Q&F: Boombox

Chrisa | Jan 22, 2009 Music, Quick & Free, Utilities

User rating: (7 votes, average: 4.29 out of 5)
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If you’re an old fart like I am, you remember those days in the 70′s, when guys with big hair carried around enormous boom boxes on their shoulders blasting Kool & The Gang loud enough to deafen a small child six blocks away.  Well, Gorloch Interactive has done a pretty slammin’ job of taking the feeling of the boom box and squishing it into a nice little application that streams pretty much any song you could ever ask for from blip.fm.

Now, I have what I like to call eclectic taste in music.  So imagine how thrilled I was to find both the latest from Red Jumpsuit Apparatus as well as that Glen Campbell classic “Witchita Lineman” both available!  Not only is the music library vast, but the user can select songs found and create their own playlist.  If you like the song well enough to want it around all the time, a handly little “$” button will take you to the iTunes store to purchase the song.

There are a few little irriatations that didn’t really take away from my fondness of Boombox.  First, you have to be connected to WiFi for it to work, even if you’re a 3G iPhone user.  Ok, I get that one, and I can let that slide.  There’s also no way to move to the next song, or back to the last, but the developer says that’s in version 1.1, soon to be available.

Besides that, I’d say Boombox is exactly what I look for in a free application (did I mention, it’s FREE?) – it’s useful as well as entertaining.

I just love the little equalizer.

I just love the little equalizer.


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  • Michael (Admin)

    I’m an old fart, too, and I remember those days well. My sister got her first boombox around 1985-ish and she was so proud it was like she had just given birth to a shiny metal baby.

    And it’s nice to see Gorloch diversifying their app portfolio… the last app of theirs that I tried was Campaign, a political news aggregator!

  • Chris J.

    I’ve been having a lot of trouble with this app. I use the iPod Touch and it has been extremely buggy since I first installed it. It shuts down without warning, a lot of songs won’t play, and most annoying is that it will consistently claim to not have wi-fi after the second song on the playlist. I like the songs I have been able to play using this app, but the problems are pretty frustrating.

  • Chrisa

    I have not had those problems, but I tend to sit in one place and use it, not move around, so I don’t have changes in my wifi signal. What gen Touch are you on?

  • Chris J.

    It’s the latest model of the Touch. What’s strange is that it is so consistent on quitting after the second song. When I look at the wireless signal strength I still have three bars.

  • Chrisa

    That is strange. I do not have this problem, Chris, don’t know what to tell you, other than to report it to the developer.

  • http://www.gorlochs.com Gorloch Developer

    Hi Chris,

    We’ve had a few reports of bugs with the playlist view and with the Network Reachability code.

    We’ve made some tweaks to the playlist view code and to the audio streamer code that address some of these issues.

    We submitted to Apple last Monday and we’re still waiting for it to go live.

    What is strange to us is that it’s a consistent bug for some and one that others never see. But we’re confident that we’ve found the source and that version 1.1 will not have those same issues.

    Stay tuned, and if there’s anything else you come across or would like to email us about, feel free to do so at feedback(at)gorlochs.com. We read every single email sent to us and take our user feedback seriously.

    Thanks for using our product!

    - Gorloch Interactive