Release Hifinis 2.0.0 · Parivallalin/hifinis

Hifinis 2.0.0 — the big one

New: Composer — write music with no real instruments

Studio → Composer. Make a whole score on your phone: piano roll, multi-track arrangement,
mixer (volume, pan, mute, solo, reverb) and a metronome.
49 instruments built into Hifinis — piano, strings, flute, sitar-style plucks, organ,
synths, choir, and Indian and film percussion (tabla, dholak, mridangam, ghatam, manjira,
taiko, timpani, gong, risers).
Played like a real musician: bowed and blown instruments breathe and slide, plus legato,
staccato, accent, tremolo, pizzicato and meend (slides). Dynamics and vibrato lanes too.
Harmonium and Violin you can play on screen: pump the bellows with a swipe (or by tilting
the phone), add a Sa/Pa drone, and bow the violin by dragging across the strings.
Score view: your music as staff notation (sargam too). Export a PDF score, separate
parts for each player, or MusicXML.
Templates to start from: Film score, Indian classical, South Indian, Pop, Lo-fi.
Export to FLAC / WAV / MP3 or MIDI, or send the mix to Audio Studio.
Plug in a USB MIDI keyboard and play or record. Supports the sustain pedal, pitch bend,
mod wheel, touch curves, octave shift and MIDI-learn for knobs and buttons.

New: Upscaler

EQ → Advanced → Upscaler. It finds where a lossy file (MP3/AAC) was cut off and gently
restores the missing highs, with Dynamics and Space controls. Turn it off and the sound is
exactly as it was.
Optional Hi-Res 2× output for USB DACs.

New: Chromecast

Play to a Chromecast or Google TV speaker from Now Playing or the Outputs sheet.

New: Your devices

Every DAC, Bluetooth headphone, wired headset and the phone speaker remembers its own
sound: EQ, Processor Rack and DAC settings come back when you connect it.
A details page for each device (supported rates, formats, features), plus Reconnect DAC
and Release DAC (let another app use it). During a phone call, Hifinis now lets go of
the DAC by itself and takes it back afterwards.
Save and share sound files: export a device's sound or your current sound, and import
it on another phone.

Lyrics

Fixed wrong lyrics for songs with similar names. Lyrics are now matched by title, artist,
album and length.
Wrong lyrics? Pick the right ones from a list or search for them yourself.
Tap to sync: turn plain lyrics into synced lyrics by tapping along with the song.

Sound and playback fixes

Fixed: with Bluetooth + Bit-perfect, music could jump to the phone speaker after
coming back from another app.
Fixed: Reverb, loudness, bass and 3D did nothing on the Bit-perfect and USB engines until
you changed a setting.
Much less battery while playing in the background. Hifinis was refreshing the notification
4 times a second.
Softer start and stop on USB DACs (no click).
Playing to several outputs at once keeps the main output on its own device.
Fixed: albums with many singers being split into one album per singer.

Looks

New sliders, pills, artist pages (circle portraits, "Most in your library"), genre tiles,
folder headers, a richer song Info sheet, Audio info with the full signal chain, and a
rebuilt Audio Studio, all with Hifinis' own icons.
New skins: Black & Red and Blood Moon.
Spectrogram: a cut-off line with a verdict (full band / lossy / upsampled), levels, loudness
and a touch readout. Visualizer: new styles.
Settings regrouped into Sound, Devices, Library & looks, Screens & alerts and System, with a
better search.

Library