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  • Re: A Blend of Power and Elegance

    From hollowone@1337:1/120 to dozo on Mon Oct 13 20:25:44 2025
    but if any of you'd convince me to find a perfect solution for iPhone works with your own files library well and allows to quickly play wit whil
    a car (Apple Car integration).. then I'd love to hear it!

    Bit late, but I recently wanted to play an mp3 file in my car on my iPhone. I installed VLC and used that, but it was an experiment with
    only 2 files (1 hour techno mixes) and it worked well. No idea how it behaves with a large library - YMMV.
    I also don'thave Carplay in this car, so I'm not sure whether VLC
    supports it.

    All I can tell you after a time is that I wrote my own MacOS multimedia playing application (supports mp3, flac, m3a and wav) and I got some idea how to organize playback using CoreAudio on Apple's platform.

    I'm not far away now to create my own IOS app if I invested more time to learn how to make GUI for my code. I don't even need to publish via AppStore, I could self-release via CodeFlight or sth.

    With AI these days simple apps can be sorted out quickly without external dev help if you have any devs skills yourself.

    -h1

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  • From hollowone@1337:1/120 to dozo on Mon Oct 13 20:29:19 2025
    Yeah, I figured :) can't tell how well it handles that.
    I must admit that I caved for the streaming services nowadays. With do> three
    teenagers and not wanting them download all kinds of crap I'm on Spotify (5 users for the price of 2 made it interesting).


    Well, and more over after my previous revisited reply:

    I hate Spotify, it's such an elevator background music service. I don't like the way it enforces you to discover music.

    And.. I don't like music app to use GBs of memory because it's crappy code at the end. My own audio player I coded recently is 500kB in size as executable and while decoding 320kB mp3s and high quality flacs it never goes beyond 80MB RAM usage in total.

    People forgot how to code products that are technically excellent these days... all is crapware and spyware to survey on your habits to benefit the vendors not your user experience. I rebel against that more and more.

    Lately I'm thinking about ripping al my own CDs again and build a collection of what I own. Then decent players come in play (pun not intended).


    None taken ;) you'll get there!

    -h1

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