VOX – MP3 & FLAC Music Player

Nightmare when skipping tracks, often a very very long pause, freezing or crashing. Appears to be more stable if you never skip tracks. Canceled my renewal. Maybe the macOS is better but I have no use for it there.

Researching Vox, the app was supposed to let you change the format for hi-res audio features. Specifically, increase the audio format if you are using an external DAC. After downloading, the feature wasn’t available unless I purchased a subscription. I processed the subscription, went to the settings to change. Basic iPhone for my music on the phone speakers is at 48kHz but when I connected it to my DAC, Vox saw my device and downgraded it to 44.1kHz and wouldn’t let me change it. My DAC can handle up to 384kHz. So, I’ve requested a refund.

I recently got this app and given the nice features i was disappointed to find out the app doesn’t have a most rudimentary feature like a delete option. So basically, if you’re away from your computer you cant delete a song in the app.

been using this instead of soundcloud now

Once the best player, it has turned into a stinking dump. The basic functionality became paid at a high cost. Moreover, the app now includes numerous tracking modules that collect users' personal data, which is then sold to other companies. P.S.: Do not disgrace Ukraine. Remove any mentions that you are associated with Ukraine.

I thought the whole point of this app was to enable lossless high res playback. It recognizes when songs are 96kbps, but then when its output, it gets downsampled to 48kbps. Plug it into any dac — they will all show 48kbps. This isn’t an iPhone limitation btw, the app simply doesn’t allow greater bit rates. Also, it’s clear this is intentional. If you click the EQ icon, then select the “…” in the upper right, it shows the max output rate is 48k. The “match” function doesn’t work. However, the desktop app works wonderfully. If you have an extremely high bit rate audio file, though, your experience will depend on your internet bandwidth unless it’s downloaded locally.

Seems like the ideal app for my personal use case, but can’t seem to find a shuffle play option. Ideally, I’d like to be able to press a button in CarPlay to shuffle play a selected playlist/collection. Hope to see this app continue to grow, expand , and improve!

Are you planning on adding a widget for ios18 now that Apple has removed legacy widgets?

I love the idea, and it works a little, but so many glitches hiding playlists or collections… they can’t decide what to call them in different places. Mixed playlist vs synced that don’t sync, can’t add from one source, can’t access from another. It would take me the hour I’ve spent trying to get this to work to explain all the loose ends. Hopefully the developers will focus for a couple of weeks and clean up all the dead ends and errors. I’d be happy to list a few pages worth. Thought maybe paying (which I think I did three times in different ways). Ugh

Can’t add MP3s that are stored on my iPad’s local drive. I don’t want to create an account and sign up for your cloud thing, I just want to make a playlist from files already stored on my device, then play them. This is the absolute most basic function of a media player. If it can’t do this, it is useless to me.