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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by Espressosaurus on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:03PM (#31137313)
How do you play it? How do you import them into your library? If it's not mp3, aac, or m4a, iTunes won't index it, it won't end up in your library, and any of the standard music apps will not play it.

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.

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by codr7 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:26PM (#31137570)
I use VLC, which works great.

I don't use iTunes, ever, anywhere; and I feel sorry for anyone who does.

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by Espressosaurus on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:47PM (#31159037)
VLC, fine. How do you transfer .ogg or similar files to your iphone?
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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by Handytinge on Monday May 02, 2022 @01:14AM (#31231669)
You can use iTunes, the VLC web interfacr, iCloud, Dropbox, NextCloud and probably a myriad of other ways I haven't considered.

It's not 2008 anymore.

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by sixbrx on Sunday April 24, 2022 @08:04AM (#31143256)
I use Foobar2000 on iOS where you can toggle its embedded FTP server to transfer files, either to its own music library or one shared with iTunes. It's very easy.
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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by xvector on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:11PM (#31137399)
Nevermind, looks like I had some conversion going on to get those files on my iPhone. It's irrelevant anyways, since AAC is audibly transparent to the human ear.
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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by grumpyprole on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:16PM (#31137451)
AAC may not be audibly transparent after its transcoded for Bluetooth. If you are using Apple headphones then this of course shouldn't happen, but for Sony's LDAC, better to start with FLAC.
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