Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone.
So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra > -----Original Message----- > From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane > Trethowan > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device > > Hi! > > Ive decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the > main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says > that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file > formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. > > This is - to a major extent - true if youre using say the iPhones Music > Player App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating > system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far > as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you > use a third party plug-in so essentially were referring to the same type of > problem but with different operating systems. > > The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter available > from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer over > a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your choosing but > again, there are ways around that snag. > > Okay so its best not to focus on what cant be done and focus on what can be > done so lets do that with IOS. > > The first App youll need is a Player and there are several good ones out > there but for the sake of simplicity lets focus on two, oOplayer and File > Browser, both do exactly what their names suggest. > > With both you can set up remote locations such as a Dropbox account, > computer on a local or remote network, UPNP/DLNA device and so on, > when configured you can then select what files you wish to hear or view. > > Now supposing you want to take your iPhone away from any network and > want your favourite music to accompany you? No problem as both the > aforementioned Apps will allow you to download your Music from a specific > point - computer, Dropbox account etc - right to a folder on your iPhone > where you can browse, play and manipulate your files to your hearts > content. > > So this brings us to another possibly challenging topic, iPhones have only so > much storage space so what if you have thousands upon thousands of files > you wish to access at any one time or supposing your music collection is in a > Lossless format that takes up a good deal of space? > > If this is the case then its time to look at a pocket sized hard drive with a > built-in Wi-Fi network, I mentioned my Skyshare drive towards the end of > last week and this drive has its own built-in Wi-Fi network which the iPhone > can connect to. > > Once connected the Apps I mentioned earlier - oOplayer and File Browser - > have direct access to the drive thus the content youve placed too the drive. > > The Skyshare drive on the surface looks like any other portable hard drive, it > has a USB port on the back for connection to a computer with a USB 3.0 port > for the copying and manipulation of content, you can also use the Wi-Fi > abilities of the drive for copying/manipulating files though this process is > considerably slower when compared to USB 3.0 or even 2. > >
