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🎵 Pixel Music v1.5.06

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

📦 Release Information

Property Value
Version 1.5.06
Release Date June 26, 2026
Stability Stable
Minimum Android 11 (API 30)
Target Android 15+ (API 37)

🚀 What's New & Improved

🎧 Smart Mix Playlist Generator (Last.fm Creator)

Replicated and adapted the creation and discovery features of LastWave into a native Jetpack Compose implementation. Generate personalized mixes directly within Pixel Music using your Last.fm data.

📱 Spotify-Style Snapchat Story Sharing

Integrated the official Snapchat Creative Kit SDK for premium story sharing. Share customized song cards and lyrics cards directly to your Snapchat stories with beautiful, dynamic styling.

🎨 Share Card Customizations

  • Dynamic pastel theming — cards adapt to the album artwork palette automatically.
  • Frosted glassmorphic containers — deep blurred artwork backgrounds with elegant frosted overlays.
  • Wavy seekbar animations — animated wave-style progress indicators on share cards.

⚡ Explore Progressive Loading

Phased Explore screen rendering for near-instant page loads:

  • Above-the-fold feeds load immediately.
  • Personalized lists and heavy background queries are deferred and loaded asynchronously.

🔍 Explore Personalization

Integrated ArchiveTune's sorting algorithm to prioritize new release albums from your favorite and most-played artists in the Explore feed.

🎨 Material You Dynamic Colors

Added a "Dynamic (System)" option to the App Color Palette setting on Android 12+ devices. The interface now fully syncs with your system Material You theme.

🏠 Explore Launch Tab

Support for setting the Explore screen as the default tab upon launching the app. Customize your entry point to jump straight into discovery.

🗑️ Smart Mix Playlist Retention

Added configurable retention periods for generated AI playlists:

  • 24 hours
  • 7 days
  • 30 days
  • Permanent

Automated startup pruning removes expired playlists automatically based on your chosen retention setting.

🔧 Improvements

  • Reworked share and options bottom sheets — now use dynamic themes and rounded list items for a more polished, cohesive look.
  • Optimized centerpiece floating card width — adjusted to 84% for wider margins relative to the background, improving visual breathing room.
  • Maximized monochrome and base app logo drawables — centered and scaled for better launcher compatibility across OEM skins and icon packs.
  • Streamlined auto-queue track selection — enhanced with similarity scoring, discovery balancing, and duplicate prevention for smarter, more varied continuous playback.
  • Optimized prefetching — made audio byte loading cooperatively cancelable on skipping, reducing wasted bandwidth and improving responsiveness.
  • Prioritized high-quality Opus audio streaming — minimizes initial buffering latency for faster playback starts on supported content.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • MIUI / HyperOS Lockscreen Art Fix — Added a custom SharedArtworkContentProvider to resolve missing lockscreen album art on Xiaomi / Redmi devices.
  • SmartMix Thread-Safety — Fixed a concurrent modification crash in the "My Recommendations" mode by synchronizing the candidates list.
  • Playback Reloading Bug — Resolved redundant playback requests that caused YouTube streams to restart after 1 second of playback.
  • Database Optimizations — Resolved Room database parameter warnings and optimized large database queries for better performance at scale.
  • Explore Screen Crash — Added ProGuard keep rules for Explore cache models to prevent Gson ClassCastException under R8 optimization in release builds.
  • Search Result Queueing — Restored correct click behavior to play only the selected search result rather than loading the entire result list into the queue.
  • Library Isolation — Excluded YouTube Music related/similar songs from showing up in the main local library, keeping sources cleanly separated.
  • Dynamic UI Updates — Corrected dynamic download and favorite status updates in the UI to reflect real-time state changes accurately.
  • Playlist Management & Song Removal — Upgraded playlist deletion and song removal to support all song ID variants, resolving issues with "ghost" playlists persisting after deletion.
  • Downloaded Songs Isolation — Fixed downloaded songs clearing the local downloaded playlist when adding new tracks — newly downloaded tracks now append correctly without wiping existing entries.

📲 Downloads

Choose the APK that matches your device. arm64-v8a is recommended for nearly all modern phones.

APK Architecture For
app-arm64-v8a-release.apk arm64-v8a Modern 64-bit phones (recommended)
app-universal-release.apk Universal All phones (larger file size)
app-armeabi-v7a-release.apk armeabi-v7a Older / budget 32-bit phones
app-x86_64-release.apk x86_64 Emulators, Chromebooks, Intel tablets
wear-release.apk Wear OS Wear OS smartwatches only

Not sure which one? Download app-arm64-v8a-release.apk. It works on Snapdragon 835+, Exynos 8895+, MediaTek Helio G90+, Google Tensor, and virtually every phone released since 2017.

🛠️ Installation

Fresh Install

  1. Download the APK for your device from the table above.
  2. Open the file on your Android device (from browser downloads, Telegram, or file manager).
  3. Tap Install.
  4. If prompted, go to Settings and allow installation from this source.
  5. Launch Pixel Music from your app drawer.

Upgrade from a Previous Version

This is a direct upgrade — you do not need to uninstall first. All playlists, favorites, settings, and cached data are preserved automatically.

First-time sideloaders: Android may show a Play Protect warning for apps outside the Play Store. Tap More details → Install anyway to proceed. This is standard for all non-Play-Store APKs and is not a security concern.

⚠️ Known Issues

  • Snapchat story sharing requires the Snapchat app to be installed and logged in. Blurred background effects may fall back to solid colors on very low-end devices (2 GB RAM).
  • Smart Mix generation requires an active internet connection and a valid Last.fm or AI provider API key. Free-tier keys may be rate-limited during peak hours.
  • MIUI / HyperOS lockscreen art fix requires the app to be running or have a recent notification. If the app is force-killed by the system, lockscreen art may not appear until the next playback start.
  • Wear OS app requires a paired phone running Pixel Music for full library sync. Standalone offline playback is limited to previously transferred tracks.
  • Universal APK includes all architectures and is significantly larger than the per-ABI builds. Use the arm64-v8a or armeabi-v7a APK whenever possible to save storage.

📣 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
    • APK installed (arm64-v8a, universal, armeabi-v7a, x86_64, wear)
    • 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.

Thank you for using Pixel Music.
Your music. Your cloud. Your rules. 🎧

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