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I Built My Own Audio Player
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#22I 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?
It's actually surprisingly hard to get iOS Safari to keep playing audio with the screen off.
When I made https://ambiph.one I ended up having to route everything through a MediaStreamAudioDestinationNode to trick Safari into thinking it's a livestream, which is apparently the only type of audio allowed to play in the background
Minimal demo here if it's helpful for anyone: https://codepen.io/matteason/pen/VYwdzVV
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#23Dang, 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 had been wanting something similar recently and ended up buying a Hifi Walker H2 and loading rockbox on it. Works great, and it’s a total nostalgia trip to be using rockbox again after so many years! Wheels will always be the best way to navigate music libraries.
Oh, nice! That undercuts the price of the FiiO JM21 by about half, which was the other entry-level audiophile music player I was looking at if I ever decided to splurge on one:
https://www.amazon.com/JadeAudio-JM21-Snapdragon-Bluetooth-P...
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#24It'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.
The latest Iteration I discovered 2 days ago, a audio service(via Amazon), where you have limited time for listening. So I get to listen to that new audiobook, but see my 10 h contingent decrease every second I listen.
Creates a new vibe for me.
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#25Dang, 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…
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#26I 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.
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#28Isn't VLC an option for playing local files and available in the App store? You could sync the folder with iCloud.
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#29Isn't VLC an option for playing local files and available in the App store? You could sync the folder with iCloud.
It is available, but the last time I tried it, I was only able to select specific audio files for import. I couldn't import the whole directory at once
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#30Dang, 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...
There is a whole modding community around the iPod video/classic.
You can replace the hard drive with MicroSD/SD or compact flash cards.
You can buy different color faceplates/backplates, upgrade the batteries, etc.
https://www.idemigods.com/iPod_5th_5_5_Generation_Video_Part...