HiRes and Vox - DSD/DFF

#1

For the past year, I've been trying to execute the following strategy for my home music...

1. Streaming from TIDAL.
2. HiRes tracks that I own in Vox/Loop in FLAC or DFF or DSD format

I love the look and feel of Vox and it's efficient use of screen real-estate. However, I have three issues with the Vox/Loop side of things.

i) For FLAC files the artwork is hit and miss. They look fine in other apps (Onkyo Music Player for Android, Audirvana for Mac) but do not display in VOX at the top level, until I click down and go into the actual album.

ii) There doesn't appear to be an obvious way of updating Loop or doing a lightweight resync if only tags or album art has been update on the underlying file. The only way I can find to update Loop for an existing Album is to delete and re-upload, which seems a bit heavy-handed. Am I missing something?

iii) This is a big issue. One year on, still no reliable support for DSD/DFF. They play fine, but VOX's inability to properly process the tags in the DFF mean that the albums are impossible to find, all being lumped into an Untitled Artist category. Can this be fixed please?

The last issue has become a show stopper for me and pushed me to evaluate Audirvana. While it's in no way as beautiful as VOX, it is more reliable in cataloging DFF files and therefore may be the place for me to go if VOX can't be fixed.

Is there an update coming or a fix you can suggest?

Thanks!

#2

Hi Good People of Vox/Loop - any thoughts on the above?

#3

Hello Leon,
Thank You for getting in touch to us.
Thanks for being an active user, regardless of some inconveniences. I'll try to honestly answer all of Your questions here

RE:"i) For FLAC files the artwork is hit and miss."
Please send us a sample file, which has embedded artwork, which is not displayed in VOX. Haven't noticed such problem with FLACs.

RE: "i) For FLAC files the artwork is hit and miss. They look fine in other apps (Onkyo Music Player for Android, Audirvana for Mac) but do not display in VOX at the top level, until I click down and go into the actual album."

Can You capture a screencast for us? We'd like to take a look.

RE:"ii) There doesn't appear to be an obvious way of updating Loop or doing a lightweight resync if only tags or album art has been update on the underlying file. The only way I can find to update Loop for an existing Album is to delete and re-upload, which seems a bit heavy-handed. Am I missing something?"

In case, if You just change the metadata, files will not be uploaded again to the server (this statement is true for the MOST of file types).
Only meta info will be updated and the whole process will take few seconds for an average album.

iii) DSD is not a very commonly used format today, so this task always had lower priority than others... It's on our roadmap and it definitely worth to implement but, we have not enough time and resources and we had to prioritize tasks... I hope we'll get to it soon.

#4

Vox is fantastic at this time, if dsd native playback will be implemented it become a stellar player and thousands users would to pay a fee fot this feature.

Thank you Vox!

#5

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