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InterTune

InterTune is a music player for Android. It plays YouTube Music, and it plays music files you already keep on your phone or SD card. It is a fork of OuterTune, which means it started life as a copy of that app and then went its own way. Upstream OuterTune stopped supporting YouTube Music in February 2026 and has not been touched at all since April 2026, so InterTune carries its own fixes, the main one being that YouTube Music songs play all the way through again instead of cutting out after about half a minute. It is one person's project, kept public because other people find it useful. If something is broken, say so on InterTune's issues rather than upstream's, because upstream is not reading theirs.

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• Music library. The three kinds of playlist, which ones you can edit, and how each one relates to your YouTube Music account.
• Local media. How to point the app at music files already on your phone, and what all the scanner settings do.
• Downloading songs. Saving songs so they play with no connection, where those files end up, and how to bring in files you got somewhere else.
• Song recognition. Naming a song that plays around you or on your own phone, from the app, a Quick Settings tile or the home screen.
• Playback and audio quality. The Player and audio settings, including audio quality, skipping silence and how much data the app uses, and Signal path, which shows what happens to a song on its way to your ears.
• Volume and loudness. Why some songs blare out louder than others, what InterTune does about it, and the button that repairs the songs it knows nothing about.
• Audio offload. Handing playback to a separate chip to save battery: the hidden developer setting, Battery use's Saver doing it for you, and what it breaks.
• Battery use. Full, Balanced or Saver: what each one turns down to make the battery last, and how Saver comes on with the phone's battery saver.
• Player appearance. The settings that change how the now playing screen looks, including the background behind the cover art, the glass effect and which buttons stay on the player.
• Lyrics. Moving a song's lyrics earlier or later, and letting them stay where you scroll.
• Home screen widget. The Now playing widget in its three styles, its settings, and the heart that likes the song playing.
• Tablets and large screens. What the app rearranges when there is more room on screen, and the one setting that goes with it.
• Updates. InterTune is not on the Play Store, so this is how it checks GitHub and tells you a newer version exists.
• Troubleshooting. No sound, a song that will not play, downloads that never appear, local files that vanish after a scan, and what to check for each.
• FAQ. Short answers to the questions that come up most, starting with the 403 error that InterTune exists to fix.

To find one setting quickly, type its name into Search settings, the field at the top of Settings. It forgives typing mistakes, and a tap on a result opens the right screen with that row lit up.