Golden Ear App Reviews

between flac player and golden ears i absolutely chose this. 5.99$ is better than 9.99$. although 5.99$ is expensive too.

FLAC Player is a much better app. No dock controls on Golden Ear, its hard to change the volume on this one (on FLAC Player is just like the iPhone) I had some problems playing FLAC files, they skipped a bit, I have not experienced any skips with FLAC player, which I use every single day (all my music collection is FLAC) It is nice to search by artist or albums, and the shuffle feature is something very useful. Nice interface, nicer than FLAC players, bur still Id recommend FLAC player anytime. Also, that icon?? What were the developers thinking? An angel?? Very lame.

The FLAC Player app has really frustrated me: It often freezes my iTunes when I copy files to it, it doesnt have a "Shuffle All" option, and you cant delete individual files within a folder. So I decided to try Golden Ears. Ive only been using it for a few hours, but already Im very impressed. I copied many files over, and not once did it freeze. The app organizes songs by artist and album, and has a list of all files in case some of your files are not tagged. Theres a "Shuffle" mode, which will either shuffle all songs by an artist or within an album (if you picked a song from the Artist or Album list) or all songs on the app (if you pick a song from the "Show All" list). You can delete individual files from the app in iTunes. It also has a "lock" button in case you want to keep your screen active but not let the volume or scrubbing bar get moved accidentally. Best of all, it seems to play APE files without any problems. This is an amazing achievement, because so few portable music players are able to play APE files at all, or without freezing up. The only problem Ive noticed so far is that it will freeze briefly (up to a few seconds) when I unlock my Touch/iPhone (from the blank sleep screen). It also skips briefly sometimes when switching songs if a song is currently playing. Also, I wish it had the ability to make custom playlists, to rate songs, and to delete songs from the player. But these are minor faults in light of the stability of the program and its ability to shuffle, play APE, and display album art. It seems well worth the $6 introductory price. Well done, Chaoji Li!

Loving the ability to play FLAC files on my iPhone. I only wish the interface was more like the stock player.

This app is hack of player, but please improve the user interface so that users can create nested folders! With a primitive UI like this, my classical music is going to mixed with jazz, and my Beethoven is going to meet Nora Jones...

Simple but effective, I love this app, Thank you

Good app! No frills flac player, gets the job done with a simple but nice interface. Only bug Ive experienced so far was the app pausing the music every time I would switch to another app (I.e. Safari) but it was fixed once I restarted my iPad.

This app never failed me, it read ALL the formats of lossless audio files that I found. I was worry about some weird format bc im an entry-lv audiophile :P. But I just dropped it in the folder without worrying about the formats at all. But here come the downside, there is no Search button in the list, I had to find the song manual and its painful searching for one out of hundreds. Also, the interface couldve been better. Also, this is important: sometime it freeze for a while when I change the songs. Even I turned off all apps. It still happened sometime, just sometime, not too often.

I can enjoy the fantastic lossless music from my iPhone now!

Simple but Cool and Works Great ::.

Been waiting for this feature for awhile. Seems to be be working very well. Gave only 4 stars only because there is always room for improvement. Well done!

Good player, but without dlna, nas, meda renderer control (play to.. function) its useless :(

First need urgent upgrade to iPhone 5. Much room to improve friendly UI, better signs. Do like the feature of pulling music files directly from computer to app and recognize cue sheet. Come on to make it more perfect!

Lyric support is the most important feature of this app and makes me prefer this one instead of others. Folder management is pretty good also. Worths every penny. It also gets improvements frequently.

I really like this app. I only wish I could adjust the font size for displaying lyrics from an lrc file.

Organization, not good, play back ok (until songs cut out and skips to the next track). Which happens often. Use of album info, not good cover art gets selected to wrong album, even after naming everything the same for the album. To bad, DELETED APP.

I put wav files on there and it crashed over and over. Ok for FLAC.

I mean it does what It says it does but the menu is very hard to navigate and not intuitive at all. this apps menu system needs to be thoroughly re done. I cant believe I payed 8$ for this app.

Sounds very good , but I would do it in iphone. ><

This is the only audiophile app Ive tried that is worth having on the ipad. The interface is simple, fairly attractive, and makes managing files easy. Files can be transferred either wirelessly or through iTunes with a usb cable; transferring wirelessly is preferred as it will allow you to keep folders and the whole file structure intact. Doesnt have a huge number of extra features that you will never use, and it does what it advertises to do---play music--- exceptionally well unlike many of the feature rich apps. There is no equalizer, but who cares? Ive used a few other "audiophile" apps, and I like Goldenear the most. Flac player is nice, but is only able to play FLAC, which makes it unusable for me. Caprico has the worst interface Ive ever seen, is prone to crashing, and the volume does not get loud enough. Tuneshell is made for the iPhone and not the iPad. Equalizer pro is no longer in development. Caprico does handle album art better but that is a minor point.