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Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by lukan »

Obscurity4340 wrote: post #84
lukan wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yes, but recording the audio is annoying, but currently what I will do ...

(DRM of course)

Edit: but apparently I was wrong and the "countdown" was just the time left of the audiobook. But the mobile UI was stuttering, so that wasn't clear. But thinking about it, I am surprised it ain't implemented yet for real.

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by jonhohle »

DrillShopper wrote: post #76
slmjkdbtl wrote: post #37

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…

The built in Finder sync is still very broken on my 5th Gen Video iPod. The most annoying breakage was trying to sync podcasts - it worked fine back when iTunes was the program to do that with, but when using the Finder sync on Big Sur it's buggy and does not remember your place in the podcast if you move to another track / podcast and back, which functionally makes podcasts longer than a few minutes unusable on the…

It’s amazing to me that iPod syncing still works. I use a 2ᴺᴰ gen nano and my son uses a, 6ᵀᴴ gen. I preferred managing in iTunes to finder, but it’s crazy that a 20 year old player with a proprietary software interface still works.

Apple is so quick to drop support for some things and keep other things around seemingly indefinitely.

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by rollcat »

369548684892826 wrote: post #86

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)?

You really would move to a different country just because they have better bread?

What's the problem with baking your own?

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by rollcat »

Since everyone's dropping their fav/DIY players, shout out do Decoupled: https://apps.apple.com/app/decoupled/id1382409837>

You just upload your files (e.g. via Finder) and play them. You can browse by artist, album, etc. It's boring, it works, it's all I want.

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by somanyphotons »

369548684892826 wrote: post #86

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)?

People will literally write code to avoid Android

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by noman-land »

rollcat wrote: post #94
369548684892826 wrote: post #86

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)?

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.

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by bromuro »

prell wrote: post #78

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…

To me the go-to music player has always been foobar2000. (Replaced today by Cog app)

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by koito17 »

369548684892826 wrote: post #86

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)?

I made a prototype of a music player for iOS, since the VLC app cannot reliably parse metadata of FLACs stored on my file server. I cannot store my whole music collection on my device, due to storage limitations.

My app is a prototype in the sense that I want more features, but the app has just enough functionality that I lack motivation to implement more features. Currently has audio playback, remote file access, and FLAC metadata parsing. Similar to the author, I originally wanted to use React Native because I have experience with it and already maintain a few React Native applications. However, I am not interested in targetting (or debugging) other platforms. So I decided to try using SwiftUI and used a special tool[1] to get something resembling hot reloading. (It's kind of a gross hack that requires supplying custom linker flags in Xcode, but it works just enough for me to not miss the DX of TypeScript and React Native).

[1] https://github.com/johnno1962/InjectionIII

Re: I Built My Own Audio Player

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Post by out-of-ideas »

bromuro wrote: post #98
prell wrote: post #78

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…

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
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