For people who live for music
The records you ripped years ago, that live bootleg on YouTube, everything you've liked on Spotify. U-Vox puts it all on one shelf and in one queue, and you stop caring where a song lives.
Two-way sync with Spotify. Nothing to migrate, nothing to lose.
What you get from day one
You shouldn't have to pick a side. Keep what you already have, wherever you have it, and enjoy it all in one place.
A song is a song. Your rips, your downloads, a YouTube rarity and your Spotify likes sit side by side, play in the same queue and get the same cover art, lyrics and story. If you own a better copy, that's the one that plays.
Like a song in U-Vox and it's liked on Spotify. Build a playlist on your phone and it's waiting in U-Vox. Keep using both, or walk away from either: your music comes with you.
Keep the YouTube finds you love so they survive when a video goes down, and turn those full-album uploads into proper tracks. No algorithm deciding what you hear, just the music you chose.
Take a look inside
Big covers, the words to every song, the story behind each band and the gigs coming to your town. Click any screen to see it full size.
Now playing
The cover gets the space it deserves, the lyrics roll alongside, and the band's story and your own notes are one tap away. Jump straight to the band on Bandcamp or Discogs and buy the record.
The Billboard
The shelf next to the turntable: the albums you can't stop playing right now. Pin one and it goes up on the wall. Can't choose? Play the whole wall, back to back or shuffled.
Bands
Pin the bands you love too. Press play on one and hear their whole journey, from the first single to the latest album, then follow the thread to their side projects and back.
Gigs
U-Vox keeps an eye out for gigs by the bands you actually listen to, in your city. Not a random listings page: your bands, your town. Have a listen, mark the ones you fancy, wave the rest away.
Home
Like pulling a forgotten record off the shelf. Home picks a song from your own collection and dares you to press play. Not feeling it? Show me another one.
Party mode
At a bar, a party or a Saturday night in the living room, U-Vox becomes the jukebox. Put it on the big screen and let everyone pick a song from their phone.
Guests type the code on screen into the free U-Vox app and choose what plays next. A real person's pick always comes first.
When nobody's asking, it keeps going in the spirit of the night, without the same band three times in a row.
A quick cut between two bangers, a slow fade into a ballad. It listens to how each song starts and ends.
An old cassette rip and a brand new record play at the same level. Nobody runs to the knob.
Music videos and band photos on the TV or projector, with the band's next gig in town.
Early evening, peak time, last call: blend your playlists into a vibe for each part of the night.
Stay on one band for a while, stop after this song, or end the night with a slow fade to black.
A spare screen by the bar lets anyone browse the bands and pick a song, no phone needed.
U-Vox Player runs on your Mac or Windows PC. It plays music you already have: your files, public YouTube videos and your own Spotify Premium account. It isn't a streaming service.
Two apps, one jukebox
Everything you've just seen. It looks after your music, plays it, and puts the show on the big screen. It's what you need for your own jukebox, at home or behind the bar.
Free. Browse the music on a U-Vox near you, type the code from the screen and pick your song. No passing the aux cable around, no arguing over the playlist.
Because music is better shared. U-Vox is about the songs you love, the local bands you haven't heard yet and going to see them live. One person's labour of love, still growing fifteen years on.
Where it all started
San Marcos 29, Madrid · since 1984
A stone's throw from Gran Vía, Gris was a trend kaleidoscope that drew in generations of Madrid's night owls — heir to the legendary Rock-Ola and the neon, mohawks and impossible hairstyles of La Movida Madrileña. Stepping in felt like walking into an industrial dystopia, plastic sculptures from old exhibitions watching from the walls, its jukebox a black box reflecting every avant-garde current that shaped the place.
It's also where U-Vox was born. Since March 2011, a public U-Vox ran live at Gris, used by hundreds of regulars — many of them chasing underground and specialized sounds — who spent a decade choosing exactly what played next: post-punk, minimal wave, EBM, cyberpunk electro, darkwave, whatever the night called for.
“Esta noche, eliges tú la música.”
Gris closed its doors for good just a few months ago, after almost forty years. This section is a small, heartfelt homage to Pablo, its founder, to everyone who ever queued a song there, and to the venue that gave U-Vox its first home and its whole reason for being.
But Gris is very much alive. Homage parties are still being held with the Gris jukebox — like this one — and it's going to be released soon for limited personal use.
Real flyers from nights at Gris, 2011–2013 — U-Vox on the decks.
Get in touch
Run a bar and fancy giving your regulars the mic back? Want the Player for your own listening room or a private party? Or just want to talk about Gris, La Movida, or the project itself? Drop a line below.
U-Vox is an independent, personal project — not a company, not a startup, just one person's jukebox turned into something a few hundred people in Madrid used to love. The Player is being actively developed again, and the door is open.
