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I'm not certain why the idea popped into my head two weeks ago to turn my S9+ into a dedicated audio player (DAP); but the idea was there, so last week I got started on the transformation. Here's what I did to get there. For clarification, I already had Pocket Casts, Spotify, SiriusXM, Stingray Music, Radioplayer, TuneIn Radio, etc. on the device. It was already a streaming music / podcast device, but I wanted to go even further and load my music library. Step 1: SoftwareThe Galaxy S9 uses Android 10, and Samsung's OneUI 2.5. It's quite out of date in terms of what Android looks like today, but it's still supported by current apps and receives updates. This is great, because one of the things I looked into (briefly) was a custom ROM to run the latest version of Android1. I've heard a lot about Poweramp and how great the player is, so that was the first piece of the puzzle. (Bonus—I didn't realize that Poweramp can play Apple Lossless files; I thought I was going to have to convert all…

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