Is MetroMusic safe?

MetroMusic looks and moves like the Music + Videos hub of Windows Phone 8, and it plays what is already on the phone. No account, no feed, no recommendations. The collection is the start screen. The panorama you land on is the library — artists, albums, songs, genres, playlists, history and settings, in whatever order you put them. It is circular, so settings sit one swipe to the left of where yo…

Developer: Diffechento
Category: Local Media Player
Earliest archived version: 02 Sept 2026
License: GPL-3.0-only (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

29 Sept 2026

1.5

The player can show the song's words in place of the cover, timed words following the music. Playlists are.m3u files in Music/Playlists, with import, export and adding a whole album at once. Shuffle rearranges the queue; play next puts it next. Long tracks resume where you left them. Years are read…

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16 Sept 2026

1.4.1

The albums on an artist's page can be ordered oldest first, alongside newest first and by name — on settings → interface. An album with no year in its tags stays at the end whichever you pick.

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02 Sept 2026

1.3

An album is its tags now, not its folder: a record split across two folders is one album, and compilations are filed under their album artist. Search the whole library from "more". Drag the left edge of a long list to scroll it fast. Open audio files from other apps. Even out loudness between…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.metromusic

Latest APK SHA-2560a2da3fe0b89216cce57d22966dec3362887b7edc05ba8b75b705e7aaed32484

Signing certificateC3:25:B9:BC:DB:A6:6D:64:1A:6C:A7:FE:2F:95:4E:2C:34:43:B7:E3:4E:37:C2:94:1D:A1:C6:BB:52:41:53:C6

MIN ANDROID26TARGET36ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · armeabi-v7a · x86 · x86_64

04 / History

Archive history

3 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 1.3 (02 Sept 2026), latest 1.5 (29 Sept 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 1.4.1 and 1.5.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

3 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.529 Sept 202626+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→1.4.116 Sept 202626+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→1.302 Sept 202626+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→

06 / Safety & access

Safety verdict

Authentic — file hash matches the source indexNo ads or tracking flagged by the source

IntegritySHA-256 verified vs source

SourceBinary repo · fdroid

Permissions11 declared · 3 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNonFreeNet

Sensitive accessREAD_EXTERNAL_STORAGEREAD_MEDIA_AUDIOWRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.MANAGE_MEDIA android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE android.permission.READ_MEDIA_AUDIO android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE com.metromusic.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

Tracker status: Not assessed by WIKI for Android.

07 / Sources

Evidence ledger

Each entry is a captured public reference backing this record.

RepositorySource package page↗Source codeSource repository↗