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SONE

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

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: lyrics display, playlists, themes and dark mode, keyboard shortcuts.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “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.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Favorite videos, browse them in Loved Tracks/Videos tabs, add them to playlists, and find them in Explore and search” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Modern, fully customizable light and dark themes” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Customizable in-app keyboard shortcuts” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

SONE is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

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 — click a line to seek 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

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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