![]() alerts and the files just stopped uploading - the functionality just would not work any more. Yet about 90 minutes into this process, I was getting ’Sync Error with file x.mp3.’ etc. More importantly - you do get an upload processing queue as well as a ‘LAST UPLOADS’ list - so that by refreshing the screen you can be 100% sure that those files did indeed upload properly. This whole process was so infuriating that I then took to uploading through Vox’s Premium User Website - my.vox.rocks/account - here you have an button which brings up a panel you can drag and drop files into. Owing to various strange system caches, the App search did not always pick up the recent uploads, nor did the clear cache options on the App seem to have any impact - so I was reduced to Quitting and Re-starting the app, then searching again to see if the files had actually uploaded. On the desktop app you can open or drag files onto the app interface to upload - but you get no ‘processing queue’ or visual signifiers to indicated that the upload is working, or indeed has worked without incidents. I then thought I would need to load up the rest in batches / manually as the system was not working automatically for some reason - and this is where I started encountering the first flaws. When I came back to the computer on the Thursday morning it seemed to have stalled out at circa 60GB (out of 100) - and I managed to successfully re-instate that upload a couple of times before I was unable to get that to work any more. The Library Import I started early evening on a Wednesday. It variously indicated around 24 hours to complete the full upload of my existing library. ![]() In checking out everything that was available, this initially proved to be very promising - easy download and setup on both my devices, and I set the ‘App’ to upload my iExplorer backup to their cloud. Vox was launched in 2015 I believe with some fanfare, and has had several updates since - including the Premium / Loop / Music Cloud service. In fact, despite reviewing and checking out several of these I always ended up back at Vox - which seemed to be the only properly professional service which covered all my needs. A lot of these solutions don’t have dedicated cloud storage or both desktop and mobile apps. It quickly become obvious that a lot of the solutions out there are very much in the ‘semi’-pro category, being more social / community tools with little or no guarantees attached. The longlist was roughly as follows (alphabetical): My key criteria were Music Storage in the Cloud, alongside OSX and iOS players / music library organisers. I found the iExplorer app pretty easily and proceeded to download my music from my iPhone to my desktop.įinding a suitable Music Storage / Player solution would take more time. The first thing I had to do was try to salvage my personal library - which was still significantly in place on my iPhone - around 100 or so GB of Music. Then having decided that I had to find an alternative to iTunes which would store and maintain my library and playlists more reliably - I hunted around for suitable alternatives. If all these other vendors want to know why I suddenly stopped buying from them - then here is your answer - Apple / iTunes messed it all up for them - if anyone is Killing Music these days - this is your likely culprit. ![]() Yet iTunes made it so difficult to sync 3rd party tracks with my existing playlists that I gave up on using any 3rd party music stores. I used to download music from a number of different commercial sources - iTunes obviously, but also Amazon, 7 Digital, Beatport, Traxsource, Juno and Bandcamp. Every DJ will tell you how important it is to have a particular version of a track - there are so many details here that can vary, and you cannot substitute for instance Adele’s DJ Morten Hello Remix with just the standard album track - What on earth are you doing Apple? I ended up with various duplicate versions of tracks and playlists - and whenever I tried to rationalise a file - Apple would play some bogus normalised substitute in place of my own cherished version. And while this works well for the majority of your files - it turns out it is complete suicide for your own music library - as Apple is STILL substituting your rare and special remixes and edits for bog-standard album tracks? As my collection is about 40% specialist music - this was an unmitigated disaster for me. I recently updated to a new primary machine - a MacBook Pro 15 and was advised to switch on iCloud storage, backup etc, for everything. ![]() I’ve lost count of how many times iTunes has mangled my 500+ playlists. I will start this piece by saying that I’ve finally had it with Apple iTunes - that over-bloated software is now long past its sell-by-date. ![]()
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