I'm Rajveer, creator of Interlude Music. I decided to create this app because I was tired
of all the other music clients. Some had decent features but an ugly UI; some had no good
features but a good UI. So I built Interlude to excel in every aspect of a
music player app.
Most YouTube Music clients are crowded. They push recommendations, surface ads between
tracks, and quietly upload your listening data to servers you never agreed to.
Interlude is a deliberate step back from all of that. It is a free,
open-source Music Player for Android, built as a fork of
Metrolist, around
a single idea: your music should play, and nothing else should get in the way.
Disclaimer: Interlude is an unofficial client and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google or YouTube.
Interlude is built with Jetpack Compose and follows Google's
Material 3 Expressive design language — including wavy progress components.
The interface adapts to your wallpaper, your system theme, and your device's color palette,
so the player looks like it belongs on your phone, not someone else's. There are two
player styles (Default and Full Art), three player button
shapes (Round, Pill, and Apple Music style),
custom player button colors, and customizable backgrounds for the player, mini player, and
menus — blur, transparent, gradient, or
opaque.
Unlike most third-party music players, Interlude ships with zero trackers
and zero analytics. There is no account to create, no cloud sync you didn't ask for,
and no telemetry beacon phoning home. Your library, playlists, and listening habits stay on
your device. The full source code is published under the GPL-3.0 license
on GitHub, so anyone can audit it, fork it, or contribute to it.
Interlude also supports word-for-word synchronized lyrics
fetched live from multiple providers — SimpMusic, BetterLyrics, and Musixmatch — with a
customizable provider priority order and a per-song provider override. It includes features
inherited from Metrolist — Listen Together, Discord Rich Presence, Last.fm scrobbling, and
Google Cast. It's a privacy-first client that doesn't punish you for wanting
a clean, calm listening experience. Interlude is a personal project that is actively evolving,
so some features may still have rough edges.
