Rhythm 5.5 - Feature Update

What's New:

• Added: Rhythm Go offline music downloads: download tracks from Subsonic and Jellyfin servers with real-time progress tracking and offline management
• Added: Local network server discovery to auto-scan and connect to nearby Jellyfin and Subsonic servers
• Added: Adaptive Two-Pane layouts and dialogs designed specifically for tablets, foldables, and large screens
• Added: Enhanced tablet sheet navigation with pinned headers, interactive scrollbars, and desktop mouse-wheel support
• Added: Comprehensive gesture customization with independent controls across player, mini-player, queue, library tabs, and lyrics screens
• Added: Mini-player swipe gestures to configure horizontal track skipping and vertical dismiss actions independently
• Added: Album artwork tap actions including single-tap (toggle lyrics), double-tap (play/pause), and tap-to-seek controls
• Added: Customizable and reorderable bottom player action buttons for Normal and Merge modes
• Added: Revamped playback queue with played and up-next sections, swipe-to-dismiss tracks, sticky headers, and smooth drag-and-drop reordering
• Added: Context-aware playback queue preserving album and artist context on track taps (#546)
• Added: Option to keep shuffle active when manually selecting a song from the library
• Added: TTML and Enhanced LRC (.elrc) synchronized lyrics export, editing, and local file discovery
• Added: Streaming service selection step in the initial onboarding tour
• Changed: Streaming resilience with automatic fallback to downloaded offline music when servers disconnect, plus faster sync and cover art caching
• Changed: Touch-aware lyrics auto-scroll that pauses automatically while reading or interacting with lyrics
• Fixed: Audio service stability fixes preventing background playback termination and native audio engine crashes
• Fixed: Preserved correct playback queue order when using "Play Next" and "Add to Queue" while shuffle is active
• Fixed: Multi-artist delimiter handling preventing multi-character delimiters (such as "ft.") from splitting names into individual letters
• Fixed: Missing artist indexing, empty album navigation, and media scanner folder whitelist filtering
• Fixed: Normalized track added and modified timestamps to milliseconds with automatic database migration
• Fixed: Restored missing Favorite and Lyrics action buttons in Merge Mode bottom player controls
• Fixed: Bottom sheet visual jitter and layout jumps during transitions
• Performance: Instant backward seeking with a 10-second back-buffer cache to eliminate re-buffering
• Performance: Dynamic high-precision scrubbing with sample-accurate playback alignment on release
• Added: Updated translations
• Many more reported Bug Fixes, UI & Performance Improvements.

Known Issues:

• Translation contributions are being collected.
• Report to GitHub Issues or Community on Discord & Telegram.

Build Information:

• Build: 1260
• Type: Stable Release

If you enjoy Rhythm and want to support open-source development:

• Patreon: patreon.com/AnjishnuNandi
• GitHub Sponsors: github.com/sponsors/cromaguy

🏆 Special Credits

• The Community: A big thanks to all Testers, Contributors, and Users!