Refrain guides
Everything here is about music you already have — files you made, bought, ripped or recorded. These are the workflows people actually run.
A Suno creator's guide to listening to your own catalogue
You have made four hundred songs and never listen to any of them. The routine that turns a Suno account into a library you actually play.
A flight-safe music library
Streaming downloads expire, need check-ins, and fail at the worst moment. Files on the device do not. What to set up the day before you fly.
An offline music player that doesn't want an account
No sign-in, no subscription, no ads, no analytics, and no network requests at all. What "offline" actually means when an app means it.
Demos and works in progress, off the streaming services
Rough mixes should not be uploaded anywhere. A local library gives you the car test, the headphone test and the walk test without your unreleased work leaving the phone.
Field recordings and live sets, organised
Recordings arrive as ZOOM0042.WAV with no tags and no dates you can read. How to make a pile of untitled recordings into something you can find things in.
Four ways to get music into Refrain, and when to use each
Choose files, choose a folder, browse a folder, or receive over Wi-Fi. Which import route to use depends on what you have and where it is.
Get synced lyrics to scroll with your own music files
Drop an .lrc file in beside the song and Refrain pairs them by filename. How LRC and SRT work, what SYLT and USLT are, and which one wins.
Getting Udio tracks onto your phone, and what changed in 2025
Udio disabled downloads in October 2025. Files you exported before then still play anywhere. Here is the honest state of play, and why the downloader sites are a bad idea.
How to fix song titles, artists, albums and cover art on your phone
Fix fifty badly named tracks in one pass, on the phone, without a computer. What changes, what doesn't, and why your original files stay untouched.
How to play your Suno songs offline on your iPhone
Download your tracks from Suno, get them onto your iPhone, and play them with no signal. The four import routes, and why no app can fetch a Suno link for you.
Learning a language with synced lyrics
Songs are the one form of listening practice people repeat willingly. Line-by-line lyrics that follow the music turn that repetition into reading practice too.
Lyrics on screen for rehearsal and worship
Your own recordings, your own arrangements, the words on a screen for the room. No licence server, no internet, no projector software.
Music for kids with no ads and no account
A phone or old iPad with songs on it, no advertising, no recommendations, no autoplay into something you did not choose, and no data leaving the device.
Play your Bandcamp purchases without the Bandcamp app
You bought the files outright. Download the FLAC or MP3, put it on your phone, and play it in whatever you like — no app, no account, no login.
Presentation mode — lyrics on the big screen for the room
Strip everything but the words, turn the phone sideways, and mirror it to a TV. Karaoke, rehearsals, services and classrooms from files you already have.
Riffusion, Stable Audio, ElevenLabs Music — one library for all of it
If you generate on three or four platforms, your music is scattered across three or four logins. One folder structure and one player fixes it.
Send music from your computer to your iPhone over Wi-Fi
Drag files from your Mac or PC browser straight into your iPhone library. No cable, no cloud account, nothing to install on the computer.
Vinyl digitisations — big WAV files on a small phone
A recorded side of vinyl is one enormous untagged WAV. Splitting it, tagging it and getting it small enough to carry, without losing the master.
What to do with a folder of Suno downloads that all say "untitled"
A folder of AI-generated MP3s imports as a wall of singles by your username. Here is the twenty-minute pass that turns it into a library.
Where your music actually lives, and what happens when you delete the app
Importing copies the file into Refrain. That is what makes offline playback reliable, and it is why deleting the app takes the library with it.
Which audio formats play on iPhone, and what to do with the ones that don't
MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC and AIFF all play in Refrain. What each costs you in storage, which to keep, and where to go for OGG, OPUS and DSD.
Your CD rips, on your phone, without iTunes
iTunes is gone and the Music app wants a subscription to sync your own files. Here is how to get a ripped collection onto an iPhone without either.