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🎵 Pixel Music v1.3.06 Performance & Polish Update

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

📦 Release Information

Property Value
Version 1.3.06
Release Date June 26, 2026
Stability Stable
Minimum Android 11 (API 30)
Target Android 15+ (API 37)
Architectures arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86_64

🎉 Major Themes in v1.3.06

Cross-Device Sync Graduates from Beta

The sync engine introduced in v1.2.06 is now fully stable with end-to-end encryption, offline conflict resolution, and real-time collaborative sessions across an unlimited number of paired devices. Pairing is as simple as scanning a QR code — no accounts, no servers, no tracking.

Engine Overhaul: Leaner, Faster, Stronger

A ground-up rewrite of the media core queue manager, bitmap pipeline, and database layer yields dramatically smoother performance on low-end devices while preserving every feature from previous versions. Cold start is now sub-second on mid-range hardware.

Universal Audio Effects Pipeline

All audio effects — equalizer, spatial audio, crossfade, normalization, and the new real-time reverb — are now processed through a unified, zero-latency DSP graph that applies consistently across local files, streams, and casts.

🚀 What's New

☁️ Cross-Device Sync (Stable)

  • Unlimited device pairing — sync your library state across any number of phones, tablets, TVs, and watches. No artificial caps.
  • Offline-first conflict resolution — devices can be offline for weeks and still merge flawlessly when they reconnect. The sync engine uses vector clocks to preserve every change without asking you to pick a winner.
  • Selective sync — choose which playlists, sources, or cached folders sync per device. Keep your phone lightweight while your tablet carries the full archive.
  • End-to-end encryption — all sync traffic is encrypted with X25519 + AES-256-GCM. The relay server cannot read your data, your playlist names, or your listening history.
  • LAN turbo mode — when devices are on the same network, sync runs over mDNS discovery with zero internet usage and transfer speeds up to 120 MB/s on Wi-Fi 6.
  • Wear OS two-way sync — playlists created on your watch now sync back to the phone instantly, and vice versa.

🤝 Collaborative Playlists 2.0

  • Persistent rooms — collaborative sessions can now be saved as permanent "rooms" tied to a playlist. Re-open the room anytime without re-inviting participants.
  • Permission levels — set participants as Owner, Editor, or Voter. Owners can lock the queue, force-skip, or kick disruptive members.
  • Reaction system — double-tap a track in the collaborative queue to send a heart, fire, or skull emoji that animates across all connected devices in real time.
  • Queue history log — a full chronological log shows who added what, when, and from which source. Great for settling disputes about who queued the dreaded 10-minute ambient drone track.
  • Listen together mode — when all participants are on the same Wi-Fi, playback can be synchronized across all devices with sub-50 ms latency for impromptu silent-disco-style sessions.

🎨 UI & Interactions

  • Edge-to-edge immersive player — on Android 15+, the full player now extends under the system bars with dynamic scrim gradients that protect readability against any album artwork.
  • Haptic choreography — every meaningful interaction now has subtle, distinct haptic feedback: a soft tick when scrolling through tracks, a satisfying snap when reordering queue items, and a deep thud when reaching the end of a playlist.
  • Predictive search — the search bar now suggests completions based on your library, recent trends, and LRCLIB lyrics metadata before you finish typing. Results appear in under 100 ms.
  • Smart album grid — the Library album grid now auto-sizes columns based on screen width and artwork aspect ratio, so square covers, tall vinyl scans, and wide movie-soundtrack art all look correct without cropping.
  • Quick Actions on long-press — long-press any song, album, or artist anywhere in the app to reveal a context menu with Add to Playlist, Start Radio, Share, Download, and View Stats.
  • Sleep timer redesign — a beautiful circular timer picker with presets (15 min, 30 min, 1 hour, End of Track) and a gentle volume fade that starts 2 minutes before cutoff.

🧠 AI & Discovery

  • Vibe search — describe a feeling in plain language ("sounds like driving through neon Tokyo at midnight") and the AI searches across all your connected sources to find matches, not just generate a playlist.
  • Auto-curate daily mixes — each morning, the app generates three personalized mixes based on your yesterday, your last week, and a discovery wildcard, delivered as notification cards you can tap to play instantly.
  • Source-aware recommendations — the AI now knows whether a track is local FLAC, YT Music, or Telegram, and prefers higher-quality sources when multiple matches exist.
  • Playlist health check — a monthly automated scan detects broken links, unavailable tracks, and duplicates across sources, offering one-tap fixes to keep your playlists pristine.
  • Mood timeline — view a visual graph of your listening mood over the last 30 days, auto-classified by the AI based on tempo, key, genre, and lyrics sentiment.

🎤 Lyrics & Language

  • AI-powered lyric translation — when no human translation exists in LRCLIB, the app can generate a context-aware translation on-device using a small, quantized neural model. No internet required.
  • Lyrics-to-notes — tap any line of synced lyrics to attach a personal note, memory, or bookmark. Notes sync across devices and appear as small markers in the timeline.
  • Multi-language track handling — tracks that contain multiple languages (e.g., K-pop, Bollywood, Afrobeat) now display inline language tags per line and allow per-language font selection for readability.
  • Full-screen lyrics theater — a dedicated reading mode with large typography, optional background video loop derived from the album artwork, and auto-scrolling that follows the song perfectly.
  • Lyrics export — export any track's lyrics (including your custom timing offsets and notes) as LRC, TXT, or JSON.

🌐 Streaming & Sources

  • Plex / Jellyfin server support — connect to your self-hosted Plex or Jellyfin library and stream your full personal media server through the Pixel Music interface with full metadata, artwork, and transcoding awareness.
  • SoundCloud import — connect your SoundCloud account to import likes, playlists, and followed artists. Tracks are matched to YT Music or local sources for playback within Pixel Music.
  • Bandcamp Friday integration — on Bandcamp Fridays, the app surfaces your wishlist and purchase history as a dedicated discovery card, with direct links to the Bandcamp app for buying.
  • Radio recording & clipping — when listening to internet radio, tap "Record" to save the stream to local storage. Auto-split into tracks when station metadata updates, or export arbitrary clips with a waveform trimmer.
  • Subsonic / Airsonic API — full compatibility with Subsonic, Airsonic, Navidrome, and compatible forks as a streaming source. Supports starred tracks, playlists, and podcast channels.
  • CDN edge caching — frequently accessed YT Music artwork and stream metadata are now cached at the edge via a lightweight distributed CDN, reducing latency by 40 % for users outside North America and Europe.

⚡ Audio & Playback

  • Real-time reverb — a studio-quality reverb engine with presets: Small Room, Large Hall, Cathedral, Plate, and Arena. Applies to all sources with adjustable wet/dry mix and decay time.
  • Bass-managed stereo widening — a new psychoacoustic width enhancer that respects bass mono compatibility, preventing the "thin bass" problem common on simple stereo wideners.
  • Per-app volume ducking — when another app requests audio focus (e.g., a navigation prompt), Pixel Music now applies a configurable sidechain duck curve rather than a blunt pause.
  • Lossless Bluetooth priority — on Android 15+ with supported codecs (LDAC, aptX Lossless, LHDC), the app now requests the maximum bitrate profile automatically and shows a "Lossless" badge in the player.
  • Audio output switcher — a quick output picker in the player sheet lets you instantly move playback between phone speaker, Bluetooth, wired, Chromecast, or DLNA renderers without stopping the track.
  • Pre-load cache — when you start an album or playlist, the next two tracks are pre-buffered in the background so skips are instant, even on slow mobile networks.

📲 Widgets, Tiles & Wear

  • Stackable widgets — multiple Pixel Music widgets can now be stacked in the same home-screen slot on Android 15+ launchers, flipping through player, stats, and lyrics views with a swipe.
  • Always-on display support — when playing and the screen is locked, the AOD shows a minimal, burn-in-resistant player with track info and basic controls on supported OLED devices.
  • Wear OS app launcher — the Wear OS companion now appears as a standalone app in the watch launcher with its own mini-library, search, and offline-downloads tab.
  • Watch gesture controls — flick your wrist forward to skip, rotate the crown to scrub, and cover the screen with your palm to pause — all configurable in Wear Settings.
  • Tile auto-update — Glance and Wear tiles now update their artwork and metadata within 500 ms of a track change, down from 3–5 seconds in previous versions.
  • Automotive-grade widget — a new large-format widget designed for Android Automotive and third-party car launchers, with oversized touch targets and voice-command integration.

📊 Stats & Insights

  • Decade rewind — in addition to year-in-review, the app now generates decade-style retrospectives showing your evolving taste, top artists per year, and genre shifts over time.
  • Listening commitment score — a playful metric that rewards you for finishing tracks rather than skipping, with streaks and badges for "completionist" behavior.
  • Source breakdown — a pie chart showing what percentage of your listening comes from local files, YT Music, Telegram, Drive, radio, and other sources, updated daily.
  • Sleep & activity correlation — if you grant Health Connect access, the app can correlate your listening patterns with sleep quality and step count (fully opt-in, data never leaves device).
  • Global anonymous trends — see what songs are trending among Pixel Music users worldwide, filtered by country, with the ability to one-tap import the top 100 into a "Global Trending" playlist.

🔧 Improvements Since v1.2.06

  • Cold start — sub-900 ms on Snapdragon 7-series and equivalent. Sub-1.5 s on 4 GB RAM budget devices.
  • RAM footprint — idle background usage reduced by 35 % through aggressive bitmap eviction and shared database connection pooling.
  • Battery — background sync now uses exactly one network wake-up per hour for non-urgent tasks, reducing standby drain by 50 % compared to v1.2.06.
  • Database — rewritten indexing strategy cuts library scan time for 100,000 tracks from 8 minutes to 90 seconds on mid-range devices.
  • Artwork pipeline — Coil cache hit rate improved from 72 % to 94 % through smarter LRU sizing and pre-warming based on upcoming queue predictions.
  • Chromecast — connection establishment is now 2× faster on first cast and survives router DHCP renewals without dropping the session.
  • Wear OS — standalone app launch time reduced to under 1.2 s on Wear OS 3 watches. Offline track download speed improved by 60 % via parallel chunk fetching.
  • Telegram — thumbnail extraction now uses native C++ codecs where available, cutting CPU usage by 45 % during bulk channel imports.
  • Google Drive — folder refresh now uses delta sync rather than full enumeration, reducing sync time from minutes to seconds for large, mostly-static libraries.
  • AI pipeline — local TTS and translation models are now downloaded on-demand and cached in compressed form, reducing initial install size by 12 MB.
  • Search — fuzzy matching handles typos, transliteration, and missing diacritics across all sources. Searching for "Beyonce" correctly finds "Beyoncé" in all connected libraries.
  • Notification — the media notification now supports the new Android 15 "compact seek" style, showing a small waveform scrubber directly in the collapsed notification.
  • Backup — .pxpl backups are now streamed to storage rather than built in memory, supporting libraries of unlimited size without OOM risk.
  • Migration — v1.2.06 → v1.3.06 migration is fully automatic and preserves all data, sync pairings, and cached content. Expected time: <3 seconds.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed cross-device sync occasionally creating duplicate playlist entries when the same track existed in both local and YT Music sources with identical metadata.
  • Fixed collaborative room reaction emojis causing a soft crash on devices running Android 12 with custom emoji font packs installed.
  • Fixed AI DJ intro TTS failing to initialize on Android 15 devices with Google TTS disabled and no fallback engine configured.
  • Fixed waveform seekbar not generating for tracks stored on SD cards formatted as exFAT with 4 KB cluster sizes.
  • Fixed Plex/Jellyfin source not displaying album art when the server used self-signed certificates with non-standard CA chains.
  • Fixed sleep timer volume fade not completing smoothly on devices where the hardware mixer only supported 16 volume steps.
  • Fixed Glance widget stack not updating the top widget when the underlying stack changed while the screen was off.
  • Fixed Wear OS crown scrub gesture conflicting with the system zoom accessibility gesture on some Samsung Galaxy Watch models.
  • Fixed auto-curate daily mixes failing to generate when the device had been offline for >48 hours and the local cache was stale; the app now queues a generation task immediately upon reconnection.
  • Fixed radio recording auto-split creating files with incorrect track boundaries when the station sent ICY metadata updates more frequently than once per second.
  • Fixed Subsonic source login failing when the server URL contained a trailing slash and path-based reverse proxying (e.g., example.com/subsonic/).
  • Fixed edge-to-edge immersive player causing a 1-pixel white line artifact on the bottom edge on certain Xiaomi devices with MIUI 16.
  • Fixed haptic feedback firing on every frame during fast queue scroll on some OnePlus devices with high-refresh haptic actuators, causing battery drain and overheating.
  • Fixed lyrics theater mode not respecting the system screen timeout, causing OLED burn-in on long ambient tracks.

📲 Downloads

Architecture APK Typical Devices
arm64-v8a (recommended) pixelmusic-1.3.06-arm64-v8a.apk Snapdragon 835+, Exynos 8895+, MediaTek Helio G90+, Google Tensor, all phones from 2017 onward
armeabi-v7a pixelmusic-1.3.06-armeabi-v7a.apk Older 32-bit devices, budget phones pre-2018
x86_64 pixelmusic-1.3.06-x86_64.apk Android emulators, Intel tablets, Chromebooks

Not sure which one to pick?

  1. Go to Settings → About Phone.
  2. Look for Processor or CPU.
  3. If it says 64-bit, ARMv8, AArch64, or lists a Snapdragon 6/7/8-series chip, download arm64-v8a.
  4. When in doubt, arm64-v8a is the safest choice.

🛠️ Installation

Fresh Install

  1. Download the correct APK for your device architecture from the table above.
  2. Open the file on your Android device (via browser downloads, Telegram, 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.

Upgrade from v1.2.06

This is a direct upgrade — you do not need to uninstall first. Android will update the app in-place and preserve all data.

  1. Download the same architecture APK you installed previously (e.g., if you had arm64-v8a, download arm64-v8a again).
  2. Open the APK and tap Update.
  3. Your playlists, favorites, history, AI playlists, settings, API keys, cross-device sync pairings, collaborative rooms, cached lyrics, and offline downloads will all carry over automatically.

Note: If you switch architectures (e.g., arm64-v8a → armeabi-v7a), Android will block the install. You must uninstall first, which erases data. Always match the architecture.

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; this warning is standard for all non-Play-Store APKs.

🔐 Integrity Check

Verify your download with SHA-256:

pixelmusic-1.3.06-arm64-v8a.apk
  SHA-256: (replace with actual checksum after build)

pixelmusic-1.3.06-armeabi-v7a.apk
  SHA-256: (replace with actual checksum after build)

pixelmusic-1.3.06-x86_64.apk
  SHA-256: (replace with actual checksum after build)

You can verify on Android using Hash Droid or on any desktop with:

sha256sum pixelmusic-1.3.06-*.apk

⚠️ Known Issues

  • Cross-device sync requires all devices to be on v1.2.06 or later for basic sync, and v1.3.06 for collaborative rooms and reaction features. Mixed-version sync may silently drop unsupported features.
  • Collaborative listen-together mode requires all participants to be on the same Wi-Fi network with multicast support enabled on the router. Some corporate and public Wi-Fi blocks mDNS and will fall back to internet relay with higher latency.
  • Plex / Jellyfin self-signed certificates must be trusted at the system level; in-app certificate pinning is not yet supported.
  • SoundCloud import is limited to tracks available in your region via SoundCloud's API. Geo-blocked tracks will be skipped during import.
  • AI on-device translation supports English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese (Simplified). Other languages will show an "unavailable" badge and fall back to LRCLIB human translations if available.
  • Waveform seekbar generation is skipped on devices with <3 GB RAM or when the track is stored on a network share with >100 ms latency.
  • Always-on display player requires an OLED screen and Android 14+ with AOD support. LCD devices will show the standard lockscreen notification instead.
  • Subsonic podcast channels display episodes but do not yet support download-and-sync for offline listening; streaming works perfectly.

📣 Feedback & Support

  • Telegram Channel: @PixelMusicApp — announcements, APK mirrors, and community support.
  • Bug Reports: Open an issue in this repository with the bug label. Include:
    • Device model and Android version
    • Installed APK architecture (arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86_64)
    • Steps to reproduce and expected vs. actual behavior
  • Feature Requests: Open an issue with the enhancement label and describe your use case.

📝 Previous Releases

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

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