So here I am, back again on this blog, in the middle of the night.
In any case, let me start this off with, it’s been a long time, but I have a rant that I really want to post about.
So, I just got an HTC EVO 4G, and it’s the best phone I ever had… Ever. Seriously, coming from a Samsug Rant, being only able to stay with Sprint, the EVO 4G was the best thing that happened to Sprint in recent times. But there is one thing that is seriously annoying me right now.
So, I’ve had my iPod Touch for at least half a year now, and even though iPhone OS is so much smoother than Android, I want to carry only one device… So, I said to myself, why don’t I just sync all my music.
And thus the problems began. Syncing with the EVO was not only a hassle, but once I was able to get all my music on the device, it still would not play all of my music. Not only that, I need (read: NEED) playlists since I have a set of music I want to use for RINGTONES ONLY, and the rest I want to actually listen to. So I used Winamp to create an m3u playlist: simple, but not effective. Then, I created a /playlist directory, and that finally made my Android device able to see the playlist I created. Then when I started up the playlist, I could only play HALF my music.
So I did some research, downloaded MediaMonkey since it is able to sync to Android devices as well. This time, MediaMonkey could not play all of my music itself, so why would I expect it to be able to sync my music to my Android phone successfully.
All 334 songs are playable on iTunes and my iPod Touch. All 334 songs are playable in Winamp. Only about 140 of those were detected in my Winamp-created playlist on my Android phone. Around 90% was playable in MediaMonkey. And only 317 (including my 11 ringtones) are playable by Android if I just try to play every song I copied onto the micro SD card.
Solution: keep my iPod Touch. Remembering all my problems before using my Samsung Rant as a music player, getting a Sansa Fuze, and then going back to my iPod Shuffle, and now this, where my Android phone can’t even play all of my songs, shows why Apple is king in the portable music space. My songs “just work” on my iPod Touch. No hassle. No sync issues. No files being unplayable (and note that I ripped most of my music using my own batch file of LAME for mp3 and Nero for AAC, so saying that I am getting these issues because I ripped with iTunes is FALSE) on my iPod. I may not own a Mac, an iPad, or an iPhone, and I may criticize Apple elitists for being elitists, but Apple knows what they are doing.
On a side note, even though I am a power Windows user, I respect Apple for making their Operating Systems (iPhone OS/iOS and Mac OS X) so smooth and responsive on inferior (and overpriced) hardware. THAT is what optimization is all about.
