Top Features
- Listen Together — host or join a real-time synced listening party with friends.
- Redesigned Now Playing screen, plus a dedicated Android tablet layout.
- Built-in equalizer.
- Major lyrics overhaul — Apple TTML support, animated line transitions, translations, and more providers.
- Full localization pass — Vietnamese, Thai and Japanese added, 15 languages synced to 100% parity.
- Dynamic Equalizer — Built-in equalizer.
Changelog
- Hybrid search with live typeahead results in a Spotify-style layout.
- Date added (oldest first) sort and persisted per-page sort for albums/playlists, in a new frosted sort menu.
- Lyrics: Apple TTML parsing, animated line transitions and translation swapping, PaxSenix fallback, more providers, and a manual offset setting.
- Audio pipeline and source reporting on the Now Playing screen.
- Android Auto: improved media browsing.
- Share playlists, search within Settings, and a website link in Settings.
- User-configurable length slack for quality upgrades.
- Vietnamese, Thai and Japanese translations added; all 15 languages synced to 100% string parity.
- Fixed dead playback URLs, a MediaRouter2 crash on API 28/29, mismatched cached rendition playback, queue shuffle lag, and status bar icon contrast over artwork.
- General bug fixes and performance improvements.
Install
Requires Android 8.0 (API 26) or newer.
Installs straight over v1.5.2 — same signing key, your session and settings are kept.
Which APK? BitChord-v1.6.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