I asked Johansen to expand a bit on how doubleTwist handles conversion:ĭ oubleTwist knows which audio and video formats the Palm Pre supports as well as the restrictions on each format (max bitrate, max video resolution, etc). The other 'easy' part of doubleTwist is that it does a better job understanding what the Pre can and cannot play than iTunes does - iTunes thinks the Pre is an iPod so I've had it transfer video files over to the Pre that just wouldn't play.
Doubletwist palm pre update#
The Mac version should see an update with those features later this year. Update: On Windows, doubleTwist supports playlists and automatic playlist sync as well as having a proper progress bar. Hopefully these features will come soon - like webOS, doubleTwist is very early in its lifecycle. I also wish that there were a real progress bar when transferring files instead of just a spinning indicator. doubleTwist automatically includes the directories most likely to have your music (and on a Mac reads your iLife apps, including iTunes).įull support for Playlists - both on doubleTwist and with transferring - would be nice to see.
Doubletwist palm pre full#
I'm not knocking iTunes for being too chock full of features, but sometimes it's comforting to have an app that's straightforward. Read on to find out why and to get some thoughts on the webOS and the Pre from DVD Jon himself. For me, it's even better than the built-in iTunes Sync. I may have mentioned RealPlayer SP yesterday, but trust me: doubleTwist is better. It understands what the Pre can and can't support and automatically re-formats your media into a compatible format. That's serious geek cred, sure, but it's also a signal and Johansen cares about openness, transparency, and simplicity and those virtues are abudant in doubleTwist.ĭoubleTwist is an application for both Mac and PC that allows you to easily transfer media from your computer to virtually any device you plug into it. The 'something else' I picked was a no-brainer and I'm not going back: doubleTwist.ĭoubleTwist, if you didn't know, is the new project from Jon Lech Johansen, who you may know better as ' DVD Jon,' who has found workarounds for nearly every meda DRM you can think of. The way that the Palm Pre works with iTunes is great, clever, intuitive, and just aggravating enough for me to want to try something else for syncing my media.
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