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or connectivity.
or travel via plane and/or train
Trains have wifi or you can just use 4G.
I never ttavel by plane but I assume they offer wifi too nowadays.
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Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
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or travel via plane and/or train
Trains have wifi or you can just use 4G. I never ttavel by plane but I assume they offer wifi too nowadays.
> Trains have wifi
On the WCML, you have to pay ££ for WIFI unless you're in first class and even then it's patchy because the train doesn't always have a clear view for the satellite data.
> or you can just use 4G.
Down the WCML, you're lucky to get even 3G thanks to the combination of poor coverage from cell towers (not much call for them in rural landscapes, really) and the metallised glass they use on the trains.
(They did try per-carriage femtocells but they didn't help.)
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
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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.
This makes no sense, there are no licensing rights involved because no music is being provided. It just plays files provided by the user. Are people sending C&D letters to Sandisk for selling MP3 players, or the hundreds of music player apps for Android?
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
#64Supports 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.
0 calories water baby! Still, as a non-iPhone user I actually expect Apple hardware to only work properly with Apple software, I was never able to use airplay on any other software than iTunes (in Windows), it always broke after some time when I did find something that worked on Linux. So perhaps it's not so bad to mention it.
AirServer (http://www.airserver.com) has been working quite well for me for the past few years, though I don’t use it all that much.
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
#65Does it support casting to chromecast? This is something that is really missing in the native app. If this is supported I would buy.
+1 - I have a couple Chromecast Audios that I use as a poor-man's Sonos and it works pretty well, but the Spotify iOS app's Chromecast streaming is pretty half-assed. It can only adjust volume when the app is in the forground, and sometimes not even then, sometimes forgets it's streaming and loses sync.
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
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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.
This makes no sense, there are no licensing rights involved because no music is being provided. It just plays files provided by the user. Are people sending C&D letters to Sandisk for selling MP3 players, or the hundreds of music player apps for Android?
Agree, it makes no sense, lets see if the OP can tell us if this happens in the future or not. Maybe I'm just scared.
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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 ?
If all the music you want to listen to is available via streaming services than great, but I have a bunch of MP3s that aren't (things ripped from old CDs, music from my friends, music from anti-streaming artists).
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
#68Would 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?
I have importing mp3/flac etc working but needs a bit more work before I can release it. Coming very soon!
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This makes no sense, there are no licensing rights involved because no music is being provided. It just plays files provided by the user. Are people sending C&D letters to Sandisk for selling MP3 players, or the hundreds of music player apps for Android?
Agree, it makes no sense, lets see if the OP can tell us if this happens in the future or not. Maybe I'm just scared.
There are already a huge number of apps out there doing the exact same thing, as far as I am aware zero have been sued/threatened out of existence over this.
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
#70I 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.
You should check out Cesium. I've been using it for the past couple of years. It accesses your music library, so all your music and playlists are there. You can play by album (and shuffle the music) or even play by artist (and shuffle all songs by the artist). You can even play by genre if you so desire. Of course it provides all the typical music queue management facilities as well, but I don't tend to use those too much. I like it's extreme simplicity.