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.

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

Customizable UI
- Jetpack Compose interface
- 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

Glass Effect (BETA, optional)
Disabled on fresh installs. Enable in Settings: native, contour-only or Glass by category, with adjustable quality. May increase rendering work and battery use; reduce quality or disable if needed.
Glass credits: Square / Convx Project (GPL-3.0); Kyant0 AndroidLiquidGlass / Backdrop (Apache-2.0).

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 (FFmpeg is a downloadable extension, installed on first use)
- 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

Available Builds
- Release64/Beta64 (`com.nevar.nzik`): Complete build, 64-bit devices only
- Release32/Beta32 (`com.nevar.nzik`): Complete build, 32-bit devices only
- Minified64 (`com.nevar.nzik`): Lightweight R8 build, for low-end devices (64-bit)
- Minified32 (`com.nevar.nzik`): Lightweight R8 build (32-bit)
- FOSS (`com.nevar.nzik.foss`): Without auto-updater, for F-Droid (all architectures)
- Dev64/Dev32 (`com.nevar.nzik.dev`): Development builds, testing only

No build bundles FFmpeg: it is a downloadable extension (installed on first use, managed in Settings → Extensions). Only FOSS is on F-Droid.

Historical project credits include ViMusic.

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