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Do you like music? Are you interested in design? If your both answers were close to “yes”, “yup”, “YEAH” or “dude, are you kidding me? How can you ask me this type of questions if you know that I am MARRIED to design and music!”, then, Booyah!

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My name is Jake Davies and I’m the creator of the VOX music player design on Mac and iPhone.

I’m not working at Coppertino anymore, as I’ve left around a year ago. We’ve been working close to each other for almost 4 years and became very good friends. I still keep myself updated on how VOX is doing, what ups and downs it goes through. After all, I have left a part of me in VOX — its design. For me, watching VOX successes is just like watching your kid grow.

Music software design… Wait, what?

By the time I have officially joined Coppertino team, there was a long path I’ve made which gave me enough experience to feel confident about developing VOX design. I’ve been working with lots of local design studios like ATELIER, TrySoda, and Frog Design. These were the places where I was growing as a designer. But at that time, I was still too far from music tech sphere. My passion for music brought the stronger interest. It was developed while working in the entertainment industry. For 2 years I’ve been busy as a designer and the art director at DJFM radio station responsible for communication via web, offline and other digital products. Working at the radio station and the previous design studios made me ready to work on designing music software.

One of my best friends, Nikita, was working with me back to back at DJFM as the sound designer and the producer since the time I’ve just joined the station. I’ve been learning a lot about the sound recording as we’ve recorded two music albums (The Beginning and Amsterdam). That was an experimental stuff, some mixes between chill out, score and ambient styles. We’ve produced several great motion sequences designed by ourselves as a team. I was responsible for animation and Nikita was responsible for sound design.

The CEO at Coppertino, Ivan Ablamskiy, and Coppertino’s team lead, Sergey Tkachenko, became the core audience to share our music projects with. They were supporting us for years and were the first to know about our successes and failures. So that shouldn’t be a surprise now, that in summer 2014, I’ve joined Coppertino team as a product designer.

Dear, you need a facelift

One day Ivan came to me and showed me the design samples Coppertino was working on for a long time. They were ready to ship those to the Mac App Store… I guess, that moment decided everything.

The conversation brought us to understanding what was good and what wasn’t good in the design we had. Frankly speaking, most of what I saw then wasn’t good. The only thing I’ve heard from Ivan was “Well, smarty pants, show us how to do it right then!”

As a beginner I came to a pretty daring thought that since I had a good relationship with the team, loved music, and always wanted to design my own music player, why was I still staring at Ivan? I was standing in front of the door which didn’t even need any pushing, I could just kick it with my leg and it would open me the path to the great opportunity — change the way VOX player looks and what impression it makes.

So my first achievement was «facelifting» the player. I built the right basis for the player to scale properly through its evolution in the next 2–3 major updates. We’ve got lots of discussions and huge research has been made to figure out what the listeners need in a music player.

The listener was the core guide for our design strategy development. We failed on our way, and not once. We failed many times. However, after all these mistakes were made, we’ve found the right key to the perfect design, the solution that felt right, that felt like «VOX» — a high-quality music player for the listener with the exquisite music taste.

Keeping it simple

To advance VOX design, we had to draw a clear picture — what was good for music player design and what was good but it wasn’t good for VOX. It’s actually a crucially important question because many product designers forget about the product itself and just generate different solutions to add more features for the features sake. Our goal here was to keep it simple.

The idea behind VOX is to deliver a simple solution to listen to music, no matter where you music is. I wanted to break the boundaries between the pattern lots of people are the victims of — too many music sources we use that are not interconnected!

I was struggling with it myself. I used to open iTunes for local music. Pause iTunes, open Safari and log in to SoundCloud just for a few exclusive songs that I really loved and wanted to listen. However, I wished there could be «Play Next» button on SoundCloud that connected my iTunes playback queue too. And the issue wasn’t only between SoundCloud and iTunes. I had many other accounts in different music services that I would love to connect somehow and listen to music from all sources in a single place.

We’ve all been there, right? But that was 2014! There had to be a solution. And our research showed I wasn’t the only one looking for it. VOX users were looking for it in the first place.

The results of my research showed us that we could build that solution easily.

If you look closer into each particular source, like SoundCloud or Spotify, even YouTube, you’ll see three things that this source is made of:

• Music Database
• Ability to create playlists
• Like feature

Each source also has it’s own player, no matter if it is an iPhone app or a web-player. And guess what, each player has pretty similar controls:

• Discover new music
• Play your favorites
• Create playlists

This gives us lots of insights. If you want to design the best player ever, without music behind it — you will fail. The key to the success in the music player design is to unite the sources, to keep the sound quality, read high-quality file formats, discover new music, play favorites and create playback queue the way the USER wants it, not you. At the same time, do no forget to keep it simple — make a player of a compact size. Not some giant lousy piece of software that a listener will have to struggle with all the time.

Building analogies

I’ve got a story I love to tell when I’m asked why I’m so passionate about VOX.

As a person, you have your own style. You choose clothes based on your style preferences. You dress each day the way you like, the way you feel, right? You switch looks every day. When you go shopping, you discover new clothes, new trends. Maybe, you’re just looking for a new jacket for tomorrow’s interview? No matter if it is a piece of high fashion (FLAC) or something simple and popular like GAP (MP3), when you’re happy with your choice, you do what? You just buy it (Like or Add to favorites)! You grab it, take it home and leave it in your wardrobe untill the moment, when you’re in the mood to wear it (Create playlists).

It’s the story full of analogies. In terms of music, it’s the same story. Just imagine one set of familiar controls, that are easy to use, nothing extra to learn and all of your favorite music is in one place, just like that wardrobe where you have all your clothes. You can create your queue the way you want. Let’s add the sync feature too and, I guess, that’s the good start for VOX as a player.

We gotta move on

After 8 months of our new design release Apple revealed Apple Music, with interaction pattern that we’ve already used in VOX and that moment felt… I don’t know how to say it right. On one hand, it was a good sign that we’ve been right for the last 1.5 years working, failing and researching, but holding on to the right path. But on the other hand, damn, when Apple does something like that, how can you compete with it?

Right now VOX is still on it’s way to reach 100% success spot, where all the music sources we wanted to add into it will be integrated in VOX. So far, I’m proud that I have created what you’re currently looking at when you see VOX on Mac and iPhone. I’m proud to be part of VOX’s story. And VOX will be always big part of mine.

Want to share your experience with developing some music player? Drop your comment here or DM me on

Facebook. You can also find me on Behance :)

See you somewhere around the world, VOX fans!

Hello, guys!
My name is Oleg. It’s been two years that I’ve been busy working at Coppertino developing VOX audio engine. Was it hard? Yeah, pretty much. I didn’t give up on it, though. Let me tell you why in this 5-minute long story.

It was more about music than tech from the very beginning…

As many might suspect, I wasn’t an audio engine architect at the very beginning of my career. Everything started with the passion for creativity and technologies. I always knew my life would be connected to music and everything closely related to it. Having gained Bachelor’s degree in Acoustics and Electronics, I spent some of my study time getting acquainted with programming languages. Hence, I consider myself self-educated in programming. It was my interest in audio specifics in the first place that let me embrace the power of computing and what it could do to empower the music sphere. The urge to enhance music world led me to finding the ways to express my ideas through programming.

In early school years I totally loved discovering new programmable electronics — first, programmable calculators, then — first Spectrum computers. My family background and the area I lived in pushed me towards creativity in technologies. That’s why as a child I was pretty busy building electronic devices and witnessing computer technologies progressing daily.

First steps

First steps in serious programming were made when I worked as a sound system engineer in the professional audio industry. It was time when computers were becoming more personal, audio processing moved substantially into the digital domain, and this rise of digital technology brought the whole music industry to the next level. All this would be impossible without software, of course. The majority of the existing software packages for the acoustic measurement and prediction were very expensive and not very user-friendly, intended just for use with proprietary hardware or otherwise available only to the large companies. Good studio multichannel recording package would cost up to several thousands of dollars, and professional CAD software would cost even more. I had some ideas about creating applications for sound reinforcement/concert audio industry. I wanted to develop such applications to reinforce the power of sound. This willingness, in combination with the rise of the Internet power and the opportunity to get needed knowledge in programming online led me to studying programing and holding the experiments in harnessing the audio computing powers. One of my first app ideas was…. (don’t you be too surprised now) a music player! Though, not similar to VOX. I was thinking of a multi-zone PC playback solution that could play different tracks in different spaces or rooms.

Joining Coppertino

Before Coppertino I worked in several tech startups in the field of audio technology and education. I find out about Coppertino for a year or so before I joined the team. I downloaded VOX and wanted to know who made it. Surprisingly, the dev team was located in my native city. I kinda liked the name because it sounded almost like the hometown of Apple Inc.:) And I also liked the name of the player because it reminded me one legendary music-related brand of the past. When my duties at previous job were all done, I found an announcement that Coppertino was hiring an iOS developer. I went to try my luck and Coppertino welcomed me. I think my audio background was the advantage.

The weakest link

When I joined Coppertino many colleagues from the professional audio field joked that I kind of down-shifted from the “professional” to consumer market by joining the music player project and the tech industry in general. Why they were joking about it? Well, watch this.

Picture credits: http://sonicfarms.blogspot.com/2013/01/modern-recording-signal-chain.html

This picture illustrates really well what’s happening to the music sound quality, after it’s being recorded up to the point when it is listened to, in our modern digital smartphone-driven world. And this is the case where the price of equipment is just to show how attention to quality quickly drops after leaving the recording studio. So what I often say in response to all the critics is I’ve left to help take care of the technical quality aspects of the other end of this “professional” music industry chain — the weakest one — the listener’s sound environment.

What is it like to develop VOX?

The main value of working on VOX developments for me is… fun. I really like it because it’s a self-motivating process, where you create something so many people need and you also listen to music in process.

Other than that, most developers would think that a music player is a trivial app to make. Probably, that is true, until we talk about the extensive features we have put into VOX and how high Apple raised the quality bar for the apps. We are often being advised by the developer community on what and how should be done right, and I am thankful for their guidance. Sometimes it does look like too few really understand how complex VOX has become and how many different parts it utilises to be so versatile and acceptable.

Developing VOX is very experimental and non-linear process where our ideas and dreams drive us to move forward sometimes faster than the technology can allow us. Sometimes real solutions are not as obvious as they were “on paper”. It’s a constant search for a better approach. Too often to make two steps forward, you have to make a step back.

It is tough, but fun too

Important thing about Vox as a music player is that for our user music means… a lot. Really a lot. It’s part of his/her lifestyle, a great part of one’s mood. Also, it’s an app that one uses for a long time — not just for a minute or two. So technically the app has to be reliable enough to withstand long-term usage.

One more secret I will share with you about music players is that the visual impact is also very important, so the graphic and ergonomic design should be on the highest level possible.

On the verge of “it’s merely possible”

Often I am finding myself in quite critical situations when it seems like some task in VOX development is hard to execute — but overcoming such tasks is the best way to move forward. At first, you look at the idea without getting into the technical details and you think, “it’s merely possible”. Then you find out that a way to implementation of it is far longer and more winding that you thought at first. While finding the right solution, at some point, after sorting out the clutter of complexity, you find yourself comfortable with the task — the solution becomes “a piece of cake”. The most difficult to me is the complexity and versatility of the whole VOX project. This really forced me to study many new tricks and technologies on the way. The simplest and the most awesome part, though, is being a member of such a talented big small team.

Want to share your experience with developing some music player? Drop your comment here or just email me on olegn@coppertino.com.

See you somewhere around the world, VOX fans! ;)

VOX Youtube Player

VOX music player is the one that stands out of the crowd when we talk about the playback of the lossless music. But when it comes to the lossless music itself, where do you get it?

We have decided to browse the web thoroughly and list the sources where you can get your favorite music tracks in lossless formats. Here we go with our pick of the best 10.

1. HDtracks

Formats: FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, WAV
Random Artists: David Bowie, Madonna, El Cortesano, Maroon 5, Enya
*Most common price range per album in lossless format: $12.98–$41.08

Get 15% off for purchasing music on HDtracks with “VOXHD15″ promo code. One time use per customer. The code expires Dec. 31, 2015.

Just by typing in Google Search bar “hd tracks” you get HDtracks.com as the top result. That is not only due to the service’s marketing achievement, but also the longtime presence on the market.

HDtracks was launched in 2008. In general, the service is the one any audiophile probably should already know well. It has tens of thousands of hi-res albums, tracks are not sold separately. Low-res albums are also available. The company ensures that all files sold on its site are true to the formats they are listed by on the site.

The service does not only offer the division by genres. It collects music into the categories like “Classic 100 Rock”, “British Invasion”, “Top Hi-Res Female Vocalists”, “Audiophile Picks”, “Best Contemporary Pop Artists” and others. It’s possible to browse the songs by the recording labels too.

HDtracks accepts Visa, American Express, Mastercard and PayPal.

2. ProStudioMasters

Formats: FLAC, AIFF, DSF/DSD
Random Artists: The Weeknd, Lionel Richie, Amy Winehouse, Don Henley
*Most common price range per album in lossless format: $6.99–$74.99

Get 20% off for purchasing music on ProStudioMasters with “VOX20″ promo code.

ProStudioMasters positions itself as a premium hi-res online music store, available for residents of the United States and Canada. It sells music in albums provided directly by the major independent record labels (ProStudioMasters claims), not the media transfers. This can be a solid guarantee for the users that they are purchasing original products of high value.

ProStudioMasters offers music in uncompressed AIFF and FLAC formats without Digital Rights Management. Prices vary greatly as well as the range of different discounts. The ProStudioMasters website offers the music division by genres such as Alternative, Blues, Classical, Country, Francophone, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, and others.

In the Top Sellers bar, one can discover many albums on sale with up to 30% discount.

3. 7digital

Formats: FLAC, M4A, MP3
Random Artists: Kurt Cobain, Little Mix, Miike Snow, Sia, Eric Church, Ciara
*Most common price range per album in lossless format: $9.99–$24.99

7digital is available in a wide range of countries, but one can shop by choosing “worldwide” as the location too. It is possible to buy whole albums as well as separate tracks for up to $1.99 per track.

The collection of music 7digital holds quite modernized, considering there are many hit tracks from Billboard, for instance. One can find such performers as Justin Bieber or Sia here. There are lots of “old school” tracks too.

The content is categorized into the “New Albums”, “New Tracks”, “Deals of the Week”, and “Hi-Res/FLAC” tabs. There is also the section with the interviews of different artists. One can also find the top picks of the year in “Best of 2015 so far” and “Best of 2014” lists.

Credit cards (including Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Maestro) as well as PayPal are accepted by 7digital.

4. Bleep

Formats: FLAC, MP3, WAV (also nondigital Vinyl, CD, Cassette)
Random Artists: Gaika, Herva, SPR, Slam, Jean Nipon, Lotic
*Most common price range per album in lossless format: $11.99–$14.99

There are all types of music formats that Bleep sells. It even has vinyls and cassettes to offer to the audiophiles with the most exquisite music preferences. We, however, are much more interested in something more flexible, something we can load on a music player on Mac, for instance, and take with us on a plane or to the gym.

Bleep sells tracks both in albums and separately. The price for a FLAC track can go up to $1.99. One can find all sorts of categories that music is devised by on Bleep.

At the top of the website all available formats are showcased. There is also a tab that leads to the genres of music available on Bleep. The club-goers and those keen on electronic music in general, will find themselves interested in a huge range of dubstep, bass, techno, house, disco.

Bleep accepts credit cards (VISA, Mastercard, and Switch), Paypal and SMS payment as forms of payment.

5. Zunior

Formats: MP3, FLAC (also nondigital CD)
Random Artists: Elliot Brood, Cowlick, Whitehorse, Wintersleep
*Most common price range per album in lossless format: $10.88

Zunior is the online seller of hi-res and low-res music based in Canada. It’s been on the market since 2004, so for Canadians it might be even a question of patriotism whether to buy from Zunior or not.

For anyone else Zunior can also be another competitive service that offers pretty good deals, selling FLAC albums with complete artwork, unrestricted and without DRM.

All albums on Zunior are available for $8.88 as high-quality MP3. It is also possible to pay an extra $2.00 and get your music in FLAC. You can pay for your downloads via VISA and Mastercard. Another obvious option is PayPal.

6. Boomkat

Formats: MP3, FLAC, WAV (also nondigital CD and Vinyl)
Random Artists: Vision Heat, Heather Leigh, Sneaker, Ellen Fullman
*Most common price range per album in lossless format: ~$4.44-$13.53

Boomkat is a handy online seller of high-quality music from the U.K. It used to be just a small offline record shop in Manchester back in 1998. The service has been online since 2002, selling vinyls, CDs, cassettes and hi-res digital tracks to over 100 countries.

Boomkat may not store a huge diversity of tracks starting with Drake and ending with London Symphony Orchestra. Instead, it’s more of an aggregator of commonly overlooked artists and their work. There are more well-known works to choose from as well.

Its music directory can be easily navigated through the convenient filter by format, status, date added and genre.

Boomkat supports Visa, Delta, Maestro, Mastercard, Solo, British issued Electron cards, as well as payments via Paypal.

7. Addictech

Formats: MP3, FLAC, WAV
Random Artists: Dreazz, Janaka Selekta, Mouldy Soul, Neuropol, Tribone
*Most common price range per album in lossless format: $3.00-$10.50

Addictech is a source of both hi-res and low-res electronic music. Its cover image on Facebook page says “Music is the drug”. So apparently, it is so in fact for the customers of this U.S.-based service.

Addictech sorts the music due to a variety of genres and the dates of the releases. It also provides its own top 10 Chart, the list of the recommended tracks, and the Pre-Sales category.

It also has a section with the free tracks. Prices for FLACs are relatively low on Addictech. The fans of the country music won’t find it a fascinating place to shop for FLACs, though.

Credit cards and PayPal payments are accepted on Addictech.

8. Merge Records

Formats: MP3, FLAC (also nondigital Vinyl and CD)
Random Artists: Benji Hughes, Poison Season, Turkey, HeCTA
*Most common price range per album in lossless format: $3.49-$27.99

Merge Records started out as a record label. In 2014 it celebrated its 25th birthday. Throughout its rather long history, the company remained strict about its music standards. Now those standards make up the high quality of music that is being sold on the website.

The website itself is a blend of the shop and the label’s presentation. It’s possible to find the lists of the new albums releases, the tours, the artists.

Merge Records also has an attractive holiday offer right now. Once you make a purchase for over $50, you get 20% off the total price with MERRYMERGE coupon. We just thought that you would like to know.

The store only accepts Visa and MasterCard credit cards.

9. Djshop

Formats: MP3, WAV, MP4, FLAC (also nondigital Vinyl and CD)
Random Artists: Mike Newman, MOONBOOTICA, David Guetta
*Most common price range per album in lossless format: $13.99

Djshop’s name says pretty much a lot for itself. The service offers a whole bunch of high-quality content that DJs and well, club-goers, enjoy. A lot on its website is in German, but it is possible to get around without being a fluent German speaker.

There is a big range of underground, black, rock, pop, and other DJ compilations. Real DJ charts make another huge asset for the service. FLAC music is sold not only in albums, but as separate tracks too for about $1.49 per track.

The essential part of the service is the vinyl store. There is a huge selection of vinyls for those who crave to be unique and consume premium class music.

The service accepts Visa, MasterCard, and American Express.

10. MusicZeit

Formats: MP3, FLAC
Random Artists: Scattered Thoughts, Hall of Memory, Cloudsurfing
*Most common price range per album in lossless format: $11.24–$12.99

MusicZeit is the U.K.-based online seller of low-res and hi-res full albums only without DRM. It provides extended artworks within the albums and there is no possibility to purchase tracks separately.

One great thing about this service is that there is usually one, and often several, high-quality track samples for each album. This way the user can try out the quality of what he is about to pay for.

It’s also important to know that the service does not support PayPal and likewise payment methods amid the major credit and debit card services accepted by Sage Pay.

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Miss the lossless playback while driving? Get VOX on CarPlay now!

For the fans of lossless music, something worth getting a car with the CarPlay built in the car’s native infotainment system has arrived.

VOX becomes the only music player so far that plays lossless on CarPlay.

As any Apple’s product CarPlay has iTunes pre-installed in it. We know, however, many seek the alternatives.

If you are the lucky owner of Audi, Mercedes, BMW, Cadillac, Jaguar, Jeep and other fancy cars you can get an exquisite music experience listening to lossless through VOX on CarPlay.

Safety First

After you pair iPhone with your CarPlay, the already familiar VOX app pops up on the car’s display and you can start navigating through your music library.

No need to use iPhone. Just get to your favorite tracks on the car’s display through swiping or poking on the touchscreen. Keep driving safely.

What’s More?

With VOX in your CarPlay you get so much more than the regular music library built in iTunes. More than 3500 radio stations, the SoundCloud and the YouTube playlists are also on the display.

And.. Guess what? You can also access your music on Loop, VOX’s unlimited online music storage.

Download VOX on iTunes now if you want to get the full power of lossless sound in your car.

Listening to Hi-Res audio is like watching HD video.

After watching in HD format once, you will never switch to lousy 240p. True audiophiles know the difference is the same with listening to lossless and lossy music.

But how can you get the heavenly quality of lossless music? Two ways are on the plate:

- get the audio hardware that doesn’t mess up the playback
- find the medium that enables you to listen lossless music

The first one is not that hard to get if you’ve got money, but with the second one – the struggle is real.

These days we can listen to lossless through fancy music streaming services. They all are paid services with the trial periods. Those are like honeymoons, but the daily routine comes (or the bill, to be exact).

TIDAL

After bumping into the recently acquired by Jay Z TIDAL you fall in love with its beautiful design, a library of 25 million songs and the exclusive music videos.

Sounds cool, but let’s dig deeper. Its monthly subscription for Hi-Res playback is $19.99. So this is a price for a good meal at, let’s say Longhorn Steakhouse. You’ll be skipping it from now on.

Another drawback is that TIDAL doesn’t offer music downloads for purchase. You cannot take those 25 million songs with you to the Grand Canyon or the woods in Washington. Not happening.

On the part of the exclusive music videos, that’s where TIDAL is pretty unique. But if you are not that much visual and audio is the subject of your primary search, you might want to re-think your choice of the music streaming service.

Deezer

Deezer is also a Hi-Res music streaming service. It tops the TIDAL’s library with 45 million songs. Those are, again, available online for about $15 monthly.

One awesome thing Deezer is original at - it works with the premium quality audio hardware – the SONOS systems. If you are not using those, however, there is not much you can get from this advantage.

Qobuz

With Qobuz, you might finally find yourself happy.
It offers online streaming for about $15 monthly as well as music purchasing for up to $3 per track. Much of the music it sells is French, which can be explained with the company’s origin.

But when you finally download something on Qobuz, what do you use to listen to it? iTunes? Not good for lossless.

VOX+Loop

That’s why, so selfishly of us, we like VOX.
VOX is a FREE offline music player that keeps the playback of lossless audio files lossless. No compression. It’s available on Mac and iPhone.

Although, VOX would be boring without Loop. Loop, the unlimited cloud-based music storage, is integrated into VOX. You can upload all your music from the Mac or iPhone (regular iTunes library) right into the Loop. To check the price for Loop ckick here.
Loop also doesn’t compress the files, so FLACs stay FLACs in Loop. If you cache your music from Loop in VOX, you can listen to it offline, also in lossless format. Now how cool is that?

SoundCloud lovers can easily connect their account with the VOX player. This way if the audio files you were listening to on SoundCloud, are in FLAC format, VOX will play them in FLAC too without messing up the quality.

The last great thing we absolutely adore about VOX lately – YouTube music streaming. You cannot cache YouTube content, but as long as you are online, you can enjoy your favorite music from YouTube on VOX while on the go.

Why pay extra for online streaming? Why pay for the cloud storages that worsen the quality of the already pricey Hi-Res music? Why stick to your laptop, when you can be free with VOX?

Try it out yourself by downloading on the AppStore.

No need to say “Thanks”.

It’s just our job ;)

VOX Youtube Player

Bringing YouTube Tracks to Your Music Library for FREE.

We all love YouTube for that one special reason – it doesn’t charge us a dime for listening to our favorite tracks.

The very moment Drake puts his Hotline Bling on iTunes some passionate fan (worth a definite praise) posts a lyrics video of the song immediately and we are free to enjoy it on YouTube as long as we want. We don’t even have to wait for the official video release. But how can we leave our laptop and still enjoy favorite music on the iPhone?

New VOX for iPhone update solves the issue by streaming tracks from YouTube to the VOX music library.

Add Tracks From YouTube to Your Music Library Through These Easy Steps:

Want to put your hands on this new update? Great! Download it on AppStore now!

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VOX - the Best Free Music Player for Flac and Lossless collection and Soundcloud streaming solution

Hey there!

We’ve not been gabby enough the past few weeks, so we want to show you a quick tip on how to play FLAC with VOX on Sonos.

How to make it work?
That’s as simple as snow :) Just make sure to enable AirPlay on your Mac or iPhone and select your Sonos from there.

What about an AirPort Express?
You can also pick up an Apple AirPort Express router, which works with Play:5, Connect, or Connect Amp. Just plug the Play:5, Connect, or Connect Amp into the AirPort Express with a standard RCA audio cable and then Airplay with VOX to the AirPort Express the way you would any other audio content.

So, how do I use AirPlay?
Easily, you can also do it with Control Center on iOS:

1. Swipe up from the bottom bezel to bring up Control Center;
2. Tap the AirPlay button, middle right;
3. Tap on the source you want to AirPlay to;
4. Start playback in VOX Music Player for Lossless library and SoundCloud.

And for Mac OS X:

1. Click on the AirPlay icon in the top right.
2. Select the source to which you want to AirPlay.
3. Start playback and enjoy your music via VOX Music Player for your Flac collections and Soundcloud Streaming!

Anything else I can try? There’s AirSonos, but it requires a visit to GitHub and the Terminal. If that’s your thing, you may go ahead with that.

Fall in love with FLAC :)

Folks,
We know that you all were expecting this!
We’re glad to announce the release of VOX for Mac with Loop (version 2.5) on the Mac App Store. Enjoy everything which we’ve implemented and feel free to use all the greatest features of Loop:

- unlimited music storage;
- streaming on your devices without any quality limitation;
- sync your music between your Mac and iPhone;
- support for all audio file types.

P.S. Just for you to know - we recommend to use the website version of VOX, because we can release further updates and features without waiting for Apple team approval.

VOX as YouTube MP3 music player

Hello there, Music Lovers!

As the incredible popularity of our music player continues to grow in more than 130 countries, we too continue to improve its functionality and appearance everyday.

Our latest focus? YouTube MP3 Player!

Most of you know that in addition to the endless number of videos on YouTube, it also has a huge library of music tracks from almost every artist in every genre. Furthermore, they are accurately sorted into albums or playlists.

Knowing how popular the YouTube as MP3 player is around the world, we have decided to add the ability to play YouTube MP3 on your Mac using VOX! This feature is now available in update 2.4 for both AppStore and stand-alone/DMG versions.

It works exactly like our Streaming Content function, and only requires that you have our VOX Music Player installed on your machine and an Internet connection. Below are the details of how to use YouTube in VOX as an MP3 player:

1) Single Tracks: the first is to find the desired track. Let’s say it’s Linkin Park (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6sFG7qOd4A)

Just copy the URL link from YouTube (like the one above) and simply paste it into VOX using CMD+U. The current track appears in your playlist in the best quality available from the YouTube source. And that happens seamlessly without any conversion from YouTube to MP3.

2) Playlists: Because we are committed to giving you the best functionality possible, we have extended this YouTube capability to playlists! So now you can add entire albums into VOX.

For instance let’s take Linkin Park again and their latest album, “The Hunting Party.” In this case, we were looking for «Linkin Park The Hunting Party playlist».

On the first results we receive is the album playlist. All you a veto do is again copy the URL into VOX (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYZoptGMyY8yQbCr8_KbrUlgELlQdMaPy).

And as easily as importing a single track from YouTube, the whole album is correctly displayed in your VOX YouTube Music player. Pretty cool, huh?

Further functionality between VOX and YouTube depends solely on your musical desires and ingenuity. For example, you can make your own MP3 playlist in YouTube on your Mac and move it to VOX without any loss of data and structure.

Finally, you no longer have to use complicated programs in order to convert YouTube music to MP3. VOX does everything for you – an incredible feature for music lovers like ourselves.

VOX continues to bring the universe of music to its streamlined VOX audio player. We are already thinking how to make YouTube MP3 content even more convenient, but it’s all ahead, so keep checking back for more!

Meet VOX - the Best iTunes Alternative for Mac in 2014

It’s almost the end of 2014 and everyone is ready to dip into the future – year of 2015. But, before we do that, it’s always good to sum up all the great stuff that happened over the past year and we didn’t want to be any different.

Get ready for 2 huge releases that are going to be public very soon… This winter to be exact! We’re extremely grateful for being with us this year. The number of VOX fans is about to hit 1,000,000 mark!

Mac App Store statistic about music apps like iTunes

We’re the most popular Mac OS X music player on the market and we have the Mac App Store to prove that VOX is the best iTunes alternative.

There’s also a ton of very respected feedback from the top media, such as “VOX has a clean design that is also easy-to-use.” *Mashable & “VOX is a simple music player designed to serve as a replacement for the music player built into iTunes.” *MacRumors.

Our music player is backed up by Mashable, considering it as one of the best iTunes alternatives for Mac: “8 Best iTunes Alternatives”.

VOX is a mix of a powerful technical background + extremely user-friendly, which makes it stand out compared to its competitors (and it’s free, too!).

Let’s have a quick flashback… and go back to the days when we didn’t even know about HD video & Retina display. Today, we can’t even imagine living without it. iPhone & Macbook with retina & 4K TV is a regular instance now-a-days. People deserve experience a better picture, so what’s going to be the next innovation to improve our daily media routines?

It’s not a secret that it’s becoming a very popular question, how to get sound in better quality? Just a few years ago, popular media sources started to poke this question and get their readers ready for a ‘proper’ way to listen to music. For example: “What’s the Difference Between All These Audio Formats and Which One Should I Use?”

We’re now aware of such formats like WAV, AIFF, FLAC and etc. But, you have to understand that simply purchasing and downloading a FLAC music file – is not enough. You’ll need:

1) A music player that will be able to playback lossless files without compressing it and loosing quality.

2) High-quality Headphones or speakers;

3) A more powerful sound card,

- and this is just a standard bundle to enjoy a crystal clear sound of your favourite melody.

We’ve already purchased a laptop with a Retina display and we see it as something normal now – having a gorgeous image, enjoy a sea load of pixels. So, why not try the same thing with Music? You might’ve noticed that it’s no longer a big deal to purchase headphones that cost more than an average pair. Why? Because we want more quality & more style in everything we use on daily basis!

The best alternative to iTunes that will take your hand and show you around in the world of Hi-Res music is – VOX.

In the pas, we wrote a ton of information about the development of this music player masterpiece. A music player that will satisfy any audiophile:
- VOX Tips & Tricks 1 ;
- VOX Tips & Tricks 2.

After spending a whole year in our little Coppertino ‘lab’, we’re now ready to amaze you with our new creation. To be one of the first people to try it, please subscribe:

- A revolutionary service that will break the Music barrier once and for all;

- The very anticipated release – VOX for iOS (*we’re super stoked about this).

With these upcoming releases, you’re going to love VOX even more. This is wil be an ideal iTunes alternative in your little Apple world.

There’s been a ton of changes mad to iTunes from the very first release made by Apple in 2001. We completely understand that iTunes is a default app and every Apple user sed it at east once. But, if you’re actually thinking about alternatives to iTunes, then you probably have something that was not satisfying you and you’re looking for something better, easier, faster.

Look, this is probably something you’re looking for in a Music player. A minimalistic app that will get the job done but better than expected! And in January, you’ll see an innovative release from our team that will truly blow your mind…

New Releases from VOX company

Thank you for being with us!

And for those who don’t know – here’s a link to download VOX.

Team Blog: Designing A Perfect Music App

Music software design… Wait, what?

Dear, you need a facelift

Keeping it simple

Building analogies

We gotta move on

Coppertino Team Blog: Developing VOX Like “Impossible Is Nothing”

10 Best Sources To Download Lossless Music

1. HDtracks

2. ProStudioMasters

3. 7digital

4. Bleep

5. Zunior

6. Boomkat

7. Addictech

8. Merge Records

9. Djshop

10. MusicZeit

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