Prefer a free app, but willing to pay for a quality alternative to the default music app. The main needs are: 1. Not a lot of bloat.

I don't need all kinds of syncing features and cloud stuff and ads and anything besides the basics (standard music controls, playlists, you know what I mean). The ultra basicness of the default app is excellent, if only it had the option to play from folders and not requiring a sync to the library, which brings us to the main point: 2. Plays music from folders, without needing the library. Prefer a free app, but willing to pay for a quality alternative to the default music app. The main needs are: 1.

What is the best paid/free music player app for the iPhone? Discussion in 'iOS Apps' started by rodetrip, Mar 24, 2014.

Not a lot of bloat. I don't need all kinds of syncing features and cloud stuff and ads and anything besides the basics (standard music controls, playlists, you know what I mean).

The ultra basicness of the default app is excellent, if only it had the option to play from folders and not requiring a sync to the library, which brings us to the main point: 2. Plays music from folders, without needing the library. Ya I want to organize my music within folders on my iPhone, and play them through a lightweight player that doesn't sacrifice standard features like playlist functionality.

So I might have a folder for each artist, with subfolders for each album, and decide I want a playlist with songs from several different folders. It's pretty important that the player doesn't rely on syncing or the library. I intend to drag and drop music from my PC to folders on the iPhone (my computer can access folders on my iPhone), bypassing the need to sync but also eliminating the ability to use the default music player. I will check out the app you mentioned, but any suggestions for relevant music player apps are very welcome.

What I don't need is anything I didn't mention. I don't want wireless syncing/streaming etc etc etc. Well I said I was willing to pay money, so I solved the problem by buying PwnTunes. Not to be a negative nancy, but the jailbreak experience is a testament to how not to make a phone. Everything about jailbreaking is centered around forcing the iPhone to do what Android takes for granted. No alternative music apps, what??? There's dozens on the Android market.

BiteSMS is the pinnacle of texting on iPhone??? It's like the beta version of a random Android Market SMS app from years ago. Free market apps on android top what you have to jailbreak the iPhone + pay just to try to accomplish. Very dissapointing.

I switched to the iPhone from the EVO 4g, which I hacked relentlessly for FUN, not because I needed basic features you would expect from a phone 2 years ago. I thought the iPhone would be a fun new experience, but instead its a shiny toy built by cavemen, and its dissapointing that even after I jailbreak the thing I still have to spend money on low-rent apps just to accomplish common-sense functionality. Anyways, solution = spend money on an app called PwnTunes, and use the default music player (which, being from the stone age, can't access music by folders). Short answer: I don't use iTunes, and I already said I'm for playlist functionality. Long answer: 1. I use Ubuntu, therefore iTunes isn't an option. We are out of the stone age, so switching to a stone age operating system (windows) just to use a single piece of stone age malware (iTunes) in order to use my stone age phone (iPhone) isn't even an option on my radar. E-sword bible program.

Yes, that makes me stubborn. Stubbornness is the cause of human progress.

It was stubborn cavemen who didn't settle for not having fire. It was stubborn scientists who didn't settle for not having electricity and running water. People have always mocked the minority who demands progress, and yet it is the minority who has advanced civilization. People are mostly retarded barbarians who don't challenge mainstream ideas because they'd rather feel accepted. I don't care about being accepted by retarded barbarians, I care about human progress and quality of living, which means thinking outside the box, refusing to accept the status quo (which is really what jailbreaking is all about in the first place) and thus inviting enterprising entreprenuers to serve me (like the guy who made PwnTunes). I listen to a lot of audiobooks, about philosophy and economics and politics and for some reason when I was dumb enough to bother with iTunes, when I changed my audiobook files from 'music' or whatever to 'audiobook' they would dissappear into oblivion on my phone and yet still take up space, and I would have to go through a HUGE hassle trying to find and remove each on individually only to re-add them as normal music files which mucked up a whole lot of stuff in the process.