Unfortunately it was abandoned by the developers. I liked it initially, but the new beta version was buggy and the old one was not as functional. Remaining an iTunes user, I deleted the player, but today I learned very good news! The Coppertino company, whose programs I brought to you, took matters into their own hands and decided to revive the Vox player!

This news made me very happy, because... The designers from this company know a lot about their work!

Currently this is a beta version Vox 0.97b and to download it you need to go to the “new official website”, go through a simple registration procedure and download. The developers promise to provide the first release of the player in a week, but even in this beta stage it is very good!

Vox player has received a new, very beautiful look! Here's a simple design folded up.

Together with the playlist.

I really liked the choice of playing songs here. You can create a playlist in the program or use integration with iTunes! Very convenient functionality, because we can listen to music in MP3, FLAC, AAC, Musepack, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, etc. formats in the Vox playlist. before adding it to your main iTunes library.

Let's start with iTunes integration

Switching between playlist and iTunes library is instant. Externally displaying a list of artists like in iTunes.

The library search works and searches quickly.

During playback, you can change the playback time display (how much time is left until the end or real time song playback). All the necessary information about the composition is there.
The track being played is highlighted in the playlist.

Initially, I didn’t understand how to get back to the full list of artists, but later I realized that you just need to scroll down or up.

Having walked down the list of songs, in order to return to the song being played, just press this button.

Also at the bottom there are buttons for repeating an album, one song, or randomly, in other words, just like in iTunes.

To adjust the volume, select a sound output source, or use the equalizer, you must click on the speaker.

Output devices are detected correctly, for example, the USB to SPDIF converter - M2Tech HiFace Two is detected correctly, although I conduct the test in headphones, they are highlighted in the screenshot as the default device for audio output.

For those who like to use an equalizer, you need to click here.

The equalizer comes out with a beautiful slide.

Common hot buttons presets, however, if you don’t have enough of them, you need to click on the “More” button

For fans of hot keys - all manipulations that can be performed in the program using the mouse can also be done using the keyboard:

Personally, I prefer to use hotkeys.

In the system menu you can call up a playlist and control the playback of songs. When the program window is inactive, Vox displays notifications about the start of playing a new track.

Settings


I was very pleased with the Vox player settings! I didn’t expect such flexibility; everything your heart desires is here. Among the interesting ones I can note:

Snap a program to windows
- download music from a folder automatically (for example, you have a music folder into which you constantly add new tunes), Vox will automatically pull new songs into the playlist!
- clear the playlist when adding new songs. Convenient for those who have an eternal mess in their playlist
- settings for displaying the icon in the dock panel as the cover of the album being played or the Vox branded icon
- fine tuning notifications
- search for meta tags using the Internet. The free music database musicbrainz was chosen as the source for Coppertino.

- convert a regular stereo source into 7.1 or 5.1 channel output
- Bauer Stereo function provides more realistic sound when listening to stereo music through headphones.
- Music automatically pauses when headphones are unplugged.

Ability to configure scrobbling in Last.fm

Vox playlist


Creating playlists, in my opinion, is not yet entirely clear, perhaps this is a flaw, because... When creating a playlist, it is not displayed in the general list.

Playing the FLAC format goes well. Data on compositions, as I indicated above, are quickly pulled from

Many good products have remained in beta status for years. As a rule, these are amateur projects, the authors of which sometimes find time for regular updates and fine-tune their applications to the ideal, sometimes they don’t. An audio player also belongs to this category of programs. VOX. One of the worthy iTunes alternatives for Macs has been in beta for 6 (six!) years. We wrote about the program, praising the compactness, speed and omnivorous nature of this player. Today we are writing about it again because it is a completely different VOX. It has improved noticeably and has finally reached the final version stage. Starting today, VOX is available for download on Mac App Store, and we are unlikely to be wrong if we say that it will quickly gain a foothold in the list of the most popular applications.

The story of endless beta testing of VOX could have continued further if Coppertino had not come to the rescue and brought this product to readiness. You’ll think, “Well, they’ve brought it to readiness, then? And how much is it selling for now? The good news is that VOX remains free. But besides this, VOX has enough advantages. The main one is true versatility in terms of supported formats. VOX plays everything you can: FLAC, MP3, AAC, Musepack, Monkey’s Audio, OGG Vorbis, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, IT, MOD, XM, etc.

Let's take a look at the final version of VOX.

When starting, the colorful screensaver smoothly transitions to the startup settings wizard:

Here you will be asked to set VOX as the default player for any files or only for those that iTunes cannot play. Let's immediately note that VOX can completely replace iTunes as a music player.

The compactness of the VOX is amazing. For the first few seconds we thought that this was the opening screensaver...

... but this is the main window of the program :) Reviving it is as easy as shelling pears - you need to click on the button in the lower left corner. The window will immediately grow in size due to the extended playlist editor.

VOX has three operating modes. In the first he reproduces any open files and playlists independent of iTunes. In the second, it connects to the iTunes library and gains control over it. In the third, it plays radio stations.

The first mode does not need any comments: whatever you drag onto the VOX icon or into its window, it will reproduce. As for connecting to iTunes, first you will have a couple of minutes of scanning your media library:

You will then see all your music in the VOX window. You can call up the search field and quickly find the album you need...

Or you can click on the button with the ellipsis in the lower left corner and select the desired playlist.

As you can see, VOX successfully borrowed some ideas in terms of the interface from iTunes 11. For example, albums and songs are not two separate views of the library, but one common list. Click on an album and you immediately see a list of songs inside against the background of the cover:

VOX as a player would be of no interest to music lovers and audiophiles if equalizer support were not implemented here. Both presets and manual adjustments are all present.

VOX is completely free except for one little thing. If you want to listen to Internet radio, you will be asked to make an in-app purchase and spend 33 rubles. Whether it's worth the expense is up to you to decide, but we can confirm that VOX radio plays no worse than music from your computer :)

Finally, let's go through the program settings. Unlike the VOX interface, the player’s settings cannot be called compact. But this is by no means a minus. Every little thing is customizable - from opening to closing, from icons to notifications. Needless to say, VOX implements such useful little things as album art in the dock, support for the Notification Center and player control buttons in the menu bar?

The “Audio” tab contains advanced sound settings. For example, BS2B channel mixing modes have been implemented specifically for use with headphones. Dynamic conversion is also supported stereo sound in 7.1 or 5.1.

A separate tab is dedicated to shortcuts, which can be customized to suit every taste:

Pay attention to the “Learn more” button - it will take you to the official website where you can download the VOX control panel for System Settings. This panel allows you to bypass a number of restrictions imposed on software distributed through the Mac App Store and opens up new opportunities:

• support for keyboard media keys
• Apple Remote support
• support for controlling the player from connected headphones, etc.

Finally, the “Labs” tab, in the best Google tradition, contains functions for those who want to experiment (for example, automatically pausing music playback when incoming call on Skype). Although VOX has already left beta status, testing of new features will continue:

What can I say in the end? VOX was good before, but now this player has become even better. We can only find fault with the lack of Russian (as well as any other) localization, but this will be corrected in future updates. Otherwise, this is a great player, worthy of immediate download.

And also connect Loop - personal and not limited in size cloud storage for a music library. By the way, its use will cost you $50 per year. And this, for example, is half the price of 1 TB in Dropbox.

On the one hand, this is beneficial, but if your media library is limited to music in MP3 and AAC format, then using iTunes Match will be much more logical and economical. An annual subscription will cost 800 rubles ($15), and files with low bitrates will be automatically replaced by the system with identical ones. iTunes Store in the best quality.

Like the recently introduced streaming service, VOX will be truly appreciated by audiophiles who buy an iPhone with 128 GB of internal memory, use external amplifiers and headphones that cost as much as a brand new smartphone. This player supports FLAC, APE, WMA and CUE, which you will never be able to play in standard Music, and the equalizer is available right from the playback window. The only disappointment was the lack of a full-fledged multi-band interface: the sound can be adjusted only within the limits of, albeit numerous, but standard presets.

Nevertheless, the audiophile orientation of VOX is far from its only advantage. The player simply great design, which is head and shoulders above the standard iOS solution. The creators of the application also did a great job on the navigation. All the main actions here are implemented with swipes, and this makes using the player on the go a great experience that doesn't require you to dexterously hit a small button in the corner of the screen. On top of all this, VOX uses its own Audio Engine, which in theory should provide better sound. I admit, using three pairs of different headphones and home speakers, I did not notice a difference in playback quality.

The VOX developers (Ukrainian, by the way) managed to create the best music player for iOS. It is beautiful, convenient, replaces SoundCloud and Last.fm fans with two applications at once, provides unlimited cloud storage for subsequent streaming of your music library, and can also play tracks in the highest quality. If you live for music or are simply looking for a more functional replacement for standard Music, the choice is obvious.

A long time ago, when OS X was still MacOS, many, many users used the ToolPlayer music player because it was beautiful, convenient, fast and understood a bunch of formats. Later the author called it Vox, and even later the author stopped developing it. It is unknown how, but the developers of the Coppertino company agreed to transfer the source codes to them, and for more than a year they worked on them, changing and reworking a lot, and today they present their brainchild to the public under the old name. Meet - Vox.

I tried a lot of players, fortunately there are a lot of them for OS X, starting with audiophile combines like , and ending with convenient alternatives to iTunes that use its library, such as Ecoute. Vox combines almost every conceivable and inconceivable feature that the developers could come up with.

The interface of Vox is incredibly simple, it resembles classic players like WinAMP: a small window with controls and a playlist that opens at the bottom. Those who, for various reasons, do not like iTunes can start drinking to the health of the developers: you can simply throw files from the disk into playlists and not worry too much about maintaining order in the library. Those who are used to the neatness and orderliness of iTunes can also start drinking for the same reason: Vox works with the iTunes library. Those who like to listen to online radio - well, you understand what you need to do, right?

In addition to the variety of sources, Vox is also striking in the variety of supported formats: all more or less common music formats are subject to it, as well as playlists. The .cue files attached to the file also work without problems. big picture disk.

I won’t describe it in detail, especially since it is already simple and understandable, it has everything you need: search, working with iTunes playlists, an equalizer with presets, selecting a device for sound output and much more. Traditionally, there is display of covers in the dock and control via an icon (there is an option with one icon and four) in the notification area in the menu.

The application settings are equally rich. Almost every aspect is customizable, from the interface to the sound. It’s worth taking a closer look at the latest settings. The fact is that it has all the wishes of a demanding audiophile. Eat simple settings: you can load the file completely into memory to avoid possible lags when reading, you can synchronize the frequency of the external DAC and the file being played, it is possible to enable exclusive access to the DAC (aka “hog mode”), in general, the entire “basic set” of the player typical music lover. The main joy is that the Vox developers didn’t stop there. This player has the ability to enable crossfeed and binaural conversion. A few words about what it is.

Crossfeed is a clever algorithm for mixing channels into each other to simulate the sound of an acoustic system in headphones. The fact is that when you listen to a large speaker system, you hear the signal from both speakers in each ear, and based on this, the recordings are mixed. This effect is absent in headphones, and some recordings (especially old ones) lose volume because of this. To correct this, crossfeed is used, mixing channels into each other, as in speaker system.

A binaural converter converts ordinary recordings into binaural ones (more precisely, their imitation), that is, a recording made using two microphones and a special simulator of a human head. Such recordings in headphones sound with a three-dimensional effect.

Also in the settings you can connect Last.fm, the player performs scrobbling.

Integration of Vox into the system is a separate matter. You can set hotkeys to control the player, but in reality you probably won’t have to do this. The fact is that from the Coppertino website you can download a special panel for settings, which allows the player to completely replace iTunes: it will be controlled by multimedia buttons on the keyboard, will be launched when you press Play, and can be controlled from the buttons of the headset and the Apple remote control. By the way, Vox can also pause playback when the headphones are disconnected, like the iPhone player. Just like iTunes, Vox can pause a Skype call. There is integration with the Bowtie and Take 5 programs. I think there will be more integrations in the future, for example, integration with .

Finally, the most important advantage. Vox is completely free. The developers decided to make it the best music player for OS X, and being free, in their opinion, is an important part of being “better.” The ability to listen to online radio will cost you $1, but that's an absolutely ridiculous price for the power that Vox offers.

Name: VOX
Publisher/Developer: Coppertino Inc.
Price: for free
In-App Purchases: Yes, online radio for 33 rubles.
Download: For OS X 10.7 and higher

#1 Music Player for iPhone and Mac!

iTunes, Personal Music Collection, SoundCloud®, Spotify - listen to music in excellent quality from a variety of music sources.

Main functions:

VOX supports all popular audio formats, including Hi-Res.
Lossless: FLAC, APE, WAV, ALAC, etc. Lossy: MP3, WMA, OGG, etc.
VOX plays all Hi-Res formats using our custom BASS™ based sound engine.

Universal music player with your favorite music sources:
iTunes library;
Personal collection of FLAC and MP3 music;
Streaming from SoundCloud® and Spotify;
Online radio with 30,000+ radio stations around the world;
Last.fm scrobbling.

Advanced audio settings:
Playback FX (Crossfade, Time Stretch, Tempo Adjustment);
No pauses between tracks (Gapless playback);
Streaming via AirPlay;
Equalizer with 30 preset profiles;
CarPlay support;
Sonos support;
BS2B;
Sync Sample Rate.

Music cloud storage for VOX Premium subscribers:
Unlimited cloud storage for music collections;
Sync music playlists on everyone Apple devices ah (Mac and iPhone);
Original playback quality (VOX does not compress music files when uploading and storing in the cloud. FLAC remains FLAC);
Listen to music offline.

Universal management and movement of music between Apple devices:
Transferring music via Wi-Fi (AirDrop);
General access To iTunes files;
Playlist management. You can combine your iTunes, SoundCloud and Spotify tracks, as well as your local files into one playlist and make them available to all your Apple devices!
Easy music queue management (“Play Next”, “Add to Queue” with full list queues).

Unique design. We have improved the design for iOS versions for easier and clearer use:
Intuitive interface;
Force Touch support;
Share music with friends via SoundCloud®.

VOX Premium subscription cost:
– $4.99 / month;
– $49.99 / year.

Your credit card will be charged upon confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless you cancel your subscription at least 24 hours before the end of the selected period. If you cancel your subscription before the end of your period, paid features will not be available. When you re-subscribe to VOX Premium, your period begins again from the date of purchase.

Privacy Policy: https://vox.rocks/privacy
Terms and Conditions: https://vox.rocks/terms

P.S.: FLAC Player, ALAC Player, Lossless Player, SoundCloud® Stream Solution, Hi-Res audio Player, Spotify.