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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 Video Interface and customization Library and playback Integrations and system Unofficial client — requires an active TIDAL subscription. SONE is a streaming client only and does not support offline downloads. - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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

Changelog

Activity Feed Stream Overlay for OBS Listening History Keyboard Shortcuts & Navigation Themes & Dark Mode HTTP & SOCKS5 Proxy Fixes Fixes - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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

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