Jealous of the easy media management of iTunes, but don't use an iPod/iPhone? Then this is the app for you! </tv announcer voice> Seriously, though. doubleTwist is a great app for managing your music, photos and music and syncing them between your desktop (Mac or Windows) and your Android phone. It also converts videos and music files to compatible formats when syncing to your device (I haven't tested this). Also has Amazon MP3 store integration for easy browsing and purchase of unencumbered audio files. Highly recommended. - Jason Huebel from Bookmarklet

Works well for synching to Droid. - Mike Reynolds

Yup, I've been really happy with it. - Jason Huebel from Android

have you figured out how to get it recognize (and keep it reference to) a networked harddrive? - Jeffrey Canton

this looks interesting...but judging from this: http://forums.doubletwist.com/default... I will be waiting a long time since I use linux. :( - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

On my Android device, I just copy files onto the SD card. Why do I need this? - sjjh

Well, it includes Amazon MP3 Store support. It also includes support for moving Photos and Videos back and forth between your Droid and PC/Mac. Never underestimate having a nice, centralized drag-and-drop interface for managing your files. That's part of what makes iTunes so popular-- ease of use. YOU may not need it, but the average user will. Personally, I think Verizon should be including a CD (or at least a recommended apps list) to every new Droid customer. If they did, doubleTwist should be on that list. - Jason Huebel

@slayerboy, you could use Amarok. - Jason Huebel

Hmm. When I plug an HTC Magic or Tattoo into a USB port (without removing the card) on my PC, the device is recognised as a disk drive. I then have a drag & drop interface from Windows Explorer. I agree that some apps should be included though. For example, how about File Explorer on the device? The first app I install is always OI File Manager - sjjh

I use Banshee and it fits my needs, but would be nice to have an "all-in-one" package like this on linux - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ from IM

@sjjh, there's no predefined directory structure on the Droid, though. So you could put music pretty much anywhere on the SD card. WE understand that, but the average user is going to wonder where to put their music, videos and pictures. doubleTwist takes that uncertainty out of the equation. That's important to adoption by less technically-savvy people. - Jason Huebel

@slayerboy, Banshee looks REALLY nice. It supports more than doubleTwist does (for instance, podcasts). - Jason Huebel

Hmmm, does it support photos? Doesn't appear to. - Jason Huebel

nope no photos yet.....although Banshee is really frustrating me on ubuntu 9.10....it's a resource hog - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ from IM

Meh, most media managers are resource hogs, though. All the cover art, special widgets, etc make it so. I don't really worry about memory usage anymore. Now if it's eating up unnecessary CPU time, that's different. I hadn't heard of Banshee until your mention of it. I'm a long-time KDE user, so I tend to stick to Qt-based apps (don't really have anything against GTK/Gnome, mind you). - Jason Huebel

Converts video to MP4 format. - Mike Reynolds

Works for Blackberry too. [FWD'ED] - sofarsoShawn Blue Period

@Mike, forgot about that. Yeah, it does media conversion, if necessary, when you copy from your library to the device. - Jason Huebel