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Sonora

Several music services in one player

WHO USES ITPeople who use both Spotify and YouTube Music · Navidrome/Subsonic server owners · Rust GUI developers

Install to use

Native Rust/GPUI music client for Spotify, YouTube Music, Subsonic and local files

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BACK CATALOG

Sonora desktop window with an adaptive theme, showing the now-playing view and library
Sonora desktop window with an adaptive theme, showing the now-playing view and library
Sonora desktop window with an adaptive theme, showing the now-playing view and library
Sonora desktop window with an adaptive theme, showing the now-playing view and library

TESIGN TAKE

A native, non-Electron player that unifies three streaming sources is rare; the fact that it is an unofficial Spotify client travels with it.

INSTALL

AT A GLANCE

LICENSE
GPL-3.0
USAGE
Use freely. Release your source if you redistribute (copyleft).
LANGUAGE
Rust
PLATFORM
macos · windows · linux
ACTIVITY
last commit 1 day ago () · latest release v0.36.0 () · 50 releases
COMMUNITY
42 contributors · 95 open issues (incl. PRs) · made by: an organization
SOURCES
GitHub
OPEN SOURCE
YES
FIRST SEEN
CATEGORY
MEDIA

A summary, not legal advice.

WHY IT MATTERS

Sonora is a native app built on the GPUI rendering stack from the Zed editor and on librespot, playing Spotify, YouTube Music, Subsonic/OpenSubsonic and local files in one window. It offers gapless playback, volume normalization, synced karaoke-style lyrics with romanization, theme/font/icon/transparency customization and Discord Rich Presence. Distribution covers a brew cask on macOS, the AUR on Arch, Flatpak, Nix and a Windows installer; the repository has moved to sonorahq/sonora.

BUILD FROM THIS

  • Declare provider and theme through the Nix flake's programs.sonora module to roll the same setup across machines, or attach your own Navidrome server so streaming and a personal library share one player.

WHO IT'S FOR

People who use both Spotify and YouTube Music
one app, one playback flow
Navidrome/Subsonic server owners
a native desktop player for your own library
Rust GUI developers
a real desktop app built with GPUI

START IN 5 MINUTES

# brew install --cask nolight132/tap/sonora
# xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Sonora.app
# yay -S sonora-bin
# flatpak install --user https://sonorahq.github.io/sonora/sonora.flatpakref
# # Windows: download and run Sonora-Setup.exe from Releases

CAVEATS

  • GPL-3.0-or-later. macOS, Windows and Linux (FreeBSD "probably", in the README's words).
  • Unofficial client unaffiliated with Spotify AB; you need your own Spotify or YouTube Music account.
  • Releases are not yet code-signed, so macOS needs the quarantine attribute removed with xattr; translations, per the README table, are 100% English and 82–98% for twelve other languages.

RECEIPT

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SOURCES
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