Sync your music with any phone or music player

Having your music in sync with all your gadgets is a nice thing. I always love and cherish the ability to sync all my music to everything that can play it … whether it is my iPhone, my wife’s SonyEricsson w580i phone or our little iPod Nano. So, I will list here software that can be used to sync your music to all your gadgets.

If you are using iTunes to manage your music :

If you use iTunes, you already know that you can sync your music to all iPods and iPhone. But what if you own music players other than iPod and a phone that is not iPhone ? Below are few programs that you can use to sync your iTunes music to any gadget.

iTunes Sync (Windows Only): iTunes Sync will let you synchronize any iTunes playlist (standard or dynamic) with any MP3 player or phone that shows up as a drive letter in Windows. You can setup different players to sync to different playlists. There is a list of supported / tested players list on the website. I have used it to sync my iTunes music to my wife’s SonyEricsson phone and it worked very well. It is available as a free download.

Salling Media Sync (Windows and Mac OS X): Salling Media Sync synchronizes playlists, music, and podcasts from iTunes onto most mobile phones. Again, they have a compatible device list that you can check to see if you phone is supported. The free version is slow. If you want the faster and intelligent registered version, you need to pay.

iTunes Agent (Windows Only): iTunes Agent syncs any playlist in iTunes with any music phone or MP3 player. It is freely available for download from SourceForge.

If you are looking for a free and open music player to manage and sync your media to all your devices :

doubleTwist (Windows and Mac OS X): doubleTwist is a program to manage and play anything. And it lets you copy your media onto any device. The best thing about doubleTwist is that you don’t need to worry about the formats. It does all the converting to play anything on any device. And did I forgot to mention that it is open and free ?

Songbird (Windows Only): Songbird is an open music player that’s under active development. It’s like Firefox for music. It is extensible with lot of plug-ins. The device support is very basic right now. But it will be updated soon.

If you have used any other software to sync you music in iTunes with your gadgets or liked any other media organizer that can sync the media with all devices, do write a line about in the comments.