{ "schema": "tesign-radar/item/1", "generated_at": "2026-09-17T01:56:13.055Z", "lang": "en", "slug": "sonora", "url": "https://tesign.com/en/item/sonora/", "alternates": { "ko": { "html": "https://tesign.com/item/sonora/", "json": "https://tesign.com/item/sonora/index.json", "markdown": "https://tesign.com/item/sonora/index.md" }, "en": { "html": "https://tesign.com/en/item/sonora/", "json": "https://tesign.com/en/item/sonora/index.json", "markdown": "https://tesign.com/en/item/sonora/index.md" } }, "name": "Sonora", "use_label": "Several music services in one player", "one_liner": "Native Rust/GPUI music client for Spotify, YouTube Music, Subsonic and local files", "text": { "why": "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.", "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.", "build": [ "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": [ { "role": "People who use both Spotify and YouTube Music", "situation": "one app, one playback flow" }, { "role": "Navidrome/Subsonic server owners", "situation": "a native desktop player for your own library" }, { "role": "Rust GUI developers", "situation": "a real desktop app built with GPUI" } ], "start": [ { "command": false, "text": "brew install --cask nolight132/tap/sonora" }, { "command": false, "text": "xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Sonora.app" }, { "command": false, "text": "yay -S sonora-bin" }, { "command": false, "text": "flatpak install --user https://sonorahq.github.io/sonora/sonora.flatpakref" }, { "command": false, "text": "# Windows: download and run Sonora-Setup.exe from Releases" } ], "caveat": [ "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." ] }, "cta": { "type": "install", "label": "INSTALL", "url": "https://sonorahq.org/" }, "ready": "install", "categories": [ "media" ], "categories_confirmed": true, "tags": [ "music-player", "spotify", "youtube-music", "subsonic", "rust", "gpui" ], "platform": [ "macos", "windows", "linux" ], "license": { "spdx": "GPL-3.0", "scope": "copyleft", "scope_text": "Use freely. Release your source if you redistribute (copyleft).", "url": "https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-3.0.html", "note": null, "open_source": true }, "language": "Rust", "source_urls": { "canonical": "https://sonorahq.org/", "github": "https://github.com/nolight132/sonora", "huggingface": null, "app_store": null, "sightings": [ { "source": "github", "url": "https://github.com/nolight132/sonora", "posted_at": "2026-09-03T23:00:00.000Z", "hn_url": null } ] }, "numbers": { "as_of": "2026-09-16T21:00:00.000Z", "stars": 1192, "stars_unit": "GitHub stars", "stars_checked_at": "2026-09-15T19:34:56.036Z", "stars_observed_since_check": 0, "star_delta_24h": null, "star_delta_7d": null, "star_delta_30d": 123, "star_delta_unit": "GitHub stars gained in the window, GH Archive events summed to as_of", "spark_14d": [ 2, 73, 37, 11, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ], "hf_likes": null, "hf_likes_observed_at": null, "hn_points": null, "hn_points_observed_at": null, "store": null, "method": "Star total = the value last checked on GitHub (stars_checked_at) + increases observed via GH Archive since. The 24h · 7d · 30d gains are GH Archive hourly events summed to the reference time (as_of). No score of ours." }, "ranks": null, "activity": { "pushed_at": "2026-09-15T18:06:07.000Z", "owner_type": "Organization", "open_issues": 95, "contributors": 42, "releases_count": 50, "latest_release": { "tag": "v0.36.0", "published_at": "2026-09-15T00:12:20.000Z", "prerelease": false }, "checked_at": "2026-09-15T19:34:56.036Z", "core_checked_at": "2026-09-15T19:34:56.036Z" }, "signals": [ { "kind": "back", "label": "BACK CATALOG", "value": null } ], "images": { "og": "https://tesign.com/img/sonora-20710e87e8.png", "cover": "https://tesign.com/img/sonora-20710e87e8.png", "cover_width": 1602, "cover_height": 992, "gallery": [ "https://tesign.com/img/sonora-20710e87e8.png", "https://tesign.com/img/sonora-d53067f648.png", "https://tesign.com/img/sonora-fa354a3fe7.png", "https://tesign.com/img/sonora-eee55bb467.png" ], "alt": "Sonora desktop window with an adaptive theme, showing the now-playing view and library", "tier": 2 }, "dates": { "first_seen_at": "2026-09-13T09:37:58.336Z", "source_created_at": "2026-08-03T22:27:37.000Z", "discovery_hours": 971.1725933333333, "launch_signal_at": "2026-09-03T23:00:00.000Z", "kept_at": "2026-09-14T19:27:43.674Z", "first_published_at": "2026-09-14T19:27:43.752Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-15T04:36:57.012Z", "ingestion_mode": "backfill" }, "notes": [ "This file was produced by the same build, from the same data, as the tesign.com item page. The text is editorial; the numbers are stored observations.", "null in the JSON means not observed — never zero. The Markdown writes [unconfirmed] for it.", "Star total = the value last checked on GitHub (stars_checked_at) + increases observed via GH Archive since. The 24h · 7d · 30d gains are GH Archive hourly events summed to the reference time (as_of). No score of ours.", "Reconstructed from archive data, not a live discovery.", "A summary, not legal advice." ] }