Flacbox: Hi-Res Music Player

Flacbox is an absolute must-have for anyone serious about their music. The app supports all the high-res audio formats I use, like FLAC and ALAC, and it plays them perfectly. It’s so convenient to stream directly from my cloud storage—Google Drive, Dropbox, and even my NAS are all supported. This means I can access my entire high-quality music collection anytime, anywhere, without cluttering up my phone's storage. The offline mode is another lifesaver for when I’m traveling. I can download the tracks I want and listen without needing internet access. I also love the playlist management. It’s super easy to create and organize playlists, and the ability to set audio bookmarks is a great touch. It helps me keep track of specific parts in longer mixes or podcasts. One of the best things about Flacbox is that it can open almost any audio file format. No matter what file I throw at it, the app plays it smoothly without any hassle. If you care about high-quality audio and need a flexible player that works with cloud services, Flacbox is unbeatable!

I have been using this app for my music projects recently, and I love it and think it is much superior to other similar programs, but there are two pretty big issues that are getting me. One: I have a lot of songs that "segue", or bleed into each other and are directly connected, and this app takes a few seconds to apparently "load" the next song. On Apple Music and other programs, seamless segues are allowed, but on Flacbox, there is a pause, which screws up the listening experience. Two: If I am inactive on the app for a day or so, my entire music library erases, and I have to reupload everything from my cloud drive. As soon as it is there, it reattaches the audio tags and assigns songs to their artists and albums, but it takes at least 15 minutes. Also, when I try to use the app on my phone, under the same account, I have to upload my entire music library, again, and wait for all the albums to be assigned. I haven't figured out a way to stop this so far. Both issues are really annoying, but otherwise the app works well. Please pay attention to this review, as I have reviewed the app multiple times stating the same issues, and I can't find a way to email/contact the creator. Thanks

I can connect to file shares on my Win10 PC. This is amazing, since I WFH I can use my iPad to play MP3's or FLAC and not need to download files and use up my precious (paltry) 32GB of storage. [Any other app that claims SMB but hasn't been updated since 2018 won't let you authenticate with Windows. MS disabled SMB1 and the devs needed to update to SMB2 or SMB3; this app has kept up to date.] This app also has an EQ, this basically lets me use any halfway decent earphones and make them sound much better. Buying this app with EQ was much cheaper than buying high end wireless earphones. I've used EQ's for years with speakers to neutralize the room acoustics and love them with headphones too. The EQ sliders were missing on iPad but a few emails with the dev and they've got it working in the Dec 2020 build. The SMB (cloud) playback also seems less buggy, or my Wi-Fi is behaving. The app was pretty unforgiving of bad network connections, but this one hasn't crashed for hours. (Their MP3 EQ app has 3x retry options in the settings but the FLAC one doesn't.)