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Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by videogreg93 »

stateofinquiry wrote: post #141
ivyirwin wrote: post #120

I 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…

Sony still makes very nice players - under the "walkman" brand no less. https://electronics.sony.com/audio/walkman-digital-recorders... . Probably too pricey for a 10-y-old child, but you might be able to find a used one on ebay?

This are just dumbed down phones in a sense: I don't want my mp3 player to be running android. I want a minimal piece of software that lets me quickly navigate to the songs that I want, and physical buttons to do it. I've look long and hard for something like this and cannot for the life of me find it. I'm really sad that I lost my Ipod classic 10 years ago.

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by TheDong »

videogreg93 wrote: post #151
stateofinquiry wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sony still makes very nice players - under the "walkman" brand no less. https://electronics.sony.com/audio/walkman-digital-recorders... . Probably too pricey for a 10-y-old child, but you might be able to find a used one on ebay?

This are just dumbed down phones in a sense: I don't want my mp3 player to be running android. I want a minimal piece of software that lets me quickly navigate to the songs that I want, and physical buttons to do it. I've look long and hard for something like this and cannot for the life of me find it. I'm really sad that I lost my Ipod classic 10 years ago.

Surfans F20 HiFi MP3 Player / HiFi Walker H2 fits your description.

Both are compatible with rockbox, so if you install that you can be sure they aren't running android: https://www.rockbox.org/

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by DocTomoe »

videogreg93 wrote: post #151
stateofinquiry wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sony still makes very nice players - under the "walkman" brand no less. https://electronics.sony.com/audio/walkman-digital-recorders... . Probably too pricey for a 10-y-old child, but you might be able to find a used one on ebay?

This are just dumbed down phones in a sense: I don't want my mp3 player to be running android. I want a minimal piece of software that lets me quickly navigate to the songs that I want, and physical buttons to do it. I've look long and hard for something like this and cannot for the life of me find it. I'm really sad that I lost my Ipod classic 10 years ago.

Sony also has 'dumb' - and incidentally cheaper - MP3 players: https://electronics.sony.com/audio/walkman-digital-recorders...

That model looks a lot like what the iPod nano did.

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by jiehong »

runxel wrote: post #149
frosted-flakes wrote: post #113

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Automatic wi-fi syncing to iTunes still works fine as far as I know.

Huh, iTunes is not a thing anymore... so how would that work exactly? Genuine question, what do I miss here?

If you plug your iPhone on your Mac, you can click "show this iPhone on WiFi" in finder.

Then it’ll show up in Apple Music when connected on WiFi, and sync can happen this way.

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by eddieroger »

codingjerk wrote: post #124

I feel like developing an app for iOS is harder than developing one for Android. Everything from writing code to building and publishing is overcomplicated.

I've done both, and this was not my experience. Nowadays, they're much more similar than different, but 10 years or so ago, "easy" was defined by if you knew Java or Objective-C. Android, like most Java, required a lot of code to do simple things (public static void main...), and tons of XML to make the app support so many devices. Objective-C had good boiler plate thanks to Apple and NeXT before it using the frameworks for years.

Now, SwiftUI and Compose are effectively cousins, as are Kotlin and Swift. Both App Stores have their quirks. Publishing is part of both workflows. It's really not harder for one or the other, it's just administrivia.

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by prmoustache »

ibz wrote: post #126
andrew_lettuce wrote: post #105

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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've used foobar2000 and irfanview when I was a windows user 20 years but I am struggling to figure out what these have that make them more desirable than comparable apps on linux.

I have all my image browsing / viewing / light editing usage covered with gthumb on Linux and rythmbox does it for me in term of music listening as it can play both my local files as well as net radios. I think kde users are naturally more into Amarok or Clementine but they are all probably fine enough. I have the feeling music listening is a problem that have been solved decades ago an all operating systems. Well with the exception of iOS apparently.

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by egypturnash »

ibz wrote: post #126
andrew_lettuce wrote: post #105

Earlier 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.

You can get Foobar for the Mac. https://www.foobar2000.org/mac

No idea if it's any good, I just use Music.

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by tipofthehat »

Tangentially related: as a non-developer I have started trying to hack/extend Anytime Podcast player to become a light language learning app, for supporting using native level resources for intermediate learners.

The idea is to give me vocab, phrases and idioms with timed with a transcript to appear just before the audio, with some feedback on understanding and a simple learning model of users level, vocabulary, strengths and weaknesses etc

I've made a start using whisper and some simple Bayesian modelling but if anyone more technically gifted wants to steal my idea they're more than welcome... As it's going to take a while for little old me.

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