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I Built My Own Audio Player

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Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by razakel »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #3

Dang, I thought he had built his own hardware. I'd still love to get a proper successor to the Sandisk Sansa Fuze, just with USB-C charging instead of its proprietary charging cable. There's plenty of "luxury" /audiophile MP3 players out there which cost in the hundreds of dollars, but that one was in the sweet spot of bang-for-your-buck music player that I could just use for listening to music on long plane rides et…

I wonder if you could get an iPod Classic and upgrade the storage/replace the battery...

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by q2loyp »

razakel wrote: post #11
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #3

Dang, I thought he had built his own hardware. I'd still love to get a proper successor to the Sandisk Sansa Fuze, just with USB-C charging instead of its proprietary charging cable. There's plenty of "luxury" /audiophile MP3 players out there which cost in the hundreds of dollars, but that one was in the sweet spot of bang-for-your-buck music player that I could just use for listening to music on long plane rides et…

I wonder if you could get an iPod Classic and upgrade the storage/replace the battery...

Yes that is possible, I got gifted one such iPod once.

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by Foobar8568 »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #3

Dang, I thought he had built his own hardware. I'd still love to get a proper successor to the Sandisk Sansa Fuze, just with USB-C charging instead of its proprietary charging cable. There's plenty of "luxury" /audiophile MP3 players out there which cost in the hundreds of dollars, but that one was in the sweet spot of bang-for-your-buck music player that I could just use for listening to music on long plane rides et…

You have many options for DAP, unfortunately they are often android based. In some rare cases, they are either pure custom OS, or stripped down android device. I have a Cayin N3U, I hesitated a lot with some Hobby device as it's a small brick and Android, while the android interface is still too present for my taste, and a bit too large, I have no regret, I really wanted something dedicated, no Bluetooth, tube, portable, no streaming, no extra app.

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by dylan604 »

josefritzishere wrote: post #4

It's interesting that most/all of the available tools for playing digital music, a well-known and very popular activity... suck. Do we think that's enshittification or product managers misunderstanding the market? In a normal universe one might otherwise expect it to be saturated with options.

The enshitification was completed when they convinced us to no longer want to own our own copies of music but to perpetually rent access to their content.

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by JKCalhoun »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #3

Dang, I thought he had built his own hardware. I'd still love to get a proper successor to the Sandisk Sansa Fuze, just with USB-C charging instead of its proprietary charging cable. There's plenty of "luxury" /audiophile MP3 players out there which cost in the hundreds of dollars, but that one was in the sweet spot of bang-for-your-buck music player that I could just use for listening to music on long plane rides et…

I've considered building a device with the Teensy.

I don't even need it to be portable. In fact, I'm happy with a "component stereo" look with a VFD display. ;-)

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by lukan »

mg wrote: post #6

I wonder if one could build this in HTML, so there is no need to install anything. On both iOS and Android, HTML can play videos and mp3s while the screen is turned off. So maybe it is possible?

Sure, I did it 13 years ago and still use it daily. On a PC though, mostly. (But the actual player was mobile first, as it was my remote connection to the PC that is connected to the bass box. But works also standalone.)

I just never polished it to publish it, but it is quite easy and I guess ChatGPT can help with the basics as no arcane knowledge is required. (Except maybe the playing while screen is off.)

You also need a small node script, though or something different with system access to scan the media files. I think in browser tools make this now somewhat possible without(beware of security restrictions), but my approach is simply a node script scanning the music folder and generating a list that the media player consumes to find files for the player. I still didn't got around to make it automatic, but I don't add so much music (anymore).

I guess I will give it a try to see, how good it works a mobile player nowdays. I always wanted to upgrade it, so I can connect to spotify from my player as I hate the spotify mobile app.

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by amiga386 »

I won't comment on the merits of this project, but I put my entire media collection, including all audio, in Jellyfin, and I find Finamp (available for Android and iPhone) to be convenient player, especially that it has easy download of entire albums, artists, etc. and "offline mode" you can toggle on so you can random-play whatever you've downloaded, even in places with no phone reception.

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by mg »

__jonas wrote: post #10
mg wrote: post #6

I wonder if one could build this in HTML, so there is no need to install anything. On both iOS and Android, HTML can play videos and mp3s while the screen is turned off. So maybe it is possible?

They specifically ditched react-native because of their requirements regarding file system traversal, so this is definitely not something that could have been done in-browser.

Traversing local directories is supported via the File System Access API in browsers these days:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64283711

It works nicely in Chrome on the desktop and on Android. Not sure how the situation is on iOS.

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