Winamp has announced new versions of its desktop and Android apps today, bringing Android users another way to manage their music collections and stream content to their devices. According to the company, the combination of the two “creates a complete end-to-end music management solution for your desktop and Android device.”
The new app not only offers Android users the ability to sync their device over WiFi and USB, but also stream media without transferring it to a local library. With Winamp, playlists are also wirelessly synced and SHOUTcast radio offers more than 40,000 Internet radio stations from within your media player.
For iPhone users, iTunes is the only library management tool available and it’s known for being a slow, unwieldy, clunker of a media player. Using it is a common gripe among iPhone users, but it’s rather unlikely Apple will allow anyone else to get in on that game.
Android users, on the other hand, do not have a de facto management tool and, as TechCrunch suggests, Winamp could be vying for that spot with this release. Winamp is owned by AOL and the company’s new vice president of music, Jeff Bronikowski, told TechCrunch that Android was it’s primary focus.
“There is a lot of inertia around the iPhone,” said Bronikowski. “We have to nail this first.”
This latest version of Winamp for Android offers a bunch of new features, including Last.fm scrobbling, persistent player controls and queue mangement and is available for download.
We can tell you one thing – if we could, we would use Winamp to manage our iPhone music library too.
