Guides
Getting your own music onto an iPhone
Seven situations that send people looking for a local music player, and what to actually do in each one. No account required to follow any of them.
Play FLAC on an iPhone
The iPhone decodes FLAC and always has. Getting a FLAC file onto it is the part Apple never made easy.
Read the guideMove a library off Android
Switch to iOS moves your photos and messages. The folder of music files is the part it leaves behind.
Read the guidePut a ripped CD on an iPhone
You ripped it losslessly on purpose. Getting it onto the phone should not undo that.
Read the guideWhen streaming takes a song away
The album is greyed out and the playlist has a hole in it. Owning the file is the only fix that lasts.
Read the guideYour own music in the car
A tunnel, a data cap or a rural road, and the streaming app stalls. Files on the phone never do.
Read the guideLyrics for your own files
Lyrics apps look a song up in a catalogue. The rip, the bootleg and the demo are not in it — so the words have to come from the recording.
Read the guideKaraoke and practising a part
Take the voice out, move the key, loop the bar you keep missing and slow it down — on a song you own, on the phone.
Read the guideMore ways to solve it
Practical answers for common iPhone music questions
Shorter guides for the exact jobs people search for before they know which player they need.
An offline music player for iPhone that plays files you own
bMusic is built for people who already have a music library and want it available on an iPhone without streaming, subscriptions, or a required account.
Read the guideHow to play MP3 files on iPhone without iTunes
You do not need to put an MP3 into the Apple Music library to play it on an iPhone. A file-based player can import the MP3 directly and keep it available offline.
Read the guideTransfer music from a PC to iPhone without iTunes
For a folder-based music collection on Windows, the cleanest workflow is a direct local-network transfer: no cable, no iTunes library, and no re-encoding.
Read the guideUse your NAS music library on iPhone
If your music already lives on a NAS, you should not have to upload it into another company’s cloud just to listen on an iPhone.
Read the guideGapless playback for your own music on iPhone
Live albums, DJ mixes and many classical recordings are supposed to flow from one track into the next without a pause. bMusic keeps that transition continuous for supported local files.
Read the guideSynced LRC lyrics for your own music on iPhone
Local music does not have to mean giving up synchronized lyrics. bMusic can use LRC files, lyrics stored in tags, or lyrics generated on the device from the audio itself.
Read the guideBring your own music
Every part of bMusic works for 15 days from the day you install it, with nothing held back. Send one album across and hear it on your own headphones.
iPhone, iPad and Mac · iOS 18.0 or later · MP3, AAC, M4A, ALAC, FLAC, OPUS, WAV, AIFF