Is doubleTwist poised to become the next big thing?

Today marks a big day for media management company doubleTwist. Between the mobile and desktop clients of the increasingly popular application, there are now one million active users. In the grand scale of entertainment consumers, one million may not seem like much, but doubleTwist is still growing. And fast too.

In the fourth quarter of 2010 alone, doubleTwist saw a 300% user growth. How does the company plan on keeping this growth rate up? By bringing in some seasoned veterans to upper-management, and adding new features like AirTwist — A function that allows for console to TV streaming and wireless data sync.

The corporate shuffle taking place at doubleTwist won’t affect the way you use the client right away, but with bright new minds always comes bright new ideas. Not only will the former CEO of Sling, Blake Krikorian, be joining the board of directors, but we’ll also see the addition of other media bigwigs like Stuart Collingwood, also of Sling, and Lucas Dickey from Amazon MP3.

Does one of most popular media players on the the Android Market have what it takes to take the top spot? With the little green guy backing them, it seems it’ll only be a matter of time. How about you? Do you doubleTwist?

Via TechCrunch

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I am looking for a similar sync capability in a Mac app that would do "Convert higher bit rate songs to 128k AAC as iTunes currently does it for iPhone... is there such a thing available for syncing with an Android phone? My situation is this: I have over 80GB of mostly lossless music on an external HD. I will probably buy a Samsung Galaxy S2 16GB and I would like to sync "My Favourites" smart playlist. Which is currently 7GB on my iPhone which is compressed to 128k AAC...

Longterm classis standby Winamp is there too. The Android app still needs a little work in my opinion, but for us old schoolers in IT int's a great app.

sorry my arthritic hands go crazy sometimes meant to say Clasic standby Winamp -- yeah llahma!

I use Doubletwist because I own a Mac and use iTunes to manage all of my music, I like how the app runs on Android but the OSX counterpart runs like complete trash and seldom boots. Hopefully if Doubletwist becomes more popular, the software will improve.

I think android users use double twist because of word of mouth and lack of knowledge to other alternatives. There are a lot better alternatives such as songbird

I agree, I switched to android to get away from iTunes like syncing. I am now happily using Subsonic and have my entire library accessible to me at any time. I may be in the minority though.