Feature roadmap

Foundation delivered#

• Single foreground MediaLibraryService with notification, lock-screen, Bluetooth, headset, and external controller support
• Service-owned Media3/LibVLC engine lifecycle through one MediaSession-compatible adapter
• Mutable queue operations, next/previous, repeat-one/all, shuffle, completion advancement, and paused process restoration
• Audio focus, transient interruption resume, ducking, and noisy-route disconnection handling

• Room-backed local library with indexed paging, search, favorites, history/resume, playlists, exclusions, and scan state
• MediaStore discovery across available volumes plus optional persisted SAF file/folder imports
• Permission-aware songs, albums, artists, genres, folders, videos, recently added, and recently watched views
• Incremental observation, manual reconciliation, duplicate-safe upserts, and bounded thumbnail caching

• Shared media, playlist, settings, playback state, error, capability, and engine models
• Android MediaStore audio/video discovery adapter
• Android DataStore settings persistence
• Adaptive-ready Compose scaffold and typed navigation for Home, Music, Video, and Settings
• Light, dark, and AMOLED color foundations
• Media3 engine for local and HTTP(S) audio/video, state, tracks, metadata, errors, seeking, speed, volume, and video output
• LibVLC fallback engine with hardware/software decoding, track selection, video output, and explicit audio focus
• Queue-aware engine manager with deterministic cleanup and bounded fallback
• Development playback console for Storage Access Framework documents and authorized HTTP(S) URLs
• Complete local music browsing for songs, albums, artists, album artists, genres, folders, playlists, recent media, and favorites
• Sortable music results, collection-level play/shuffle/queue actions, and persistent service-backed mini player
• Full-screen Now Playing with seek, queue editing/reordering, repeat, shuffle, speed, favorites, safe sharing, and media information
• Album, artist, folder, and playlist details backed by real indexed media; no sample media is injected
• Video library filters for all videos, folders, recent, favorites, and in-progress playback
• Immersive video player with buffered seeking, queue navigation, screen/orientation lock, PiP, speed, track selection, aspect modes, and honest media diagnostics
• Configurable edge-safe gestures for double-tap seeking, swipe seeking, brightness/volume, pinch zoom, and control visibility
• Authorized direct HTTP/HTTPS, HLS, MPEG-DASH, internet-radio, and compatible remote-file playback through the service-owned engine path
• Network stream clipboard entry, ordered local history, favorites, clear/remove actions, loading/live/seekability state, manual retry, and bounded reconnect
• Persistent categorized settings for appearance, music/video/audio, subtitles, library, network, privacy, accessibility, backup, and about information
• Versioned SAF backup and restore for settings, playlists, local/stream favorites, bookmarks, and playback history without media-file duplication
• English and Bengali resources for the settings experience, system font scaling, optional high contrast, reduced motion, and larger settings touch targets

Planned#

• Equalizer and platform audio-effects evaluation
• Authorized SMB/WebDAV sources with credential-safe storage
• Casting evaluation, Android Auto, and TV evaluation

Desktop and iOS applications remain outside the current scope.

Personal organization

• Local mixed audio/video playlists support create, rename, delete, reorder, duplicate, playback, shuffle, queueing, and M3U/M3U8 SAF import/export.
• Songs, videos, and local media remain favoritable; stream favorites use the existing local settings store.
• Playback history records last-played time, resume position, completion, and play count without analytics or remote logging.
• Timestamp bookmarks can be added, renamed, deleted, and opened through the shared playback session.
• Fullscreen video includes a session-owned A–B repeat loop. It is position-based and deliberately does not claim frame-accurate stepping.
• Unified indexed media search covers title, artist, album, folder, and filename; playlist names use an indexed Room query. Duration, MIME type, folder, kind, favorites, and recency are repository-level filters.
• Embedded file metadata is currently read-only. Editing is withheld where Android cannot guarantee a reliable writable URI transaction and confirmation flow.