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How do you play it? How do you import them into your library? If it's not mp3, aac, or m4a, iTunes won't index it, it won't end up in your library, and any of
by Espressosaurus 5y ago
How do you play it? How do you import them into your library? If it's not mp3, aac, or m4a, iTunes won't index it, it won't end up in your library, and any of the standard music apps will not play it.
Speaking from experience because this is a continuing pain point for my music collection that includes oddball formats like flac, ogg, and others--none of which I can even get on my phone without using a cloud service.
- sixbrx 5y agoI use Foobar2000 on iOS where you can toggle its embedded FTP server to transfer files, either to its own music library or one shared with iTunes. It's very easy.
- xvector 5y agoNevermind, looks like I had some conversion going on to get those files on my iPhone. It's irrelevant anyways, since AAC is audibly transparent to the human ear.
- grumpyprole 5y agoAAC may not be audibly transparent after its transcoded for Bluetooth. If you are using Apple headphones then this of course shouldn't happen, but for Sony's LDAC, better to start with FLAC.
- codr7 5y agoI use VLC, which works great. I don't use iTunes, ever, anywhere; and I feel sorry for anyone who does.
- Espressosaurus 5y agoVLC, fine. How do you transfer .ogg or similar files to your iphone?
- Handytinge 4y agoYou can use iTunes, the VLC web interfacr, iCloud, Dropbox, NextCloud and probably a myriad of other ways I haven't considered. It's not 2008 anymore.