There are a lot of iTunes users out there, but unfortunately you can’t use it with all of your portable devices. Today we take a look at doubleTwist, which allows you to sync your media with a multitude of portable devices and easily share it as well.

有很多iTunes用户，但是很遗憾，您不能在所有便携式设备上使用它。 今天，我们来看看doubleTwist，它使您可以将媒体与众多便携式设备同步并轻松共享。

Note: You can run doubleTwist on Windows or Mac, and here we take a look at the Windows version.

注意：您可以在Windows或Mac上运行doubleTwist，在这里我们来看一下Windows版本。

Install & Setup doubleTwist

安装和设置doubleTwist

Download and install doubleTwist using the defaults in the wizard…

使用向导中的默认值下载并安装doubleTwist。

Installation takes several moments and you’ll see the progress while it finishes up.

安装需要一些时间，安装完成后您会看到进度。

After installation is complete, sign up for an account if you don’t already have one. If you do have an account you can login right away.

安装完成后，如果尚未注册一个帐户，请注册一个。 如果您有帐户，则可以立即登录。

Enter in your username, email address, and password then click Sign Up.

输入您的用户名，电子邮件地址和密码，然后单击注册。

You’ll get an confirmation email and need to activate the account before you can sign in.

您会收到一封确认电子邮件，需要先激活帐户，然后才能登录。

Once you’re all signed up, launch doubleTwist and you’ll be ready to start using it.

完成所有注册后，启动doubleTwist，就可以开始使用它了。

doubleTwist Music

doubleTwist 音乐

The default music store is Amazon MP3 store which might appeal to those of you who are tired of the iTunes music store. A lot of times the music is cheaper and available at higher bit rates.

默认的音乐商店是Amazon MP3商店，它可能会吸引那些讨厌iTunes音乐商店的人。 很多时候，音乐更便宜，而且比特率更高。

You can start searching for music in the Amazon Music Store and previewing songs.

您可以开始在Amazon Music Store中搜索音乐并预览歌曲。

To purchase anything though you will need to sign into your Amazon account.

要购买任何东西，尽管您将需要登录到您的亚马逊帐户。

Under Playlists it allows you to import your playlists from iTunes and Windows Media Player, which is a handy feature if you don’t want to set them up again.

在“播放列表”下，它允许您从iTunes和Windows Media Player导入播放列表，如果您不想再次设置它们，这是一个方便的功能。

Of course you can play your songs through the music player on your desktop.

当然，您可以通过台式机上的音乐播放器播放歌曲。

Devices

设备

One of the coolest things about doubleTwist is that it supports a lot of different portable media devices including iPod, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Android, PSP, Smartphones, and much more.

有关doubleTwist的最酷的事情之一是，它支持许多不同的便携式媒体设备，包括iPod，BlackBerry，Windows Mobile，Android，PSP，智能手机等。

Unfortunately for Zune users…there isn’t any support for the Zune of Zune HD yet.

对于Zune用户来说不幸的是……目前尚无对Zune HD Zune的支持。

Here we have a Creative Zen attached and can sync songs, pictures, and podcasts.

在这里，我们附加了Creative Zen，可以同步歌曲，图片和播客。

An HTC-S620 Smartphone running Windows Mobile…

运行Windows Mobile的HTC-S620智能手机…

Even a simple USB drive will be recognized and you can transfer your media to it as well.

即使是简单的USB驱动器也会被识别，您也可以将媒体传输到其中。

Podcasts

播客

Finding your favorite audio and video podcasts is easy with the search feature.

通过搜索功能，可以轻松找到自己喜欢的音频和视频播客。

You can easily manage and subscribe to podcasts in the subscriptions section.

您可以在“订阅”部分轻松管理和订阅播客。

You can watch the video podcasts directly in doubleTwist.

您可以直接在doubleTwist中观看视频播客。

Sharing Media

分享媒体

Also you can share digital media with your friends or add it to Flickr and YouTube.

您也可以与朋友共享数字媒体，或将其添加到Flickr和YouTube。

You can send any pictures, videos, or music in your library to other people by dragging it over. You can email users individually…

您可以将媒体库中的任何图片，视频或音乐拖曳到其他人上。 您可以单独给用户发送电子邮件…

Or access contacts from your Gmail and Yahoo accounts.

或从您的Gmail和Yahoo帐户访问联系人。

There is a limit to how much you can send of video podcasts… only the first 10 minutes.

仅在开始的10分钟内，您可以发送多少个视频播客是有限制的。

The person you send it to will get a link in their email that points to your My Feed page on the doubleTwist site.

发送给它的人将在他们的电子邮件中获得一个链接，该链接指向doubleTwist网站上的“我的提要”页面。

There they can access the media you sent…in this example it’s a video podcast but you can share any media.

他们在那里可以访问您发送的媒体...在此示例中，这是一个视频播客，但您可以共享任何媒体。

Other Features

其他特性

Under My Profile you can change your avatar and personal information.

在我的个人资料下，您可以更改您的头像和个人信息。

In Preferences you can choose where media is stored, its startup actions, podcast subscriptions, and manage device syncing.

在首选项中，您可以选择存储媒体的位置，其启动操作，播客订阅以及管理设备同步。

Conclusion

结论

It’s still in beta stage so expect some bugs, but overall doubleTwist is a solid media player that is easy to use with a clean interface. It’s simple and doesn’t try to do too much so is fairly easy on system resources. The main annoyance is it tries to catalog all of your media out of the box. Which may be alright for some users with smaller media collections, but very irritating to advanced users with large collections. Also there is currently no support for the Zune, but according to their forums, it’s on the way.

它仍处于测试阶段，因此可能会出现一些错误，但总体来说doubleTwist是一款可靠的媒体播放器，易于使用，界面干净。 它很简单并且不会尝试做太多，因此在系统资源上相当容易。 主要的烦恼是它尝试将所有媒体分类为开箱即用。 对于拥有较小媒体收藏集的某些用户来说，这可能是不错的选择，但对于拥有大量收藏集的高级用户来说，这非常恼人。 另外，目前尚无Zune支持，但根据他们的论坛，它正在开发中。

At the time of this writing it’s in public beta and can be downloaded for XP, Vista, Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit), and Mac OSX. If you’re looking for an iTunes alternative that works with several different portable devices, you might want to give DoubleTwist a try.

在撰写本文时，它处于公开测试阶段，可以下载用于XP，Vista，Windows 7(32和64位)和Mac OSX。 如果您正在寻找可与几种不同的便携式设备一起使用的iTunes替代品，则可能需要尝试DoubleTwist。

Download DoubleTwist Public Beta

下载DoubleTwist公共Beta

See If Your Media Device is Supported by doubleTwist

查看doubleTwist是否支持您的媒体设备

翻译自: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13001/doubletwist-is-an-itunes-alternative-that-supports-several-devices/