tomasandrle

Tiny Player - a music player for iPhone at http://www.catnapgames.com/tiny-player/ (free). Got tired of using iTunes to "sync" mp3s and watching it fail. Took about 2 months' worth of weekends and evenings, now I use it every day.

Ah, no real playlists, it's really just folders. You can swipe left on library items to "enqueue", that's about it. As for loading music you could try dragging the contents of ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music onto the Loader.. I've tested with quite large folders. Moving from the iPhone Music app is not supported, I might look into that later.

You need to be on WiFi. Open a desktop browser and point it to the URL that the app gives you in the Upload tab or get the Tiny Loader Mac app (http://www.catnapgames.com/tiny-loader/) to just drag & drop files and folders - it finds your phone automatically using Bonjour.

If you still have problems please msg me directly or tweet @catnapgames, thanks.

Vox is not perfect but works fine as a player: http://coppertino.com/vox/mac

Sure. Hopefuly "a bunch" could be reduced to just two: Apple Music client and iPhone sync app. The rest would be removed without a replacement (on Windows). The headphone jack removal shows that Apple is willing to make people angry about some things for a long term benefit and iTunes is imho a good candidate for the next "act of courage", heh.

It must be really hard to maintain and add features to such a huge old application. Platforms have changed underneath it, the devices and services it connects to have come and gone, Objective C has changed a lot as well. And then there's the Windows version...

Still, iTunes is crap. I hated it so much that I wrote my own music player for iOS, just to avoid using iTunes for putting music on my phone [1].

My guess is that sooner or later, iTunes will be dismantled and the features will be split into multiple smaller apps. There will be a music app that JUST plays music from the Apple Music account, a podcast app that JUST plays podcasts, a sync app that JUST helps you manage stuff on your phone etc. Some features will be removed (Internet radio, ripping & burning CDs). And of those that remain, only a few will need to keep a Windows counterpart. That way, things will be easier to maintain.

[1] Tiny Player: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1140849233

Thanks for the correction. I wrote the original title based on the warning on their homepage: "Critical security notice to users who downloaded Transmission 2.92 for Mac on August 28th or 29th".

Is the program entry renamed to "maim"?

Nice, I have found some hard to reproduce bugs using tools like this. On Mac OS X and iOS, there's the Network Link Conditioner which is built into iOS and part of the developer tools package on MAC OS X I believe (installed as a Preference pane).

Nice to see some Swift wrappers. I don't like Core Data so this looks like an option when writing iOS apps. For more portable code, here is my C++ wrapper for SQLite: https://github.com/catnapgames/NLDatabase

Interesting! I just finished writing a very similar engine in C++. https://github.com/catnapgames/NLTemplate