Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Coppertino Announces LOOP Music Locker With Support for HD Audio Files, VOX Music Player for iOS

Razeus said:
Wow. I missed that. Thanks.

Seems to default to my Music folder (don't want to upload my entire iTunes), but can't find a way to upload from a specific folder. Any suggestions?
Click to expand...

It wasn't apparent to me at first either. There's a small bar above the bottom Music/iTunes sections with an up arrow on the right. Click that to choose another folder to upload. You can also drag and drop folders there.
 
So several hours into the upload, I began noticing poor performance on downloads, to the point where normal webpages were loading at dialup speeds. Restarted everything but the machine it was on, no change. Killed vox and the accompanying loop process, and boom, my internet connection is back to normal. Not only that, but after I killed it all, it won't resume where it was; I'll have to go back and add everything by hand now. No thanks, too much work at this point and too much hassle
 
I applaud seeing items like this made available to us all. My concern is more about the hardware - namely, the iPhone. I don't think it is really capable of playing higher quality (than red book CD) music files. 44.1/16 seems if I recall correctly the limitation of the iPhone. I have files that are 192, 96, 88 etc. over 24 bit (192/24 as example).

Can any verify if it really is possible to play these natively or are they being down converted to 44.1/16?
 
mistame said:
Looks like your API servers are down. :( https://api.vox.rocks is returning a 502. I noticed my library wasn't updating on my phone after uploading music. Signed out and tried to sign back in but throws an error.
Click to expand...



API up again. You may continue.

----------
phrehdd said:
I applaud seeing items like this made available to us all. My concern is more about the hardware - namely, the iPhone. I don't think it is really capable of playing higher quality (than red book CD) music files. 44.1/16 seems if I recall correctly the limitation of the iPhone. I have files that are 192, 96, 88 etc. over 24 bit (192/24 as example).

Can any verify if it really is possible to play these natively or are they being down converted to 44.1/16?
Click to expand...

As for iPhone hardware limited to 48/24 max. It's all about battery life (like guys from Apple says). VOX avoid any kind of software resampling and it's mean that 88, 96 and 192 will be downsampled on hardware side. But if you really want to enjoy full hi-res files on your iPhone there are number of gadgets like https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hifi-skyn-iphone-case-made-for-music that in pair with VOX will bring you to real Hi-Res.

I hoped that CarPlay will possible to use stereo for full, but CarPlay works over iPod connectivity and looks like regular AUX. What to say... :apple:

----------
Senseotech said:
So several hours into the upload, I began noticing poor performance on downloads, to the point where normal webpages were loading at dialup speeds. Restarted everything but the machine it was on, no change. Killed vox and the accompanying loop process, and boom, my internet connection is back to normal. Not only that, but after I killed it all, it won't resume where it was; I'll have to go back and add everything by hand now. No thanks, too much work at this point and too much hassle
Click to expand...

VOX trying to deliver music as fast as it possible into Loop, to allow music access on other devices. We're working on upload speed limitation, to allow control speed by user (right now mac networking layer trying to balance network usage between apps).

If you need to pause or stop uploading progress, on system bar you may found loop icon and controls. VOX designed to keep Loop progress on background, and restarting VOX application has no effect on upload progress.

Your problem is interesting for us, may I ask you to share your hardware info to vox-dev@coppertino.com and we will investigate issue.
 
Ok, definitely needs a "watch folder" function.

I can see the files on my iPhone now. But how to I make sure an album (or song) is downloaded to my phone for local playing so I'm not streaming and using up my data?

edit: nevermind. Figured it out accidentally. Swipe to the left, select "more", select download.

I think I just fell in love.
 
My current system is that I have my iTunes library set to a directory on an AFP server (my Mac Pro on a VPN). It's basically free and unlimited, but I'm considering iTunes Match. All these other streaming services seem good, but they don't integrate with iTunes :(
 
So far pretty impressive. Outside of the initial setup oddness, I've seen a handful of smallish issues, but with a little bit of polish this has serious potential. I'm glad to see Alessio's little player continue to mature

@acrist, did you guys want beta users to file bug reports/provide feedback or are you guys just trying to stress test the system?
 
Razeus said:
Ok, definitely needs a "watch folder" function.

I can see the files on my iPhone now. But how to I make sure an album (or song) is downloaded to my phone for local playing so I'm not streaming and using up my data?

edit: nevermind. Figured it out accidentally. Swipe to the left, select "more", select download.

I think I just fell in love.
Click to expand...

Watch folder is under development right now. Sandbox restriction making this task kind of complicated.

Downloads: like you found, swipe left -> more -> download on list view, and [...] button on artwork in tile view. If you need to filter out screen, press [...] on top and you will able to on/off sources, change layout, filter out local files only (loop items comes local)

----------
AlecZ said:
My current system is that I have my iTunes library set to a directory on an AFP server (my Mac Pro on a VPN). It's basically free and unlimited, but I'm considering iTunes Match. All these other streaming services seem good, but they don't integrate with iTunes :(
Click to expand...

VOX can playback your iTunes library.
LOOP can upload all your iTunes library.
VOX for iPhone can also play files from Music app
 
Useless. Waste of my time. Uploading one 30 MB flac for 2 hours. All that time upload was around 100 KB/s. Maybe its an upload loop :D
 
MacrumoursUser said:
Useless. Waste of my time. Uploading one 30 MB flac for 2 hours. All that time upload was around 100 KB/s. Maybe its an upload loop :D
Click to expand...

No problems uploading here. I'm maxing out at 1.0-1.2MB/s which is the upper end of my bandwidth cap. Streaming on mobile over cellular has been a dream too. Are you outside of the US?
 
Sigh.... all beta spaces gone.... GONE!!!!!!!


Any plans on expanding the beta? 700 is not enough, it needs to be around 1,000 for good beta.
 
Loop keeps trying to automatically upload my entire iTunes library, using my a 100% of my CPU, causing my fans to spin up and my computer to become slow and unresponsive. Besides that, nothing ever seems to even show up on the iPhone.

And actually I don't want it to upload my entire iTunes library, I want it to only upload lossless files from a watched folder or manually added songs. However, this seems to be impossible. No matter how many times I try to kill the app and restart or reinstall, it seems to always insist on uploading my entire itunes library.

Whyyyyy?

Also, the CPU thing needs to be fixed.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back