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| ==== Use your old smartphone as your digital audio player ==== | ==== Use your old smartphone as your digital audio player ==== | ||
| - | Recently there has been a growing interest in old iPods, with modding community growing and people retrofitting them with flash drives, changing their cases, batteries etc. There are also a lot of really cool new digital audio players (DAPs) being released. This new trend is undoubtedly cool, but it also resulted in prices going way up in the second hand market. If you want to save some bucks, what you can do is to repurpose your old smartphone as a DAP. We came across a social media post by @assortedtapes | + | Recently there has been a growing interest in old iPods, with modding community growing and people retrofitting them with flash drives, changing their cases, batteries etc. There are also a lot of really cool new digital audio players (DAPs) being released. This new trend is undoubtedly cool, but it also resulted in prices going way up in the second hand market. If you want to save some bucks, what you can do is to repurpose your old smartphone as a DAP. We came across a social media post by @assortedtapes, |
| - | * First, debloat your old smartphone. On Android, you can do this with a software on a computer, called Universal Android Debloater, or you can install the app De-Bloater from F-Droid on your phone. This will clean all the unnecessary stuff your phone comes with. This step is for Android users. | + | * First, debloat your old smartphone. On Android, you can do this with a software on a computer, called |
| - | * Both on iPhone and Android, you can go to the settings, and disable all the unnecessary things. If you are going to use streaming (for your own local streaming server), you can leave network on. Same goes for Bluetooth. But you can disable location, and even put your iPhone into the so-called | + | * Both on iPhone and Android, you can go to the settings, and disable all the unnecessary things. If you are going to use streaming (for your own local streaming server), you can leave network on. Same goes for Bluetooth. But you can disable location, and even put your iPhone into [[https:// |
| - | * On iPhone, you can install an alternative " | + | * On iPhone, you can install an alternative " |
| - | * Transfer your music to your smartphone, using either wired transfer, USB drives, SD cards, or your cloud storage like Nextcloud etc. If you want to stream your own music library, you can use Jellyfin or Navidrome. | + | * Transfer your music to your smartphone, using either wired transfer, USB drives, SD cards, or your cloud storage like [[nextcloud|Nextcloud]] etc. If you want to stream your own music library, you can use Jellyfin or Navidrome. |
| - | * Finally, install a nice app to listen to your music on the smartphone-turned-into-DAP. My favorite on Android is [[https:// | + | * Finally, install a nice app to listen to your music on the smartphone-turned-into-DAP. My favorite on Android is [[https:// |
| + | * As a bonus, if you want to upgrade the sound quality of the smartphone, you can pair it with a wired or Bluetooth DAC, there are many relatively inexpensive ones from brands like Fiio etc. which will give you nice audio quality when paired with some nice headphones. | ||
| ==== I deleted my Spotify account. How do I listen to podcasts now? ==== | ==== I deleted my Spotify account. How do I listen to podcasts now? ==== | ||