like I had to struggle to make every little thing work. The last straw was this past Friday when my playlists disappeared from my phone, and MB refused to sync them anymore. I had to manually place exported playlists onto the phone. Grrr.
I looked at Foobar2000, but of course, that doesn't sync to android.
I looked at Winamp. Wasn't super crazy about the GUI, but I was after *anything* that would just work. But then I noticed that smart playlists (I think Winamp calls it "Smart views") were not as powerful as I wanted them to be.
I forget exactly how I found MM. I kinda sorta knew it from the forums on what.cd. I think I must have Googled "How to sync music to Android" and I came across a number of those "top 10" kinds of things. MM was always kind of buried in the middle. I have no idea why. It really does seem like the best option out there, and not in a "OK, I'll settle for what I can get" kind of way, but rather a "Wow, this is an amazing app!" kind of way!
Thanks all! Roving Cowboy, thanks for the tip! ;-P
I grew to hate iTunes because it felt like a parasite on my computer. With ever update, performance just really sagged. It spawned background process that would eat up huge chunks of memory and CPU. And then at one point, iTunes would just open and close momentarily for like half a second, every ... I dunno. 10 minutes? I would see the GUI flash on and off regularly. It was awful.
Plus, I like FLAC for music I care about, so I was keeping 320 and FLAC versions of many albums for syncing to my phone and playing on my stereo.
Got my Android phone and used DoubleTwist for awhile, but that was just the same problem. It's essentially not usable without iTunes.
Found MusicBee, but it felt like I had to struggle to make every little thing work. The last straw was this past Friday when my playlists disappeared from my phone, and MB refused to sync them anymore. I had to manually place exported playlists onto the phone. Grrr.
I looked at Foobar2000, but of course, that doesn't sync to android.
I looked at Winamp. Wasn't super crazy about the GUI, but I was after *anything* that would just work. But then I noticed that smart playlists (I think Winamp calls it "Smart views") were not as powerful as I wanted them to be.
I forget exactly how I found MM. I kinda sorta knew it from the forums on what.cd. I think I must have Googled "How to sync music to Android" and I came across a number of those "top 10" kinds of things. MM was always kind of buried in the middle. I have no idea why. It really does seem like the best option out there, and not in a "OK, I'll settle for what I can get" kind of way, but rather a "Wow, this is an amazing app!" kind of way!