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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Apple products are great. The Apple ecosystem is not. If you like FOSS, you're going to have a bad time.

Putting music on my iPhone sucks because iTunes won't recognize or transfer .FLAC format. File sharing on iPhone is really inconstant and buggy. And I need a whole 3rd party app to get the data moved. Or I can upload things to iCloud 5GB at a time.

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[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I remember hating the syncing. Just fucking let me select the files and drag it over! Then every software company decided that they needed to idiot proof every fucking thing to the same extent over the next 20 years. I fucking hate Apple's devs for that.

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[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Flac would be a waste of the limited storage on an IPhone that doesn't even have the ability to play such high fidelity audio. You are limited to what? Bluetooth or the crappy DAC in the USB-C port with an adapter?

I always kept flac as an archival format, and transcoded when transferring to any device into the best format for that device.

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[–] flameleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I use LocalSend to transfer the files and play them on the iPhone with VLC. Only issue I have is the iOS file browser doesn't like filenames or folders with special characters like é or ö.

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