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Music and video players for Syncing?

Bkong

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What media players are used in Android for basic video/music? I used Itunes with an i device, but since I'm switching, I was wondering what the default media players come with Samsung Galaxy's? I heard diff. manufactures supply different software. I'm looking for an player that can sync easily over wifi and have a desktop and android app. The reason is my data plan is like 15mb a month, and I can't use google music offline. I'm also not particularly fond on Google's need to base everything in browser(basically just Chrome too).
I haven't seen many popular players, maybe because idevices that I'm used to put more emphasis and music/media.
 
Doubletwist might be worth a look, it will sync over WiFi I believe. I also think it will sync your iTunes library too.

Android does things slightly differently though, there's no real need to sync stuff (no harm in it either), you can just create a music folder on your SD Card, drop your MP3's in there, tell your chosen player where to look and off you go. For music, I personally use N7Player, but PowerAmp is a very popular app too.

For movies, again, it's a simple case of dropping the films on to your SD Card, downloading something like MX Video player and it should find the films itself for you when you open it.

PS - If doubletwist doesn't sync over WiFi, take a look at MyPhoneExplorer, it definitely does, you just won't be able to use it for playing music (it's just a sync/phone management app).
 
WinAmp can sync over WiFi too, but just plugging it in the computer and dropping the files into the SD card is faster.
 
I have all of my music in a single itunes folder, i use itunes to manage music by checking/unchecking songs to sync, which is why dropping them into an sd card is so difficult, since some of the files do not even have the correct name etc.
 
The file names aren't important. I can label my songs 1-2000 and they will still correctly show up in music players with their titles and stuff, because the phone reads the tags, not the file names.
 
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