How can i sync my android?

November 1, 2009 5:21 PM

I'm looking for an effective and hassle free way to sync small amounts of music (less than 6GB but more than 3GB) to my android phone. PC only.

I use Mediamonkey for my ipod, and that works fine, but every time i plug my phone in, mediamonkey wants to delete all of my podcasts and ringtones, and i have to uncheck them all by hand, which is more hassle than just dragging and dropping the music, which is my current solution.

the missing sync looks promising, but will rely on windows media player, which i usually avoid like the plague, and either way isn't actually out for a while yet.

Doubletwist has been recommended (by google searching and lifehacker) but is effectively un-usable on windows, (it looks pretty smooth on macs, from videos, but fails to recognise my phone/build an effective library/read simple id3 tags/stay alive more than 3 minutes on windows)


Any suggestions?

posted by Iananan to computers & internet (5 comments total)

I don't have an android phone, but from a quick glance at google it looks like you could just connect the phone as a normal mass hard drive. Is that correct? If so, this program looks like a pretty robust synchronization tool.
posted by ropeladder at 9:23 PM on November 1, 2009

I use ptunes and Music Tones on my Centro. Both are free.

Ptunes does a great job with the music, and Music Tones lets me make a ring tone from ANY song as easy as pie!

Love them both!
posted by Jinx of the 2nd Law at 9:24 PM on November 1, 2009

I use Salling Media Sync for Mac and it works very well with my G1. There's also a Windows version.
posted by Mo Nickels at 11:37 PM on November 1, 2009

@ropeladder syncback is a brilliant sync solution for work files, but not great for music, as it can only really watch a folder, which means i'd still just be dragging and dropping. something that can sync playlists and bulk send-to playlists would be brilliant.

@jinx i'm looking for something for my pc, not for the phone.

@Mo nickels i don't actually have itunes installed. so salling won't really help there.
i'm mostly just being picky here, as mediamonkey would be perfect with a small modification, but wanted to quiz the hive for alternatives.
posted by Iananan at 5:31 AM on November 2, 2009

just to clear up, i have found that songbird the mozilla music player, and the add-on foldersync, does the job as well as anything else. that's what i'm currently sticking with.
posted by Iananan at 10:56 AM on November 13, 2009 [1 favorite]