Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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Post by edwellbrook » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 10:00 AM UTC

Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
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Post by dewey » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 10:42 AM UTC

Which features did you miss from the stock app / Apple Music?

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Post by chrisseaton » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 10:43 AM UTC

Where do you get the music from though?

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Post by minikites » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 10:46 AM UTC

Have you considered adding support for Subsonic? http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp

Manually choosing songs to load onto my phone is a significant chore and my phone can only fit a subset of my collection.

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Post by luigi23 » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 10:47 AM UTC

  Supports your favourite speakers and headphones Doppler works with AirPods, HomePod and any Bluetooth or AirPlay enabled speaker

But it doesn't require any setup - it comes out of the box. Or put it in another way - I don't see any music app that does not support that.

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Post by hellofunk » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 10:50 AM UTC

dewey wrote: post #2

Which features did you miss from the stock app / Apple Music?

I find Apple's music app on iOS terribly hard to use. It didn't used to be this way. I struggle to do basic things, like just playing the songs in order on an album! Sounds silly, but there are so many buttons that sweep away to different screens, and it's not at all clear what you are doing.

Now I just use GoodReader to store and play back all offline albums, since it's just a file directory and I can just play the tracks in the order they are stored.

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Post by oscarteg » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 10:51 AM UTC

Does it support casting to chromecast? This is something that is really missing in the native app. If this is supported I would buy.

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Post by evanb » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 10:52 AM UTC

Does "Import your music and playlists" means it will use my synced iTunes library? I would love this. But I tried to click to find out more, only to find that almost nothing on that landing page is a link.

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Post by ainiriand » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 10:54 AM UTC

Like I always say when I see a music related app submission: Get a lawyer.

It looks pretty awesome by the way, any plans for android?

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Post by edwellbrook » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 10:55 AM UTC

oscarteg wrote: post #7

Does it support casting to chromecast? This is something that is really missing in the native app. If this is supported I would buy.

Great idea! I'll add to the roadmap, thanks