Rhythm 5.5 - Feature Update

What's New:

• Added: Persistent playback queue and shuffle memory: automatically restores your playlist, exact track position, and shuffle state across app restarts (#595)
• Added: AutoEQ headroom protection: automatic preamp attenuation (-maxGain) prevents audio distortion and digital clipping when boosting EQ bands
• Added: AutoEQ speaker bypass: automatically turns off AutoEQ when playing through device speakers and restores it when headphones or external audio connect
• Added: Custom AutoEQ profile management: import, save, and reorder custom equalizer profiles across sessions
• Added: Multi-voice and duet lyrics display with synchronized part highlighting across LRC, TTML, and syllable renderers (#587)
• Added: Theme Intensity customization (Standard, Medium, Vivid) and Expressive Color Set options for dynamic Material 3 palettes (#590)
• Added: Android Photo Picker integration for selecting custom album and playlist artwork without requiring media storage permissions
• Added: On-demand lossless album artwork streaming directly from embedded audio tags with instant visual updates
• Changed: Equalizer preset frequency mapping now logarithmically interpolates 10-band presets to match device hardware bands accurately
• Changed: Dynamic color extraction from album artwork refined to preserve natural hues and color vibrancy
• Changed: Adopted Android 15 edge-to-edge layout design and modernized Material 3 Slider interactions
• Fixed: Fixed playback queue being wiped or re-shuffled when reopening the app or restarting playback (#595)
• Fixed: Fixed lyric fetching for explicit songs and downloaded audio files, and resolved LRCLIB HTTP 520 connection errors (#587, #583)
• Fixed: Fixed lyrics cache invalidation and eliminated fetch cancellation thrashing during rapid song skips (#585)
• Fixed: Hardened background media service startup flow to prevent service crashes and notification failures
• Fixed: Equalizer curve rendering clamped within display bounds to eliminate visual clipping artifacts
• Performance: Zero-latency song details sheet: offloaded file path resolution and MediaStore queries to background threads to eliminate UI thread blocking (#589)
• Performance: Efficient on-demand artwork streaming eliminating redundant disk caching and memory overhead
• 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: 1270
• 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!