Post #2395699

2026-05-03 18:34 UTC

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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@Sisyphe@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 19:04

The only Apple product I ever had was a 5th gen iPod. I remember having to “sync” it to my iTunes library. The concept of syncing was alien to me at the time, it seemed unnecessarily complicated (and it was!). Of course, I didn’t put up with that crap for long so I installed Rockbox on it. That let me copy files directly. It supported .flac and a whole lot of other formats and it ran DOOM and a Gameboy emulator.

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@Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2026-05-04 12:12

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 2026-05-03 20:12

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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