I have a Gen 1 iPad mini which I believe maxes out at iOS 9.3.5 or there about. Is there any way to get it to understand a wider variety of audio codecs so I can repurpose it as a wired interface for my digital music collection?
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By "wired" I mean permanently plugged into power because the battery is dead and hooked up to the amp via the 3.5mm audio jack. It would be accessing the audio files over wifi either via a network drive or a web interface.
For those playing along at home, I’m taking a side road in this. Since the media server I use (Jellyfin) does, in fact, do transcoding, the codec issue is moot. But! The Jellyfin web app does not have a media player that supports very old iOS, and none of the native apps in the store appear to support iOS 9 either.
So the answer appears to be “write a custom front end for the Jellyfin API”. Which I am now doing. Because sure, why not.
Anyone feel like talking me out of using #jquery for a project in 2026? I'd be using it mostly for generating and inserting HTML into the DOM from JS. I'd rather use something like nanohtml, but I'm in a pre-es6 environment and I'm not using a bundler/build script — I need something stand alone. #webdev #javascript
@simon can you not just use modern vanilla js?
