Hooklines vs FileAudioPlayer

Hooklines is a creative workspace built for musicians, poets, lyricists, and songwriters who live for inspiration. Whether you’re capturing a quick idea on the go or developing a full set of lyrics, Hooklines helps you organize your creativity and bring structure to the songwriting process. Every great song begins with a spark — and in Hooklines, that spark takes the form of a snippet. Hooklines is inspired by the Verbasizer, an idea created by David Bowie, Brian Eno and Ty Roberts (the original idea and copyright of the Verbasizer is owned by Ty Roberts). Hooklines has taken that concept and expanded it with innovative concepts such as Snippets, SnippetBooks and randomized lyrics. Snippets are short phrases, lyric fragments, or complete lyric lines that capture your ideas as they come to you. These pieces of inspiration can later become part of a verse, a chorus, or even the hookline of your song. With Hooklines, you never lose a thought — you collect them, refine them, and transform them into lyrics that stick. Think of snippets as sparks of creativity where you come up with a couple words or a phrase that can serve as the starting point to a lyric line or even a whole song. When it’s time to write, Hooklines gives you a hands-on, drag-and-drop interface that makes lyric building intuitive and fun. You can experiment with structure, rearrange lines, and play with flow and rhythm — all while keeping your creative energy moving. The visual layout helps you see your song take shape, one line at a time, without losing the freedom to explore. Hooklines helps to spark creativity by letting it throw together bunches of random works - maybe you'll find a few words or phrase that gives you the inspiration for a new song. An exciting feature of Hooklnes is creating randomized lyric lines in a song. What is this you ask? Let Hooklines take all the snippets (or the words) in a SnippetBook you've selected, and add them all together in a single lyric line in a random order. You can redo a randomize lyric line, or create multiple randomized lyric lines in a song. Creating randomized lyric lines presents you with unique and maybe interesting combination of snippets, where a word combination might spark some imagination to help you in your writing. Need some help with rhymes or coming up with just the right word? Hooklines has built in word utilities such as rhyming, find words with similar meaning, and show me words that often follow another word. Hooklines also has a built in dictionary, thesaurus and spell checker! Lyric lines do not have to start, or even contain snippets. Just type in the lyrics you want into that line and you're good to go. Need to rearrange lyric lines, just grab the lyric line, drag it to where you want it, and just drop it in place. Feel like using a snippet in more than one song, trying to find the right song where that line sticks - no problem. Need to get the lyrics on printed paper, it's easy because Hooklines allows you to email the lyrics to yourself at any time. Once a song is finished, you can archive it, keeping it safely stored without cluttering your workspace. This way, you can revisit old material whenever you like — to refine it, reuse it, or simply enjoy seeing how your writing has evolved. At any time you can share a song via email. When editing a song, press the mail button in the top right and the song is emailed to you. Active versus Archived songs - Think of archived songs as ones you're done working (at the moment or for good). You can archive the to keep your song's creative starting point (or complete song) around. Hooklines isn’t just about storing words — it’s about nurturing creativity. It gives songwriters a clear, inspiring place to shape ideas, explore possibilities, and discover the perfect hookline. Whether you’re writing your first song or your hundredth, Hooklines helps you turn fragments into finished lyrics and inspiration into unforgettable music.

■ Play the audio files you keep — comfortably, to the end. FileAudioPlayer is for playing the audio files you already have — especially the long ones — picking up where you left off, changing the speed, and remembering the spots you marked, all the way to the end. It's made for everyday use: getting through long audio over several sittings, or repeating the same section while you practice. In an age of streaming, there are fewer and fewer good places to sit with the audio files you actually own. ■ Good for - Recordings of old radio programs - Audio transferred from old cassette tapes - Instrument practice from a pocket recorder - Language-learning audio - Re-listening to web meeting recordings - Lectures and seminars on video (plays the audio) ■ Importing — mainly through the Files app The main way is through the iOS Files app: iCloud Drive, SMB shares, and other cloud services visible in Files all become import sources. Bring in a whole folder at once, and receive audio shared from other apps. You can also connect directly to Amazon S3 to download. It can also pull just the audio out of a video file — handy for listening to a recorded lecture as audio. ■ Remember where you were It records the position whenever you stop, pause, or start playback. If your earbuds get bumped in your pocket and playback runs ahead, you can jump back to a recorded spot. Marks sit on the bar, colored by the time of day they were made, and you can step to the previous or next one with a single button. It also resumes from where you last stopped. ■ For repeating and practicing Play from 1.0x to 2.0x, with one tap back to normal speed. Skip back and forward with four buttons whose durations you set yourself — so a small step back is easy during language study or practice. ■ Keeps playing with the screen off Background playback, lock-screen and Control Center controls, and AirPlay. ■ Organize and undo Arrange things in nested folders, and move files or folders later. Deletes go to a trash first, so mistakes can be undone. Imported audio is also visible in the Files app. Available in Japanese and English (switchable in the app).