Each line names where to find it.
Getting music in
• Your own files: + Add songs → + Files, + Add folder, or Import library for a backup .zip (Discover card or Settings → More).
• From a link: paste a Spotify (or YouTube) song, album or playlist link into Spotify to MP3 — Discover → Conversion Tools.
• Spotify playlist: paste the playlist link, or export a .csv from Spotify and use Import CSV.
• Moving phones: Export everything → one .zip; on the new phone, Import library → pick that .zip.
Playing
• Tap a song to play; the bar at the bottom has play/pause, skip, shuffle and repeat.
• Jump to the playing song: tap the record on the now bar — it scrolls the list to that song.
• Seek style, crossfade, gapless, auto-volume: Settings → Playback & sound. Everything that makes a sound is in that one menu — crossfade, gapless, auto-volume, the 8-band EQ, the volume boost and the anti-muffler.
• Sleep timer: the ⋮ menu on the now bar. DJ Mode: the DJ MODE button under the player, or Studio → DJ Mode (the turntable rig). Auto-DJ beat blending: Studio → Auto-DJ.
• Outside the app: playback keeps going when you leave the app; the lock screen, the notification-shade player and the home-screen widget carry prev / play-pause / next, a paused song starts again right there without opening the app, and a tap on the widget picks the song you were last playing back up. It is on by default, and Settings → More → Notification player is where it can be switched off or back on.
Lyrics
• Open the lyrics button on the now bar. Auto-scroll, Highlight, Word-by-word and Letter-by-letter are the chips along the top.
• Running late or early? −0.5s / +0.5s fixes it and is remembered per song. Translate turns non-English lyrics into English.
• Wrong song or no lyrics? ↻ Refetch searches by hand; Manual lets you paste your own; Copy copies them out.
Library, playlists and albums
• Playlists: make one from the Playlists tab, then add songs from any ⋮ menu. Long-press a row to select several at once.
• Albums you build yourself: select songs, then the album + button in the header. Hold a song for 2 seconds inside an album to reorder it.
• Fix a song: ⋮ → Edit — title, artist, album, track number, cover art, release date, and a cropper for trimming a track.
• Clean-ups: the bell (🔔) gathers duplicate-finder, cover refetch, watermark remover and export jobs in one place.
Discover, followed artists and new releases
• Search any song to stream a 30-second preview, then Get song to pull it in. Pin artists to follow their drops.
• New Releases on Home and in Discover is the last month of drops from those artists, and Upcoming tracks dated releases that have not landed yet.
• Album History rebuilds an artist's discography; Old songs digs out the older catalogue.
Downloads
• ⋮ on a playlist or the Library tab → Download to phone saves each song as its own tagged file.
• Download crossfaded mix blends the whole list into one continuous file at your crossfade length.
• Every long download shows a progress chip with an ✕ — one tap stops it, and whatever already finished is kept.
Studio
• Record a mix, chop and crop audio, the beat pads, FX pads, hot cues, kill switches, crossfader and loop controls — all in the Studio tab.
Stats and look
• Stats in Settings counts a play only once you pass the halfway point of a song, so skipping does not inflate it.
• Make it yours: Settings → Theme (looks, and Prism is the newest), Glow (edge glow), Widget (its own palette), Sandbox (custom quick actions, Home layout and Reduce motion), and the Home bubble size slider.
Updates, help and support
• Updates come to you: announced on launch and parked in the 🔔 bell as ⬆ Update available, with Install now.
• Stuck? Settings → Support has the 🤖 AI Assistant, which knows the app and works offline, plus sidecutsupport@gmail.com.
• Replay tutorial above re-runs the walkthrough; the patch notes behind What's new cover every release.