The thing is nobody* does that.
There are a few. That’s why I added the asterisk. But realistically very few people actually do it. Especially compared to the number of iPhones they sell every year.
If you were using MP3 files, you wouldn’t have an issue. Or AAC. There might even be others. Apple really likes to make things easy, but they tend to only do it for the common case. That’s what gets the most use, that’s what makes the most people happy, that’s what they focus on.
If you’re the kind of person who wants to do things that are far out of the mainstream you’re never going to be happy with an iPhone. You can use other apps as other people pointed out. But I wouldn’t expect this to ever work in Apple’s music player. It’s the same reason you can’t have root, re-theme your phone heavily, replace the dialer, or a lot of other heavy customizations. That’s not what they focus on.
It’s just their ethos.
Because it is difficult to do.
> If you’re the kind of person who wants to do things that are far out of the mainstream you’re never going to be happy with an iPhone.
FLACs are not the act of an extremist.
No, at this point I think the vast majority of people just use streaming services.
The second biggest group, but probably much smaller, it’s people like me who both have a library and a streaming service.
After that, smaller again, I would assume it’s people who have just a library. The majority of these are probably files bought from Apple and Microsoft and Amazon. Those are all formats that the iPhone can play.
In last place is people who use more unique formats like FLAC. I understand why you would want it over the other formats. But I think it’s by far the least common case.
I find that hard to believe when so many music stores and labels (especially classical music and jazz) are selling FLAC downloads. It all works fine on Android with great polished and featureful apps like "USB Audio Player Pro".
GOOG phones used to cost less than half of APPL ones. And for a while to have physically wider screens which made them better book readers. Unfortunately the price difference seems to be nearly negligible now.
1) you can connect it a computer open Finder go to apps section drag the file there
2) put the file in the iCloud and access it from any device with the files app on
3) in Safari if a link is a media file you can share it with VLC
and that's just 3 off the top of my head, I think there's a couple more. It's really not that hard, gone are the days where apps needed to run local webservers to slurp content. But actually VLC can actually probably get media that way too.
2. Requires a proprietary apple service. I'm starting to notice a trend with your suggestions.
3. Are you really suggesting people manually download their files one by one? Rofl.
What is the options for Android?
I don’t know of any native android solution that allows for sync to sync desktop or online platform for specifically FLAC files without a backend user/server/client service that is native.
What’s your alternative?
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html
> A media library, with WiFi Uploads & Downloads, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, OneDrive & Box.com integration and optional passcode lock.
>Web Interface for easy uploads and downloads to/from device.
I would be shocked if > 20% of Android users manage their own music library rather than using one of the standard music streaming services.
You've picked on iOS (incorrectly) for not being able to playback FLAC, then shifted argument. The point was proven that you don't need to buy into Apples ecosystem for this.
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.
I don't use iTunes, ever, anywhere; and I feel sorry for anyone who does.
It's not 2008 anymore.
Although before that, I made my own ringtone using GarageBand off a ripped mp3 and didn’t buy anything through the apple store.
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