SONE

Name: SONE
Author: Hassan Rabbi

by Hassan Rabbi

@lullabyX on GitHub

Install

Now playing drawer with play queue

Native Linux TIDAL client — beautifully designed UI, bit-perfect lossless audio

A native desktop client for TIDAL with an interface that's intuitive from the first launch. A full-screen player with karaoke-style synced lyrics, a floating miniplayer, and fully customizable light and dark themes are all GPU-composited for fluid scrolling and transitions. Underneath, it streams your library in lossless FLAC and Hi-Res quality up to 24-bit/192kHz — with gapless, silence-free transitions in normal mode, or the option to bypass your system mixer entirely for bit-perfect output.

Exclusive ALSA mode bypasses PulseAudio and PipeWire entirely, sending the unaltered signal directly to your DAC for bit-perfect playback. Or use normal mode for casual listening through your system's default output.

Lossless FLAC and Hi-Res streaming up to 24-bit/192kHz
Exclusive ALSA output for bit-perfect streaming to USB DACs
Volume normalization (ReplayGain) with automatic album/track switching
Scrobble to Last.fm, Libre.fm, and ListenBrainz with ISRC and MusicBrainz metadata
Synced lyrics display
Miniplayer — compact floating window with playback controls and resizable-adaptive layout
Full-screen player with album art, lyrics, and auto-hiding controls
Discord Rich Presence — show what you're listening to
Share and open tidal:// deep links for tracks, albums, playlists, artists, and mixes
Custom themes with full color picker
Queue persistence across restarts
MPRIS media controls and system tray
Proxy support — route traffic through HTTP, HTTPS, or SOCKS5 proxies

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

Changes in version 0.19.0

14 days ago

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

SONE

Native Linux TIDAL client — beautifully designed UI, bit-perfect lossless audio

Changes in version 0.19.0

Links

SONE

Native Linux TIDAL client — beautifully designed UI, bit-perfect lossless audio

Changes in version 0.19.0

Links