Of course, there are other contenders for that title, including doubleTwist and Songbird Winamp is going to be positioned as the best music management app for Android. “Now with the Android OS beating out iOS, it is a foregone conclusion that it will beat out iOS over time,” argues Kerry Trainor, senior vice president of AOL Entertainment. Instead, AOL is going to ride the Android wave. We have to nail this first,” says Jeff Bronikowski, the new VP of AOL Music who was hired away from Yahoo Music earlier this month. “There is a lot of inertia around the iPhone. AOL has no plans right now to release Winamp for iPhone where it is pretty much impossible to compete with iTunes.
mobile users and become the iTunes for Android devices. But AOL is making a big push with Android, hoping to attract a lot of new U.S. In fact, only about 5 percent of its users are in the U.S. Winamp is a popular music management software for Windows, with 60 million users predominantly overseas. The wireless syncing requires a new desktop version for Windows computers, which is also available today. (Both Winamp and Shoutcast are owned by AOL, as is TechCrunch). The public Android release lets you manage your music downloads on your Android and will offer a couple new features, including wireless syncing over WiFi with Winamp on your desktop computer and the addition of Shoutcast radio stations. Today Winamp for Android is coming out of beta, a month after its initial launch and more than 500,000 downloads later.