Tangentially, I really recommend https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.krosbits.mu... if you have your collection of music offline. Works flawlessly.
I Built My Own Audio Player
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Foobar2000 is the irfanview for audio, apps I still use regularly more than 20 years and counting.
foobar2000, IrfanView, Total Commander. The 3 apps I still miss after 15+ years of not using Windows (went through 10 years of OSX, now on Linux for probably 5 years). There's just nothing like this trio on OSX or Linux.
i never got the hang of Total Commander; i only use the file browser on windows as the cli form is so terrible compared to bash..
irfan was fun though, i do like Emulsion even though its not really under development anymore
im currently happy with foobar2k via wine, havent yet loaded all my plugins yet but will eventually load up the 7.1 upmixer and test it out. if you have not used the later versions of f2k, its worth checking out
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#134I 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…
To me the go-to music player has always been foobar2000. (Replaced today by Cog app)
foobar2000 is awesome on Windows, but on Mac its a very different and lackluster app. At least it was some years ago.
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#135I've been building a music collection in FLAC format for 25 years, and last year I bought an (Android) phone and a MicroSD card of 1TB that fits all of my music. It's been a long project for technology to catch up, but now that it's possible to have all of it in my pocket, I'm pretty happy with it. I'm sure I can't be the only one that doesn't want to be a renter, give up control and stream anything the industry want…
Technology has caught up many years ago, it's just that you insist on an format not fit for purpose. With good reencoding you get transparent audio quality (impossible to hear a difference) to fit all of your music on a much smaller card. (and as a backup you can always have those FLACs on the desktop)
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#136I feel like developing an app for iOS is harder than developing one for Android. Everything from writing code to building and publishing is overcomplicated.
Unless you try to support wide range of devices. That's where android development is harder.
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#137For music on iOS I can't recommend foobar2000 [1] enough - and I tested ALL of the alternatives. You can import ANY folder (probably what OP is looking for) or use your "iPod Library". [2] Personally, I sync my music via Synctrain (a Syncthing client). [3] [1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/foobar2000/id1072807669 [2]: https://imgur.com/a/7GVxB2y [3]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/synctrain/id6553985316
But foobar doesn't scrobble unlike other alternatives
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#138It'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.
It's hard to answer that question without understanding what specifically "sucks" in all the tools? I mean, the market is saturated with options, there are dozens of apps and streaming services well suited for "popular". It's the more advanced parts that are underserved, but that's just what you'd expect in any normal universe, you're rarely popularly saturated with greatness.
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#139Managing 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…
You could give my app a shot too: https://www.plastaq.com/minimoon
This looks great! Will give a try later. For iPhone sync can it sync to the built-in Music app music library?
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#140I was hoping the article was going to be about a physical device as well as the software to manage and play songs. A few years ago I wanted to get my 10 year old son an mp3 player – he's really into listening to music but wasn't ready (still isn't) for a phone. I was shocked by the state of the mp3 player options. When Apple discontinued the iPod they created a huge vacuum that no one seems to have filled. I think th…
You just reminded me that I have a SanDisk Clip lying around somewhere in my flat.