Earlier quoted context omitted.
The old way?
CDs? I don't own a CD drive any more and doubt many people do either.
You can still buy and download music files.
Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
81–90 of 124 posts
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
What the heck, why did I think Pocket Casts wasn't available on iOS? I've used it in the browser and on my Android phone for years...
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
#83This app page says nothing. It's just a few screenshots and some generic text.
Your "support page" is an email address, and doesn't actually contain any information on the app.
If you're going to show us something and ask us to buy your app, then put a little more care into your launch.
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
#84I 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…
I use whatever the latest version of iTunes is and sync to an iPhone X over my personal Wi-Fi connection. For whatever reason their default sync is very bad. If you instead put all your iTunes music in a playlist and choose the option to sync only that playlist it works nearly perfectly. I've been using this method since the iPhone 4s came out and have only had issues syncing maybe once or twice a year. I sync a few times per month.
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
#85I 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…
> I 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.
I use the latest version of iTunes and an iPhone with the latest iOS on it, and still use them in exactly the same way you describe. Like you, I prefer to have complete control over my own data, without passing it through third-party cloud services. So far, Apple has not taken away the ability to do this, despite their heavy marketing push for iCloud. (I literally have never used iCloud at all for anything, ever.)
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
#86Where do you get the music from though?
"Where do you get the music from though?" I personally download actual mp3 files from Amazon (not amazon "music" but just purchase actual tracks). In fact, I continue to be pleasantly surprised that in 2018 one of the big providers is doing something as simple and friendly as this: selling me unprotected, plain old mp3 files . However, they are compressed mp3 files and not suitable for future transformation so if the…
The files you get from iTunes are also unprotected. Artists can choose to offer lossless format, in which case iTunes will give you the files in their proprietary format ALAC, but there is still no DRM and you can easily convert to FLAC/WAV.
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
#87You should consider opening the 'Now Playing' drawer with an actual, direct gesture instead of a trigger on a detected swipe. The way it is now feels weird for iOS.
I really missed the album artwork color extraction from iTunes and seeing album covers in a reasonable size, so thank you for that.
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
#88FLAC support?
Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
#89I sincerely cannot tell how this is different from the Music app that I already use on my iPhone other than the color-matching background stuff.
- Minimal design: The 'now playing' drawer in the screenshot looks nearly the exact same as the Music 'now playing' drawer. If anything it has more text for buttons than the Music app.
- Adapts to my music: The background color changes?
- Import my music: Ok, but with Music app I don't have to do that.
- Search artists, albums and songs: Ok, but I can already do that with Music app.
- Edit and reorder listen queue: Ok, but I can already do that with Music app.