DoubleTwist is a new , open - source , universal culture medium manager in beta for the Mac . It gather music , video and photos , supports long ton of devices and has a P2P / social networking component . Will it be great ?
DoubleTwist was create by the famous DVD written matter - tribute reverse gear - technologist who call himself DVD Jon , so you know it ’s well-disposed to the budget - minded poweruser . So far , it ’s been a joy to apply , but it ’s still in genus Beta and has some flaws . Here ’s what it does now , and what it should do :
What doubleTwist Does :
Manages Photos , Music and Video on Your estimator
It see your Music , Photos and Movies folder , and lets you tangle and cast off any other leaflet into its media web browser . There ’s also a public eye - esque search function to check your folders . Music is machinate in sortable list form , while photos and videos are displayed as tiles .
let You Maintain an Online “ Feed ” and Send / get Media To / From Other doubleTwist user
DoubleTwist has a built in social - networking aspect that let you produce an accounting , add friends and photograph files back and off . you may post video , photos and music to a “ feed , ” which is fundamentally a media - rich version of the Facebook wall , and it gets syndicated to all your protagonist .
They say you may mail any character of file back and forth on doubleTwist , which seems like a case waiting to befall . We have n’t yet had the chance to fully test this feature , but they remain pretty undefined on its limits . And for those who are n’t signalise up , you may send them an e-mail liaison to the doubleTwist waiter , where they can view / watch / hear the substance you require them to receive .
Connects to a Variety of Phones and Devices
DoubleTwist is really touting its ability to join with devices here , especially BlackBerry and Android telephone . ( Not surprisingly , you ca n’t yet synchronize with Apple products . ) When you plug in your gadget , it show up under its model name , and doubleTwist organizes media Indian file in the same way it does for your computer . you’re able to drag and strike down freely between the two gadget . ( see top photo )
machine - convert Files to render Compatibility With Your gimmick
Because it only works with gadget it know , doubleTwist autoconverts media files as necessary . So if you have a .mp4 picture file that your phone does n’t patronize , doubleTwist will detect this before uploading and win over fittingly . ( We ’ll be testing this to see how long a film in the awry formatting might take . )
Connects to Your iTunes Library for Access to Playlists and Other Stuff
Like other media gadget and apps , doubleTwist can read your iTunes Library XML file cabinet , which provides accession to playlists and podcasts , in addition to the the eternal sleep of your subroutine library . Most of the crap that pops up in the left chromatography column of iTunes will show up here .
Uploads Photos and Videos to Online Services
With Flickr and Facebook integration , you could sweep up , free fall and tag your photos , then upload them with a pawl , and without decease doubleTwist . The same thing travel for sending videos to YouTube .
WHAT DOUBLETWIST SHOULD DO
iPhone and iPod Support
As we observe , there ’s not a lot of love for iPhone and iPod yet , but the doubleTwist team says this functionality will actually appear in next versions .
AirTunes Support
One of my favorite features of using iTunes with an Airport Express is the AirTunes well out feature . There are 3rd - party apps , such as AirFoil , that take vantage of this feature , so it should n’t be too knockout to work this into next version .
Native Playlist Support and Streaming Libraries
For now , there is no way to spell or create music playlist , aside from what ’s already in iTunes . You also ca n’t colligate to other people ’s libraries or an iTunes Music Server on your connection . This mean you ’ll still be using iTunes for some stuff .
Advanced File Categorization / Organization
Right now , the categorization and governance of medium file are a mo underlying . medicine shows up in a listing view , but the only sortable categories are Title , Artist , and Time . Photos and Videos only show up as tiles , with no other persuasion or sort options , except adjusting thumbnail size of it .
For people with tons of files , this does n’t quite cut it .
I also do n’t really like that when you act as a song , it launch a second window which compiles the list of songs play while the app has been open . But there ’s no way to remove birdsong from the list aside from closing the app , nor can you keep playback all in one window . It ’s not major , but kinda bleh .
BOTTOM LINE
DoubleTwist is an extremely promising app that really could become the de facto criterion for media participant if they continue to develop and meliorate on this beta . The theme of not having to use iPhoto ever again ( I detest it ) , or getting more functionality than what VLC offers for video is pretty exciting.g . [ doubleTwistviaMacRumors ]
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