MediaMonkey for Android: Introduction
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MediaMonkey for Android (MMA), is designed to be a great standalone media manager/player, and an even better companion to MediaMonkey for Windows (MMW).
When used on its own, it provides much of the advanced media management functionality that users expect of MediaMonkey products. When used in conjunction with MMW, it lets you share your media, metadata, ratings, play history, bookmarks, etc. so that whether you're on your phone or at your desk, you'll have a single media collection that is consistent throughout.
When MMA is used as a standalone client, it depends on the Android operating system for media scanning and playback. Thus whatever formats are supported by your particular device, will be supported by MediaMonkey, and whatever fields are read by the Android scanner on your device will be visible in MediaMonkey. In general, this means that most popular audio/video formats can be played (with some exceptions, especially on older devices), and that some fields may not be imported by your Android device (e.g. Album Art in some cases, Album Artist field, Ratings, Composer, Play history, Bookmarks).
When MMA is used in conjunction with an MMW server, metadata for all supported formats is synced directly between the server and the device, so that even if the Android OS doesn't support a particular metadata item, it will appear in MMA. The downside, of course, is that although other apps can read media and playlists synced with MMA, they may not see certain fields (e.g. ratings).
