Welcome to Anytune on Android! We hope Anytune will help you learn, transcribe and practice your favourite songs faster and easier.
Anytune provides a rich set of tools (much more to come) for serious musical artists to listen to and work with music in fantastic new ways.
We welcome your suggestions and hope you tell us when you find a bug. We value your advice.
Getting Started
You can browse and play audio files on your device and stream songs from Apple Music and Spotify.
In the Player you can adjust the tempo, pitch and tuning of each song. You can save marks to create sections, save regions and use Autoloop for easy looping.
Some Tips:
- Create a Project by playing an audio file from your device or by streaming a song from Spotify or Apple Music.
- Change the Tool bar with the bottom Tabs in the player view to Tempo, Pitch or Looping controls.
- Long Tap most buttons for help and settings.
- Double Tap a slider to toggle between the default value and your last setting.
- Long Tap an object in the waveform view to drag it to a new time.
- Double Tap objects in the waveform view to select and apply actions.
- Long Tap an item in most lists to enable multi-select.
Watch the Quick Start Tutorial video.
Supported Media
Anytune will play MP3, M4A, WAV, AIFF, AAC-LC, HE-AAC, and STEMS (by Native Instruments) audio files. Video is planned.
System Requirements
Anytune requires Android 7.1 (Nougat API 25) or greater.
Anytune requires a XHDPI (768 x 1280) or larger screen size for best experience. Smaller screens will mostly work, but may have controls squished together.
Navigation
You can browse your music and projects with the browse tabs.
The Spotify and Apple Music tabs are configurable in Settings.
Browse Views
Tap the tabs or swipe left and right to move across browse views.
Tap the Menu button in any browse view to reveal the drawer containing Settings, Help, News or send us a message.
Long Tap a list item to enable multi-select mode and reveal the Action bar.
Apply an action to multiple items or Select All.
Search
Search allows you to search your Anytune Projects, songs on your Device or music in a streaming service (i.e. Apple Music). Spotify coming.
Projects
The Projects tab allows you to view Anytune Projects. You can browse Projects by Song, Artist or Album. A Project contains the settings, marks, notes and location of the audio file. Tap a Project to reveal the Project Info and actions. See <Projects>.
Device
The Device tab allows you to view playable audio files physically on your device. You can browse by Song, Artist, Album or Folder.
The last two tabs are configurable in Settings and extend access to other music sources including:
Apple Music (Experimental)
The Apple Music tab allows you to browse and filter the contents of your Apple Music library and playlists. Use the Search tab to find any song in the Apple Music catalog.
Note: Anytune's capabilities are reduced when songs are streamed through Apple Music.
Spotify (Experimental)
The Spotify tab allows you to browse the contents of your Spotify Liked songs and playlists. Search coming.
Note: Anytune's capabilities are reduced when songs are streamed through Spotify.
Controls
Buttons, sliders and gestures control your music in the Player.
Long Press or Tap and Hold most controls for help and settings. Sliders coming.
Tapping a button may perform different types of operations.
Tap a button to: |
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Execute a command |
Play Some button icons change, indicating their function has changed, |
Toggle a state |
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Cycle through multiple states |
Repeat changes from repeat off |
Open a view or menu | Open ![]() |
Buttons and menu items light up with the accent color when activated or selected.
Sliders
Sliders are used to set values throughout the app including the dynamic tool bar.
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Tap the buttons on either side of the slider to step up or down in increments. Touch the slider then drag your finger for fine precision adjustments. |
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Double tap the middle of the slider to toggle between the default and previously set value. |
Player View
When you open a project or play a song the player view is displayed.
Pull down or Tap the Title Bar of the Player to return to browsing. Pull up on or Tap the Mini-Player to return to the Player from browsing.
The Player includes the top navigation bar, zoomed (or "content") view, dynamic tool bar, song view, transport controls and the tool selector (tabs).
Navigation Bar
View project title, song title, artist, album.
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Open the Queue and Marks List views. |
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Open the Project Details and access actions like Add to Queue. |
Content View
Drag your finger across the waveform to scrub through the song.
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Zoom in to see more detail. |
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Zoom out to see more of the song. |
Tool Bar
The Tool Selector tabs allow you to change the controls:
Tempo:
Change the speed (tempo) of audio with the tempo slider. |
Pitch:
Change the Pitch (Key in semitone increments) with the pitch slider. |
Change the Pitch (Tuning in cent increments) with the tuning slider. |
Looping:
The A and B sliders define the selected region. They are considered marks for navigation.
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Move the A slider (start of selected region/loop) to the playhead position. |
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Move the B slider (end of selected region/loop) to the playhead position. |
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Reset the A and B (start & end) sliders back the start and end of the song. |
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Save a Region defined by the A and B slider positions. |
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Enable/disable AutoLoop to easily play loops between Marks. The A and B sliders (loop start and end) will automatically move to the marks immediately surrounding the Playhead. Simply navigate the Playhead to the section you want to loop and the A and B sliders will be set automatically. |
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Much more to come. We welcome your suggestions. |
Song View
The song view displays the full waveform of the song.
Tap on the waveform to instantly move the playhead, or drag the playhead across the song.
Transport Controls
Control playback and navigate through the song.
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Start and |
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Add a mark at the playhead position. |
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Move the playhead to the previous mark. Marks include the A and B sliders. |
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Move the playhead to the next mark. |
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Move the playhead a configurable time back. Long Tap to configure time and enable/disable starting playback. |
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Move the playhead a configurable time forward. Long Tap to configure time and enable/disable starting playback. |
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Enable/disable looping between the current selected region, defined by A and B sliders. |
Tool Selector
Choose the tool bar to be placed in the Player by Tapping a tab.
Projects
Projects save all your data including settings, marks and notes and the location of the audio file or stream.
Create a project by playing an audio file from your device or by streaming a song from Apple Music or Spotify.
When browsing song sources (Device, Apple Music, Spotify) you will see the Project icon beside songs that are already in a project.
Long Tap on a project and select multiple projects to "Add To Queue" or
Delete.
Project Info
Tap a Project row or the More button in the player to reveal Project Info and actions.
You can edit underlined Project Info values.
The BPM (Beats Per Minute) and Key are calculated by analyzing the song. These values are the default values for the Tempo and Pitch controls. Tap to change these values.
Tap the File value to change the location of the audio file or stream for a project. Change from a Spotify stream to a file on your device, or update the location after moving a file.
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Play Now: loads the song into the player and starts playback. |
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Open Project: loads the song into the player. |
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Play Next: adds song to the next position in the queue. |
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Add to Queue: adds the song to the end of the queue. |
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Reset Music Settings: changes all music settings to the original/default values. |
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Delete Project: Deletes the project data. The source file is not deleted. |
You project data is saved to the anytune.json
file.
The location of this file is set during installation and can be changed in Anytune > Settings.
When you install Anytune you are presented with a dialogue allowing you to select "Where you would like to store project data.", PRIVATE or SHARED.
If you chose "Private" the data is saved in a private folder internal to Anytune. This folder is deleted by the system, and your data is lost, when the Anytune app is uninstalled from your device.
If you choose "Shared" you can select the folder where the data file is saved. By default it will be stored in: Internal storage > Documents > Anytune > anytune.json
This folder is NOT deleted when the Anytune app is uninstalled.
You can change the location of the Anytune data (project info) file in Anytune > Settings. You could have multiple anytune.json files in different folders and change which to use in Settings
Audio files
Anytune plays songs directly from their original file location when accessed from the Device tab. Anytune does not make a copy of these songs.
Anytune streams songs directly from Spotify or Apple Music, but does not have access to the audio data and cannot save a copy of the song. You must be connected to the internet to play streams.
You can import audio files into Anytune from other apps. When you "Open with...", or "Play with..." Anytune from another app like Email or Google Drive a copy of the file is created in:
Internal storage > Music > AnytuneImport > <song>.mp3
Queue
Your queue is the currently playing playlist. You can add and reorder songs in the queue while a song is playing.
Access the Queue and Marks list with in the player.
Long Tap on a song to select and apply action to multiple songs.
Grab the handle and drag any song anywhere in the queue.
Alter the playback behaviour of songs in the queue with:
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Pause at End: Stop playback when the end of the song is reached. If you are working your way through a set list use Pause-At-End to stop at the end of each song and then press play to start the next song. |
Marks
Create Marks for quick navigation and visualization, to define sections and even add timed comments in notes. Sections are defined by marks and are contiguous.
Add Mark to create a mark at the playhead position.
Regions are special marks that have a start and end time, and can overlap and have the same start time.
Quickly move the playhead to a mark by tapping it in the Mark List view or use the
Next Mark and
Previous Mark buttons.
When navigating to a Region the A (Start) and B (End) handles are automagically moved to the start and end times of the region.
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a mark handle or section to move the playhead to the mark or beginning of section. |
Long Tap |
a mark handle to drag the mark in time. |
Double Tap |
one or more mark handles, sections and regions to Select and reveal the Action bar, or select in the Marks List view. |
Actions for marks include:
Note: Some actions are available in the overflow menu.
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Nudge selected objects forward in time |
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Nudge selected objects backward in time |
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Shift a section or region forward. The start moves to the end and the duration remains the same. |
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Shift a section or region backward. The end moves to the start and the duration remains the same. |
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Loop Selected. Move A slider (loop start) to first selected item and move B slider (loop end) to the blast selected item. |
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Delete selected mark(s). |
Open the Mark Details to edit the Label (section), Short Label (handle) and color of the mark. You can also add a text note to a mark as a timed comment.
Looping
Save multiple loops to work on that awesome solo or rehearse that tricky part.
Double Tap the A or B slider to select the currently selected region.
Use the selector to refine your selection to A (start), B (end) or Loop (both) and adjust the region to create the perfect loop.
Settings
System settings affect the behaviour of the app and are available in the navigation drawer.
Project settings are specific to a project and include the values set by the controls in the Player such as tempo.
System Settings
Available in the navigation drawer:
Appearance
Theme Note: requires app restart |
Default (System) Light Dark |
Display section colors as |
Flags |
Alter how section colors are displayed in the full song waveform view to quickly identify sections of a song.
Playback
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Repeat |
Disabled Queue Song |
Experimental Features
Gain early access to features still under development and provide feedback. These features may be changed or be removed.
Apple Music Play streamed Apple Music. |
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Spotify Play streamed Spotify music. Requires paid Spotify subscription.
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Search | Device | Projects | Queue | Marks | Looping | Settings
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