Now THIS is the kind of project that I love to see on HN. Well done!
I Built My Own Audio Player
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#82I could recommend VOX
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vox-mp3-flac-music-player/id91...
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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.
Ughh, I hate the sound of that. Hard pass, I'll find whatever it is and download the darn thing or create an audiobook from it if need be
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The solution I found after approximately two months of struggling with this problem: you have to generate an audio file that is a few seconds of silence, play it on a loop, and play it at the same time as the actual audio file you want to play (via separate audio elements, or an AudioContext). Specifically I believe you need to make sure the silence is “playing” at track boundaries for the real audio, so there is nev…
Does iOS let you play multiple audio at the same time?
I have been able to have multiple streams on iOS, but not easily. GarageBand might be able to do this via imports, but I’m not sure it it lets you queue/play multiple samples simultaneously like it will on macOS iirc.
If you are playing music through Spotify in the background, foreground audio in Snapchat still plays normally while recording and playing back just recorded snaps, as well as snaps or memories you have prepared earlier. Sometimes you need to start playback on Spotify again via Control Center, because Snapchat steals focus or takes priority for audio output or something, but it is just part of the jankyness of this workflow, which is probably not intentionally designed to be used the way I use it. If you combine these quirks with Screen Recording, you can make simple audio loops by recording simultaneously via Snapchat and iOS Screen Recording, then use those videos as uploads to Snapchat to stack the loops over each over by selectively queuing them, with audio from a video in Snapchat playing at the same time as audio from Spotify.
It’s kind of a weird workflow, but it’s neat that it works. It feels intentional, as most apps stop background audio playback when starting recording on the same device, but at least Snapchat does not do this, so it’s at least technically possible.
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#86People 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)?
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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
The solution I found after approximately two months of struggling with this problem: you have to generate an audio file that is a few seconds of silence, play it on a loop, and play it at the same time as the actual audio file you want to play (via separate audio elements, or an AudioContext). Specifically I believe you need to make sure the silence is “playing” at track boundaries for the real audio, so there is nev…
How do you even accept to use/and develop for a device that forces you to do that?
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#88I don't see the problem with cable syncing, which works fine for me with lots of music and three devices I sync to, but you do you.
Wireless charging means I rarely (perhaps even never for my current phone) plug it in with a cable. It wouldn't be a huge deal if I needed to to sync music, but it's certainly friction to my adopting apps that require that.
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#89It'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.
I think it's a combination of both scale and people's expectations.
As the size of your music library goes up, the UX changes. The original iPod UX was (at least for me) genuinely awesome. It became less awesome as iPods got 40, 60, and larger storage, and it was pretty much unusable when I modded one to have 1TB of storage.
And related but different, everybody's expectation of what "a large music collection" is varies wildly.
I don't necessarily think this is intentional enshittification, I lean more towards "there's no right solution for everybody, and there's probably not even a dozen different right solutions that encompass most people".
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#90People 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)?
I’m on iOS and I use navidrome/substreamer app combo - it work great and I can keep selected music on device too.