UPDATE: I raised my stars on this app. Since I updated a while back to an 1 teribyte Solid State Drive to make my older mac run faster I ended up moving all of my music and photos to a different hard drive drive then what Apple wants you to put them in. It took downloading another music player app, and that one not working as well, but that app gave me the reason why, it was a “Sandboxing” issue. Seems that VOX and the other app can only access music if it is located in the music folder and no where else. SO this really wasn’t a fault of the VOX creators as much as an Apple security system, so I can't fault them on that. I would sugest that VOX adds some kind of pop up warrning about the Sandboxing issue too, unless they can over come this issue. App worked great for a year. Then one day I hit play and nothing. I watched it go down the music list greying out every song like it could not find it. I tried to delete all the songs and drag them in again and nothing. I contacted the support and they sent me a reset program and instructions and it never worked. I tried to email them back and they never responded back to me. This was last year and I tried to download the lastest version today with the same results today. It was a very simple great music app, to bad it stopped working.

Linking my SoundCloud account to my Vox account, via the Vox App was constantly problematic as my attempts to log into SoundCloud were fought off by SoundCloud as some sort of bot infiltration. Despite trying the various suggested methods on multiple occasions, creating a union between the Vox app and my SoundCloud account never occurred. Installing the add-on dmg file so as to enable the use of an Apple TV remote to control the Vox App never worked properly despite my multiple attempts.However, the most frustrating aspect of the Vox app was the means of organizing songs, which was either by Album Title or by Artist’s Name. The App’s limited screen dimensions became an additional hurdle which obfuscated the presentation of songs in a format that would have suited my needs the best. I would loved to have seen a customizable, full screen format, similar to that in Apple Music. A quarter-screen vertical window, presenting songs by Artist or Album is a needless, tactical nightmare. Who thought that was a good idea and why?Too many issues with features and the lack of any meaningful options for displaying your inventory of music is unacceptable for a free app, much less a paid app. I didn’t even attempt to load my music into the Vox cloud mind you….Two months and I had had enough.

I had high hopes. I wanted to upload my large library from my Ventura iMac and then play it between all of my Apple devices. It seemed simple and worth the money just for that feature. After getting the app and subscribing I found that when I open the app the Vox Cloud gets stuck on "loading library" It never does anything else. I can't upload anything. Some music files apparently somehow did get loaded at first before it locked up, but after weeks of trying again and again nothing else gets loaded. Nothing that got loaded at first shows up on my iMac's App. It just sits there trying to load the cloud until I force quit. I have deleted the app and reinstalled it multiple times but it still does the same thing which is basically nothing. To be fair, the app seems to load okay on my iPad and iPhone, but I have to upload the library from my computer so it's still useless for me. I had signed up for a year (because it was discounted) but didn't sort the reviews by most recent. If I had done that I would have realized that there are hardly any positive reviews over the recent past. I'll give up for now and leave my account open since I have almost a year left. Maybe they'll do a version update that fixes this mess.

Went to try to purchase the lifetime license today only to see that tthe Dev doesn’t offer a lifetime license. I mean, if you just want more money for a lifetime license then go for it, I’ll consider it. But yet another subscription amongst the 1,000 other subscriptions I have? Absolutely not. The app needs a better music library interface for giant libraries IMO. I respect that you need to make money and to keep funding development…but $50 a year is already pretty steep, and I’m not going to keep dealing with chasing promo codes and future subscription-cost uplifts every year. Charge $300 or $400 even…maybe more?, I’ll consider paying you…it’s a risk on me too because I don’t know if or when you’ll ever stop developing. However, at the end of the day, I’m sick of the subscription nightmare we all currently live in, and there’s other app options. I don’t think this was a good idea to get rid of the option. Maybe you (the Dev) will consider making an offline-only local music app with the same great features? I don’t need or want cloud features, but I would like a premium music app that can manage my local music with a one-time purchase. Best wishes.