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From: Rick <rick@nospam.com>
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Subject: Re: Strange Problem Transferring data from PC to iPhone VLC app
Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 21:27:58 -0400
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On 5/9/2025 11:48 PM, Marion wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2025 20:39:11 -0400, Rick wrote :
> 
> 
>> This is an odd problem.  I use VLC to play audios on my iPhone.  When I
>> need to transfer new audios from my primary home PC to the iPhone, I
>> open the VLC app and click on the Networking tab and it gives me the ip
>> address to connect to on the PC.  It┬ usually something like
>> 192.168.1.146.  Both the phone and my PC are connected to the home
>> router.  When I enter this into the browser on the PC, it brings up a
>> screen that says Sharing via Wi-Fi, a section that says Drop Files, and
>> I literally just click and drag the audio files on the PC to that window
>> which transfers them to the VLC app on the iPhone.  This works great and
>> I have been doing it for years with no problem.  If needed, I can also
>> do this transfer using either of two other PCs on my home network, which
>> are a Windows 7 and another Windows 11.
>>
>> Recently for reasons I don┤ understand, this transfer stopped working
>> on my main Windows 11 computer.  I have checked the address in VLC
>> networking and it matches what I type in on the Windows 11 PC. I have
>> rebooted both phone and PC. I have verified I am connected to my home
>> wireless on both devices. Everything else works fine on both devices. I
>> can access the internet fine on both. I can access files on the other
>> PCs on the home network just fine. But this one VLC connect function
>> will not work unless I engage in a weird workaround.
> 
> I feel for you. I had been using that method of setting up VLC as a server
> over the Wi-Fi LAN to copy movies from the PC over to the iOS iPad.
> 
> Most of the time it works.
> Sometimes it just fails.
> 
> I never debugged why.
> I used to just keep trying and eventually every movie copied over.
> 
> In your case, that's not happening, and you're trying to debug it.
> One suggestion I have for debugging is to see if "some other method" works.
> 
> What would I suggest as "some other method" you ask?
> a. Well, of course, it would be either "SMB in the Files" app.
> b. Or, it would be LocalSend.
> 
> Either will work but LocalSend will work while you're sitting at the PC.
> With the Files app set up as a SMB client, there's more admin overhead.
> 
> Given the Files app is more of a PITA than is LocalSend for your debugging,
> I suggest you try LocalSend first (it will almost certainly work).
>   <https://localsend.org/de/download>
> 
> Basically, you do this:
> a. Install LocalSend on all your devices
> b. Make sure all the devices are on the same LAN
> c. Transfer the files from one device to another
> 
> You can even go from one iOS device to another.
> Or you can go from iOS to Android.
> 
> LocalSend works on every common consumer platform.
> Good luck!

To be clear, I do have a workaround which is I just prime the software 
to work by running the transfer on another PC on the network.  I can 
then either do the transfer on the other PC (transferring the files from 
my main PC which I can access fro the other PC) or I just walk over to 
the main PC and the transfer now works.  I am not interesting in, and 
don't really need to use different software or a different mechanism to 
get the files onto the phone.

Also, if I use a totally different software to transfer files to the 
phone, I would have to make sure those files could now be accessed by 
the VLC software.  I actually do have ways to get files into the iPhone 
music app, but I don't know how to access those files using the VLC app.