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But the iPhone only "just works" if you completely buy in to Apple's ecosystem. E.g. if you want to buy some FLAC music files from somewhere else, it won't "jus
by grumpyprole 4y ago
But the iPhone only "just works" if you completely buy in to Apple's ecosystem. E.g. if you want to buy some FLAC music files from somewhere else, it won't "just work" anymore. Android is still the lesser of two evils in terms of allowing more choice on its platform.
- MBCook 4y ago> E.g. if you want to buy some FLAC music files from somewhere else, it won't "just work" anymore. The thing is nobody* does that. There are a few. That’s why I added the asterisk. But realistically very few people actually do it. Especially compared to the number of iPhones they sell every year. If you were using MP3 files, you wouldn’t have an issue. Or AAC. There might even be others. Apple really likes to make things easy, but they tend to only do it for the common case. That’s what gets the most use, that’s what makes the most people happy, that’s what they focus on. If you’re the kind of person who wants to do things that are far out of the mainstream you’re never going to be happy with an iPhone. You can use other apps as other people pointed out. But I wouldn’t expect this to ever work in Apple’s music player. It’s the same reason you can’t have root, re-theme your phone heavily, replace the dialer, or a lot of other heavy customizations. That’s not what they focus on. It’s just their ethos.
- pessimizer 4y ago> The thing is nobody* does that. Because it is difficult to do. > If you’re the kind of person who wants to do things that are far out of the mainstream you’re never going to be happy with an iPhone. FLACs are not the act of an extremist.
- MBCook 4y ago> Because it is difficult to do. No, at this point I think the vast majority of people just use streaming services. The second biggest group, but probably much smaller, it’s people like me who both have a library and a streaming service. After that, smaller again, I would assume it’s people who have just a library. The majority of these are probably files bought from Apple and Microsoft and Amazon. Those are all formats that the iPhone can play. In last place is people who use more unique formats like FLAC. I understand why you would want it over the other formats. But I think it’s by far the least common case.
- grumpyprole 4y ago> The thing is nobody* does that. I find that hard to believe when so many music stores and labels (especially classical music and jazz) are selling FLAC downloads. It all works fine on Android with great polished and featureful apps like "USB Audio Player Pro".
- stjohnswarts 4y agoWhat? I just downloaded a flac file and it played fine on my iphone? I've never even tried it before. Am I doing something wrong?
- zeagle 4y agoPerhaps not the best example because my brand new pixel 6 has a horrible DAC and can't pass through properly to a USB DAC which iPhones have no issue with. (I'll believe a fix is coming then I see it.) https://www.reviewgeek.com/105739/googles-pixel-6-is-disappointing-audiophiles-heres-why/ https://www.reviewgeek.com/105739/googles-pixel-6-is-disappo...
- grumpyprole 4y agoTell him/her to use USB Audio Player Pro, it has its own USB driver that supports bit perfect playback and integrates with streaming services also.
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- xvector 4y agoNot sure what you're talking about. I have zero issues using my FLAC files from elsewhere on my iPhone.
- chillwaves 4y agoTry using a custom ringtone that you do not purchase through the Apple store.
- kstrauser 4y agoOK. https://www.wikihow.com/Set-a-Song-As-Your-Ringtone-on-iPhone https://www.wikihow.com/Set-a-Song-As-Your-Ringtone-on-iPhon...
- prepend 4y agoThis used to bother me, but I haven’t used a ringtone at all for 10 years so I really don’t care anymore. Although before that, I made my own ringtone using GarageBand off a ripped mp3 and didn’t buy anything through the apple store.
- throwawayboise 4y agoLOL yeah my ringtone for all calls is silence.
- bombcar 4y agoI forget how I got it setup but I have a custom ringtone for one contact that I certainly didn’t buy.
- grumpyprole 4y agoYou must have installed some niche piece of software that the vast majority of iPhone users will never use or hear about. Hopefully the indie dev keeps updating it and Apple never pulls it from the store!
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- lostgame 4y agoHuh? In what world can’t I use FLAC files on my iPhone? VLC does it great, I use them almost literally every day…
- grumpyprole 4y agoHow do you even get the files on the iPhone? I see long blog posts discussing the steps needed for this. Not really "just works" is it?
- lostgame 4y agoYou can download them from Safari and select 'VLC', for one...otherwise you can easily use Finder on Mac to just drag it over to the VLC documents folder on your iPhone - not sure about Windows.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoI type in the URL shown in the VLC app on my computer and drag and drop files to it, when I am connected to same network of course. https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html > A media library, with WiFi Uploads & Downloads, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, OneDrive & Box.com integration and optional passcode lock. >Web Interface for easy uploads and downloads to/from device.
- grumpyprole 4y agoBut how do you "sync" music libraries with the phone storage? Dragging and dropping files is still not a great experience and doesn't scale.
- devinegan 4y agoI use Plex/Plexamp… syncs my FLAC albums and playlists. I can use it on any platform if I choose to do so.
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- deathanatos 4y agoThe last time I had an iPhone (for work) it required an adapter to be able to connect to a MacBook Pro.
- robertoandred 4y agoAny phone will need a cable to connect to a computer, unless it’s over Wi-Fi.
- 62951413 4y agoI have never been able to make an Apple laptop recognize my phone as a USB storage device to copy photos from it. GOOG phones used to cost less than half of APPL ones. And for a while to have physically wider screens which made them better book readers. Unfortunately the price difference seems to be nearly negligible now.
- goosedragons 4y agoYou need Android File Transfer because Apple doesn't support MTP.
- adamomada 4y agoThere are third-party apps available that handle FLAC just fine. I use a paid app called Neutron Music Player mainly because it has an SMB client to connect to a NAS with my FLAC collection, but you can also use its built-in server to transfer FLAC to internal storage. I think you can even sync the SMB source to local storage as well but I haven't explored that, since I play them over the network just fine.
- sixbrx 4y agoYep Foobar 2000 for iOS is free and plays Flac (and many others), and has a convenient built in FTP server that you can temporarily enable to tranfer them over the network into its music library.