Neutron Music Player (Eval)

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 supports AI-assisted Queue generation with Google Gemini AI engine.

* It offers the sophisticated user interface with an advanced media library functionality.

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
* AI-assisted Queue generation
* 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, A-B Repeat
* 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

It is a time limited (5 days) full-featured evaluation version. Unlimited version is here: http://tiny.cc/11l5jz

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Ratings and reviews

Hire someone to sort your UI. Took 10 minutes just to figure out how to add songs to the "Now Playing" list. That is until I found you can't. You have to add them to the "que" Then go to que and hit play there. I've never seen a more unintuitive UI. It's great to have tons of features, but when they are spread out in such a convoluted way, it REALLY distracts from your enjoyment. No one wants to wrestle and become frustrated with their player before trying to relax and listen to music.

The only problem is the UX, It's pretty cluttered and navigating is awful. Like if I'm in an album and I want to go to an artist, I have to tap back a couple of times, get back to the library, select Artists and then I can look for the artist, which takes way too long for a simple navigation like this, unlike most other apps in which most things are a swipe and a tap away.

Shows lots of info, which I appreciate. Like the real-time bitrate of vbr files. Also, I think the UI is fine, and you can customize it a lot. I have no idea what people are expecting when they complain about the UI. It is intimidating at first because there are so many controls and options. I take screenshots of the original settings whenever I change things. Would be cool if we could sync or back up settings. Overall I am impressed with it.

What’s new

* New:
 - AI Generation of Queue (+AI button on Queue entry when it is empty): generates Queue on basis of your music library and your textual description sent to AI engine (Google Gemini 2.5 Flash)
 - Audio Hardware → Direct USB Access:
  * Force 1ms packet option: force 1ms transfers (workaround for weak firmwares of USB DACs)
  * Ignore Audio Focus option: keep USB DAC acquired by Neutron
 - Export action for playlist properties
 - Export/Import actions for EQ/FRC preset entry