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So long, iTunes: DoubleTwist now syncs with iPhone and iPod Touch

If you're searching for a free alternative for iTunes on Windows, DoubleTwist - the handy media player for Windows and OS X - just became even more attractive with today's launch of version 2.4 that includes support for iPhone and iPod touch syncing.

If you're not familiar with DoubleTwist, it's a company founded by 'DVD Jon' Lech Johansen - who reverse-engineered the encryption in DVDs and the iTunes store - that now offers a desktop media player for Mac and Windows.

DoubleTwist just recently announced their plans to add the Amazon MP3 store to their desktop software, and with today's announcement of iPhone & iPod touch support DoubleTwist is fast becoming a worthy - and highly competent - competitor to iTunes.

iTunes has long been an app we all love to hate. It looks like iPhone and iPod Touch users will now have a solid alternative that won't try to slip in a browser, codec, or who knows what else every time it updates.

[Via Lifehacker]

Update: We should also point out that, given Apple's cat-and-mouse game with Palm over the Pre syncing with iTunes, it's highly possible that Apple might break this functionality in a future update to the iPhone / iPod touch OS. Game on....

Filed under: Audio, Internet, Video, Windows

DoubleTwist: Share and synchronize all your digital media


DVD John may be best known as the guy who first broke the copy-protection scheme used by DVDs. But now he's behind an application designed to let you share media with your friends over the internet. DoubleTwist is a desktop application that makes it easy to share pictures, music, and movies with your friends. You can add your Facebook contacts and automatically see their shared photo albums. You can also send audio and video files from your desktop to your Facebook friends thanks to a Facebook application.

But that's just the beginning. DoubleTwist also lets you synchronize media stored on your PC with portable devices like Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones, a Playstation Portable, or Amazon Kindle. And in order to make sure your media plays on any device, the application converts audio and video files into standard formats. For example, when you first run doubleTwist, it will ask if you want to convert your iTunes library into DRM-free MP3s.

For some reason, there's no support for synchronization with Windows Mobile or PalmOS devices. But doubleTwist is still in beta, and there are plans for many more features. For example, doubleTwist is Windows only at the moment, but a Mac version is coming soon, as is support for the OpenSocial platform.

[via CNet]

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