Top Features
- Hi-res audio engine — a new Float32 pipeline with bit-perfect output, direct USB DAC routing, advanced Bluetooth output and loudness normalization.
- Live audio pipeline view — an animated signal-flow diagram on the Now Playing screen showing exactly what reaches your DAC.
- Listen Together, rebuilt — a new Go backend, a shared queue (up to 25 upcoming) with your personal queue kept aside, host controls, an activity feed, and support for custom servers.
- SMB network shares — browse a share as a library, stream straight off it, with embedded cover art (WebDAV too).
- Redesigned player queue, liquid glass UI, and full-screen Spotify Canvas, including portrait canvases.
Changelog
- YouTube streams now resolve through InnerTubeX, with automatic YouTube fallback when another source fails.
- Version switching with smart audio alignment between renditions.
- Search: entity-based recents with artwork, the field clears and refocuses on every Search tab tap, and live suggestions are more reliable.
- Lyrics: romanization with a secondary line, new blur for lyrics and queue screens, and Apple TTML text direction and vocal alignment preserved in downloaded songs.
- Disliking the current track now skips it.
- Discord Rich Presence update.
- Replay: fixed title spacing, slide timing and last-slide progress.
- Tablet-optimized main player.
- Encrypted preferences recover after a device restore and are kept out of backups.
- Fixed incomplete album track lists, skip-while-shuffled crash on albums, previous-track navigation mid-playlist, autoplay overwriting your queue, download issues, quality upgrade failures with shuffle, and SMB guest login.
- Performance: removed main-thread Binder IPC loops and sped up queue drawer rendering.
- General stability fixes across the app.
Full list of changes: #317
Install
Requires Android 8.0 (API 26) or newer.
Installs straight over v1.6 — same signing key, your session and settings are kept.
Which APK? BitChord-v1.7.apk is the universal build and works on every device — pick this one if you are unsure. The rest are smaller, single-architecture builds: arm64-v8a for most phones from the last few years, armeabi-v7a for older 32-bit devices, and x86_64 for emulators and x86 Chromebooks.
Support Channel (Discord)
https://discord.gg/pSafNTyKZx