N-Zik

A multilingual YouTube Music frontend for Android, focused on performance, UI/UX refinements, feature expansion, and long-term support.

N-Zik is an open-source fork of Kreate.

Note: N-Zik started as a side project. For more mature alternatives, check Metrolist, VIVI Music, or RiPlay.

AI Usage: I use generative AI for code (via BMAD Method), reviewed and tested before shipping.

Whether casual listener or audiophile, N-Zik gives you full control over your music without compromising privacy.

✨ WHY N-ZIK? No ads, background playback, offline caching, customizable UI - free, always.

🎨 Customizable UI
- Jetpack Compose with Classic ViMusic mode toggle
- Themes: AMOLED, Deep Dark, Crisp Light + tinted accents
- 3D Carousel Player, home widgets, unified player and mini-player
- Artist profiles, Discovery and moods, collapsible home headers

🎵 Audio Experience
- Premium quality via YouTube Music Premium, applied automatically
- Synced lyrics with editing and real-time translation
- Song recognition (Shazam-like), voice search, audio visualizer
- Pro controls: speed, pitch, normalization, crossfade, volume boost, bass boost, reverb
- Audio Bar waveform seekbar for precise navigation

💾 Offline, Metadata & Privacy
- Smart caching and downloads for tracks and playlists, with selectable download quality
- FFmpeg-powered export with full metadata (64-bit only)
- In-app metadata editor (AAC/Opus, cover art)
- Local listening stats and history
- Auto-backup with custom intervals and retention

🔗 Integrations
- YouTube sign-in for recommendations and video playback, plus an experimental two-way sync engine
- Last.fm scrobbling with Now Playing and love/unlove
- MusicBrainz artist and album insights
- Discord Rich Presence, including advanced mode with live preview
- Invidious integration for alternative YouTube streaming
- Playlist import/export: RiPlay, Spotify, YouTube Music, N-Zik

👥 Listen Together
- Join or host live listening sessions with other users via code or invite link

🗓️ Rewind
- Yearly and monthly listening recaps with auto-generated Rewind playlists

📱 Play Anywhere: Android Auto, Automotive, TV, and Tablets

🛠️ Power User Features
- Multi-profile: isolated database and settings per profile
- Auto-resume on Bluetooth connect, persistent queue, auto-fill queue
- Smart trash, hidden songs, dislike system, parental control
- Proxy support, network quality adaptation, log export
- Rescue Center, maintenance screen, onboarding, app shortcuts
- OTA updates from GitHub, sleep timer, background playback

🛡️ 100% open-source (FOSS). Key permissions: INTERNET, RECORD_AUDIO (visualizer only), STORAGE (exports/backups), FOREGROUND_SERVICE, NOTIFICATIONS, REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES (OTA), BLUETOOTH, WAKE_LOCK.

📦 Available Builds
- Full/Beta: Complete build (64-bit)
- Full32/Beta32: Without FFmpeg (32/64-bit)
- Minified: Lightweight, for low-end devices (64-bit)
- Minified32: Lightweight without FFmpeg (32/64-bit)
- FOSS: Without auto-updater, for F-Droid (64-bit)
- Dev/Dev32: Development builds, testing only

Standard builds are 64-bit (FFmpeg); "32" builds drop FFmpeg for both architectures. Only FOSS is on F-Droid.

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Added: PC bridge 1.7.3 to 1.12.0 — live library, sort menus, toolbar + UI language to the PC, queue commands, locate, toasts, smart-shuffle; Discord RPC refresh interval slider.
Changed: rewind filter defaults to All (was Month); bridge wire keeps only data + topN.
Fixed: updater for 32-bit/dev builds (right release + label, no stale update), radio stop + queue (issue 880), dialog overflow (issue 896), Discord artwork re-upload, artist thumbnail roundness.