In 2025, playing your own music on an iPhone is surprisingly hard, unless you pay Apple or navigate a maze of limitations. So I built my own player from scratch, with full text search, iCloud support, and a local-first experience. GitHub link
Why I Built My Own Audio Player Like many people, I’ve picked up too many subscriptions, some through Apple (iCloud, Apple Music), others got lost in random platforms (like Netflix, which I forgot I was still paying for). I actually used Apple Music regularly (and previously Spotify), but the streaming turned out to be more convenience than necessity. With a curated local library, I didn’t lose much, just the lock-in.
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Apples own Music app (without Apple Music subscription), VLC, PlexAmp…
It’s not hard if you look.
Edit, I’ve taken a look at what you’ve done and I quite like it. Of my comment was snippy it’s because the question of easily playing mp3s is solved. But if the existing solutions don’t fit your niche workflow preference, like it sounds like it doesn’t, I love the idea of writing something that does.
One issue I have with ALL the local and streaming platforms (save for Apple Music Classical, ironically) is every one of them organizes in Artist>Album>Track, whereas classical music have different organizational needs. I wonder if local wave can be altered a bit to accommodate such organizational changes?
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You do not.
My solution: vmware fusion or virtualbox with windows installed and running winamp.
…so you’re one of those people who seeks out overly complex and convoluted solutions for the sake of being different.
Maybe it’s just that I am in IT and the problem isn’t that difficult for me or others with tech savvy to begin with.
I was just trying to offer a solution, damn, ease up
I loved to do this kind of stuff when i was younger. Especially this kind of OS interactions. It actually gave me a lot of experience and helped a lot in my job, where i have to find solutions out of the norm.