I am utterly pleased by the outcome of today's work, explained in this wee tutorial. It shows howyou can use the fantastic VLC media player to copy your local songs (and other media) onto the iPhone,without having to use iTunes in any fashion. The content will be available as part of the VLC app, andyou can listen to it, create playlists, play songs with the lock screen active, all the goodies. Thecontent will not be available in Apple Music, though. I guess it's "local" to VLC only.