Redbook Player

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About this app

Redbook is the first bit-perfect audio CD player for Android.

Connect any USB CD or DVD drive to your Android device, insert an audio CD, and experience pure uncompressed audio — exactly as the mastering engineer intended.

■ HOW IT WORKS
1. Connect a USB CD/DVD drive via USB-C or OTG adapter
2. Insert an audio CD
3. Redbook reads the disc, identifies the album, and fetches album name, track information and cover art
4. Press play — bit-perfect PCM audio streams directly from the disc

■ AUDIO QUALITY
• Pure PCM: 16-bit, 44.1 kHz, 1,411 kbps — the Red Book standard
• Bit-perfect playback: no DSP, no resampling, no compression
• Gapless playback across track boundaries
• Direct from disc to your ears — the way music was meant to be heard

■ CAST TO CHROMECAST
• Stream bit-perfect 16-bit/44.1 kHz audio to any Chromecast device on your network
• No re-encoding, no Bluetooth compression — pure PCM from disc to your speakers
• Supports Chromecast Audio, Chromecast with Google TV, NVIDIA Shield, and any Cast-enabled speaker or AVR

■ RIP TO LOSSLESS FLAC
• Rip your CDs to FLAC files directly on your Android device — no PC needed
• MusicBrainz tags (title, artist, album, track number) and cover art embedded automatically
• Files saved to Music/Redbook/Artist/Album for easy browsing
• Ripping continues in the background with a progress notification — lock the screen or switch apps while your collection is archived

■ BACKGROUND PLAYBACK
• Music keeps playing when you lock the screen or switch to another app
• Full transport controls (play, pause, skip, previous) in the notification shade and on the lock screen
• Album art and track info shown in the media notification

■ FEATURES
• Automatic album, artist, and track identification
• Cover art fetched automatically
• Disc swap detection — eject and insert another disc without restarting
• Works with any standard USB CD/DVD drive (SCSI/MMC)
• Apple SuperDrive supported with automatic initialization
• Metadata and cover art cached locally for instant loading
• Monochrome audiophile interface designed to disappear

■ COMPATIBLE DEVICES
Works with any Android device that supports USB Host (OTG):
• Audiophile streamers: FiiO R7, FiiO R9, Shanling, HiBy, iBasso
• Phones: Samsung Galaxy, Google Pixel, OnePlus, Xiaomi, and more
• Any Android device with USB-C and OTG support

■ COMPATIBLE DRIVES
• Any standard USB CD or DVD drive
• Apple USB SuperDrive (automatic initialization)
• Both tray-loading and slot-loading drives

Note: some Android devices may not supply enough bus power for a USB CD drive. If the drive doesn't spin up, use a powered USB hub or USB-C OTG splitter with PD pass-through.

■ FREE TO TRY
Play and rip the first 3 tracks of any disc, free forever. Unlock full playback and full-disc FLAC ripping with a one-time purchase.

■ NO ADS. NO TRACKING. NO SUBSCRIPTIONS.
One price. Buy once, own forever.

https://redbookaudioplayer.com

What’s new

Multi-disc album identification improvements.