Neutron Music Player

Neutron Code Limited

About this app

Neutron Player is an advanced music player with an audiophile-grade platform-independent in-house developed Neutron HiFi™ 32/64-bit audio engine which does not rely on the OS music player API and thus delivers truly unique experience to you.

* It outputs hi-res audio directly to the internal DAC (including USB DAC) and offers a rich set of DSP effects.

* It is the only application capable of sending audio data to the network renderers (UPnP/DLNA, Chromecast) with all DSP effects applied, including the gapless playback.

* It features a unique PCM to DSD real-time conversion mode (if supported by DAC), so you can play your favorite music in DSD resolution.

* It offers the sophisticated user interface with an advanced media library functionality that is appreciated by audiophiles and music lovers from all parts of our world!

FEATURES

* 32/64-bit hi-res audio processing (HD audio)
* OS and platform independent decoding and audio processing
* Hi-Res Audio support (up to 32-bit, 1.536 MHz):
- devices with on-board Hi-Res Audio DACs
- DAPs: iBasso, Cayin, Fiio, HiBy, Shanling, Sony
* Bit-perfect playback
* Supports all audio formats
* Native DSD (direct or DoP), DSD
* Multi-channel native DSD (4.0 - 5.1: ISO, DFF, DSF)
* Output all to DSD
* DSD to PCM decoding
* DSD formats: DFF, DSF, ISO SACD/DVD
* Module music formats: MOD, IM, XM, S3M
* Voice audio format: SPEEX
* Playlists: CUE, M3U, PLS, ASX, RAM, XSPF, WPL
* Lyrics (LRC files, metadata)
* Streaming audio (plays Internet radio streams, Icecast, Shoutcast)
* Supports large media libraries
* Network music sources:
- SMB/CIFS network device (NAS or PC, Samba shares)
- UPnP/DLNA media server
- SFTP (over SSH) server
- FTP server
- WebDAV server
* Output to Chromecast (up to 24-bit, 192 kHz, no limit for a format or DSP effects)
* Output to UPnP/DLNA Media Renderer (up to 24-bit, 768 kHz, no limit for a format or DSP effects)
* Direct output to USB DAC (via USB OTG adapter, up to 32-bit, 768 kHz)
* UPnP/DLNA Media Renderer server (gapless, DSP effects)
* UPnP/DLNA Media Server
* Device local music library management via internal FTP server
* DSP effects:
- Parametric Equalizer (4-60 band, per channel, fully configurable: type, frequency, Q, gain)
- Graphic EQ mode (21 presets)
- Frequency Response Correction (5000+ AutoEq presets for 2500+ headphones, user defined)
- Surround Sound (Ambiophonic RACE)
- Crossfeed (better stereo sound perception in headphones)
- Compressor / Limiter (compression of dynamic range)
- Time Delay (loudspeaker time alignment)
- Dithering (minimize quantization)
- Pitch, Tempo (playback speed and pitch correction)
- Phase Inversion (channel polarity change)
- Pseudo-stereo for Mono tracks
* Speaker overload protecting filters: Subsonic, Ultrasonic
* Normalization by Peak, RMS (Preamp gain calculation after DSP effects)
* Tempo/BPM analysis and categorization
* Replay Gain from metadata
* Gapless playback
* Hardware and Preamp volume controls
* Crossfade
* High quality real-time optional resampling
* Real-time Spectrum, Waveform, RMS analyzers
* Balance (L/R)
* Mono mode
* Profiles (multiple configurations)
* Playback modes: Shuffle, Loop, Single Track, Sequential, Queue
* Playlist management
* Media library grouping by: album, artist, composer, genre, year, rating, folder
* Artist grouping by 'Album Artist' category
* Tag editing: MP3, FLAC, OGG, APE, SPEEX, WAV, WV, M4A, MP4 (medium: internal, SD, SMB, SFTP)
* Folder mode
* Clock mode
* Timers: sleep, wake
* Android Auto

NOTE

Try 5-day Eval version before buying!

SUPPORT

Report bugs directly by e-mail or via forum.

Forum:
http://neutroncode.com/forum

About Neutron HiFi™:
http://neutronhifi.com

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Ratings and reviews

This app is absolutely amazing for listening to music, but I can do nothing with it now for the last two weeks to a month. It keeps telling me the trial period is expired. I followed the instructions to the letter to clear Neutron cache, Google Play Services cache, Google Play Store cache, and reboot device. After ten minutes of work and device restart I get the same message. This needs fixing ASAP! I highly doubt it's Google's fault.

Updated: Gee... Do I dare to update again? I Uninstalled and reinstalled then had to back door the music that reside on my sd card. I am so, so disappointed. Does Neutron need some new idiots in the app development team? 2 updates ago your app dropped the usb-c analog audio driver. The latest update does not recognize my audio library on my SD card. I rebooted my phone and re-elected the audio I wanted it to play. It does not even find a single mp3 or wav file. A problem I have seen before.

My past concerns have been addressed, the app definitely needs a way to backup settings because there are a lot of settings and if for whatever reason they ever get cleared like happened to me in the past it's a huge pain setting them back up. But other than that minor thing this is probably the best music player on Android

What's new

* More compatibility works related to Android 14 SDK and all Android versions
! Fixed:
- gapless FLAC
- PCM to DSD could not be set to DSD64 (now a separate option, default is DSD128)
- Output To: Google Nest Hub Max could not be found (Nest's fw bug)
- false Trial Expired and related misbehavior when launching app with USB DAC/Headphones attached
- playlists could not be loaded if there are leading / in the file paths