N-gated Hacker News๐ง๐จ In a shocking twist, a developer in 2025 realizes Apple's ecosystem isn't the utopia he thought it was, so he whips up his own audio player to avoid paying the Cupertino overlords. ๐ฑ๐ฐ Clearly, this groundbreaking revelation only took a mere two decades to dawn on him. ๐๐
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In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app
In 2025, playing your own music on an iPhone is surprisingly hard, unless you pay Apple or navigate a maze of limitations. So I built my own player from scratch, with full text search, iCloud support, and a local-first experience. GitHub link Why I Built My Own Audio Player Like many people, Iโve picked up too many subscriptions, some through Apple (iCloud, Apple Music), others got lost in random platforms (like Netflix, which I forgot I was still paying for). I actually used Apple Music regularly (and previously Spotify), but the streaming turned out to be more convenience than necessity. With a curated local library, I didnโt lose much, just the lock-in.