Timbra 0.9.16

Playback

• Turning shuffle on or off saves the queue once instead of four times
• Closing the app right after the queue changed no longer resumes on the wrong song

Player screen

• Changing the shuffle mode no longer makes the cover art vanish for a moment
• The album-art deck no longer shows a stray card for a frame when you change shuffle or repeat
• Swipes and cover art keep working after you turn shuffle off
• The shuffle and repeat messages now change with every tap, instead of lagging several taps behind while older messages play out
• The folder name shown after an up or down folder swipe is no longer hidden behind the sliding artwork

Look and feel

• Messages like "added to queue", the rescan result and a failed delete now appear inside the app rather than as system pop-ups, so they never pile up or arrive late

Text

• The About box is shorter, and links to the project page and to donations

Behind the scenes

• Removed code comments that don't record a past bug
• Tidied the docs

Timbra 0.9.8

Timbra 0.9.8

Library updates itself

• The library refreshes on its own when songs are added, removed or moved
• A burst of changes becomes a single refresh, with a cap so long file copies still show up
• Coming back to the app checks for changes, and only reloads if something actually moved
• New Rescan item in the overflow menu, which reports how many songs were found

Playback

• Shuffle, repeat and folder-sort choices no longer reset when the app updates
• Shuffle progress now survives closing the app: the play path and already-played songs come back
• Resuming after closing the app lands on the right song, even if files were deleted since
• Turning shuffle off no longer adds duplicate copies of songs you had queued
• A broken or unplayable file no longer freezes the player with a dead play button
• Next/Previous from the notification, lock screen or a Bluetooth remote now works at the end of a folder
• Playback keeps going more reliably with the screen off
• Skipping songs stays smooth on very long queues, even after hours of listening
• Some older MP3 files no longer stop with an error part way through
• Folder jumping can no longer jump twice or get stuck

Library and lists

• Lists come back in the same order every time
• Songs with no title sort by filename — matching what you actually see
• Albums where only some tracks have a disc number no longer put those tracks before disc 1
• Rotating the screen no longer reloads your whole library and all album art
• Your sort choice survives rotating the screen and going back
• Changing sort or view quickly no longer shows the wrong list or plays the wrong song
• Genres and Playlists no longer crash the app on phones where Android doesn't provide them
• Playlists open faster; opening a genre no longer briefly blocks other loading
• Folder song counts are always correct
• The queue list updates much faster and keeps your scroll position
• The now-playing marker no longer makes the list twitch on every song change
• Long-pressing a row can no longer open the menu for something else
• Album art uses less memory, and no longer shows an old cover after a rescan

Equalizer

• Boosting bands no longer causes distortion on loud tracks
• A slider no longer changes value if your gesture gets interrupted
• Damaged settings no longer shift gains onto the wrong bands

Player screen

• The scrolling song/folder title works when tapped, even after leaving and coming back
• The up/down folder-swipe animation uses less memory
• The album-art deck no longer gets stuck showing the wrong card

Look and feel

• Toolbar and mini-player are no longer hidden behind the system bars on Android 15
• Row text is no longer flush against the screen edge on Android 7 and 7.1
• The glow line under the playing song no longer looks muddy at its ends
• The search box's tap ripple stays inside its rounded corners

Text

• "1 songs" now reads "1 song"
• The Info box and the folder title can now be translated
• Pressing Search on the keyboard hides the keyboard so you can see results
• The About box states the app's licence

Permissions and privacy

• If you refuse the audio permission, the app explains why the library is empty and offers to open settings
• Deleting files no longer freezes the app, and it tells you if a delete failed
• Phone backups no longer restore a playback queue from a different phone

Behind the scenes

• Dropped 84 unused translations pulled in by libraries — about 450 KB smaller
• Removed an icon that was never shown
• Added 40 automated tests
• Builds are faster; debug builds no longer overwrite or block the normal app
• On unsupported phones the app refuses to install rather than installing with no sound
• Fixed small problems in the build and install scripts, tidied the docs, added a licence note to every file

Timbra 0.7.44

Timbra 0.7.44

Playback robustness

• Play MPEG audio inside RIFF/WAVE containers (fmt tag 0x55/0x50) via a new
  RiffMpegExtractor — these files were claimed by WavExtractor and then rejected
  as a source error, so they simply refused to play.
• A track that errors out now skips to the next one instead of leaving the
  player IDLE with a dead play button.
• Tracks that wedge while buffering at the very end (rips whose reported
  duration overruns the actual audio) are finished by seeking past the last
  frame instead of hanging.
• A failed controller connection is retried rather than leaving the app
  silent.
• If the saved current track was deleted, playback restores the nearest
  surviving song in that list instead of coming up empty.

Shuffle and "play next"

• "Play next" is honoured under shuffle: enqueued songs lead the shuffle order
  instead of joining the random pool, and the enqueued block stays contiguous.
• Cycling the shuffle button (Shuffle-Songs → OFF) no longer wipes the queue.
  The manually enqueued block is now lifted off the timeline and spliced back on
  both mode transitions, so it survives the round trip.
• A "play next" insertion is absorbed into the running shuffle session, so the
  no-repeat history is kept instead of reset. Enqueued duplicates and a
  completed shuffle pass no longer clear that history either.
• Play-next items are marked consumed once they play, fixing songs
  resurrecting after a shuffle change, after a reorder that crosses the current
  song, and Clear Queue cutting playback off.

Advance-List

• The next-folder step lives in one shared implementation owned by the
  service, so queue ends, stuck tracks, and Next from the notification or
  Bluetooth all advance identically.

Library, sorting and metadata

• Disc numbers are kept, so multi-disc albums stop interleaving their tracks;
  the track-1000 edge case is fixed too.
• Folder sort is persisted app-wide, so browse order and play order always
  agree.
• List rows and their tap targets are committed together, so a tap landing
  during a re-sort plays the song you actually touched.
• Repository caches are rescan-safe, and the album/artist groupings are shared
  rather than rebuilt.

Equalizer

• Output is rounded instead of truncated, filter state resets when
  coefficients change, and coefficients are published atomically (no torn reads
  mid-block).
• The last fader step of a drag is persisted — previously it could be dropped
  on release.

Artwork and UI

• Art decodes are sized to the target view and the cache is keyed by size; the
  legacy album-art path is sampled instead of decoded full-size.
• Pending marquee work is cancelled, so it can no longer overwrite another
  screen's toolbar title.
• Queue-screen updates that arrive mid-drag are re-applied afterwards, and
  taps are guarded by media id.
• Navigation launched after a suspending load is guarded against a stopped
  activity.
• Transport binding, dialogs, and the player controls layout are shared
  between portrait and landscape.

Timbra 0.7.36

Timbra 0.7.36

• New landscape player: two-pane layout (art left, controls right).
• Smoother folder swipes — art no longer flashes or swaps mid-animation.
• Correct per-track covers in mini-player and queue; embedded-tag art used as
  fallback.
• Fixed stuck "advance to next folder" when swiping quickly.
• Central art band excluded from the system back-gesture.
• Build: scoped JitPack to com.github.* to fix nextlib resolution failures.

Timbra 0.7.20

Just bug fixes this time:

• Advance-List now rolls the last song of a folder into the next folder even
  when the app is in the background or the screen is off — previously it only
  continued while the player was on-screen.
• The album-art deck no longer plays a spurious flip animation when you return
  to the player after a track changed in the background; genuine live
  transitions still animate.

Timbra 0.7.18

Equalizer

• 7-band graphic equalizer (custom Media3 biquad DSP), works on all devices/formats. On/Off
  toggle and per-band gains persist across restarts. Opens from the overflow menu on any screen.

Player navigation

• Back arrow walks up the song's folder tree instead of navigation history.
• Toolbar shows the song's folder path; long titles/paths marquee-scroll.

Playback

• Position is restored after the app is closed and reopened.

Search

• Choose play scope on a result: all matches, or just that result's folder. More reliable
  keyboard, and the playing song is centered in its folder list.

UI

• Full-player redesign: audio-format line (sample rate / bitrate / container), smaller play
  button, controls over pure black, app-mark glow instead of a generic art placeholder.

Fixes

• Advance-List no longer stops at the end of a folder after the Activity is recreated.
• Progress bar and timestamp stay correct when switching apps.

Timbra 0.6.9

New

• Folder swipe navigation — swipe the album art up/down to jump to the
  next/previous song folder (flat, filename-ordered traversal), with a
  finger-following slide and wrap-around animation. Horizontal swipes keep
  switching songs and now share the exact same transport path as the
  prev/next buttons.
• Folder-aware back arrow — the player's top-left arrow walks up the
  current song's folder tree instead of replaying navigation history (the
  system back gesture still does history).
• Folder path in the toolbar — the full player shows the song's folder
  path (root omitted), marquee-scrolling long paths once per song.
• Audio format info — the full player displays the decoded sample rate,
  bitrate and container of the current track.
• Resume playback — the queue, current song and position survive app
  restarts; reopening the app restores everything paused right where you
  left off.

Improved

• Player look & feel: controls on pure black, smaller play button, and a
  glowing app mark instead of a generic placeholder for tracks without
  album art.
• install.sh now updates in place by default (app data and the
  home-screen shortcut survive); --clean forces a fresh install and
  restores the shortcut.

Fixed

• The progress bar and timestamp (full player and mini-player) froze after
  switching to another app and back while a song was playing; they now keep
  advancing in real time.

Timbra 0.4.2

Timbra first release 🎉

A free, lightweight music player for Android, inspired by the classic Poweramp v2 look and feel, rebuilt from scratch as original code on a modern stack.

Highlights:

1. Folder-first browsing — no all-files permission needed
2. Full library: Folders, Albums, Artists, All Songs, Genres, Playlists, Queue
3. Wide format support via FFmpeg decoders
4. Gapless & background playback with lock-screen/Bluetooth controls
5. Swipeable album-art deck: left/right to change song, up/down to change folder
6. Shuffle & repeat modes, including Advance-List folder flow
7. Classic matte-dark theme, pure black for OLED
8. No ads, no telemetry, no bullshit

Requirements: Android 7.0+ (arm64-v8a / armeabi-v7a)

Install: download timbra-0.4.2.apk below and sideload it (adb install or open it on the phone). Grant the photos and media permission on first launch.

Licensed GPLv3+.

Feedback and issues welcome!