I'm not talking about syncing with iTunes. That's a separate issue =)
In iTunes, and in iPods, you can sort music through multiple layers. What I mean is that, you can click on "Genre" and that brings up a list of the Genres. And when you click one, it brings up a list of Artists in the Genre. Click on a Artist and it brings up their Albums. Click on an Album, and you finally get to the songs in just that album.
Contrast this with all of the media players I've seen so far in Android, where you click on a Genre and it goes right to a song list of every single song in the genre. Click on an Artist and it lists every single song. And so forth. There does not seem to be any way to have the music broken down by Genre>Artist>Album>Song so that you can narrow down what you're looking for. I personally hate having to scroll through 200 songs in a genre to find the one I want, or having to look through every single album name on my device to listen to the one album I want.
Is there a media player for Android, that allows that sort of sorting? And another "more like iTunes" issue, is there a media player that recognizes the same ID3 tag versions as iTunes? In iTunes and on my iPod, all my Genres show up correctly, but on an Android device, some songs in some genres are listed under genre "37" or "80". It seems to be ignoring what I have as the ID3 genre tag, and arbitrarily assigning a number to the genre, but only for some songs.
I love Android devices way more than the iPhone. But I will admit, Apple figured it out when they released the iPod/iTunes system. The way these devices sort music is perfect. Why is it so hard for Android media applications to emulate this?
In iTunes, and in iPods, you can sort music through multiple layers. What I mean is that, you can click on "Genre" and that brings up a list of the Genres. And when you click one, it brings up a list of Artists in the Genre. Click on a Artist and it brings up their Albums. Click on an Album, and you finally get to the songs in just that album.
Contrast this with all of the media players I've seen so far in Android, where you click on a Genre and it goes right to a song list of every single song in the genre. Click on an Artist and it lists every single song. And so forth. There does not seem to be any way to have the music broken down by Genre>Artist>Album>Song so that you can narrow down what you're looking for. I personally hate having to scroll through 200 songs in a genre to find the one I want, or having to look through every single album name on my device to listen to the one album I want.
Is there a media player for Android, that allows that sort of sorting? And another "more like iTunes" issue, is there a media player that recognizes the same ID3 tag versions as iTunes? In iTunes and on my iPod, all my Genres show up correctly, but on an Android device, some songs in some genres are listed under genre "37" or "80". It seems to be ignoring what I have as the ID3 genre tag, and arbitrarily assigning a number to the genre, but only for some songs.
I love Android devices way more than the iPhone. But I will admit, Apple figured it out when they released the iPod/iTunes system. The way these devices sort music is perfect. Why is it so hard for Android media applications to emulate this?