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Rhythm Music Player

Project Rhythm

Your Music, Your Rhythm.

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πŸ’– Support the Developer

Building and maintaining Rhythm is a massive labor of love, provided completely free and open-source. If you love using this app, please consider supporting development!

β˜• One-Time Support 🀝 Ongoing Sponsorship
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✨ Why Choose Rhythm?

Rhythm is a modern, open-source music player built with Material 3 Expressive design. It delivers professional-grade audio with High-Resolution playback, EAC3-JOC/Dolby Atmos via FFmpeg, and completely respects your privacy.

🎨 Design & UI 🎡 Audio Engine
Material You: Dynamic theming with wallpaper colors (Android 12+). Pro Audio: Media3 ExoPlayer with gapless playback & High-Res mode.
Expressive UI: Refined adaptive shapes and Material 3 design. 10-Band EQ: Professional equalizer with 6032+ AutoEQ device presets.
Tablet UI: Optimized multi-pane layout for tablets. Replay Gain: Track/album loudness normalization.
Material Symbols: Crisp, scalable variable-weight icons. Crossfade: Smooth transitions with adjustable duration.
🎀 Features & Tools πŸ”’ Privacy & Data
Synced Lyrics: LRCLib integration with word-by-word highlighting + full-screen view. 100% FOSS: Completely open-source with zero tracking.
Smart Library: A–Z scroll bar, multi-select batch operations. Offline Capable: Designed to work flawlessly without the internet.
Rhythm Stats 2.0: Comprehensive stats with Overview, Songs, Albums, Artists, History. Local First: Your data and habits stay securely on your device.
Streaming Mode: Dual-mode architecture for local and server playback (Subsonic, Navidrome, Jellyfin).
Rhythm Guard: Integrated hearing safety and volume protection.
Rhythm Go: Download streaming tracks for offline playback.
Home Screen Widgets: Multiple layouts including a dedicated Lyrics widget.

System Requirements: Android 8.0+ (API 26) β€’ 2GB RAM β€’ 50MB Storage


πŸ“± Screenshots

Home
🏠 Smart Home
Player
▢️ Beautiful Player
Lyrics
🎀 Synced Lyrics
Library
πŸ“š Rich Library
Queue
πŸ“‹ Smart Queue
Search
πŸ” Instant Search
Settings
βš™οΈ Deep Settings
Artist
🎀 Artist Pages

Tablet

Player
▢️ Now Playing
Library
πŸ“š Library
Lyrics
🎀 Synced Lyrics
Album
πŸ’Ώ Album Detail
Search
πŸ” Search
Stats
πŸ“Š Playback Stats
Settings
βš™οΈ Settings
About
ℹ️ About

πŸ“₯ Download & Install

Choose your preferred platform to download the latest version of Rhythm:

Source Badge Details
GitHub Download APK Direct APK download (Full Features)
F-Droid F-Droid Official repository (Full Features)
IzzyOnDroid IzzyOnDroid Privacy-focused repo (Full Features)
Obtainium Obtainium Auto-updates straight from GitHub
OpenAPK OpenAPK Alternative APK source

πŸ’‘ Note: F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, and GitHub releases include all features, including Deezer & YouTube Music artwork, LRCLib lyrics, and YouTube Music artwork. See Build Variants or the Wiki Build Instructions for details. Need help? Check out the Installation Guide.


πŸ›  Technology Stack

Built with modern tools and clean architecture:

  • UI & Design: Jetpack Compose, Material 3, Glance Widgets, Coil, AndroidX Palette.
  • Audio Engine: Media3 ExoPlayer, FFmpeg Decoder, JAudioTagger.
  • Architecture: MVVM + Clean Architecture, 100% Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines + Flow.
  • Data & Network: Room + SQLite, Retrofit, OkHttp, Gson.
  • Build & Management: AGP, Kotlin, WorkManager, LeakCanary.

πŸ“– Full tech stack: Read more in the Wiki.


🀝 Contributing & Community

We welcome contributions! See our CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.


πŸ† Credits

Lead Developer & Architect: Anjishnu Nandi

Huge Thanks To:

  • Izzy - IzzyOnDroid repository management
  • theovilardo - Project PixelPlayer collaboration & Lead Dev
  • Nick - Gramophone project's maintainer (code helper & testing)
  • Christian - Project Booming collaboration & Lead Dev
  • Alex - Network API integrations
  • linsui & Licaon_Kter - F-Droid repository management
  • The Google Material Design Team, AOSP, JetBrains, and the fantastic Open Source Community.

✨ Made with ❀️ by Team ChromaHub

License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Β© 2026 Team ChromaHub. All rights reserved.
⭐ If Rhythm improved your daily listening, don't forget to star the repository! ⭐

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Your Music, Your Rhythm. An open-source, privacy-first Android music player featuring a beautiful Material 3 Expressive UI. Built entirely in Kotlin.

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