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🎵 Pixel Music v0.5.05

The Ultimate Hybrid Local, Streaming, and Cloud Music Powerhouse for Android

📦 Release Information

Property Value
Version 0.5.05
Release Date June 26, 2026
Minimum Android 11 (API 30)
Target Android 15+ (API 37)
Architectures arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86_64

🚀 What's New

🎨 Enhanced Expressive UI

  • Dynamic Material You theming now extends to all bottom sheets, sliders, and widget surfaces with smoother HSL color extraction transitions.
  • New glassmorphism share cards — share your currently playing track to Snapchat stories with frosted glass, blurred artwork backgrounds, and wavy seekbar animations.
  • Refined player sheet transitions — spring-physics animations and predictive back-gesture support feel more natural on Android 15+ devices.

🧠 Generative AI Playlist Engine

  • 8 new Smart Mix generation modes powered by Last.fm data:
    • Top Tracks, Recent Tracks, Similar Tracks, Similar Artists, Genre-based, Recommendations, Loved Tracks, and Discovery Mix.
  • AI playlist retention policies — auto-delete generated playlists after 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, or keep them permanently.
  • GenZ-style auto-naming — AI playlists now get names like "My Vault", "On Repeat", and "Algorhythm" instead of generic timestamps.
  • In-place overwrite — regenerating an existing AI playlist updates it in place rather than cluttering your library with duplicates.

🌐 Streaming & Connectivity

  • Telegram channel streaming — stream audio directly from channels, chats, and Saved Messages with full metadata indexing.
  • Google Drive integration (Beta) — browse and stream high-resolution personal libraries from cloud folders without consuming local storage.
  • Deezer artist artwork enrichment — high-quality cover art and backgrounds now auto-populate for all cataloged artists.
  • Chromecast stability improvements — reduced reconnection drops and faster device discovery on home networks.
  • Wear OS companion — queue transfer, remote playback control, and offline watch caching are now fully functional.

🎤 Lyrics & Metadata

  • Synchronized LRC lyrics with millisecond-precision manual offset adjustment.
  • Offline lyrics cache — once fetched, lyrics persist in the local database for offline playback.
  • Live translation & romanization support for CJK and Cyrillic tracks.
  • Enhanced metadata editor — batch-edit tags, album art, and ReplayGain values for local FLAC, MP3, OPUS, and OGG files.

⚡ Performance & Optimization

  • Per-ABI APK splits — download only the APK matching your device architecture. No more bloated universal packages.
  • Compressed native libraries — FFmpeg and audio processor .so files are now compressed inside the APK, reducing download size by ~30%.
  • Stripped debug symbols — release builds no longer ship native debug data, saving several megabytes per ABI.
  • R8 full-mode optimization — faster cold-start times and reduced DEX footprint.
  • Resource pruning — unused third-party translation strings and densities are stripped at build time.
  • Explore screen lazy loading — Home, Charts, and New Releases load in under 1 second; heavy background queries are deferred to concurrent jobs.

🔧 Improvements

  • Android Auto — fully compliant MediaLibraryService integration with improved browsing speed and voice-command accuracy.
  • Quick Settings tiles — two new tiles: Shuffle All and Resume Last Playlist, available immediately after installation (no manual widget placement needed).
  • Glance widgets — Material 3 home-screen widgets now support interactive play/pause, skip, and album-art display on all launchers.
  • MIUI / HyperOS lockscreen art — custom artwork provider bypasses Xiaomi lockscreen background restrictions.
  • 10-band equalizer — added "Loudness" preset and fixed preset switching latency.
  • Gapless playback — crossfade range expanded to 0–15 seconds with smoother transitions between local and streaming tracks.
  • Volume normalization — EBU R128 algorithm now applies consistently across all sources (local, YT Music, Telegram, Drive).
  • Database migration — optimized Room queries and thread-safe indexing to prevent ANRs on large libraries (50,000+ tracks).

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed occasional crash when switching from local playback to YT Music streaming mid-queue.
  • Fixed Telegram channel audio not appearing in library scan until app restart.
  • Fixed Chromecast audio drifting out of sync after 30+ minutes of continuous playback.
  • Fixed Wear OS companion failing to display album art for transferred tracks.
  • Fixed AI playlist generation timeout on slow networks — now retries with exponential backoff.
  • Fixed lyrics offset slider resetting to zero on screen rotation.
  • Fixed share-card renderer producing blank images on devices with forced dark mode.
  • Fixed memory leak in MediaFileHttpServerService during long Telegram streaming sessions.
  • Fixed R8 ClassCastException on Gson-backed backup restore in release builds.
  • Fixed baseline profile installer consuming excessive storage on first launch.

📲 Downloads

Choose the APK that matches your device architecture. Most modern phones use arm64-v8a.

Architecture APK Notes
arm64-v8a (recommended) pixelmusic-0.5.05-arm64-v8a.apk Snapdragon 835+, Exynos 8895+, MediaTek Helio G90+, all phones from 2017 onward
armeabi-v7a pixelmusic-0.5.05-armeabi-v7a.apk Older 32-bit devices, budget phones pre-2018
x86_64 pixelmusic-0.5.05-x86_64.apk Android emulators, some Intel tablets

Not sure which one to pick? Open Settings → About Phone and look for "Processor" or "CPU". If it says 64-bit or ARMv8, download arm64-v8a. When in doubt, arm64-v8a is the safest choice.

🛠️ Installation

  1. Download the correct APK from the table above.
  2. Open the file on your Android device (via browser downloads or file manager).
  3. Tap Install.
  4. If you see a security prompt, tap Settings and allow installation from this source.
  5. Launch Pixel Music from your app drawer.

First-time sideloaders: Android may show a "Play Protect" warning for apps outside the Play Store. Tap More details → Install anyway to proceed. Pixel Music does not contain malware; the warning is standard for all non-Play-Store APKs.

⚠️ Known Issues

  • Google Drive streaming is in beta; folder pagination for libraries larger than 5,000 files may be slow.
  • Snapchat story sharing requires the Snapchat app to be installed; sharing cards may render without blurred backgrounds on very low-end devices.
  • AI playlist generation requires an active internet connection and a valid API key configured in settings; generation may be rate-limited by provider tier.
  • Android Auto voice commands for searching Telegram channels are not yet supported.

📣 Feedback & Support

  • Telegram Channel: @PixelMusicApp — announcements, sneak peeks, and APK mirrors.
  • Bug Reports: Open an issue in this repository with the label bug and include your device model, Android version, and the APK architecture you installed.
  • Feature Requests: Open an issue with the label enhancement and describe the use case.

📝 Previous Releases

See the full changelog in CHANGELOG.md or browse all releases here.

Thank you for using Pixel Music.
Listen without limits. 🎧

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