Media Players - Whats out there?

[Buruan]

Hello,

I have been trying to find a solution for a simple problem, and it so far has proven impossible for me to get it resolved.

I am looking for a simple way to :
1. Synchronize Media between PC and my Android Device (i have a few but most prominently the Galaxy S3)
2. Keep Music ratings in sync while doing so

While I was using Itunes, i used a combination of ISyncr, Rocketplayer on the android and Itunes on my PC. It was working fine, not perfectly but it worked.
I got rid of Itunes and could not find a solution for the problem since.....

As a Desktop Player I tried Media Monkey, which synchs at a glacial pace to my android (over 40 minutes at times, even when no tunes are updated), and I tried WinAmp, which does not find my SD card on the S3 so cant be used for synching as of now.

On the S3 i tried a few solutions :
- WinAmp - Doesnt have ratings implemented on their Android App
- PowerAmp - Has Ratings, but only in a proprietary database, not stored in MP3 tags.
- PlayerPro - Works with manually synching the ratings after synching the library, but seems to be abandoned by the developer
- Google Play Music - Only has a Thumbs up and down rating system, i would like to use the more common 5 star version

The Media Monkey developers are saying there will be a MM Android app, but that keeps getting delayed and delayed.

Does anyone have a solution?
I really dont want to go back to Itunes......


Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks,
Kai

 

[El Presidente]

Welcome to AF!

Doubletwist is billed as "iTunes for Android" by the devs and it has a desktop and phone/tab client, it might be worth giving that a go?

 

[Buruan]

Hey.
Thanks for the reply.

Doubletwist is esentially iTunes, it even installs the Apple Bonjour service.
It does work, but doesnt give me the flexibility i would like.

Its amazing that there is no simple one stop show solution for Android....

 

[cheex]

just wondering but why do ratings matter so much to you? syncing files should not be hard but to sync the meta data like file ratings is an interesting thought.

 

[Buruan]

hey, i have been using the 5 star music ratings for a long time and have 1000's of songs rated.
I have built many playlist around these ratings, and would like to keep the work put into these.

If it wasnt for this i could use the Media Monkey desktop app to synch, and simply use the Google Play player, or even the stock player, which isnt all that awful.

But I have a working app in PlayerPro, it just is abandoned by the dev, so i know it can be done......