Static for iOS - the player without problems for those who hate iTunes and Apple Music
Ios / / December 22, 2019
After starting Apple Music standard music player in iOS has become annoying: it perekroenny interface, and background of your personal music library to Apple catalog. Fortunately, the "apple" player pebble not converged. He has a decent alternative.
Static conceived as a convenient no-frills player that can play your music (MP3, WAV, M4A, M4B, AIF, ALAC, ALE), supports booting from a cloud storage and network, as well as nice looks. For this, he liked me.
Static interface is so simple that it will not be confused, even a child. In addition to the usual controls, we have a menu screen and the playing song. Nothing more.
Volume, play mode and EQ deliberately delivered in the sidebar. In the Now Playing almost the entire screen adorns the album cover, sharing the place with the rest of the controls. Hence, we can supply the track Like, add it to a playlist or share a link to a video (Static automatically find it on YouTube).
Tracks downloaded from the iTunes library on the iPhone will automatically appear in the Static, but there are other ways to move your music to a new player. This can be done through the shared folders on the local network or AirDrop, via Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Amazon S3, as well as through other applications installed on the iPhone (for example, Google Drive). And, of course, the traditional imports through the "Common Files" in iTunes also has not been canceled.
In addition to the broad possibilities of import and supported formats, the application also impresses with chips like the smooth animation and fade when switching tracks, automatically adjusting colors themes under the cover of the track and the possibility to share links to videos songs.
Without the drawbacks, however, also has not done. I did not like the mechanism for creating playlists: You can not create a new playlist and select the songs that will be included in it - you need to open each song individually and sent to the appropriate playlist. There are no ready-made preset equalizer, only manual adjustments. trouble also with the encoding of tags can sometimes be found "gibberish."
For those who appreciate simplicity, does not like iTunes sync or just do not use Apple Music, Static can be a real boon. App now is distributed for free, so that the swing and try for yourself, you have nothing to lose.