Rhythm

Rhythm 5.5 - Feature Update

What's New:

• Added: Real-Time Playback Quality Info: Tap the audio quality badge in the player to inspect comprehensive audio telemetry, including source format, active decoder engine, decoded stream specs (sample rate, bit depth, bitrate, channels), and real-time output destination (Bluetooth codec & transmission rate, USB DAC Bit-Perfect pass-through, or Android HAL routing/resampling status).
• Added: Native Capabilities Screen: Inspect device audio pipeline parameters, native HAL clock rates, kernel buffer frame bursts, DSP audio offload support, 32-bit float support, physical audio endpoints, and SoC hardware details with one-tap diagnostic report export.
• Added: External Capabilities & Software Decoders: Manage software audio engines, prioritize on-chip hardware codecs over software emulation, toggle 32-bit PCM float output, and inspect/toggle individual platform and software decoders.
• Added: Decoder Extensions Screen: Configure external audio extensions and inspect extended codec capabilities (FFmpeg, MIDI plugins) with ExoPlayer compatibility status.
• Added: Persistent Quality Badge Option: Added setting in Tuner to keep the audio quality indicator persistently visible on the Expressive Player instead of auto-hiding after 5 seconds.
• Added: Player Bottom Controls Customization: Normal mode bottom player controls can now be customized with pin limits and status indicators.
• Changed: Queue & Playlist Reordering: Completely overhauled drag-and-drop list reordering with smoother auto-scrolling during drag, fluid edge blending, and stabilized list scroll.
• Changed: AutoEQ Preset Persistence: Imported custom AutoEQ profiles are now permanently retained across sessions and properly interpolated across device hardware bands.
• Changed: Audio Output Detection: Enhanced automatic switching and detection between USB DACs, Bluetooth A2DP/BLE, wired headphones, and internal speakers using system MediaRouter integration.
• Changed: Crossfade Engine Overhaul: Refined track transition controller, reverb tail tolerances, and artwork cache calculation during crossfades.
• Changed: Missing Media Handling: Queue now gracefully skips and prunes deleted or missing local audio files instead of halting playback.
• Performance: Expanded Subsonic Library Sync: Raised library sync limit from 5,000 to 50,000 songs.
• Performance: Resilient Page Checkpointing: Subsonic full library sync now checkpoints each page to disk, allowing interrupted syncs to resume seamlessly without restarting from scratch.
• Performance: Off-Main-Thread Processing: Catalog mapping, grouping, deduplication, and sorting moved completely off the main thread for smooth 120Hz scrolling.
• Performance: Optimized Catalog Cache: Compact on-disk catalog caching without expiring signed URLs, with atomic file writes and batched saves.
• Performance: Deezer Artist Artwork Caching: Deduped artist image queries to fetch once per artist and eliminated redundant network requests.
• Fixed: Date Added Reset: Resolved issue where "Date Added" timestamps reset when moving, renaming, or recreating local audio files (#661).
• Fixed: Subsonic Liked Songs: Fixed starred Subsonic tracks not appearing in the Liked Songs playlist (#639).
• Fixed: Subsonic Sync Storms: Fixed redundant library re-fetches and sync storms on app startup when the server library is unchanged (#620).
• Fixed: Subsonic Network Timeouts: Added automatic retry for timed-out library sync requests and bounded album queries (#633).
• Fixed: Jellyfin & Navidrome Endpoints: Resolved playback quality switching, downl

Rhythm 5.5 - Bug Fix Update

What's New:

• Added: USB DAC and USB headset now appear in the audio output switcher with device product names
• Added: New Audio Routing dialog to switch between Bit-Perfect, app-managed, and system routing modes
• Fixed: Equalizer sliders no longer reset adjacent band values when adjusting a single band (#618)
• Fixed: ReplayGain no longer causes a volume burst when switching tracks (#610)
• Fixed: Crossfade queue no longer stalls after a few tracks and correctly continues through the playlist (#652)
• Fixed: Skip Silence no longer accelerates or distorts quiet song intros (#652)
• Fixed: USB DAC playback no longer incorrectly triggers RhythmGuard speaker volume protection
• Fixed: Lyrics desync on track skip and queue state loss on shuffle toggle (#612, #613)
• Fixed: Recycled bitmap crash in MediaSession artwork scaling (#603)
• Fixed: Online artwork no longer disappears when switching tracks or refreshing the library (#616)
• Fixed: Jellyfin and Navidrome playback, download endpoints, lyrics, and quality switching (#561, #605, #606, #617)
• Fixed: Bluetooth CDM SecurityException handled gracefully instead of crashing
• Performance: Audio processors (EQ, Bass Boost, Virtualizer, ReplayGain) now bypass the buffer pipeline entirely when disabled, eliminating unnecessary memory copies per audio packet
• Performance: Preferred audio device now correctly bound to ExoPlayer's AudioTrack so AudioFlinger applies Bit-Perfect mixer configuration instead of falling back to resampling
• Many more reported Bug Fixes, UI & Performance Improvements.

Known Issues (Will be fixed on a later build):

• Translation contributions are being collected.
• Report to GitHub Issues or Community on Discord & Telegram.

Build Information:

• Build: 1288
• Type: Beta Release

[!NOTE] Important Update Notes

• Don't restore old backups

[!CAUTION] This is a Beta build. Please report Issues if found.

If you enjoy Rhythm and want to support open-source development:

• Patreon: patreon.com/AnjishnuNandi
• GitHub Sponsors: github.com/sponsors/cromaguy

🏆 Special Credits

• The Community: A b

Rhythm 5.5 - Feature Update

What's New:

• Fixed: fix(player): bypass ExoPlayer cache for local media and sanitize OGG metadata writes
• Fixed: fix(player): harden audio offload gating and migrate to PlayerTransferState
• Fixed: perf(artwork): implement two-tier artwork cache with zero-copy descriptor serving
• Many more reported Bug Fixes, UI & Performance Improvements.

Known Issues:

• Translation contributions are being collected.
• Report to GitHub Issues or Community on Discord & Telegram.

Build Information:

• Build: 1274
• Type: Stable Release

[!NOTE] Important Update Notes

• The app is in active development, so many features might be missing compared to other FOSS players.
• You will find several improvements and changes with each release, so please stay up to date.

[!TIP]

• Turn on Auto-Backup so that no matter what happens, you can always recover your data.
• You can turn off/on/manage APIs based on your needs from Settings.

If you enjoy Rhythm and want to support open-source development:

• Patreon: patreon.com/AnjishnuNandi
• GitHub Sponsors: github.com/sponsors/cromaguy

🏆 Special Credits

• The Community: A big thanks to all Testers, Contributors, and Users!

Rhythm 5.5 - Feature Update

What's New:

• Added: Persistent playback queue and shuffle memory: automatically restores your playlist, exact track position, and shuffle state across app restarts (#595)
• Added: AutoEQ headroom protection: automatic preamp attenuation (-maxGain) prevents audio distortion and digital clipping when boosting EQ bands
• Added: AutoEQ speaker bypass: automatically turns off AutoEQ when playing through device speakers and restores it when headphones or external audio connect
• Added: Custom AutoEQ profile management: import, save, and reorder custom equalizer profiles across sessions
• Added: Multi-voice and duet lyrics display with synchronized part highlighting across LRC, TTML, and syllable renderers (#587)
• Added: Theme Intensity customization (Standard, Medium, Vivid) and Expressive Color Set options for dynamic Material 3 palettes (#590)
• Added: Android Photo Picker integration for selecting custom album and playlist artwork without requiring media storage permissions
• Added: On-demand lossless album artwork streaming directly from embedded audio tags with instant visual updates
• Changed: Equalizer preset frequency mapping now logarithmically interpolates 10-band presets to match device hardware bands accurately
• Changed: Dynamic color extraction from album artwork refined to preserve natural hues and color vibrancy
• Changed: Adopted Android 15 edge-to-edge layout design and modernized Material 3 Slider interactions
• Fixed: Fixed playback queue being wiped or re-shuffled when reopening the app or restarting playback (#595)
• Fixed: Fixed lyric fetching for explicit songs and downloaded audio files, and resolved LRCLIB HTTP 520 connection errors (#587, #583)
• Fixed: Fixed lyrics cache invalidation and eliminated fetch cancellation thrashing during rapid song skips (#585)
• Fixed: Hardened background media service startup flow to prevent service crashes and notification failures
• Fixed: Equalizer curve rendering clamped within display bounds to eliminate visual clipping artifacts
• Performance: Zero-latency song details sheet: offloaded file path resolution and MediaStore queries to background threads to eliminate UI thread blocking (#589)
• Performance: Efficient on-demand artwork streaming eliminating redundant disk caching and memory overhead
• Added: Updated translations
• Many more reported Bug Fixes, UI & Performance Improvements.

Known Issues:

• Translation contributions are being collected.
• Report to GitHub Issues or Community on Discord & Telegram.

Build Information:

• Build: 1270
• Type: Stable Release

[!NOTE] Important Update Notes

• The app is in active development, so many features might be missing compared to other FOSS players.
• You will find several improvements and changes with each release, so please stay up to date.

[!TIP]

• Turn on Auto-Backup so that no matter what happens, you can always recover your data.
• You can turn off/on/manage APIs based on your needs from Settings.