MetroMusic

about

description

MetroMusic looks and moves like the Music + Videos hub of Windows Phone 8, and it plays what is already on the phone. No account, no feed, no recommendations. The collection is the start screen. The panorama you land on is the library — artists, albums, songs, genres, playlists, history and settings, in whatever order you put them. It is circular, so settings sit one swipe to the left of where you start and nothing is more than a swipe away. Getting around a big library. Long lists group alphabetically and open the WP8 jump grid over both Latin and Cyrillic. Tapping a section header searches inside that section. A long press on an album, artist or genre plays it, queues it after what you queued before, or hides it — and hiding takes effect in every list at once. Album metadata is written into the tags inside the files, which is the only level where an edit sticks. Playlists, favourites, play counts and history stay on the device. Playing. Media3 in a media session: notification, lock screen, headset and Bluetooth, and playback that outlives the screen. The queue and the current track come back after the app is closed, paused and at the start of the track. Apple Lossless is decoded inside the app, because Android ships no ALAC decoder and such files otherwise play as silence with nothing on screen to say so. Equalizer over the device's own bands, sleep timer, and a WP8 volume banner in place of the system panel. Last.fm, if you want it. A play is written to disk with the second it started and sent when a validated network appears, so an hour underground turns up in the right order rather than as a burst on reconnection. Favourites can be kept the same as your loved tracks, in both directions. Albums whose files carry no artwork can be asked about once, and lyrics come from Genius. All of that is optional, switchable off, and none of it is needed to play the music on the device. Twenty accent colours, light and dark, gestures that can each be turned off, and every string in strings.xml so a translation is one folder. The whole interface is MangoTile, a Compose UI kit for building in the WP8 idiom: https://github.com/Diffechento/MangoTile Not affiliated with Microsoft, Last.fm or Genius. "Windows Phone" and "Metro" are Microsoft's; this is an homage to a design language, written from scratch.

publisher

78ce6faa72264387284e647ba6938995735ec8c7d5c5a65737e55130f026307d

first seen

2026-09-28T11:33:59.092470+00:00

last event

2026-10-26 11:06 UTC

install

zapstore.dev or any Zapstore-compatible client

topics

#local media player #multimedia

source & build

repository

https://github.com/diffechento/metromusic

arch flags

android-arm64-v8a android-armeabi-v7a android-x86 android-x86_64

manifest

missing

releases (kind 30063)

2 releases indexed; latest 1.6.

version	channel	released	event
1.6	main	2026-10-26 11:06 UTC	1a55d153…
1.5	main	2026-09-27 08:58 UTC	819d0b6d…

assets & verification

Every app, release and asset event is schnorr-verified (NIP-01 id + signature) before it enters the catalog, and assets are content-addressed by sha256. We subscribe read-only to the catalog relay — never write to it.

1.6 — MetroMusic-1.6.apk

sha256

4ff54ae7f4e645dce585463dd3626b3a0bbed51081867aea6514e2458fa5d3cf

size

2.7 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86, android-x86_64

version code

9

apk cert sha256

494018a96b532564c45878501e050065f7c048e46853e4a9f6ac319a2acf7c09

download

MetroMusic-1.6.apk

1.5 — MetroMusic-1.5.apk

sha256

469bd26aa7148c9e68cd8fa79dfa8d2beed52e553c8d91326582914607a70d54

size

2.7 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86, android-x86_64

version code

8

apk cert sha256

494018a96b532564c45878501e050065f7c048e46853e4a9f6ac319a2acf7c09

download

MetroMusic-1.5.apk

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