Merge: Pull Request #111 - the v1.5.1 release (versionCode 13) on top of v1.5.
Changelog
- Android Auto support — browsing, grid layouts, synced lyrics and artwork caching.
- Radio mode: start an endless station from any song.
- New Explore page, and a reworked Library with a grid/list toggle for music and downloads.
- Multi-account profiles — switch between signed-in accounts, and pick which brand channel you listen as.
- Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless quality settings, with bit depth, sample rate and channel count shown while playing.
- 32-bit playback and direct DAC output over USB.
- Dolby Atmos — plays the surround version of a song when there is one, with a device capability check.
- Genius added as a lyrics fallback when no other source has them; plus a lyrics blur toggle.
- Liquid Glass: real refracting glass on the floating nav bar (Android 12+).
- iOS-style bounce and overscroll throughout the app.
- High performance mode — full animations, blur, and a higher display refresh rate request.
- Automix performance setting (Efficient / Balanced / Performance) to cap how much CPU background analysis uses.
- Filter non-music audio out of the local library — short clips, voice notes, recordings and system sounds.
- Shuffle/Mix and Repeat/Loop states now persist across app restarts.
- Offline HLS and DASH downloads, with a reworked download and quality-upgrade path.
- Convert to audio, revert to original, and manual quality upgrade from the now-playing screen.
- Queue rework — queue history, back gesture out of the expanded queue, and playlist context kept when playing a search result.
- Faster search, with paged YouTube Music result feeds.
- Discord Rich Presence customization — activity verb, name and both buttons.
- New translations: Italian, Polish, Hebrew and Turkish.
- Player fixes: animated cover art no longer blanks on returning from the background, and swiping the cover left goes to the previous track.
- Fixed autoplay dropping out in long sessions, JioSaavn song mismatches and explicit flagging, and scrobbles crediting the wrong artist.
- General bug fixes and performance improvements.
Install
Requires Android 8.0 (API 26) or newer.
Installs straight over v1.5 — same signing key, your session and settings are kept.
Which APK? BitChord-v1.5.1.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