Orpheon
Formerly Myspoti. The community chose the new name; version 1.0.0 is the first under it. The icon is a placeholder until the real one is made.
Coming from Myspoti? Update it to 2.4.1: it offers to install Orpheon, a new app next to it. Betas are on the releases page.
A music player for Android, Android TV and Wear OS, with your Spotify account. Your own Spotify account, playlists and Wrapped, in a native Android app, with sound and offline downloads through extensions you install.
Why Orpheon
⬇️ Offline downloads, through extensions
Orpheon has no download source of its own. Install a download-source extension (Settings, Extensions) and you can download a song, an album, a playlist or all your Liked Songs, and listen with no connection: on the plane, in the metro, with no data. The extension decides where the files come from and in which formats (FLAC, M4A or MP3); Orpheon keeps them encrypted on your phone, refuses a file that is not the song's length, and keeps downloaded playlists in step: songs you add on Spotify download by themselves.
✨ And everything you expect from Spotify, and more
Your home, search, library, playlists, podcasts, Spotify Connect and Android Auto, plus word-by-word lyrics and song meanings from Genius.
What is it?
Orpheon is a Spotify app for Android that you install yourself. You sign in with your usual Spotify account, on Spotify's own login page: Orpheon never sees your password. A free account is enough.
Under the hood, the official Spotify Web Player plays the music, hidden inside the app, with your phone's DRM. Orpheon draws its own screens on top and drives it. Your plays are reported to Spotify exactly as in a browser: they count for the artists, in your history and in your Wrapped.
Get started
- Download the APK from the Orpheon 1.0.0-beta.1 release and open it (Android 10 or later). Android asks once to allow installs from your browser or file manager.
- Tap Log in with Spotify and sign in.
- Pick the sound quality, allow what you want (notifications, Bluetooth, local files…), and you are in.
New versions are offered inside the app: one tap downloads and installs them.
Each release carries four APKs:
Orpheon-<version>-ARMv8.apk: almost every phone from the last ten years (64-bit). When in doubt, take this one.Orpheon-<version>-ARMv7.apk: older or entry-level 32-bit phones (an app such as CPU-Z or Device Info shows which one yours is; if ARMv8 refuses to install, take this one).Orpheon-<version>-universal.apk: both in one, larger.Orpheon-<version>-TV.apk: Android TV and Google TV (the same app; on a TV it opens its TV screens).
Betas are Orpheon-Beta-<version>-.... The in-app update picks the right one by itself.
Orpheon is a new app next to Myspoti 2.4 and earlier (app.myspoti, app.myspoti.stable): Myspoti's update button opens this page instead of installing it, as Android cannot install one app over the other. Install Orpheon, then uninstall Myspoti when you no longer need it.
Obtainium (add https://github.com/kota-zo/myspoti; the stable app and the beta app are two apps):
- Stable (
app.orpheon): leave "Include prereleases" off and set the APK filter to ^Orpheon-[0-9].*-ARMv8\.apk$ (or -ARMv7, -TV).
- Beta (
app.orpheon.beta): turn "Include prereleases" on and set the APK filter to ^Orpheon-Beta-.*-ARMv8\.apk$ (or -ARMv7, -TV).
- Betas are named
<next version>-beta.<n> (1.0.1-beta.1, then 1.0.1-beta.2...), marked prerelease on GitHub, and always newer than the last stable.
What you get
Listening
- Home, search, Browse, New releases, Your Library with folders, artist, album, playlist and profile pages, with Spotify's own content.
- Pick any song: shuffle (Spotify's, or Orpheon's own that plays every song once before any repeats), Smart Shuffle, the queue (drag to reorder), repeat (all, the song for good, the song once), crossfade, sleep timer.
- For extension, downloaded and device songs: a 10-band equalizer with presets, playback speed and skip silence; Stats for nerds shows the codec, sample rate, bit depth, bitrate and output of what plays.
- Podcasts and audiobooks, with their own player (speed, ±15 s, mark as played).
- Spotify Connect, Jam, Bluetooth with your headphones' name, lock screen, notification, widget and Android Auto.
Lyrics
- Synced lyrics, word by word when a source has the timing (or line by line, your choice in Settings), with translation.
- Song meanings from Genius: a light bulb for the story of the song, and a long press on an underlined line for its explanation, translated into your language.
Your playlists
- Create, edit (name, description, cover), sort, make public, private or collaborative.
- Add songs from a Spotify search inside the playlist, with suggestions.
- Collaborative playlists: invite friends with a link, see who is in, and who added each song.
- Share any song, album, artist or playlist as a Spotify Code (scannable in the Spotify app) or a link.
Offline
- With a download-source extension installed: download songs, albums, playlists and Liked Songs, in the formats the extension offers (or re-encoded to small AAC on the phone).
- Downloads are encrypted and stay in Orpheon. Lists you downloaded stay in step with Spotify.
- Your local audio files too.
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