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As a follow-up to this question for a music app, the next question I beg for your consideration is this:

  • how do you get music on to your device?
  • how do you get the metadata (ratings, playcounts) on and off your device? - if you even care about this.

A poll I did on twitter shows a mix of simple file operations, the Android Debug Bridge (I wouldn't call either of these an answer to this question), and one other, which I'll use as an answer here. I'll also add another answer of my own.

If the question isn't quite well defined enough, let me try another angle: I'm not specifically looking for a replacement for iTunes, though I'm looking for a two way bridge between your Android device and the rest of your music collection.

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For me, about 90% connect via usb to my desktop and drag over, and about 10% download from Amazon MP3 store.

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I use Salling Media Sync for Mac, which is only one way :(

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Thanks, I'll look at this. – jamesh Jan 3 at 1:02
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I just use drag and drop from Windows Explorer.

I already share my music collection between a number of devices and OS's, so as far as I see any metadata not stored in the file or the folder is worse than useless as at least one of my devices won't support it. Lots of music playing/collection apps on a PC can be set to store most of the useful metatdata inside the file rather than in the app's own proprietary database somewhere else on the machine, once you've got those settings sorted everything talks between each other ok.

Playcounts, I don't care about. I already can't sync them from local apps on my PC to my server's Squeezeserver, to previous phones, to other hardware players. Ratings can be stored in the file (I know you can set WMP to do this and there are other apps that also read/set it).

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I use Songbird + FolderSync.

Songbird is aims to be to the media player what Firefox is to the web.

FolderSync syncs playlists with a given folder on your device, but does not seem to be able get play counts or ratings from the device's Music Server.

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KGutteridge suggests:

doubletwist for me and the G1

which seems to be aiming at a very iTunes experience, with tight integration with Amazon MP3.

I haven't found a way to get metadata back off the device.

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