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Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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Supports your favourite speakers and headphones Doppler works with AirPods, HomePod and any Bluetooth or AirPlay enabled speaker But it doesn't require any setup - it comes out of the box. Or put it in another way - I don't see any music app that does not support that.

I spent probably a minute more than I should have pondering why it would not.

Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the good old MP3s that you download and send to your phone with iTunes.

But why would I want to if I can just stream them ?

Some people don't have unlimited bits.

Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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I have a large mp3 library and have used Marvis for over a year. Marvis is great and extremely customizable, but it has a few bugs and the developer has abandoned the app. I won't use any music app that doesn't allow shuffling by album. It sucks that Apple bastardized the main music app to promote Apple music; I think that app was at it's best around iOS 7.

Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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post #27
post #19

I don't know if it is technically possible, but a polished, fast app for Apple Music is badly needed!

Should be possible https://developer.apple.com/musickit/

I didn't know this! I would gladly pay 10x its price, if Doppler supported Apple Music through MusicKit...

Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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post #2

Which features did you miss from the stock app / Apple Music?

I find Apple's music app on iOS terribly hard to use. It didn't used to be this way. I struggle to do basic things, like just playing the songs in order on an album! Sounds silly, but there are so many buttons that sweep away to different screens, and it's not at all clear what you are doing. Now I just use GoodReader to store and play back all offline albums, since it's just a file directory and I can just play the…

I have this problem with Apple's podcast player[0]. They really didn't make it intuitive at all.

[0] Pocketcasts solves that problem, though.

Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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post #45

Where do you get the music from though?

You can still buy them from Bandcamp, Qobuz or even buy it on iTunes. What are you trying to imply?

> What are you trying to imply?

That I didn't know about any of those services? I thought everything was streaming these days. What are you trying to imply that I'm trying to imply?

Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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post #45

Where do you get the music from though?

You can still buy them from Bandcamp, Qobuz or even buy it on iTunes. What are you trying to imply?

I don't think they were implying anything. I think so many people today stream that the idea of downloading mp3s is rather foreign.

Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can still buy them from Bandcamp, Qobuz or even buy it on iTunes. What are you trying to imply?

> What are you trying to imply? That I didn't know about any of those services? I thought everything was streaming these days. What are you trying to imply that I'm trying to imply?

I thought you were implying that the only way to get music files (after disregarding CDs as you don't have a drive) these days was to download them from unofficial sources. Not streaming music files was the standard for a long time so I was a bit surprised about the question.

That's usually a point that comes up for products like Plex etc.

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