audio

• arch wiki - sound system
• ALSA: kernel driver
• PipeWire/PulseAudio on top
• bluetooth: bluez
• mpris: playerctl

Music applications

• cmus
• cider
• Apple Music
• iTunes

Apple Music

• use web client: music.apple.com
• pros: no installation/configuration
• cons: many
  • need apple device for 2fa sign in
    • this is not true
  • feels slow/clunky
  • randomly breaks
  • doesn't store place

iTunes

• this is possible to wine but is broken on the latest version
• black screen from some rendering issue
• version list: https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/ITunes
• doesn't seem to be able to import many things, randomly crashes
• https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=292556
• probably not worth the effort, just use cider, an open-source electron Apple Music client

Sync music

sync to iphone

• to replace sync to iPhone feature see arch wiki - ios
• install ifuse to allow access to filesystem from linux (uses libimobiledevice)

pacman -S ifuse

• if freezes on write (see #63, probably fixed in newest versions) try aur

paru -S ifuse-git

• use vlc on phone since simple copying directly to folder, see provided fish script

function musicsync --description "sync music to phone"
  # mount vlc media folder to ~/mnt
  ifuse --documents org.videolan.vlc-ios ~/mnt
  # see https://superuser.com/questions/1192448/rsync-mkstemp-filename-failed-function-not-implemented-38
  rsync -av --progress --no-perms --no-owner --no-group --exclude "*.m3u" \
    ~/Music/personal ~/mnt/
  # copy playlists from cmus
  set temp (pwd)
  cd ~/Music/personal/playlists
  python cmus_copy.py
  # generate playlists from artists
  python artist_playlist.py
  cd "$temp"
  rsync -av --progress --no-perms --no-owner --no-group \
    ~/Music/personal/playlists ~/mnt/personal
  # done
  umount ~/mnt
end

sync to android

• see android-tools
• syncing music

function musicsync --description 'sync music to phone'
    # copy playlists from cmus
    set temp (pwd)
    cd ~/Music/personal/playlists
    python cmus_copy.py
    # generate playlists from artists
    python artist_playlist.py
    cd "$temp"
    # copy over to phone
    adb push --sync ~/Music/ /storage/self/primary/
end