Track Sorting

• Sort tracks in playlists and favorites by date added, name, or artist
• Sortable column headers with loading skeleton
• Sort preferences persist per playlist

Queue

• Append to queue for incremental queue growth

Fixes

• Source-aware play/pause/resume button on playlist, album, and mix pages
• Non-blocking play handlers prevent UI freezes on large playlists
• Batch persister with queueMicrotask to avoid redundant writes
• Prevented double-fetch on playlist navigation
• Fixed long history performance
• Extracted SourcePlayButton to prevent full-page re-renders

Explicit Content

• Filter explicit content with a new toggle in settings
• Explicit badge on track titles

Fullscreen Player

• Prevent sleep and display off while the fullscreen player is active

Fixes

• Adjusted text sizes and spacing and other UI elements for miniplayer
• Share button copies link to clipboard in miniplayer
• Fixed "Playing From" not updating when queuing individual tracks
• Fixed toast z-index in fullscreen player

What's New

Miniplayer

• Compact floating window with album art, playback controls
• Vibrant color background that adapts to your album art
• Resizable and has multiple adaptive layout

Discord Rich Presence

• Show what you're listening to on Discord with album art, track info, and a direct TIDAL share link

Playlist Management

• Organize playlists into folders with create, rename, move, and delete support
• Edit playlist name, description, and toggle public/private visibility
• Sorting for playlist. Both in sidebar and view-all page
• Recommended tracks at the bottom of playlists

Playback

• "Playing from" label in the player bar shows your current listening source
• Open tidal:// links directly in SONE with deep link support
• Share track, playlist, album, artist and mixes link from the context menu

Audio

• Bit-depth promotion (mathematically lossless) in bit-perfect mode.
• Ctrl+E and Ctrl+B shortcuts to toggle exclusive and bit-perfect mode

System

• MPRIS shuffle, repeat, and absolute seek support
• Settings moved to a dedicated modal

Bug Fixes

• Fixed UI freezes on rapid track changes
• Fixed stale playback position on track change
• Fixed playlist cache not updating after mutations
• Fixed MPRIS status stuck on "Stopped" after track change
• Fixed window decorations not restoring correctly from tray on KDE

Light Theme

• Full light theme support — every page, component, menu, and overlay adapts to your chosen theme
• Frosted glass effect for the maximized player in light mode

Layout

• Wider page container and responsive grid that adapts from 1 to 6 columns
• Adaptive and zoom-aware card scroll sections with scroll-snap and container queries

System

• Replaced libappindicator tray with ksni for broader desktop compatibility
• Single-instance support — launching SONE again focuses the existing window

What's New

Library

• Sort favorites — albums, artists, and mixes by date added, name, or artist
• Optimistic sidebar updates — album favorites, artist follows, and mix favorites reflect instantly

Playback & UI

• Track context menu on the player bar
• All track artists and version suffixes displayed across the entire UI
• Consolidated mix and track radio into a single page

Lyrics

• Smoother scrolling with frame-accurate position interpolation

Fixes

• Fixed context menu positioning across the app at non-default zoom levels
• Fixed Wayland window controls becoming unresponsive after restoring from tray

What's New

• Full-screen maximized player — album art with crossfade transitions, blurred background, and auto-hiding controls
• Karaoke-style synced lyrics — two-column layout in the maximized player with responsive font sizing
• Instant track transitions — progressive album art loading and eager UI updates
• Performance — GPU compositing and optimized state management eliminate interaction lag in the maximized view

What's New

Proxy Support

HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 proxy with a new settings page. All traffic — streaming, scrobbling, and metadata — routes through your configured proxy.

Smarter Exclusive Mode

SONE now probes your DAC's supported formats and sample rates, picking the best match automatically and falling back gracefully. You'll get a toast notification whenever
audio is being resampled so you always know what's reaching your ears.

Improved Stability

• Playback stops cleanly on network errors instead of draining your queue, with user-friendly error toasts
• ALSA writer respawns on device change — hot-swap your DAC without restarting
• Tray icon and global shortcuts no longer prevent startup on unsupported systems

What's New

• Scrobbling — Scrobble your listening history to Last.fm, Libre.fm, and ListenBrainz, complete with ISRC and MusicBrainz metadata
• Window decorations toggle — Switch between native and custom title bar

Fixes

• Repeat and shuffle now work correctly — wrap-around, repeat-one, and shuffle-aware playback all fixed
• Fixed rapid track skipping causing the UI to freeze

Improvements

• User menu reorganized into clean, grouped sections

Contributors

Thanks to @mcklatz for adding the window decorations toggle, AUR packaging, and normal playback pipeline improvements!

What's Changed

• Simplified login: Introduced one-click device code flow with QR code support
• UI enhancements: Improved session handling and polished the login screen
• Bug fix: Fixed the empty state issue when no suggested tracks are available
• Queue improvements: Fixed the play queue scroll gap and drag ghost visual glitches in the now-playing drawer

First public release of SONE — a native TIDAL client for Linux with lossless streaming and bit-perfect ALSA output.

Highlights

• Lossless FLAC streaming up to Hi-Res 24-bit/192kHz
• Exclusive ALSA mode — bypasses PipeWire/PulseAudio for direct DAC access
• Volume normalization (ReplayGain) with album/track context switching
• Modern UI, Synced lyrics, custom themes, MPRIS integration, system tray
• Queue persistence across restarts
• Encrypted credentials and cache (AES-256-GCM)
• No telemetry, no tracking

Downloads

• .deb — Debian / Ubuntu
• .rpm — Fedora / openSUSE
• PKGBUILD - Arch Linux

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