Part of the beauty of Android is that you're not stuck using the music play that comes with your phone. There are many, many music players to choose from in the Android Market.

I'm currently fond of MixZing (http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.mixzing.basic), but Cubed (http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.abrantix.rockon.rockonnggl) seems to be rising rapidly in popularity. There's even btunes (http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.bmayers.bTunesRelease) for all the ex-iphone users out there. :-)

Not to mention of course all the streaming apps like Pandora, LastFM, GrooveShark etc.

> Part of the beauty of Android is that you're not stuck using the music play that comes with your phone.

Apropos of nothing at all, this reminds me of the argument for there being so many incompatible flavours (ahem) of Lisp.

I think this is a little different. There's a huge advantage to developing a common ecosystem around a programming language. For a music player application... hmm not so much.

With what do all these apps sync with on your laptop?

Pretty much whatever you want (other than iTunes of course). Basically anything that can sync files to a USB drive.

As a longtime iTunes/iPod user :-) I've been using doubletwist to sync some of my existing iTunes playlists to my Nexus One. If you're not an existing iTunes user, something like SongBird (http://www.getsongbird.com/) might be a good choice. I think Windows Media Player will copy playlists to a USB drive (not certain about that).

Another alternative for iTunes users might be iSyncr (http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.jrtstudio.iSyncr), which looks pretty interesting. I haven't tried it yet, but supposedly it tricks iTunes into thinking your Android phone is an iPod. :-)

Doubletwist?

I mean, what is the music software you can use on the desktop, given the list of phone music players presented?

Any music software you would like? Including whatever you are using right now?