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I turned off Apple Music (the steaming service), loaded everything into Apple Music (the app on macOS). I then plugged my phone into my laptop like it was 2007 and synced it over like an iPod. Everything works as expected. My music doesn’t change so much, so syncing hasn’t been an issue. I get a certain hit of nostalgia when syncing over the wire as well.
What should happen: The album only has one listing and opening it reveals the entire album
What actually happens in pretty much everything: The album has one listing per artist (so you end up with a screen full of the same thing) and trying to play the whole album as one cohesive unit is an exercise in frustration
VA stuff is extremely common in my experience and it is gobstopping to me that nobody gets it right. Gobstopping enough that I have been kicking around ideas for my own music player (as it seems many of you as well)
People will literally build their own music apps instead of switching to Android. Is it just for the blue bubbles, or because of how everything "just works" (unless you want to play offline music)?
Actually, I think it is a bit odd that the author didn’t find a free music app they liked. But I also think you don’t really need an excuse to go make something anyway, so… I dunno, it think maybe that was just a framing narrative to get the story started.
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You really would move to a different country just because they have better bread? What's the problem with baking your own?
It's more akin to moving to a different country because this one mandates which bread you will eat and how you will eat it. A mighty fine reason to emigrate.
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To me the go-to music player has always been foobar2000. (Replaced today by Cog app)
2025 and im still rockin foobar2000 with 2000 plugins. wish a native linux binary was out though through wine is okay, just lacks native dark mode
It's not just an audio player but an eco-system, and for better or worst it changed the music industry forever.
Perhaps the modern version should make a p2p music streaming from peers rather than direct downloading.
[1] Napster:
For me the best audio player ever is Napster [1]. It's not just an audio player but an eco-system, and for better or worst it changed the music industry forever. Perhaps the modern version should make a p2p music streaming from peers rather than direct downloading. [1] Napster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster
For me the best audio player ever is Napster [1]. It's not just an audio player but an eco-system, and for better or worst it changed the music industry forever. Perhaps the modern version should make a p2p music streaming from peers rather than direct downloading. [1] Napster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster
I'd also recommend looking at communities such as Soulseek. And Limewire is still around!
Managing local music with Music.app and syncing with Finder iPhone sync still works good for me, but Music.app does seem unmaintained for a couple years now with some annoying bugs since the terrible Big Sur rewrite. Despite the flaws this combination is still the best music library management + mobile sync solution I've seen (plz recommend!), but I feel eventually will have to write a system myself since the softwar…
I come from the times where winamp was the go-to music player. Today, even in the age of streaming services I still keep a local music library organized in folders. So, just as others here in the comments I built myself an old-school music player as a hobby project to listen to my music offline. It's a 1 page html/js app, has full keyboard controls and also features a simple queue mechanism functionality Check it out…