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SONE

Native TIDAL client for Linux — modern UI, bit-perfect lossless FLAC and Hi-Res audio

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io.github.lullabyX.sone
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SONE is a native, lightweight desktop client for TIDAL on Linux that pairs a modern, polished interface with bit-perfect, lossless Hi-Res audio — no compromise on either. Built with Tauri and Rust, it's small and fully native. The interface is customizable to the core: a full-screen player with karaoke-style synced lyrics, a floating miniplayer, and a theming engine that derives a complete light or dark palette from any two colors.

It streams your library in lossless FLAC and Hi-Res quality up to 24-bit/192kHz, with gapless, silence-free playback. For bit-perfect output, exclusive ALSA mode bypasses PulseAudio and PipeWire entirely, sending the unaltered signal straight to your DAC — or use normal mode for casual listening through your system's default output.

Audio

  • Lossless FLAC and Hi-Res streaming up to 24-bit/192kHz
  • Exclusive ALSA output — bypasses PulseAudio and PipeWire, sending bit-perfect audio straight to your DAC
  • Bit-perfect mode with bit-depth promotion to your DAC's native depth
  • Automatic DAC format and sample-rate detection, with graceful fallback on mismatches
  • Channel negotiation and a stereo mix matrix for fixed-channel DACs
  • Hot-swap DACs — the ALSA output re-initialises on device change, no restart needed
  • Signal Path Transparency — inspect the live pipeline and confirm a pristine, bit-clean path to your DAC
  • Gapless, silence-free playback
  • Volume normalization (ReplayGain) with automatic album/track switching

Video

  • Music video playback in a dedicated player — full-screen or minimized to the player bar, with HLS streaming that starts at your selected quality and adapts to your bandwidth (video audio is streamed, not the bit-perfect path)
  • Videos and tracks share one queue, with shuffle, repeat, autoplay, and history across both
  • Favorite videos, browse them in Loved Tracks/Videos tabs, add them to playlists, and find them in Explore and search

Interface and customization

  • Modern, fully customizable light and dark themes
  • 15 theme presets and a full color picker that derives a complete palette from any two colors
  • Full-screen player with album art, a blurred backdrop, and auto-hiding controls
  • Karaoke-style synced lyrics
  • Floating, resizable miniplayer
  • Tabbed home page that remembers your last view
  • Optional custom title bar — toggle native window decorations
  • Customizable in-app keyboard shortcuts

Library and playback

  • Browse your library, playlists, albums, artists, and mixes
  • Personalized home feed and full catalog search
  • Playlist management — folders, create, rename, edit, reorder, and public/private toggle
  • Sort tracks and favorites by date added, name, or artist
  • Queue with append and persistence across restarts
  • Track and mix radio
  • Explicit-content filter

Integrations and system

  • Scrobble to Last.fm, Libre.fm, and ListenBrainz with ISRC and MusicBrainz metadata
  • Discord Rich Presence with album art and a customizable status
  • MPRIS media controls with media-key, position, shuffle, repeat, and seek support
  • System tray with single-instance focus
  • Open and share tidal:// deep links for tracks, albums, playlists, artists, and mixes
  • Keep Awake — prevents the screen from sleeping during playback on X11, Wayland, and D-Bus
  • MCP server — external AI agents like Claude Code can search your library and control playback (off by default)
  • OBS stream overlay — a built-in browser source shows the current track, album art, and a live progress bar in OBS and other streaming software, styled with your theme (off by default)
  • Play reporting — finished plays are reported to TIDAL so Recently Played stays in sync (on by default)
  • Proxy support — HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5
  • Sign in securely with PKCE inside the app

Unofficial client — requires an active TIDAL subscription. SONE is a streaming client only and does not support offline downloads.

Screenshots

Now playing drawer with play queue
Now playing drawer with play queue
Full-screen maximized player with auto-hiding controls and karaoke-style lyrics
Full-screen maximized player with auto-hiding controls and karaoke-style lyrics
Home page with TIDAL streaming library
Home page with TIDAL streaming library
Search and explore
Search and explore
Custom theme with full color customization
Custom theme with full color customization

Observed history

App ChangeVersionWhen ↓
updated0.22.116 Sept 2026

Upstream releases

Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.

0.22.116 Sept 2026

Activity Feed

  • See what the people you follow are listening to and sharing, on a new Feed page grouped by month
  • Play or open anything straight from a feed row, or right-click it for the full context menu
  • An unread badge tells you when there is new activity, and clears when you open the page

Stream Overlay for OBS

  • Show what you are playing on stream — a built-in browser source for OBS and other streaming software
  • The overlay shows album art, title, artist, a quality badge, and a live progress bar in your current theme
  • Choose your own port, see status and errors right in settings, and the overlay reconnects and resyncs on its own

Listening History

  • Finished plays are now reported to TIDAL so Recently Played stays in sync — turn it off any time in settings
  • Single tracks, favorites, radio, and artist tracks now all show up properly in Recently Played

Keyboard Shortcuts & Navigation

  • Shortcuts follow a familiar standard keymap, now with shuffle and repeat bindings — your custom keys carry over
  • Escape closes one thing at a time — the menu, then the dialog, then the drawer
  • Go back and you land exactly where you left off, even in long lists that are still loading
  • Arrow keys scroll the main view, and your shortcuts keep working even while a text field is focused

Themes & Dark Mode

  • Your theme is now a plain file you can edit by hand — save it and SONE updates instantly, no restart
  • Light and dark themes are ready before the window appears, so there is no flash of the wrong colors at launch

HTTP & SOCKS5 Proxy Fixes

  • Audio now plays through proxies that require a username and password, not just browsing and artwork
  • SOCKS5 now resolves addresses through the proxy instead of leaking them to your local DNS
  • If the proxy cannot be reached, SONE stops instead of sending your traffic around it — and tells you why
  • A blocked or silently failing proxy is now reported, with a way out before you even sign in
  • Switching proxies mid-song no longer restarts the track — playback picks up at the same spot
  • Settings are checked as you type, a bad proxy can always be undone, and turning proxying off restores your system settings

Fixes

  • Unplayable tracks are skipped instead of stalling your queue
  • When the service is busy, playback pauses for a moment instead of dropping the track you picked
  • Long track and playlist lists scroll smoothly again, and keep loading more as you reach the bottom
  • Window edges no longer swallow the scrollbar or the window buttons, and the title bar drags properly again
  • Your zoom level is set before the window appears, and icons stay crisp at every zoom level
  • Artists without a photo fall back to album artwork everywhere, and search suggestions show the full track title
  • Discord Rich Presence connects reliably, retries on its own, and no longer floods the log with errors
  • You stay signed in more reliably, and the MCP server releases its port cleanly when restarted
  • Play a music video full-screen straight from the now-playing drawer
0.21.014 Jul 2026

Music Videos

  • Watch music videos in a dedicated video player — go full-screen or minimize it to the player bar and keep browsing
  • HLS streaming that starts at your selected quality and adapts down smoothly when your bandwidth drops
  • Videos and tracks share one queue — previous, next, shuffle, repeat, autoplay, and history all work across both

Video Player

  • Full transport, favorite, quality, volume, full-screen, and minimize controls
  • The playing video is restored when you relaunch SONE
  • Control video from the tray, MPRIS media keys, the miniplayer, and in-app keyboard shortcuts, just like audio

Favorites

  • Favorite videos, kept separate from your loved tracks and reflected everywhere you see them
  • Loved page now has Tracks and Videos tabs — a paginated, searchable video grid with tab-aware Play and Shuffle, and starting one queues the rest

Playlists

  • Add videos to your playlists; mixed playlists show an accurate "N Videos · M Tracks" count

Explore & Search

  • New video sections while you explore — Featured playlist promos and wide 16:9 video cards
  • Videos in search — a Videos section in All Results, a dedicated Videos tab, and video rows in Top Hits
0.20.021 Jun 2026

Profiles

  • View and edit your profile — bio, social links, and a croppable avatar; your public playlists appear as a scrolling row

Settings

  • Redesigned as a single centered window with a grouped sidebar for playback, themes, network, MCP, Discord, scrobbling, and more

Themes

  • Three new presets — Noir, Meadow, and Blossom — plus a custom color picker with a live in-app preview

Streaming Quality

  • Set a maximum streaming quality ceiling in playback settings

Design

  • Animated album covers in the drawer, fullscreen, and album page
  • Full-width cover-art banners and redesigned album, playlist, artist, and mix headers
  • Animated Living Heart banner on the Loved Tracks header

Fixes

  • Logging out fully tears down your session and clears cross-account state; re-login restores Discord and MCP
  • Playing a recommended track from a playlist now queues the visible recommended tracks, not the playlist
  • Detail-page shuffle button no longer toggles global shuffle
  • Repeat-all preserves play history on source-backed playlists
  • Playback position stays correct on pause/resume and miniplayer sync
0.19.06 Jun 2026

Gapless Playback

  • Seamless, silence-free transitions between tracks in normal output mode; on by default

Home

  • Home page is now organized into tabs, with magazine-style cards and quick deep-link shortcuts
  • Remembers your last-used tab, with skeleton placeholders and a fade-in while loading

Now Playing

  • Album cover gently tilts toward your cursor with a true-perspective 3D effect
  • Tap the time display to switch between total duration and time remaining
  • Adjust volume by scrolling the mouse wheel over the volume control

Keep Awake

  • Your screen no longer sleeps or blanks while music is playing, across X11, Wayland, and D-Bus/portal desktops

Scrobbling

  • Sends the primary artist, plus MusicBrainz artist IDs when available, to Last.fm, Libre.fm, and ListenBrainz for more accurate matching

Updates

  • A gentle toast lets you know when a new version of SONE is available

Logging

  • Disk logs now capture more detail by default and keep more history (~50MB), making bug reports and troubleshooting easier

Fixes

  • Support for DACs with a fixed channel count, via automatic channel negotiation and a stereo mix matrix
  • Exclusive and bit-perfect output now correctly resolve ALSA plugin devices (front:, hdmi:) to the right sound card
  • Signal Path now classifies bit-depth widening as lossless instead of lossy
  • Player overlays close properly on navigation and browser back/forward
  • Miniplayer: clicking the album art focuses the main window, and clicking the track title opens the album
  • "Go to track radio" works even when a track has no associated mix
  • Smoother loading on long "View all" lists with incremental pagination

Install & Packaging

  • Official apt/dnf/zypper repositories via Cloudsmith so SONE stays up to date with your system updates
  • Nix flake for `nix run` and `nix profile install`, plus a ready-to-use development shell