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Re: Show HN: Music Player for Dropbox, Mega, and Google Drive

#4

Post by wichcraft »

wichcraft wrote: post #3
maz29 wrote: post #2

Hey all, Creator here. The entire app is free this weekend. This includes in-app purchase to remove limits.

Hi Maciej, Does this allow offline playing mode?

Also, can you make it work for previous versions of iOS? like 6.0 so Ipod 4 gen will work.

Re: Show HN: Music Player for Dropbox, Mega, and Google Drive

#5

Post by maz29 »

wichcraft wrote: post #4
wichcraft wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Maciej, Does this allow offline playing mode?

Also, can you make it work for previous versions of iOS? like 6.0 so Ipod 4 gen will work.

Yes, it does offer offline mode. I didn't have any plans to make it backwards compatible since 87% of all devices are running iOS 7+. If there turns out to be a large demand, I will definitely look into it.

Re: Show HN: Music Player for Dropbox, Mega, and Google Drive

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Post by wichcraft »

maz29 wrote: post #5
wichcraft wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, can you make it work for previous versions of iOS? like 6.0 so Ipod 4 gen will work.

Yes, it does offer offline mode. I didn't have any plans to make it backwards compatible since 87% of all devices are running iOS 7+. If there turns out to be a large demand, I will definitely look into it.

I really like this idea and was willing to try it out but with this iOS7+ limitation I guess it's dead end for me. I think there are still many millions of pre iOS7 users out there that won't be able to try this app out. How hard is it to make it compatible with other iOS? The XCode compiler doesn't do this for you?

Re: Show HN: Music Player for Dropbox, Mega, and Google Drive

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Post by davidcollantes »

maz29 wrote: post #2

Hey all, Creator here. The entire app is free this weekend. This includes in-app purchase to remove limits.

Would love if it allowed stream playing, no downloads. That is a feature that should be built in on the Google Drive app, but isn't.

Re: Show HN: Music Player for Dropbox, Mega, and Google Drive

#8

Post by maz29 »

wichcraft wrote: post #6
maz29 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it does offer offline mode. I didn't have any plans to make it backwards compatible since 87% of all devices are running iOS 7+. If there turns out to be a large demand, I will definitely look into it.

I really like this idea and was willing to try it out but with this iOS7+ limitation I guess it's dead end for me. I think there are still many millions of pre iOS7 users out there that won't be able to try this app out. How hard is it to make it compatible with other iOS? The XCode compiler doesn't do this for you?

A lot of the features and frameworks used are for iOS7+. Hence it would be a major rewrite.

Re: Show HN: Music Player for Dropbox, Mega, and Google Drive

#9

Post by maz29 »

davidcollantes wrote: post #7
maz29 wrote: post #2

Hey all, Creator here. The entire app is free this weekend. This includes in-app purchase to remove limits.

Would love if it allowed stream playing, no downloads. That is a feature that should be built in on the Google Drive app, but isn't.

Hey the app is able to either stream or download songs.

Re: Show HN: Music Player for Dropbox, Mega, and Google Drive

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Post by kingnight »

What is a typical situation for someone storing music in Dropbox/Mega/Google Drive? What is used to play the music on the Desktop.

Looking forward to trying this out though. I currently use iTunes Match but really enjoy Dropbox for photos. If this is as robust as it looks, and I could find a filesystem based music player that works as nicely as iTunes, then it'd be under consideration for longterm use

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