It stays like that for many minutes, then switches to a longer progress bar. Whenever I launch Vox with the large library, the app tells me it is “Loading iTunes,” with a tiny orange progress bar that shows just a dot. But with my main iTunes library, currently around 63,000 tracks, performance was dismal. With the first, containing around 4,400 tracks, everything went smoothly. Vox’s iTunes integration can be problematic, however. Remote, or buttons on headphones or earbuds to control Vox as well. Plus, a downloadable System Preferences pane lets you use keyboard media buttons, an Apple You can also set hotkeys to play/pause, change tracks and raise or lower volume. Vox also places controls in your menu bar a simple pause/play button, previous and next buttons, and a button to display the contents of the current album or playlist.
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Here’s what the Vox player window looks like in its minimal form, and when it’s expanded to its full size.įor quick access, you can set the Vox window to float over all other windows, and to stay in all Spaces - something that confuses the iTunes MiniPlayer, if you use iTunes in full-screen mode. But I can accept that many people find this type of interface to be sleek. I’m not a fan of white-on-black interfaces I find them hard to read, and I find that they clash with the white backgrounds of other windows. While it has good intentions, I find that Vox is big on design, but not so hot on function.įirst, the design. You can use Vox to play music from your iTunes library, or you can drag files to its window to create playlists, and listen to music from any location on your Mac or external hard drives. The new version of Vox offers gapless playback, one of the key features missing in earlier versions, making it useful for listening to live music or operas. The company touts Vox’s “beautiful intuitive minimalist interface,” and the app’s capability to play audio file formats that iTunes doesn’t handle, such as FLAC and Ogg Vorbis. The free Vox 2.0, from Coppertino, is one such app.
One result of that feeling of bloat is a string of “minimal music players” designed solely to play music, and not to contain multitudes of extra features. I discussed the question of iTunes bloat in “ Is iTunes Bloated?” (27 September 2010), so I won’t get into that now. Lots of people love to hate iTunes, and many of them hanker for a “slimmer, lighter” alternative. #1622: OS feature survey results, Continuity Camera webcam preview, OWC miniStack STX.
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