Engadget reported yesterday that the HTC Desire would be receiving an update to 2.2 this weekend. In this update there would be some kind of an iTunes sync ability. I've been looking around for more information on this and I can't find anything. Does anyone have any more information on this? Is there a possibility this could be ported over to the EVO? I've never been satisfied with Android's music transfer capabilities and it would be great to have some additional functionality.... until Google's music service arrives.
Here is the original Engadget link:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/official-htc-rolling-out-android-2-2-and-720p-video-capture-to/
Not sure about that but there is an app in the market call iSyncr. It's 4 or 5 bucks but syncs your iTunes to your EVO like it was an iPod.
On a side note, I hate iTunes
Have you tried this? I need something like this for my sister that can play her iTunes (she's 37 and well, you know). I'm curious if it will play the stuff directly from iTunes or just the standard mp3's with no DRM
Thanks for the replies!
On second thought maybe I'll just stick with subsonic. iSyncr looks pretty cool but I hate syncing playlists. What I'd like to do is have my phone pop up in an iTunes like music player, doesn't have to be iTunes, and then drag and drop music into it. DoubleTwist got close to this but the drag and drop is clunky. In fact the whole player is pretty bad. I like were they are going but they just need to refine it a bit more. Developers are probably fearful of investing time in this kind of thing because Google has something on the way.
Take a look at doubleTwist and see if it meets your needs. I love it!
madmagdalin said:
Thanks for the replies!
On second thought maybe I'll just stick with subsonic. iSyncr looks pretty cool but I hate syncing playlists. What I'd like to do is have my phone pop up in an iTunes like music player, doesn't have to be iTunes, and then drag and drop music into it. DoubleTwist got close to this but the drag and drop is clunky. In fact the whole player is pretty bad. I like were they are going but they just need to refine it a bit more. Developers are probably fearful of investing time in this kind of thing because Google has something on the way.
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You don't have to sync playlists. It will sync with your library. No drag and drop though.
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I use tunesync for wireless syncing I just wish there was an app that does wireless syncing and updated ratings and such back and forth
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Have you used Songbird? Open Source alternative to iTunes and it syncs with your EVO.
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Does anyone know of a way to do this? I have the space to re-encode my entire music collection to a more friendly format, but it's a major PITA. I'm no audiophile, but I have a mid-range aftermarket car stereo system that tends to exacerbate flaws in ****ty music.
That being said, I have been utilizing the option Apple FINALLY opened up for iPhone that existed for years for iPod nano, which allows you to re-encode high bit-rate music on the fly to 128kbps AAC. This means that I have the 200+ KBPS music on my PC, and mobile friendly 128kbps AAC on the phone. It one of the few things I truly love about the iPhone, but it is also another one of those things that piss me off. Apple has driven me off a cliff by doling(s?) out existing features at their leisure to create the illusion of steady development.
So yea, does anyone know a way to do this for the upcoming Evo. I'm gonna be shopping around for a few memory cards to make up for the fact that I'm coming from a 32gb iPhone so it would be nice to be able to get as much as possible on a single 16gb card.
setite said:
Does anyone know of a way to do this? I have the space to re-encode my entire music collection to a more friendly format, but it's a major PITA. I'm no audiophile, but I have a mid-range aftermarket car stereo system that tends to exacerbate flaws in ****ty music.
That being said, I have been utilizing the option Apple FINALLY opened up for iPhone that existed for years for iPod nano, which allows you to re-encode high bit-rate music on the fly to 128kbps AAC. This means that I have the 200+ KBPS music on my PC, and mobile friendly 128kbps AAC on the phone. It one of the few things I truly love about the iPhone, but it is also another one of those things that piss me off. Apple has driven me off a cliff by doling(s?) out existing features at their leisure to create the illusion of steady development.
So yea, does anyone know a way to do this for the upcoming Evo. I'm gonna be shopping around for a few memory cards to make up for the fact that I'm coming from a 32gb iPhone so it would be nice to be able to get as much as possible on a single 16gb card.
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sooo your wanting to know if you can encode on the fly on the phone? Or are you asking if you can encode everything you transfer when you hit transfer and have as little fuss as possible
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sooo your wanting to know if you can encode on the fly on the phone? Or are you asking if you can encode everything you transfer when you hit transfer and have as little fuss as possible
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The latter. I am hoping for a syncing app that allows on-the fly encoding during sync that will not force me to permanently store mobile versions of music. I guess with memory cards I could encode mobile music straight to the card... Damn I think Apple has scrambled my brain to how easy things are in open and competitive systems... I think I'm switching just in the nick of time.
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The latter. I am hoping for a syncing app that allows on-the fly encoding during sync that will not force me to permanently store mobile versions of music. I guess with memory cards I could encode mobile music straight to the card... Damn I think Apple has scrambled my brain to how easy things are in open and competitive systems... I think I'm switching just in the nick of time.
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Yeah...It would be pretty easy, just pick all the music and set the target for the encoding to the memory card, done. ID3 tags would take care of the sorting inside whatever program you use to play music so you could just dump all the music in one folder without having to worry about artist/album sorting.
Glad to see your shaking off the apple yoke! VIVA LA RESISTANCE!!
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Yeah...It would be pretty easy, just pick all the music and set the target for the encoding to the memory card, done. ID3 tags would take care of the sorting inside whatever program you use to play music so you could just dump all the music in one folder without having to worry about artist/album sorting.
Glad to see your shaking off the apple yoke! VIVA LA RESISTANCE!!
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Agreed. Viva La Evo! I guess now I just need to figure out the best codec to use.
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Agreed. Viva La Evo! I guess now I just need to figure out the best codec to use.
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OGG is pretty good, I don't have much actually on my phone, I stream all of it off the internet using streamfurious or pandora
So, last night I decided to givemedia hub a whirl and downloaded 300 and watched the whole movie on the phone and I never realized how good this phones screen is for HD. It looks better than my tv.
But anyways, riht after the movie was done, I downloaded and watched V for Vendetta and fell asleep afterwards without charging, and right now I'm at 13hr 34min with screen on time of 5hr and 43 minutes.
Id say this phone handles media playback quite well lol
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Also just realized...tws is 53%...wtf lol
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Yeah its good to watch movies on this screen.I downloaded about 5 from media hub sofar.Dont forget the files are stored on your sdcard,I had to delete them manually for some reason.
I love using the tv.com app and watching STAR TREK: TOS episodes. Anytime they use a communicator, I feel a tremendous inner geek fire and oh how warm it is. Heh heh.
veoh.com/iphone is high on my list,that and I rip alot of movies to the phone in high qulity,about 1.3gb on most hour and a half movies.
I also highly recommend : Droid Streamer
it's free on the market and streams tv shows, movies, and anime @ 480i compressed. There's a Pro version, but i dont know what features you get with that.
How much gb is a movie file?
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droid streamer is nice but it seems like it wants to much info,but I do keep it on the sdcard and install when I want to use it...Media Hub files range in size,most are around 900mb - 1.1gb
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droid streamer is nice but it seems like it wants to much info,but I do keep it on the sdcard and install when I want to use it...Media Hub files range in size,most are around 900mb - 1.1gb
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I wouldn't call droid steamer nice per se, but it is free and gets the job done when bored, altho the dev. needs to use a better player that can do aspect ratios.
Do Media Hub movies play @ 720p for 1gb -/+ files?
I think they are 720p native.
now if we could just find something that will allow us tpo play them through allshare woudl be great, i hate allshare can never get it to play any damn video
I use double twist for my player. Keep my music playlists there and watch TV shows and moveis with it. I transfer movies and shows from my pc to my sd card on my phone. And yes, it HD looks fantastic on Super AMOLED. It's the best screen I've seen on a phone
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I use double twist for my player. Keep my music playlists there and watch TV shows and moveis with it. I transfer movies and shows from my pc to my sd card on my phone. And yes, it HD looks fantastic on Super AMOLED. It's the best screen I've seen on a phone
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One cool feature i like is it lets you airsync your andriod to your itunes player. Do you know of a app that's similar to this but streams to WMP or VLC player?
Hey guys,
I have a Xoom and recently tried to use the movie studio...maybe I can't figure it out, but I am disappointed with how generic it is.
The ability to add clips/pictures is fine, but it is annoying that I cannot trim clips before I put it into the timeline.
Also, this is huge, but why can't I put multiple audio files into the movie? It plays ONE song, over and over for the entire movie...I want to be able to trim audio clips and even MUTE the original video clip...iMovie can do all of this, and it seems like this movie studio is just a generic rushed POS that Google put out just to get it out.
Honestly, I am severely disappointed in the movie studio....BUT maybe it is my fault...thats why I am asking if there is any documentation for the studio.
Like when I click on audio files, there is one option at the top right that does not seem to do anything. It looks like a box with sound waves in it that get bigger or smaller depending if I toggle it...but it doesn't do ****.
Any thoughts?
It's a basic and free app included with the OS. If you want to do extended editing, get a computer or wait for a better app to come out.
And wow, comparing it with iMovie? Honeycomb is a new OS, and this is the very first offering and you're *****ing about it.
iMovie is a paid app ($5 I think) and NOT available for the iPad.
iMovie works with iPhone 4,
fourth-generation iPod touch, and iPad 2
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who cares if its a first offering...I am still disappointed in it. It is a lacking movie editor.
iMovie was Apple's first attempt at it with the IP4 on a mobile device and it was already much better than the Movie Studio...being a "first" iteration is not an excuse for something sucking.
And I dont think the movie studio has anything to do with Honeycomb...I love honeycomb
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who cares if its a first offering...I am still disappointed in it. It is a lacking movie editor.
iMovie was Apple's first attempt at it with the IP4 on a mobile device and it was already much better than the Movie Studio...being a "first" iteration is not an excuse for something sucking.
And I dont think the movie studio has anything to do with Honeycomb...I love honeycomb
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So put forth your money and buy one of the paid apps if you want something more.
My point, don't complain about something that was thrown in as a little bonus for free. If you paid something for it, sure, complain, but you didn't, and you're comparing it to a paid application on another system that isn't even comparable to the Xoom (iPhone vs Tablet).
And I can guarantee that iMovie on the iPad 2 is going to be at least twice as much as the iPhone version, maybe even more knowing how Apple likes to soak their users. I'm guessing $15
What paid one do you suggest...
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Never needed one since I don't do much video. Check out the market?
https://market.android.com/apps/MEDIA_AND_VIDEO/
There's only 1 in the market and it just takes any video clip u have and you can edit that one clip
I agree with the op. Google seems to always release beta software. I would love to record a couple videos, clip them and mix them together, add more than one music track I would even pay for an app that does all this.
I don't even want to show the app to any of my apple loving friends because it just makes the xoom look even more unfinished
I honestly think people need to chill out around here. The op was stating a couple things he didn't like about an app on his xoom whether it's free or not doesn't matter, he's got the right to complain about what ever the hell he wants. And furthermore he's really just asking for some type of documentation because maybe he missed something. And this lame ass excuse that because this is Google's first shot at a tablet os is starting to get old. Just because honeycomb is the first tablet os doesn't mean that google shouldn't be held accountable for their **** ups. For example, the ****ing market. Who's genius idea was it to remove the ability to comment on apps from the device? Whoever that was is an asshole. /rant
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The video editing software is just made for basic video editing...features that you find in window video editing software.
exactly. Thanks.
I was stating how bad I thought it was then was asking for some/any documentation...
Does anyone know what the heck the button is on the top right when you click on the audio track? It looks like sound waves....and clicking it makes them flatter or larger but I can't see or hear what it does.
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exactly. Thanks.
I was stating how bad I thought it was then was asking for some/any documentation...
Does anyone know what the heck the button is on the top right when you click on the audio track? It looks like sound waves....and clicking it makes them flatter or larger but I can't see or hear what it does.
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i'm baffled too. my first guess would be it helps eliminate crackles or background noise from your audio as my first guess. music files shouldnt have any background distortion.
How to get video off device?
I have another video editor. How can I get the video file off of the xoom? I have tried:
- email as attachment in gmail
- email as attachment in isp mail service
- ftp
None of these actually transmit the file.
Thank you
Tom
Usefulness of the application aside. Google could have done more on documentation for Movie Studio.
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=169129
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1197893
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any answer on the music button? Figured out what it does yet?
I wish we could fade the music at the end instead of an abrupt ending...I'd rather have that than multiple songs in a short clip.
Export problem
I have flashed my Galaxy GT-I9000M with IGS 4.0.3 SGS rom RC4.2.
I cannot export anything with Movie Studio, each time I want to export, the screen appear at 0% and exit after few second and say "error occur, cannot export"
I have try just to import one clip and export it, not work. Try different quality and resolution, don't work.
Exporting folder not created?
Writing permission ??
Any idea ???
Does anyone know of any apps like itunes that provide movie and music downloads that work on the xoom? Buddy of mine got one and he's complaining lol he was an apple head so he's starting to notice the few things that apple actually does well. Like the.itunes store.
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check out this !!
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Does anyone know of any apps like itunes that provide movie and music downloads that work on the xoom? Buddy of mine got one and he's complaining lol he was an apple head so he's starting to notice the few things that apple actually does well. Like the.itunes store.
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Check out my youtube video's i give apps for movies and music and stuff like that .
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BheKCrovf8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ2TaHQSLhA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhs2mqZcqog
Apps for streaming Tv / movie
Tv shows streamer (My fav)
playon
androidvideo
Vevo
droidtv
abc.com
mediamp4.com
Music
Music online lite (My fav)
top 100 songs by year
just to a search in the market their is about 100 apps you can download to get free mp3 or music
hope this helps check out the video's alot of info in their !!
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Does anyone know of any apps like itunes that provide movie and music downloads that work on the xoom? Buddy of mine got one and he's complaining lol he was an apple head so he's starting to notice the few things that apple actually does well. Like the.itunes store.
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As far as music, Amazon just released their cloud music service. You can buy purchase music and store all your music in a cloud and listen to it from web browser on your pc or mac or android devices/blackberry. Its pretty sweet. For music this is pretty much on par with Itunes if not better because of the cloud offerings. I have a video overview of that here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEZ9gy3USno
As far as video, there are kinda 'loops' now. Although if you are an Amazon Prime member you can stream movies and tv shows from their streaming service, similar to netflix but not as wide of a selection. The apps blackbeltrk mentioned are sweet. The only other app I have to add is Slingplayer, but this also requires a Slingbox as hardware. This doesn't really differentiate the Xoom from the IPad because you can do this on the Ipad as well, but it enables you to hook a slingbox to your TV,Computer,Xbox, Wii, Roku, ect.... and watch from them remotely. Its a pretty sweet setup and being able to hook your Xoom to a friend's TV or Projector means you essentially have a portable cable box . This also means you could hook up a video device that plays Netflix to your Slingbox and watch Netflix from it. I have two videos that overview Slingplayer so check them out if you find it interesting.
Slingplayer App Overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V-i-TA5J3M
Netflix Focused: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJEQIfZttus
i bought that .69 cent album and didnt get upgraded. I'm on the phone with them now
I think Nexus Q seems to be interesting. Don't know whether I will buy it.
Worth it... if....
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I think Nexus Q seems to be interesting. Don't know whether I will buy it.
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...if you get it off ebay for $200 w/ free shipping instead of the list price of $300+shipping and tax from the android market. If development takes off (which is looking good so far) you will definitely wish you would have gotten one new in box off of ebay not instead of waiting later. I can't imagine it will be long before people have all kinds of cool stuff running on this thing. Dev's have already got some nice preliminary work tests: launcher's running, netflix, pong, installing and running apps through adb. Good things are ahead.
Currently if you have a jellybean device you can push Google Play music and movies/tv shows as well as youtube. If you only have an ICS phone or tablet you can control it with the help from bobukcat. He has put together a super easy tutorial on how to use the Nexus Q with an ICS device (here) until Google puts out their updated app for everyone down to Gingerbread. With this I can only get Music. I don't own any tv or movies through Google Play so i cannot say if that works...
Being that I already use Google Music for my music it is nice not having to physically connect my tablet/phone to my receiver when i want to listen to music and do other stuff with my device at the same time. Google streams whatever quality your original file was so they will sound the same as the mp3s you have ripped. Last I looked Google's max bitrate supported is 320kbs and 20,000 uploaded songs. I don't think purchased song count towards your song count (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
All in all tthaz777, I'm glad I picked one up. The thing looks fantastic and construction quality is great. It has a satin finish so no nasty finger prints. The visualizations are cool and the boot sequence has a futuristic look. The convenience factor is great. Development possibilities wide open.
**I haven't hooked them up to analogue speakers yet so I cannot attest to how well their "audiophile grade amp" works. Anyone try this yet??
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...if you get it off ebay for $200 w/ free shipping instead of the list price of $300+shipping and tax from the android market. If development takes off (which is looking good so far) you will definitely wish you would have gotten one new in box off of ebay not instead of waiting later. I can't imagine it will be long before people have all kinds of cool stuff running on this thing. Dev's have already got some nice preliminary work tests: launcher's running, netflix, pong, installing and running apps through adb. Good things are ahead.
Currently if you have a jellybean device you can push Google Play music and movies/tv shows as well as youtube. If you only have an ICS phone or tablet you can control it with the help from bobukcat. He has put together a super easy tutorial on how to use the Nexus Q with an ICS device (here) until Google puts out their updated app for everyone down to Gingerbread. With this I can only get Music. I don't own any tv or movies through Google Play so i cannot say if that works...
Being that I already use Google Music for my music it is nice not having to physically connect my tablet/phone to my receiver when i want to listen to music and do other stuff with my device at the same time. Google streams whatever quality your original file was so they will sound the same as the mp3s you have ripped. Last I looked Google's max bitrate supported is 320kbs and 20,000 uploaded songs. I don't think purchased song count towards your song count (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
All in all tthaz777, I'm glad I picked one up. The thing looks fantastic and construction quality is great. It has a satin finish so no nasty finger prints. The visualizations are cool and the boot sequence has a futuristic look. The convenience factor is great. Development possibilities wide open.
**I haven't hooked them up to analogue speakers yet so I cannot attest to how well their "audiophile grade amp" works. Anyone try this yet??
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Thanks for your long reply. You must be a Nexus fan.
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Just bought one on eBay for $205 sealed new in box
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Now that XBMC is running on the Q, I will be picking up at least one of them.