A local music player for Android 13 and newer, written in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose, with a Wear OS app for the watch. Part of Nobody Builds.

Developers: Shaan Shoukath (@Shaan-Shoukath) and Abhiram NJ (@twilighty-abhi), the author of LMusic.

A fork of LMusic. Nobody Listens is a fork of LMusic by Abhiram NJ (Twilight Abhi), which is itself built on PixelPlayer (the last MIT-licensed version). Most of what's below was built there. This fork adds the Nobody Builds brand and "Daylight" design, JioSaavn, a standalone Galaxy Watch app, YouTube Music (also contributed to LMusic) and its own fixes. It installs as its own app (com.nobodybuilds.listens), so it sits beside LMusic: move your library over with Settings → Backup & Restore, since LMusic backups restore here.

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Install

1. Open the latest release on your phone and download the APK for it:
   • NobodyListens-<version>-arm64-v8a.apk: almost every phone from the last several years.
   • NobodyListens-<version>-armeabi-v7a.apk: older 32-bit phones.
   • NobodyListens-<version>-x86_64.apk: emulators and Chromebooks.
   • NobodyListens-<version>-universal.apk: works everywhere, but is the largest.
2. Open the file. The first time, Android asks you to allow installs from your browser or My Files — allow it once.
3. Later releases install as updates on top. Your library, playlists and stats stay.

Every push to main and every pull request also builds all of these APKs (and the watch APK) — open the run under Actions and download them from Artifacts.

Galaxy Watch (Wear OS)

NobodyListens-Watch-<version>.apk runs on every Wear OS watch from Wear OS 2 (Android 8) up: Galaxy Watch, Pixel Watch, TicWatch, Fossil and others, round or square. The bezel (one song per click on Galaxy watches) or the crown scrolls lists and sets the volume on the player. It works without the phone:

• Songs and playlists saved on the watch play through its speaker or Bluetooth headphones. Save a song, or a whole phone playlist (Save playlist to watch), and it stays on the watch (Library › Watch playlists).
• YouTube Music and JioSaavn (up to 320 kbps): search and stream straight from the watch over its own Wi-Fi or LTE, with covers.
• Search looks through the watch and, when it's nearby, the phone's library. Like the phone, it stays offline unless you ask: tap Search YouTube Music or Search JioSaavn to look online.

With the phone nearby it is also a remote for the phone app and browses the phone's library. The watch app is signed with the same key as the phone app, which is how the two find each other.

1. On the watch: Settings → About watch → Software information, tap Software version five times, then Settings → Developer options → ADB debugging and Wireless debugging on. Note the IP and port shown.
2. On a computer on the same Wi-Fi, with Android platform-tools: adb pair <ip>:<pairing port> (enter the code from Pair new device), then adb connect <ip>:<port> and adb install NobodyListens-Watch-<version>.apk.

What LMusic adds

Nobody Builds "Daylight" design, on Material 3

• The NobodyBuilds-Design tokens mapped onto Material 3 colour roles: Paper and Night Shift canvases, Blueprint blue does the work, Hard Hat yellow is the one bold moment per screen. Flat: no shadows, 10/16/20 dp radii, pills for buttons and chips.
• Gilroy (open Light and ExtraBold weights) for headings, Google Sans Flex for text, Unbounded for an accent phrase. Material Rounded icons only; service logos keep their own artwork.
• The now-playing screen still takes its colors from the album art.
• Settings → Appearance → App colors switches to Material You wallpaper colors.

Tag editor writes into the file

• Title, artist, album, album artist, year, genre, track, disc, composer, lyrics, ReplayGain and embedded cover art — MP3, FLAC, M4A/AAC (plus OGG/Opus/WAV).

Metadata autofill (Edit song → Autofill)

• From your files: offline guesses from the filename (01 - Artist - Title), the album folder (Artist - Album (2019)) and what the other tracks in the folder agree on.
• Online: MusicBrainz search, ranked by title, artist, album and duration match, plus front covers from Cover Art Archive. Free, no account or API key, and only contacted when you tap Autofill.
• Pick a match, see each field as now → new, tick what you want, then Save. MusicBrainz IDs are stored in the file too.

Analytics

• A play counts after 30 seconds of listening (shorter tracks: nearly all of it).
• Today, week, month, year, all time — or a custom date range.
• Listening time, plays, top songs / artists / albums / genres, listening by time of day and weekday, sessions, streaks — plus skip rate, new songs and new artists discovered in the period.
• History is kept for life (PixelPlayer trimmed it to two years).

New in 1.4

• Noise generator in Focus, Sleep space, charging screensaver (OLED-safe, Open-Meteo weather), Quick Settings tiles, six new widgets plus a lock-screen player, drag-to-select bottom bar.
• Screen-off gestures with pocket safeguards, source-filtered whole-library shuffle, reliable widgets, wider backups.

New in 1.3

• Spaces: on-device lofi generator, lofi radio and ambience; focus timer; listening garden (with widget); party queue over local Wi-Fi; taste match by QR code; cover studio for songs without artwork.
• Living artwork, double-tap to like, artist story, mini-player swipes, swipe between pages, stronger haptics, optional shake / face-down gestures, crash reports and safe mode.

New in 1.2

• New Home, Yuyu redesign of every screen and widget, smaller now-playing layout with sleep timer and song menu.
• Refined haptics (Off / Subtle / Full), smart shuffle, music folders to include, weekly update alerts.
• Library health with batch autofill of empty tags; weekly and monthly recaps.
• Experimental, off by default: on-device mood/genre tagging with YAMNet (Apache-2.0, bundled), mixes, song radio and insights. Indexing runs only while charging, idle and above 50% battery; nothing leaves the phone.

Everything from PixelPlayer is still there

Queue with drag-and-drop, shuffle and repeat, playlists, gapless playback, sleep timer (including end of track), folders, genres, search, Daily Mix, lyrics (LRCLIB), equalizer, crossfade/transitions, widgets, Chromecast, Android Auto, Wear OS companion, backups, and the online sources (Jellyfin, Navidrome, Google Drive, Telegram, Netease, QQ Music).

Not part of LMusic's own plan but kept as-is: lyrics, equalizer, crossfade, widgets, Chromecast, Android Auto, Wear OS and the online music sources.

Build it yourself

Open the project in Android Studio (Ladybug or newer, JDK 21) and run the app configuration, or:

./gradlew :app:assembleRelease   # phone APK per ABI (arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a)
./gradlew :app:assembleRelease -Pnobodylistens.allApks=true   # adds x86_64 and a universal APK
./gradlew :wear:assembleRelease  # the Wear OS watch app

Code lives in com.nobodybuilds.listens. A few stored names keep their LMusic form so LMusic backups and taste codes still import: the lmusic_* DataStore and preference files, and the LMT1: taste-code prefix.

Signing

APKs install as updates only when every build is signed with the same key.

• CI default: on its first main build, GitHub Actions creates a signing key and keeps it in the Actions cache (nobody-listens-signing-key-v1). The Keep CI signing key alive workflow touches it twice a week so it never expires.

• Your own key (recommended for the long term): add three repository secrets — NOBODY_LISTENS_KEYSTORE_B64 (the .jks file, base64), NOBODY_LISTENS_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD and NOBODY_LISTENS_KEY_ALIAS — and CI uses them instead. On a Mac:

  keytool -genkeypair -keystore nobody-listens.jks -alias nobody-listens -keyalg RSA -keysize 4096 -validity 36500
  base64 -i nobody-listens.jks | pbcopy   # paste as NOBODY_LISTENS_KEYSTORE_B64

  Switching keys changes the signature once: uninstall the CI-signed app first (back up from Settings → Backup if you want to keep stats).

Releasing

Bump APP_VERSION_NAME in gradle.properties (e.g. 1.1.0), add release-notes/v1.1.0.md, and push to main. The workflow sees there's no release for that version yet, builds every APK (arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86_64, universal and the watch) and publishes Nobody Listens v1.1.0 with them (and creates the tag). Pushing a v* tag yourself works too. Other pushes just build the arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a and watch APKs as artifacts.

Credits and licence

• LMusic by Abhiram NJ (Twilight Abhi), the app this one is forked from (MIT).
• PixelPlayer by theovilardo and contributors — this project is based on upstream commit 3903015 (12 May 2026), the last version released under the MIT License. See LICENSE.
• Fonts: Gilroy Light and ExtraBold by Radomir Tinkov (free font EULA), and Unbounded (SIL Open Font License) — see licenses/. Google Sans Flex for body text.
• On-device audio model: YAMNet (Apache-2.0), run with TensorFlow Lite.
• Metadata: MusicBrainz (CC0) and Cover Art Archive.
• Logo: the Nobody Listens mark from the Nobody Builds brand kit.