v1.4.11
Downloads work again, songs start almost instantly, and the app gains a light theme, an equalizer, a visible queue and local file playback.
The largest app release so far. It started with a report that YouTube songs would not download, and turned into a measurement of where the time and the failures actually go. Several things that looked like separate bugs shared one cause, and a few features the website has had for a while finally arrived on Android.
Light theme
A proper light mode, not an inverted dark one, with its own surfaces and a deeper accent so text on it stays readable. Dark, Light or Match system, in Settings. Existing installs stay dark.
Equalizer
A graphic equalizer with nine presets and a bass boost, built on the phone's own audio engine. Band count and range come from the device, so the sliders match what the hardware can actually do, and presets are reshaped to fit however many bands there are.
Play music stored on your phone
Tap any audio file in a file manager and VenomMusic appears in the Open with list. Title, artist and cover art are read from the file itself. No storage permission is requested — opening the file is already your permission.
A queue you can see
The player now has tabs — Now Playing, Lyrics, Queue and EQ — matching the web player. The Queue tab shows what is coming, lets you jump to any track and remove ones you do not want.
Download several songs at once, with progress
Albums and playlists have a Download all button, three run at a time, and every download shows a real progress bar in the library and in the song menu. Any of them can be stopped.
Recent searches
The search tab remembers what you looked for and opens on your recent searches plus a grid of browse categories, instead of an empty screen.
Autoplay picks better songs
Autoplay used to be "more by this artist", which loops through the same handful on a long listen. It now blends songs like the current one with songs by the artists you actually play. Your taste profile also counts every credited artist rather than just the first, which on Indian releases is usually the composer — so it stops recommending soundtracks when what you play is a singer.
Icons and the app logo now match the website
The tab bar, player and menus use the same drawn icon set as the site, and the launcher icon is regenerated from the website's own icon.
YouTube songs would not download
Downloads went through a route that can start a stream but cannot deliver a whole file — every read past the first megabyte came back refused, so the file was always abandoned part-way. Downloads now resolve the real audio address on the phone and fetch it in bounded pieces. Measured on a real track: the file now arrives complete, and roughly three hundred times faster than the old open-ended read, which the service throttles to about 32 KB a second.
Songs took five to ten seconds to start
Three things stacked up. The app asked YouTube about a song, was refused, and then asked again the next time the same song was touched — paying the same failed round trip repeatedly. The substitute-search that follows a refusal ran its two queries one after the other, then made a third call it usually did not need. And filling a queue resolved every track at once, firing about sixty requests for a single tap. Refusals are now remembered for a few minutes, the searches run together, the extra call is skipped, and a queue resolves six at a time nearest-first. The substitute step alone dropped from 1138 ms to 422 ms.
Missing lyrics
Lyrics were looked up by exact match on title, artist and length, which almost never succeeds for Indian film music: the catalogue calls a song Kesariya (From "Brahmastra") and the lyric database calls it Kesariya, and their runtimes rarely agree. Tested on ten well-known songs, the old lookup found two. Searching and then scoring the candidates found all ten, every one with synced lyrics.
Only one artist was shown, and companion songs showed none
Artist names were pulled out of a single line of text and split on punctuation, which glued the album title and duration onto the last name and tore two-part names in half. Some screens took only the first name and dropped the rest. Every credited artist is now read individually, and each one gets its own entry in the song menu.
Good to know
- This build is numbered 29. Versions 1.4.11 to 1.4.13 were published briefly on 22 August and withdrawn; anyone who installed one of those is on build 28, and a lower number would have left them without an update prompt.