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My only caution about DoubleTwist is that it tries to access your contacts, which it has no need for to do its job OS X Mountain Lion automatically alerts you to this attempt and lets you block it.AirSync iTunes music to Android and sync playlists, albums and artists from your iTunes library on your PC to your phone or tablet.
#SYNC DOUBLETWIST WITH ITUNES FOR ANDROID#
Kies works OK, but it's clunky compared to iTunes.Ī better and popular iTunes equivalent for Android is DoubleTwist, which comes in three parts: the free DoubleTwist Desktop for your PC or Mac, the free DoubleTwist Player for your Android smartphone, and - if you want to be able to sync over Wi-Fi rather than just a USB cable as well as stream to an Apple TV - either the $5 DoubleTwist AirSync utility or the $10 DoubleTwist Pro Player (an in-app purchase that also allows podcast syncing) for your Android smartphone. Note that the Kies client did not work on OS X Mountain Lion until just last Thursday, when Samsung issued a compatibility update. Kies works both over USB and via Wi-Fi (for Android devices that have the Kies client installed, such as the S III). It can even import these items from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, as well as from any libraries on your computer. It's sort of a poor man's iTunes, syncing music, videos, photos, and podcasts, as well as contacts across Kies-enabled devices.
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Samsung offers the Kies utility on the Galaxy S III, and you can download the Mac or PC client from Samsung. Unless, of course, you get a third-party utility. But you can't sync the videos in your computer's iTunes video library to your Android device, as you can to an iOS device. To get videos onto your Android smartphone, you can buy or rent them from the Google Play Store, downloading them to the device over Wi-Fi - similar to how iTunes Store's video service for iOS, OS X, and Windows. That means music on Android gets close to the no-brainer it is in an all-Apple environment. Playlists are also sycned, but not smart playlists or podcasts.
Google's Music Manager runs in the background on your computer as your iTunes library changes, new songs are uploaded to Google Play, making them available to your Android smartphone. Fortunately (like iOS), you can set the device not to stream or download music unless you have a Wi-Fi connection. Thus on Android, you need to be careful about burning up your cellular data plan from music streaming. Google Play streams any music to your device unless you explicitly save it to the device (through an unintuitive but simple process). Apple's iTunes Match downloads any songs to your iOS device that you want to play, making it permanently available on that device.
Ignore your device's other music apps.įor music, free Google Play service works like Apple's $25-per-year iTunes Match: You upload your music to Google Play, which then can stream it to any Android device that is tied to the same Google account. Play Music is Google's standard music player, which ties into the Google Play service.
Your Android device likely has other music apps on it, such as from its manufacturer, which can be confusing.
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No self-respecting Apple user would stoop to playing the file-copy game via USB or SD cards to sync such files.īut Google does offer the free Music Manager app for OS X and Windows that syncs your non-copy-protected iTunes music with the Google Play online service that can then stream or download via Google's Google Play store to your Android smartphone's Play Music app. There is no equivalent for iTunes in any other ecosystem. ITunes music and video: Sync or stream The cornerstone of the Apple ecosystem is iTunes, which started as a music library and repository but has grown to include videos, podcasts, e-books, ringtones, iOS device backups, and the amazing iTunes U free courseware library.
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