Take Total Control of Your Music: Introducing Advanced Settings in Now Playing

Additional Detection Sources

We officially support a massive list of popular streaming services, but the Android audio ecosystem is vast. What if you use a dedicated offline local media player like Musicolet, Poweramp, or Symfonium, a niche regional streaming service, or a specialized audio app?

With Additional detection sources, you are no longer limited to our officially supported list. You can now browse a list of audio apps installed on your device and manually add them to the detection engine.

The best part? Every custom source you add still gets passed through our best-in-class automated metadata cleaning engine, ensuring your local library and niche apps keep your universal stats and Last.fm profile completely pristine.

Absolute Control Over Metadata with Custom Regex

Our automatic cleaning logic strips out video tags, remaster years, and junk formatting so you don't have to. However, if you have a highly customized local library or listen to obscure formats, you might need a more tailored approach.

You can now define your own Custom title regex and Custom artist regex rules. Write your own regular expressions to scrub unwanted text or target specific patterns from track titles and artist names.

If you are a true perfectionist, you can even toggle "Replace default rules" to completely bypass Now Playing's built-in cleaning logic and rely solely on your custom regex rules. Your music, your rules.

Fine-Tune the Detection Engine

Every listener is different, and now the Now Playing engine can be customized to match your exact habits. The Advanced settings menu exposes the core parameters of our detection engine, allowing you to tweak:

• Track Filtering: Set the minimum track duration required before a song is logged, adjust the resume grace period for paused tracks, and define maximum ad durations.

• Custom Ad Keywords: Block unwanted audio by adding custom keywords that instantly flag tracks as advertisements.

• Debounce Delays: Control the exact millisecond delays for when the app logs new songs, registers pauses/stops, or waits for passive background listeners like Shazam.

• Repeat Thresholds: Decide exactly what constitutes a "repeat" by adjusting the required track duration percentage and maximum active time limits.

• Scrobble Settings: Adjust how often the background worker sends your history to Last.fm and configure delay buffers.

Note: Tinkering here can break music detection if configured incorrectly, but don't worry—there is always a quick "Reset to defaults" option in the menu if you get carried away!

Private, Offline, and Ad-Free

As always, absolute control also means absolute privacy. We believe your music data belongs to you.

• No Accounts Required: You don't need to link an account or sign in to use these advanced features.

• Offline-First: All of your stats, history, custom rules, and achievements are generated and stored locally on your device.

• Completely Ad-Free: Enjoy tweaking your app without any intrusive advertisements breaking your focus.

Now Playing: Stats & Scrobble is available now on the Google Play Store. Download the latest update today and build the ultimate, personalized music tracker.

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