r/ConsolesAsDAPs

Hi everyone! I'm Spring Thong (Nguyễn Xuân Thông), and I've been working on NXT Retro Music, a music app for the TrimUI Brick Pro.

I wanted my handheld to feel like a little dedicated music player that I could make my own: different player designs, my own wallpaper and avatar, music for my mood, and controls that make sense on physical buttons.

Hands-on video: https://youtu.be/1eGTT-VCjQE?si=I-3EUkoG6u4UQUw\_

The part I'm most excited about is personalization:

• 36 player themes, including cassette, Walkman, reel-to-reel, MiniDisc, turntable, CRT and softer modern styles. The Original NXT player also keeps your wallpaper visible, with an album-cover or spinning-vinyl view.
• Separate listener profiles with their own appearance, favorites, playlists, listening history and statistics.
• 300 icons and 180 3D emoji, plus your own initials or a photo for your avatar. The avatar also appears in the startup profile chooser.
• A quick mood, genre and country check-in when entering the app, feeding the For you page with local listening suggestions and ways to discover tracks/playlists on Spotify and SoundCloud.
• LED colors and effects that change immediately, plus selectable spectrum styles and color palettes.

It is also a full music player:

• Local music: FLAC, WAV, MP3, AAC, OGG, Opus and M4A, including ALAC; browse folders, artists and albums, search/sort, manage the queue, save playlists and resume listening.
• Spotify Premium playback with QR/code pairing, eligible public SoundCloud tracks/playlists, public Google Drive music links, internet radio, podcasts and YouTube music downloads.
• 12 EQ presets, a simple five-band custom EQ and advanced DSP/parametric EQ controls, with ReplayGain and track-transition options.
• Bluetooth and compatible USB DAC output, with source-quality information kept separate from the actual output/PCM information.
• Full-screen lyrics when lyrics are available, shuffle, repeat, favorites, background playback and remappable button shortcuts.
• Wi-Fi file transfer from a phone or computer browser, so adding music does not require removing the SD card each time.
• 14 interface languages with matching on-screen keyboards, searchable settings and in-app help.
• Separate Stock and NextUI installers, plus in-app OTA updates when a matching release source is configured.

New in v1.8.3: the sleep timer saves your position/settings, stops playback and fully exits the app, including a background session. The firmware then handles screen-off and sleep according to its own settings. It does not force an instant deep sleep.

There are Battery saver, Balanced and Performance modes for the visuals, and the app skips interface/spectrum rendering while hidden or with the screen off. I am focusing on responsive controls and avoiding unnecessary work; I do not have a measured battery-life or temperature comparison to claim.

Why use it instead of the bundled Music app?

For me, the appeal is having a much more personal listening space and putting local music, online sources, EQ/output controls, lyrics and file transfer into one organized app. You do not need to replace your firmware to use the Stock build.

This project builds on the community NextUI Music Player foundation. Credit to its original authors and maintainers for the playback, radio, podcast and download foundations — those deserve recognition too.

The images are native UI previews with demo track/profile/audio data. I'm also recording a hands-on video on the actual device.

Hands-on video: (108) App NXT Retro Music for Trimui Brick Pro - YouTube

Download — Stock / NextUI: NXT Retro Music v1.8.3 - Google Drive

Illustrated feature guide + user manual: Product_Guide - Google Drive

I'd love feedback from other Brick Pro owners, especially on the themes, button layout, Bluetooth/DAC behavior and sleep/wake experience. Which player style would you use?

Support the project ☕

If you enjoy NXT Retro Music and would like to support its continued development, you can buy me a coffee via PayPal:

thongkhung2@gmail.com

Your support helps me spend more time improving the app, polishing the themes, and developing future updates.

Donations are completely optional. Feedback, bug reports, and sharing the project are also very welcome.

Thanks for trying NXT Retro Music and supporting a small community project! 💚

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Hey! Welcome back to the updated dESquared Music Player.

This is version 1.0.10!
Still light and fast — perfect for square screens, and great for non-square ones too.

• A LOT of retro cassettes with realistic tape — including an editor so you can make your own skins!
• A LOT of UI/UX settings to make it look however you want
• Updated file explorer: SMB, cover preview, new folder, delete, copy, move, etc.
• Updated playlist
• Updated controls
• EQ and PEQ with a HUGE library, save/load presets and more
• Backup/restore settings and statistics
• Update checker And a lot of small changes.

Check it out: https://github.com/iDeversanT/dESquared

I tried to make my dream music player — mostly offline (folder-focused) — and share it with you. By a gamer, for gamers(and music lovers).
If you find a bug or wanted change something - write a feedback.

If you want to tip me, feel free to send any gift on Steam.

The headphones are called QKZ AK6 and cost about 3$. Pretty fancy. I dig the color, though.

Like its big brother TortOS, plorpOS is built around DAP functionality.

plorpOS now runs on TrimUI Brick/Hammer/Pro, GKD 350H Ultra, Anbernic RG SP, and with the latest release...

plorpOS nano for the RG Nano. It's an extremely pared down port plorp prioritizing simplicity, speed, and music playback. Music plays over gameplay and has in-game quick menu controls. Built overtop of DrUm78's image, replacing Gmenu2x and RetroFE frontends.

All devices support USB DACs (tested with my fiio ka13). All releases other than the nano support shaders, hotkeys, rewind/FF, and other QoL stuff. Nano uses DrUm78's picoarch so all in-game functionality you expect from that build is still there. All work great as a DAP with music as a priority feature.

Check it out: https://github.com/thwonp/plorpOS/releases

AI usage disclaimer: plorpOS code was primarily written by Claude Opus 5.5. Every commit, feature, bugfix, and design decision was hands-on directed+tested by me. I just wanted cool software on cool devices, if you have a strong opinion on this you are welcome to pass on by.

EDIT:

Just dropped a big update for the RG Nano build.
- All picoarch cores are updated to their latest libretro/upstream release as of today.
- Native PICO-8 is supported.
- Saves and Bios live in top level folders.
- Install is just a simple SD card flash now.

https://github.com/duyquang6/truepod/releases

Every other player on this handheld gives something up. Some cap the output at 44.1 kHz or 16-bit, others resample everything to 48 kHz. The side buttons cannot turn a USB DAC up or down. Playback stutters, skips, or jumps to the next song. And the screen has to stay on for the music to keep going, which empties the battery.

Truepod fixes all of that:

• Full quality. It plays the file at its own sample rate and bit depth, and tells you when it could not.
• The side buttons control the DAC. The volume keys work on several DAC
• Spectrum display, LEDs flashing to the beat
• No stutters, no skipped songs. Pausing or replugging the DAC never skips to the next song.
• Support Wifi sync
• Screen off, music on. Turn the screen off to save battery while the music keeps playing.
• Folder browsing with each track's real rate and bit depth, cover art, delete
• support stock & spruce OS

Trimui Brick Hammer

- nextui cfw

- rockbox

- fleshandbones theme

- cheap CX31993 DAC

- 2016 Honda CRV (the most expensive part of this set up)

I've also added portmaster to it so I can play Stardew Valley and Balatro. Stardew can get a little choppy but no real complaints so far. Obviously playing GBC and GBA just fine.

I had some problems getting artwork showing in rockbox at first and I put this repo together with the solution. AI disclaimer on that.

I also put this together for finding rockbox themes if anyone is interested.