IN 2025, APPLE STILL MAKES IT HARD TO PLAY YOUR OWN MP3S, SO I WROTE MY OWN APP

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Frustrated with Apple's limitations on playing personal MP3s and the subscription-based models of third-party apps, this developer built his own iOS music player with features like full-text search and iCloud support using Swift and SwiftUI. It has a local-first experience and uses SQLite for fast fuzzy searching.