FlacBox iOS Field Review 26Nov20

With some experience with FlacBox now under my belt I offer some observations good and bad. Overall, this audio client for iPhone is excellent - gone is the constant offer to connect to AppleMusic, gone is the clutter, arrived is flac file support, arrived are custom EQ filters, arrived is streaming from any connected location.

The biggest initial glitch in my usage was my dependency on SMB for transferring music onto iOS from within the app. I searched and found external schemes for loading files directly within macOS's support for iPhones but that doesn't exist for Linux. Fortunately FlacBox directly supports WiFi Drive where I can simply use a browser on my server or Linux system which very quickly downloads selected tracks to the right location in the iOS file system. Whew, SMB took 20 hours for the same size as WiFi Drive took 10 minutes.

FlacBox quickly went to the Internet to scrape album covers, images and other metadata for my tracks and synchronize. I was quickly able to add custom EQ filters for various output devices I use with my iPhone: Ski Helmet, Crusher Too, wireless earbuds, etc. Very cool.

I know many use streaming apps from their iPhone and use services like Spotify or Apple Music but if you want to use high def files from iOS; if you want to not be bothered by streaming offers or ads; if you want to customize equalization for your various output transducers; if you want to be pleasantly surprised rather than often irritated ~ try FlacBox. I paid $5 for the PRO version.

UPDATE - Combining With The ODT Chips 2.0... 

I own these stellar Bluetooth ski helmet "headphones" (they actually are walkie-talkies, answer cell phone calls & provide notifications, etc.). I was struggling with the pause-play UI interfacing with FlacBox but got it all working. I need that feature to easily prep to hear my ski-lift mates babble on as we ride - having to go the the phone for pause sucked. :) FlacBox and the ODT Chips 2 are highly recommended.