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In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app

nexo.sh In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app

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 pi...

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It always confounds be to come across such bold claims that are so easily debunked by…just anyone doing the thing claimed to be difficult/impossible. I have my own mp3s on my iPhone right now. Like what?
- It’s annoying that its the same app as apple streaming
  
  and requires iTunes syncing, annoying, limited encoder support and not available on Linux unless you use a third party app, not that many open source or privacy-friendly ones
  
  My GF has an iphone, and on KDE I can just connect it via USB and it's visible in the file manager.
  There's also this.
  
  Linux users simultaneously love to be anti establishment but also cry that there’s no support for Linux.
  
  Your mistake is thinking there's some hive mind.
  An absolutely tiny amount of people want fewer first party apps.
  The vast majority would like all software to be available on all desktop OSes.

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