Music Pod

Music Pod is a local music player built around the idea that your music library is worth exploring, not just shuffling through.

Browse your collection by songs, albums, artists, genres, composers, and playlists. A timeline view organizes everything by release year, which turns out to be one of the more satisfying ways to move through a large library. Smart playlists do the curation work for you, surfacing top played tracks, recently added music, and songs that have not come up in a while. You can also build and manage your own playlists and rate any song with a five-star system that feeds back into those smart suggestions over time.

The Now Playing screen is where a lot of the personality of the app lives. Album art takes center stage alongside a live waveform visualization, star ratings, and a full queue you can reorder on the fly. In portrait mode, an Album Cover Carousel lets you browse and switch tracks visually. Flip to landscape and it opens into a full-screen view with mirrored album art reflections. A persistent mini player keeps playback accessible no matter where you are in the app.

For audio, Music Pod includes a built-in equalizer with multiple presets, bass control, audio output selection, and the ability to save your own custom presets. Gapless playback is supported, and the app handles interruptions gracefully without losing your place in the queue. There is also an audio visualizer with several themes if you want something to watch while the music plays.

Editing your music is handled inside the app. You can update titles, artists, albums, genres, year, track numbers, and album artwork without needing any external tools.

On the design side, Music Pod uses Material You and supports dynamic color from your wallpaper or a manually chosen accent color. Light and dark themes are both fully supported, and blur effects on dialogs and scrims are adjustable. The launcher icon updates to match your chosen theme. Home screen widgets come in five visual styles with controls for background transparency and color saturation, and a live preview so you can see exactly how they will look before committing.

The app is built to work well beyond phones too. Tablet layouts expand into side-by-side views for browsing and Now Playing together. On foldable devices, tabletop mode uses a split layout with library navigation on the upper half and playback controls on the lower half, which makes a lot more sense than squeezing everything into a mini player. Split-screen and multi-window are supported, and there is a quick settings tile alongside full media notification controls.

Music Pod also includes a Wear OS companion app for watch-based browsing, playback control, and playlist sync.

Requires Android 12 or higher.