Would be great if one could skip using iTunes alltogether....like being able to just import Mp3, Flac and m4a files from cloud storage into the app. Is/will this (be) possible with doppler?
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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#53I 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.
The Apple Music parts can be disabled in Settings. It's not quite as nice as it was back in the day, but I've found that doing that helps to make it closer to how it was.
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
#54Which 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…
When you're looking at an album in Music, there's a play button right above the song list that will play it in order and should disable any previously enabled shuffle mode. It just goes off of whatever iTunes metadata is setup, so if that is correct, it'll play in order.
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
#55Define "better offline music". I'm sure it has a great UX, but Apple's music app already gives me a pretty decent experience.
Honestly, I'll continue using that unless "better" is substantial.
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
#56I think the offline claim should be explained a bit better. Like does that mean I can get my old MP3 files to the app without stupid iTunes sync? Does it support "File sharing" so the app is shown in iTunes and I can drag and drop my MP3 files to its storage?
> I can get my old MP3 files to the app without stupid iTunes sync? Does it support "File sharing" so the app is shown in iTunes and I can drag and drop my MP3 files to its storage?
That’s what I want to know too. My biggest problem is having iTunes in the middle.
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
#57Would be great if one could skip using iTunes alltogether....like being able to just import Mp3, Flac and m4a files from cloud storage into the app. Is/will this (be) possible with doppler?
VLC for iOS can do that now afaik.
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
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#59Like I always say when I see a music related app submission: Get a lawyer. It looks pretty awesome by the way, any plans for android?
I'm genuinely curious why you say to get a lawyer for all music apps as I can't really see why this one would necessarily need a lawyer. Are you talking in terms of music licensing issues or patent violations, or other?
Licensing rights, because if you develop an app that makes money out of playing music it is gonna make some people uncomfortable, even if it the music of the owner of the app. There's gonna be C&D letters even if the app proves to be licit.
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
#60I use iTunes 10.6.3 and sync to an iPod.
That keeps track of play counts on both devices, lets me make smart playlists and playlist folders, and syncs music, contacts, and calendars all over USB without any cloud services prying into my personal data.
Apple went from being a leader in the music-listening industry with excellent UX to trying to compete with Spotify and YouTube, who are frankly not even that great (e.g. trying to keep playing a song in the background).
Flash memory was small when the iPhone came out in 2007, so everything moved to streaming. Now the capacities are finally big enough again (e.g. 128GB iPhone SE), Apple's broken their sync services.
I like having play counts, ratings, and playlists, and I like that I've continually built up my music library since the days of Soundjam MP for the Rio 600.
Doppler is trying to put a new theme on Finder's MP3 playing feature, but it's not the syncing library manager that I need.