upther
Android Enthusiast
I've been using Meridian for a couple days now and really like. Looks better than the stock and has a pretty slick 2x4 widget that I use all the time. Scrobbles all my music to Last.FM too.
-
After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.
Should I sell my iPod Touch?
- Thread starter fjgrf
- Start date
-
- Tags
- htc droid incredible
I've been using Meridian for a couple days now and really like. Looks better than the stock and has a pretty slick 2x4 widget that I use all the time. Scrobbles all my music to Last.FM too.
I've tried meridian, mixzing, btunes, and tunewiki. I probably like the interface of tunewiki the best but it doesn't read off internal storage either.
NoNoBadDog
Member
Man, I hope not! iTunes is the single most invasive, bloated piece of malware ever wriiten.
I use Meridian or just the default video player. Anything encoded for the iPod Touch/iPhone with Handbrake will play just fine.
Any particular issue you're experiencing with just using Photos to play videos?
rjj130
Member
I honestly haven't even tried a video yet. I wasn't even sure what codecs Android supported, though I suspected m4v would work.
It just sucks because I have my videos already transcoded for my iPod resolution, which could be played on the Incredible, albeit a stretched.
jamor
Android Expert
I have a Zune HD 32 gb. It's nice having an extra media player handy.
Especially if there are times when you need to keep your battery life optimal and phone open to an important call or whatever.
I would never sell my media player. But if you need the extra bucks badly - it might be worth it.
NoNoBadDog
Member
+1 on the Zune HD 32GB
I have an iPod Touch, and I am keeping it...how else am I going to be able to play Angry Birds? 
Seriously, I don't use it nearly as much, but when I am going on a trip, having a second device to entertain me seems worth it, especially if on a long plane flight, and the battery dies on my first device. There are still some decent games on the touch that have not made the port (yet). I have found almost everything that I used to use the iPod for I can use the incredible, except for some of the games...I also am more willing to take it into a dangerous environment now for music or video playing, like a pool area, beach, rowdy party, under my children's control...
Seriously, I don't use it nearly as much, but when I am going on a trip, having a second device to entertain me seems worth it, especially if on a long plane flight, and the battery dies on my first device. There are still some decent games on the touch that have not made the port (yet). I have found almost everything that I used to use the iPod for I can use the incredible, except for some of the games...I also am more willing to take it into a dangerous environment now for music or video playing, like a pool area, beach, rowdy party, under my children's control...I've been carrying around both my itouch and my DINC. Would love to ditch it as carrying 2 rectangles in my pocket is kind of a pain in the butt. I haven't yet because I haven't been able to find a music app that is as easy as using the itouch. I used the stock and wasn't really happy with it. I also didn't know the easiest way to actually get my music on the DINC. Does the music have to be on the sd card? can I put it on the actual phone's storage or is that not the best way to do it?? I also, with the battery life as it is, without even using it for music, can't imagine how much worse it would be if I did use it as my player.
I'm keeping the itouch. It may not get as much use once I can get music on the DINC and find a good player/organizer, but it will definitely be a good back-up.
I'm keeping the itouch. It may not get as much use once I can get music on the DINC and find a good player/organizer, but it will definitely be a good back-up.
A.Nonymous
Extreme Android User
These are the main reasons I'm keeping my touch as well and I can sympathize with not wanting to keep two devices. For me the reasons are (in no particular order):
1. The budgeting and to do list apps on the iPod are better. I don't want/need an app to nag me about what I need to do. I have women in my life who do that already. I just want to open an app and see the list. I've not played with any budgeting software on the DInc though.
2. I can't dock the DInc in my car. My iTouch can be docked in a car dock very easily. The dock is an XM dock so I have access to XM as well as the content on my pod. With my DInc I'd have to snap it into a dock, then plug a cable into the side. The XM content I'd have access to would only be what's streaming online.
3. The media player on the touch is easier to use. It's easier to browse content and easier to play with.
4. There's no easy way (that I've found) to sync media with my phone. iTunes obviously doesn't work. I tried Media Monkey and it doesn't seem to recognize my phone for whatever reason. I still need to play around with it.
5. The touch is smaller(since it doesn't have the pesky phone hardware in it) and just has better battery life (again because it lacks the bothersome phone functionality). I can play it longer.
Those are my reasons, at present, for keeping my touch.
upther
Android Enthusiast
Yeah, I've gotten Winamp to recognize the phone but it doesn't list my music the right way so I haven't used it. Would be nice to have a proper app to sync it to.
Asterdroid
Android Expert
I ditched my ipod in favor of the SubSonic app. I haven't regretted it for a second. Now that you can control the cache size with the most recent update, I just play my cached music in the very rare event that I don't have data coverage (on a plane). I love having my entire music collection available at all times.
A.Nonymous
Extreme Android User
I think part of the problem is that, with my Win 7 computer at least, the phone mounts as a disk drive and not a mobile device. I think I could configure Media Monkey to sync with it as a disk drive, but then if I want it to delete old content I have configure it to exclude the other folders on the drive lest it delete programs and other valuable stuff that I need. It's a pain.
I'm a bit surprised that Google hasn't launched any sort of product that syncs with an Android phone the way iTunes syncs with the iPhone. I know BB has Desktop Manager, but I've never used it so I can't vouch for it. ActiveSync does for Windows Mobile phones basically what HTC Sync does for HTC phones. Windows Mobile Device center is a pretty slick program. Still there's nothing out there that syncs with a phone the way iTunes syncs with an iPhone.
I'm a bit surprised that Google hasn't launched any sort of product that syncs with an Android phone the way iTunes syncs with the iPhone. I know BB has Desktop Manager, but I've never used it so I can't vouch for it. ActiveSync does for Windows Mobile phones basically what HTC Sync does for HTC phones. Windows Mobile Device center is a pretty slick program. Still there's nothing out there that syncs with a phone the way iTunes syncs with an iPhone.
birthofahero
Android Enthusiast
I traded my Itouch for an xbox 360 when I got my dinc. Best decision of my life. Although technically the itouch may have better sound drivers or whatever, the dinc sounds just fine. Get rid of that controlling device!
NoRegrets78
Well-Known Member
I have the 64gb touch and for music, some apps, games, and email/web over wifi I'd rather kill the battery in my touch than my phone that I actually need. I use the Inc when I don't have wifi around but when froyo comes out and turns my inc into a hotspot, as long as it doesn't kill the battery worse than doing everything on the inc, i'd still use the touch.