Golden Ear app good for
(For me, APE not! only FLAC! (iPhone 4)) Its OK! was an error in my "ape"! now plays correctly and with "cue"!
Over the last few years I used Foobar2000 to create more than 6000 lossless wave and cue files which this program plays very well on my Monster Turbo Copper headphones. Only beef I have is that album cover art must be renamed.
Nice app supporting so many file types. Only one thing about the new version. Queueing system is not convenient for me. Please add the older interface like Apples Music app. Thanks.
Awesome!
Please add ability to add files by connecting to WebDAV servers.
Great Quality player with my airport xpress and my DAC. It could be better in user interface to manage files & folders via iTunes but it si really a great player. Try it!
Some bad moments
Please give us the old App icon back, as it really looked elegant and audiophil-ish. The new one looks just ridiculous and nothing in the way of elegant or cool.
It plays .flac files as long as you have a .cue file for that album or song. I have lots of albums with no cue files so this app is disappointing. The player will not open if you have just one song that doesnt include a specific .cue file. The organizing of the files could be better, there is no search option. You have to keep scrolling, and there is no separation of songs or albums unless your .cue file states that their is multiple songs in one .flac file. In which case it shows a slight indent in the song title (hard to notice if you have lots of songs to sort though. This app has a lot of potential if there was a search, but mostly lost my rating because of the lack of support of .flac files without .cue file.
This is a stylish, well made (in the core features) application for listening to music save but a couple things that utterly ruin it as an application.
Plays flac files (and other formats like mp3 files), this is great, and was my key need for a player on my iPod, to save time loading it up.
Whats horrible about this app and breaks it:
1. Random playback is utterly broken. It randomly plays a song alright, song to song, yet somehow, shockingly, bafflingly, instead of using Apples own inbuilt player
mechanism (I would think they could do, I may be wrong), or coding a decent one of their own, the Golden Ear developers have coded a random/shuffle song
option where it does not remember what songs have been played before it in a collection/playlist.
So you have say, 50 songs, play a song, randomly shuffles to the next new song, and then after that song, the player will not remember that the 2 previous songs have
already been played and should therefore be excluded from the random songs selection going forward, and may well play either of them again.
This is shockingly and bafflingly broken. I cant understand how other people havent mentioned it yet, maybe they just havent noticed it yet, it took me awhile to notice it.
Im not just whining, scenario where this annoys me in my life:
I take my ipod with playlist and plug it in to my work radio, I keep most of my files at home stored as flacs, so I was happy to have this solution instead of constantly converting files for my ipod, but its no solution at all since when I try to put on a "playlist for the day" half the songs keep coming up again and again. Thanks for making me
waste my money on your app Golden Ear devs.
2. The 2nd glaring issue, as if the first one wasnt bad enough, is that the app will randomly cut off some songs early in the last 10 seconds or so to jump to the next song.
Im not imagining that, it can sometimes take awhile to notice, perhaps an hour or more of listening (as it doesnt happen with every song, or most, fortunately), but it absolutely does happen, Ive verified it multiple times with multiple identical files between my PC player (Winamp) and different sessions with Golden Ear on my iPod.
So, other than these 2 issues, there are a lot of amazing features, Id say a darn near perfect, slick looking music app. So close to perfection, but so drastically ruined by
bad coding and testing that the app is unusable for me in the (very normal) context Id expect to use it in, which forces me to give it a 1 star review.
If both of these issues are fixed in a future update, I will gladly update my review to a 5 star review, or a 4 star review if they simply fixed the random playback memory issue,
as the app is now though it is just a waste of money.
I have synced all of my music files between iTunes and my iPod. My other music players can access them. Golden Ear does not recognize that they are there. It requires that they be copied again using File Sharing. I don’t have enough space on my iPod to copy my files twice. This app requires that my music files be dedicated to it alone, and that no other app then be able to access my music files. Wish I knew about that restriction before purchasing this app!!!
It cant play any *.dts files. I just bought it minutes ago, how can I get refund?
and cant play backgroud mode (I use iPhone7plus with bluetooth amp XHA-9000)
