LEAKED: NEW MEDIA PLAYER IN ANDROID

The default media player in the Android mobile OS is mediocre at best, but that could all be changing. A group of folks over at XDA Developers forum has gotten their hands on a release of Honeycomb, the next Android update after Gingerbread, that shows a new media player.

The new player will have a lot more color, flourishes like volume meters next to the currently playing song, and a more visual album view that looks similar to Android’s image viewer. Also according to some comments on the XDA forums, the new app does have streaming capabilities but it is not currently turned on. [TechCrunch]

ANDROID GETS WINAMP 5.6

Remember when WinAmp was the preeminent third party media player?  Well they are still around and focusing on the mobile market.  The Llama team has released version 5.6 of its desktop software and when paired with WinAmp for Android the company claims it becomes a "complete end-to-end music management solution for your desktop and Android device.” The press release states"

Winamp 5.6 features a new device management interface that supports wireless syncing of media, simple management of multiple connected devices and faster encoding and transferring of media to your devices over USB or WiFi. Stream media from a connected device without the need of transferring media to the local library. Wireless device syncing and streaming only available with Winamp for Android installed.

[BGR]