About Neutron Music Player
Neutron Player is an advanced music player with an audiophile-grade platform-independent in-house developed Neutron HiFi™ 32/64-bit audio engine which does not rely on the OS music player API and thus delivers truly...
Neutron Player is an advanced music player with an audiophile-grade platform-independent in-house developed Neutron HiFi™ 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 conversion 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, 1.536 MHz):
- devices with on-board Hi-Res Audio DACs
- DAPs: iBasso, Cayin, Fiio, HiBy, Shanling, Sony
* 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
* 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, SD, SMB, SFTP)
* Folder mode
* Clock mode
* Timers: sleep, wake
* Android Auto
NOTE
Try 5-day Eval version before buying!
SUPPORT
Report bugs directly by e-mail or via forum.
Forum:
http://neutroncode.com/forum
About Neutron HiFi™:
http://neutronhifi.com
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Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Neutron Music Player since it was posted on our website on 2014-06-13 23:58:42.
The latest version is 2.24.0 and it was updated on 2024-04-19 17:38:07. See below the changes in each version.
Neutron Music Player version 2.24.0
Updated At: 2024-03-30
Changes: * 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: 2024-03-04
Changes: * 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)
- Occasional ANRs (Application Not Responding) when the app tries to connect to the network while opening the UI
Neutron Music Player version 2.23.6
Updated At: 2024-02-25
Changes: * Support for DoP (DSD) in FLAC
* Increased Audio Hardware - Oversampling to 32x to support devices with max 1.536 MHz PCM
* Improved memory usage when using SFTP (SSH)
! 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: 2023-12-20
Changes: New:
- ability to rate groups of tracks (multiselection, albums, ...) from properties dialog
- support for rating tag IRTD in WAV, POPM MusicBee in ID3v2
- Shanling DAPs: up to PCM 1.536 Mhz/DSD1024 on M9 Plus, native DSD support on Android 10+
- optional action User Interface -> Panel: Top: Power Off
* Show real-time Cumulative EQ Bode Plot in individual EQ filters
* Subsonic and Ultrasonic DSP: UI moved to Playback - DSP Effect, managed by Profile, Off in Bit-perfect
* Updated AutoEq
Neutron Music Player version 2.22.7
Updated At: 2023-10-21
Changes: 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
! Fixed:
- FLAC file reading could be stopped 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
Neutron Music Player version 2.22.5
Updated At: 2023-10-07
Changes: * New:
- tracks sorting type solely by filename
- ability to remove track from Recently Played, Most Played by -Playlist action
- support max 10 channels
* Increased size of EQ bands slider in Controls screen
* Show -fp for bits of floating-point format
* Improved Lyrics dialog
* Updated AutoEQ database to the latest (Oct 2023)
! Fixed:
- Recently Played behavior
- Most Played entry not counted if playing from Most Played list
- could not connect to some modern HTTPS WebDAV servers
- ...
Neutron Music Player version 2.22.3
Updated At: 2023-08-30
Changes: * New:
- Targeted Android 13: !!! make sure you created source entry via SAF, old Linux paths are no longer supported by OS !!!
- category option All Songs to switch off All Songs
- Tile View option for Albums, Artists, Genres, ... separately
- [+ Queue] to Songs for easier handling of random playback via Dynamic, Random Queue
- Czech translation
* Improved:
- resolving playlist's paths with SAF
! Fixed:
- Filter DSP: Q giving insufficiently steep slope for Shelf filters (HS, LS)
- ...
Neutron Music Player version 2.22.2
Updated At: 2023-06-03
Changes: * New:
- time label on Queue entry: to show total time of all tracks in the Queue
! Fixed:
- 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: 2023-03-28
Changes: * New:
- AH - Direct USB Access - Release Inactive Device: release USB device to the OS and other apps when paused
- UI - Optional Features - Recently Added: to disable/enable Playlists -> Recently Added
- Playlists - Most Played in Android Auto
* Improved:
- album-art lookup for Albums list by using album-art image from the first music track
! Fixed:
- hi-res for FiiO 11 Pro
- interrupted playback for 1-2 seconds when resumed after focus loss
Neutron Music Player version 2.20.0
Updated At: 2022-04-28
Changes: * New:
- PM - Sequential - Rewind Tracklist: to rewind tracklist to the beginning when reached its end
! Fixed:
- fixed Bluetooth device frequencies not listed
- noise when switching gapless DSD tracks
- UPnP: incompatibility with devices using [Range: bytes=0-] header in request
- playing Ogg/Opus files from SAF source
- missing support for DPAD CENTER button (as Enter)
- could not clear Chromecast devices from Output To list
- USB Driver: use volume resolution reported by device
