About Neutron Music Player
The only true audiophile music player with Hi-Res audio rendering and DSP engine Neutron Player is an advanced music player with an audiophile-grade platform-independent in-house developed 32/64-bit audio engine which...
The only true audiophile music player with Hi-Res audio rendering and DSP engine
Neutron Player is an advanced music player with an audiophile-grade platform-independent in-house developed 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 oversampling mode (if supported by DAC), so you can play your favorite music in DSD resolution.
* It offers the sophisticated user interface with an advanced media library functionality that is appreciated by audiophiles and music lovers from all parts of our world!
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, 768 kHz)
* 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
* Supports iTunes library (non DRM) and local files (inside /Documents folder)
* Supports external storage via Apple Lightning USB port (iOS 13+)
* 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)
* Device local music library management via internal FTP server
* DSP effects:
- Parametric Equalizer (4-60 band, 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)
* Speaker overload protecting filters: Subsonic, Ultrasonic
* Normalization by Peak, RMS (Preamp gain calculation after DSP effects)
* Tempo/BPM analysis and categorization
* 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
* 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 (internal, SMB, SFTP)
* Folder mode
* Clock mode
* Timers: sleep, wake
* Interface languages: Русский, 中文 (繁体), 中文 (简体), 한국어, 日本語, Việt, ไทย, Deutsch, Italiano, Indonesian, Malay, Nederlands, Français, English, Español, ελληνικά, Português, Magyar, Polski, العربية, Türk
SUPPORT
Please report bugs directly by e-mail or via forum:
Forum:
http://neutronmp.com/forum
X:
http://x.com/neutroncode
Apr 1, 2024
Version 2.24.0
* New:
- Audio Hardware - Oversampling - Frequency Limit option: to limit oversampling to some max frequency
- EQ channel label in Controls screen toggles between EQ channels
- entering Clock mode will no longer stop music playback
- support for Software Gain by Wake-Up Timer
* Improved AGP - Reset Gain behavior
* Speaker DSP: expanded Delay setting to 20 ms
! Fixed:
- Speaker DSP: 2.1 mode giving noise
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Neutron Music Player since it was posted on our website on 2016-09-26 07:28:19.
The latest version is 2.24.0 and it was updated on 2024-04-19 17:51:38. See below the changes in each version.
Neutron Music Player version 2.24.0
Updated At: 2024-04-01
Changes: Apr 1, 2024
Version 2.24.0
* New:
- Audio Hardware - Oversampling - Frequency Limit option: to limit oversampling to some max frequency
- EQ channel label in Controls screen toggles between EQ channels
- entering Clock mode will no longer stop music playback
- support for Software Gain by Wake-Up Timer
* Improved AGP - Reset Gain behavior
* Speaker DSP: expanded Delay setting to 20 ms
! Fixed:
- Speaker DSP: 2.1 mode giving noise
Neutron Music Player version 2.23.9
Updated At: 2024-03-05
Changes: Mar 5, 2024
Version 2.23.9
* New:
- Pseudo-stereo DSP effect: Creates a pseudo-stereo (fake stereo) effect from mono sources (mono/1-channel tracks only). Manage by profile, accessible via Playback -> DSP Effect -> Pseudo-stereo
* Improved overall performance
! Fixed:
- Category Widget not showing up when pressing the 3-dot button in the Media Library screen (bottom left corner)
Neutron Music Player version 2.23.6
Updated At: 2024-02-26
Changes: Feb 26, 2024
Version 2.23.6
* Support for DoP (DSD) in FLAC
* Set maximum value for [Audio Hardware - Oversampling] to 32x to support devices with max 1.536 MHz PCM
* Improved memory usage when using SFTP (SSH)
* Allow cloud-based tracks to be added into media library
! Fixed:
- misaligned Bode Plot on some specific screen aspects
- silence in 64-bit Processing on Shanling M6 pro 21 DAP
- fast scroller malfunctioning on collections with 50k+ tracks
- controls overlapped when sorting tracks in Landscape view
- various rare crashes
Neutron Music Player version 2.23.3
Updated At: 2023-12-21
Changes: Dec 21, 2023
Version 2.23.3
! Fixed:
- Bode Plot of individual EQ filters not shown (regression of 2.23.0) when EQ - Cumulative Bode Plot is Off
Neutron Music Player version 2.22.7
Updated At: 2023-10-23
Changes: Oct 23, 2023
Version 2.22.7
New DSP UI widget mode: Waveform only with/without album art in background
* Use signal for Alarm if music is playing during the Alarm time
* Updated AutoEQ database to the latest (end of Oct 2023)
! Fixed:
- FLAC file playback could break due to bitstream errors inside the file
- playback button does not change state to Stop if streaming to UPnP/Chromecast and breaking it by pressing the icon
- rare crash in UI
- reverted to max 8 I/O channels (compatibility issues if more)
Neutron Music Player version 2.22.4
Updated At: 2023-09-11
Changes: Sep 11, 2023
Version 2.22.4
* New:
- category option All Songs to switch off All Songs track list for the category entries
- Tile View option will now affect category entries and its albums separately (activate separately for Albums, Artists, Genres,...)
- added Setup options for Years category
- added [+ Queue] to Songs for easier handling of true random playback via Dynamic, Random Queue
- support for OPUS inside M4A
- added Czech translation
- tracks sorting type solely by filename, renamed previous Filename to Path, Filename which is sorting by path and filename (default)
* Differentiate floating-point and integer formats by showing -fp postfix for floating-point format in the track format info bits field
* Updated AutoEQ database to the latest
* Updated network subsystem for better compatibility with servers (network source)
! Fixed:
- Filter DSP: Q giving insufficiently steep slope for Shelf filters (HS, LS)
- CUE file could not be loaded if one of the tracks does not contain INDEX entry
- EQ preset bound to Bluetooth device via Device binding is not selected and set to Line Out with Bluetooth connection being active when started
- Recently Played existing entry not bumped to the top when played again
- Most Played entry not counted if playing from Most Played list
- OS widgets or notifications could show stale info about previous track while some streaming track is being loaded
- bad streaming entry reloading could not be canceled by attempt to play another healthy streaming entry
Neutron Music Player version 2.22.2
Updated At: 2023-06-04
Changes: Jun 4, 2023
Version 2.22.2
* New:
- support for FLAC inside M4A/MP4/MOV containers
- support for 32-bit Int FLACs
- support for 32-bit Int FLAC for Output To (note: 32-bit Int FLAC is supported since libFLAC 1.4.0 released in 2022 so majority of renderer devices will not support it)
- time label on Queue entry: to show total time of all tracks in the Queue
! Fixed:
- noise in the last 20 seconds of PCM track playback if followed by DSD track with Oversampling = On
- streaming to Chromecast Audio devices with latest firmware (1.56.281627+)
- looping of the first track in the Queue when more tracks were enqueued after the first one and Loop Track List is On
Neutron Music Player version 2.22.0
Updated At: 2023-03-31
Changes: Mar 31, 2023
Version 2.22.0
* New:
- support for accessing external storage (USB drive and etc) connected via Apple Lightning USB port as well as Document folders of other local apps: Sources - + - File System - + - add permission to access external folder on external drive or another local app's folder
- UI - Optional Features - Recently Added: to disable/enable Playlists -> Recently Added
* Improved:
- album-art lookup for Albums list by using album-art image from the first music track
- stability of resuming playback after audio focus loss and re-gain
! Fixed:
- interrupted playback for 1-2 seconds when resumed after focus loss
Neutron Music Player version 2.21.1
Updated At: 2022-08-21
Changes: Aug 21, 2022 Version 2.21.1
* New:
- Tempo/BPM Analysis: accessible from top-level settings list (or long-press Album), analyzes BPM of tracks and creates media library - Tempo category;
- Tempo categories are long-pressable and provide +Queue, +Playlist for easier mixing;
- "All Tempo" category which does not group BPM for a more fine grained mixing;
- optional Tempo category in the top-panel;
- [PCM to DSD] - Oversample 8x option: to force 8x oversampling for PCM core that results in a higher resolution of DSP processing (EQ, FRC, Crossfeed, ...) REQUIRES VERY FAST CPU!
- Digest authentication for WebDAV source;
- uninterrupted playback of SFTP sourced track if Internet connection changes between mobile an WiFi or drops completely for a short period (up to 15 seconds).
* Updated FRC/AutoEQ database to the latest.
* Blend bottom and front colors of the Spectrum Analyzer and RMS bars.
* Increased max value of UI - Fast Seek to 60 seconds.
* Bound Audio Hardware - Hardware Volume and Playback - 64-bit Processing to profile.
! Fixed:
- Global Search result cleared if source entry is refreshed;
- synchronized lyrics loading: only one of multiple lines with the same timestamp was displayed;
- Opus stream not recognized as Opus and thus limited to basic streaming metadata only;
- parsing URL when it contains port number and 'at' symbol in the path;
- crash on attempt to delete CUE track, limit CUE track to Remove - Ignore;
- WV file could not be loaded if WVC file is invalid;
- WVC loading from SFTP source.
Neutron Music Player version 2.20.0
Updated At: 2022-04-29
Changes: Apr 29, 2022 Version 2.20.0
* New:
- PM - Sequential - Rewind Tracklist: to rewind tracklist to the beginning when reached its end
! Fixed:
- noise when switching gapless DSD tracks
- UPnP: incompatibility with devices using [Range: bytes=0-] header in request
- could not clear Chromecast devices from Output To list
- Mono mode not affecting Stereo files if Upmix is Off
