u/Human_Tennis_2950

I'm building a local music player for Android inspired by the iPod, focused on offline playback, FLAC/hi-res support, gapless, proper shuffle, no streaming

On the technical side: it's built on Media3/ExoPlayer as the audio engine, native FLAC/ALAC/WAV/AAC/OGG decoding, gapless playback, and a proper shuffle bag (not random-each-pick). Hi-res tracks get flagged automatically. Library is indexed locally with Room, fully offline!

It's launching soon, but before that I want to know how it behaves on actual Android-based DAPs, not just phones. If you've got something like a FiiO M11/M15, HiBy R-series, Shanling, or any Android DAP, I'd love a few testers from people who actually know audio gear. Specifically curious about:

• how it handles large FLAC libraries
• hi-res output (does it pass through bit-perfect or does Android/the DAP resample?)
• gapless playback on your hardware
• any quirks specific to DAP screens/hardware

If you're genuinely interested, comment with your DAP model and DM me, I'll send you access to the beta.

Thanks.

I've got thousands of songs downloaded from all over the years. Broken tags, missing covers, albums split in half, duplicate names like track01_final_FINAL.mp3. Loading that onto an iPod and seeing "Unknown Artist" everywhere drove me crazy.

I couldn't find anything that did exactly what I wanted, so I started building it myself. It's a desktop tool (PC/Mac) — you drag a folder in and it tries to sort everything out:

• detects artist, album, tracks, year
• fetches correct metadata
• finds missing covers
• flags anything uncertain so you can check it yourself
• generates a clean, organized copy

It never touches your original files.

There's a review mode too, where you fix things by hand before exporting — listen to tracks while reviewing, exclude songs, correct stuff manually. The point is to end up with a library that's actually ready to sync to an iPod (or anything) without doing it one file at a time.

It's still in beta, but it already handles big libraries pretty well. It'll launch as a free companion to the Android app some of you already know about — but it works standalone with any player or iPod.

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Update: No AI in this. Metadata matching is done through the MusicBrainz and iTunes APIs (same sources Picard uses), and everything runs locally on your PC/Mac.