Sonora
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What's new in Sonora

Every release and what changed in it.

0.42.0 Latest
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Added

  • Sonora speaks Czech. Pick it in Language settings.
  • Hovering a theme you cannot pick while the adaptive theme is on says why it is unavailable. The note appears as soon as you point at the theme and moves with the cursor.
  • In guest mode, Show on startup greys out Songs, Albums, Artists and Playlists, which stay empty without an account, and says why when you hover them.
  • Fullscreen opens on the tab you left it on, whether artwork, lyrics or queue, even after a restart.
  • On Windows, Sonora shows up in SettingsAppsDefault apps, so you can make it the default player for your audio files and for spotify: links.

Changed

  • The French translation is complete, so no screen falls back to English any more.
  • YouTube Music tracks start playing as soon as the first seconds arrive, instead of after the whole song has downloaded, so a slow connection no longer means a long wait before each song.
  • Once the current track has finished downloading, Sonora starts downloading the next one in the queue, so skipping ahead or moving on to the next song starts at once.

Fixed

  • The local Songs page is titled Songs during the first library scan, rather than Favorites.
  • Pressing play after a long pause no longer jumps to the next track a moment later. After a pause of five minutes or more, Sonora reloads the track where you left it.
  • Settings and custom theme files saved on Windows with a byte order mark, as Notepad and PowerShell can save them, now load instead of being reported as broken.
  • The Flatpak now offers the browser sign-in for YouTube, Apple Music and Deezer, and gets YouTube its proof-of-origin token. The next update pulls in the GNOME runtime to make this work.
  • Pressing play on an album, playlist, artist or track no longer starts it over while it is loading, buffering after a seek, or waiting to resume from your last session. It pauses or resumes instead, and shows pause as soon as you press it, as the player bar already did.
  • Narrowing the window with both sidebars open no longer brings the left sidebar back once the right one hides. The left one folds away first and stays folded until the window is wide again.
  • Tracks you added to the queue no longer appear twice in it when you turn shuffle on or off after restarting Sonora.
  • Opening an audio file from your file manager plays it at once, even while the local library is still scanning, instead of waiting for the scan to finish.
0.41.0
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Added

  • Custom color themes can live as separate JSON files in the config themes folder. Sonora lists them in Appearance settings and picks up edits, additions, and deletions without a restart.
  • Recently played now shows what you played on your other devices, such as your phone, read from your Apple Music account. It refreshes each time you bring Sonora back to the front, rather than only after a restart.
  • Plays you start in Sonora now reach Apple Music's recently played on your other devices.
  • On Apple Music, Quick picks on Home open on the albums, playlists and songs you played last on any device, the same way they do for Spotify and YouTube Music. An album you played a single song from shows as that song.

Changed

  • The Spotify home page is now Spotify's own home feed rather than rows of mixes. Quick picks open on the albums, playlists and artists you played lately, and shelves such as Jump back in, Your favorite artists and Recommended for today follow.
  • When the queue runs out with repeat and radio off, Sonora goes back to its first track and waits paused, so pressing play starts the queue over.
  • Albums in Quick picks say whether they are an album, EP or single, the way songs and playlists already say what they are.
  • Quick picks open on at most ten of your recently played items on every service, so the picks after them always get room.
  • The account shown in SettingsGeneral names the service beside your region, so an Apple Music account reads "Apple Music" and your country rather than the country on its own.

Fixed

  • Pausing while a track fails to load now keeps playback paused. Sonora used to skip to the next track and start playing it anyway.
  • Sonora stops after three tracks in a row fail to play and waits for you to press play, instead of skipping through the whole queue when the connection drops.
  • When Spotify rate-limits you for skipping through tracks quickly, Sonora says so and tries the same track again after a short wait, instead of hanging for ten seconds and skipping it.
  • Album pages now say whether a release is an album, EP, single or compilation, instead of calling everything an album. Subsonic servers and local files that tag the release type are labelled the same way.
  • Quick picks no longer flash a handful of random library songs while your account is still loading at launch. They wait for the account and fill in once.
  • The Apple Music account in Settings shows your Apple Music profile name and picture when you have set one up, rather than only "Apple Music" and your country.
  • Artist pages show the artist's biography from Apple Music, titles in italics and all, rather than placeholder text.
  • Songs you have favorited on Apple Music now show as loved in Sonora. They are read from your ratings, the same way your favorite albums and artists are, rather than from the Favorite Songs playlist an account can be set up without.
0.40.0
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Added

  • The visualizer can ignore Sonora's volume. Turn on Ignore volume under Fullscreen in Appearance settings and the bars stay full height when you turn the music down.
  • Album pages now carry recommendations wherever the provider offers them: related releases and similar artists under Albums and Artists tabs, and Apple Music artists list what they appear on.
  • Album pages print the release's copyright line or record label under the tracks, on Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer and OpenSubsonic servers that list one.
  • Album and playlist pages hold placeholder rows while their tracks load, as many as the release has when Sonora already knows the count, so the page no longer jumps when they arrive.
  • An album's menu has Add to playlist, which puts the whole album into a playlist and skips the tracks it already holds.
  • On Linux the desktop media widget shows Sonora's icon and has shuffle and repeat buttons that stay in step with the player bar.
  • Sonora keeps the computer awake while music plays and if the fullscreen view is active, keeps the screen on as well. This can be disabled in settings.
  • Navidrome and other Subsonic servers now see what you play. The server's now-playing list shows where you are in the track and whether it's paused, and play counts and recently played update once you've listened long enough to scrobble.
  • Discord shows a cover for local files, Subsonic servers and any other track whose own art Discord cannot load, found on Deezer by artist and album. Turn off Artwork for local files in Privacy settings to keep your local files' tags on your computer.

Changed

  • Album and playlist menus no longer list Open and Play, which clicking the card already does, so they read like a song's menu.
  • Every album, playlist, artist and track card opens its right-click menu, including the album page's recommendations and an artist's Appears on row.
  • Album, playlist, library and history pages give their total length as 46m 15s, or 1h 2m past an hour, rather than a clock reading like 46:15.

Fixed

  • Local albums whose files have no album artist tag no longer split into one album per featured artist. Tracks in the same folder with the same album name now make one album.
  • Loud tracks no longer flatten the top of the visualizer wave.
  • Secondary text and table headers in the Dark and Light themes are easier to read, and now meet the WCAG AA contrast minimum, with or without the adaptive theme.
  • On Linux, playerctl and the desktop media widget read Sonora's real volume instead of always seeing 100%.
  • A YouTube Music sign-in no longer runs out after about 40 minutes. Likes and playlist edits keep working, and Sonora stays signed in across restarts.
  • An LRC [offset:] tag is applied to every line, so a sheet that starts a few hundred milliseconds late or early stays in time.
  • An untagged song named like 01. Title - Artist keeps the title without the track number, instead of leaving 01. on the front.
  • An LRC line that ends with its own timestamp, such as [00:12.00]lyric[00:15.00], keeps the words and drops the closing stamp from the text.
  • Discord shows the cover art of YouTube Music tracks that have no album, such as music videos and radio picks.
  • Local files keep playing after Spotify refuses the account's audio keys or a provider asks you to sign in again.
0.39.0
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Added

  • The Add to playlist menu has a search field at the top. Type to narrow the list, then use the arrow keys and Enter to pick a playlist.
  • Sonora picks up changes to settings.json while it runs, so a script that rewrites your theme colours from the wallpaper recolours the app right away, without a restart. If the file has an error, Sonora tells you which line and saves nothing until it is fixed.
  • Sonora plays every track at its own sample rate rather than resampling it to the device default, so a 96 kHz FLAC leaves the app at 96 kHz. Moving between tracks of different rates leaves a short pause.
  • Normalize loudness now works for Apple Music, Deezer, local files, and Navidrome and other OpenSubsonic servers, using each service's own loudness figure and the tracks' ReplayGain tags. A quiet track is raised only as far as it can go without clipping.
  • Albanian (Shqip) interface language.
  • Guest mode now serves recommendations from your local music collection on the Home screen, including Quick picks, recently added albums, local playlists, and artists.

Changed

  • Keep playing when closed is now called Keep running in the background. A new Show in the system tray switch next to it hides the tray icon, or the menu bar item on macOS, whether or not Sonora keeps running after its window closes. SettingsGeneralWindow
  • An artist page opens as soon as their profile and popular tracks arrive, and fills its releases in behind that, so an artist with a thousand of them no longer leaves the page blank for half a minute.
  • Scrolling an artist's releases stays smooth however long the discography is, and resizing the window keeps the same releases in view.
  • A track played on its own now follows its station past the first batch on YouTube Music, rather than starting over from the last track, and never replays what the queue has heard.
  • Radio now plays in the order the provider ranks it rather than shuffled.
  • Menus, fields and floating panels frost what they cover, and menus sit lighter over it.
  • Hovering a menu item, a table row or a sidebar entry now shades what is behind it rather than covering it, so a frosted surface keeps its blur under the pointer. Separators and outlines read through the same way.
  • SettingsAppearanceBlur UI turns that frosting off. The old Blur setting is now Blur window, and only shows on macOS and Windows, where it works.
  • Menus cast a soft shadow, and dialogs have rounder corners.

Fixed

  • The Playlists page loads for a Spotify account whose username has a letter outside plain ASCII, such as ö, instead of failing with a 400 error.
  • Playback comes back on its own after your only output device disappears and returns, so a Bluetooth headset that drops its link and reconnects picks the track up again rather than leaving Sonora silent until you restart it.
  • Apple Music plays with the Widevine module an older Chromium keeps, which Sonora found before but could not open.
  • The Widevine row in Settings shows its whole explanation rather than cutting it off, and offers the download from Google even when a browser's copy was found. A copy downloaded that way is the one Sonora uses from then on.
  • An empty Apple Music playlist opens as an empty playlist rather than a "Could not load" error.
  • The library shown at launch from the last session stays whole until the provider has sent all of it, rather than shrinking to the first page and filling back in.
  • Sonora shows up once in your system's audio mixer, rather than once for your streaming service and again for local files.
  • Guest mode is remembered again, so choosing it no longer brings the welcome screen back on every launch.
  • YouTube Music tracks that stopped loading with a 403 now play: Sonora sends the proof-of-origin token YouTube asks for, minting it in a hidden browser window, and falls back to a second stream when the first one is refused.
  • Covers no longer swap places with each other while a grid is scrolled quickly.
  • The cover handed to the system media controls is the album artwork rather than the 64-pixel thumbnail a track carries, so media widgets and lock screens draw it sharp.
  • Frosted menus and fields no longer turn grey under their own shadow on the light theme.
  • Menus and dialogs show their shadow from the moment they open rather than once they have settled.
  • The tray icon of the Flatpak and the AppImage shows the Sonora logo in trays such as Dank Material Shell, which drew a missing-texture placeholder in its place.
  • Updating on Windows no longer puts the Sonora shortcut back on your desktop after you deleted it, or overwrites one you made yourself.
  • Apple Music pins sync both ways: what is pinned on music.apple.com joins the sidebar, and pinning an album, artist or playlist in Sonora pins it there too.
  • Editing the track or disc number of a local MP3 now sticks, including in files that carry an ID3v1 tag or an older tag stacked behind the first. An ID3v2.3 file stays ID3v2.3, so other players and taggers see the new number too.
0.38.0
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Added

  • Fullscreen fills its background with colours drawn from the cover, and wears a dark palette while it does, whatever theme the rest of the app is on. SettingsAppearanceFullscreen switches it off, and Ambient motion holds the colours still.
  • A Play last item on track, album, artist and playlist menus queues them for after everything else.
  • The fullscreen visualizer can be drawn as a smooth wave instead of bars, one line per stereo channel, or as both at once. The Visualizer setting under Appearance now picks between them and holds the off switch.
  • Scanning local music shows how far it has got: a percentage beside Rescan in Settings, and the count of files read on a Local Music page that has nothing to show yet. A rescan you asked for reports how long it took when it finishes.
  • The Windows installer offers a per-user install that needs no administrator privileges, alongside the existing machine-wide one.

Changed

  • Sonora now notices the moment it loses the network and says so everywhere at once, rather than leaving each page to fail on its own. Search, home, albums, playlists, artists, songs and profiles show No connection over a crossed-out wifi mark with a Try again button, playing a streamed track says there is no connection instead of failing quietly, and the pages come back by themselves once the network does. Local music and an imported library keep working.
  • Losing the network no longer reads as a signed-out account. Sonora stays on your library and your local music with the account it has, and picks the account back up on its own once the network is there. The sign-in page now only appears when you really are signed out.
  • Your Library and Local Music open on the songs, albums, artists and playlists they held last time, right at startup, and swap them for the fresh ones as the provider answers.
  • Local music is scanned on several threads, and only what changed since the last scan is read again, so a large library on a disk or a network share opens in a fraction of the time. Rescan still reads everything.
  • Removing a music folder stops a scan that is still reading it, instead of leaving it to finish for nothing.
  • The log file is now capped at 16 MiB while Sonora runs, not only at startup, so a fault that logs without end can no longer fill the disk.
  • Add to queue and Play next now line tracks up right after the current one, ahead of the rest of the album or playlist, in the order you added them. The queue panel lists them under Next in queue, above what the album or playlist plays next.
  • Settings is one page. A search box at the top finds a setting in any category, and the categories sit in a bar at the bottom of the page instead of under Settings in the sidebar.
  • Radio builds its suggestions from the track that is playing rather than the last one in the queue, and asks for the next batch while ten tracks are still left to play, so it never stops to load between songs.
  • A context menu opens beside the pointer rather than under it, and holding the right button down and letting go over an item picks that item.

Fixed

  • Signing in to Spotify works on accounts whose username holds a letter outside ASCII, such as an ö, instead of failing straight after authentication.
  • The fullscreen button works right after picking a language or a typeface in Settings, instead of doing nothing until you clicked elsewhere first.
  • An album, playlist or artist stops showing itself as playing once radio has moved past the tracks it queued, instead of keeping a pause button over its cover.
  • Lyrics timed with hours, such as [01:02:03.00], show at the right moment instead of being skipped.
  • Lyrics that mark hundredths of a second with a colon, such as [00:01:50], stay on time instead of jumping a minute ahead.
  • Apple Music dates that include a timezone, such as 2026-09-15T12:03:39+00:00, keep their seconds and convert to UTC, instead of dropping the seconds.
  • A local album folder that ends with its year, like Album - 1999 or Album 2004, keeps that year instead of leaving the year blank.
  • An untagged song named like 01. Title keeps the title and drops the track number, instead of using the whole filename.
  • Deezer playlists and favorites show the day they were added or last changed, instead of leaving the date column blank.
  • A Deezer song whose explicit flag arrives as a number still shows the explicit mark.
  • An untagged song whose filename splits title and artist with a fullwidth hyphen keeps both names, instead of treating the whole filename as the title.
  • Opening a file:///C:/… link on Windows plays the file, instead of looking for a path that starts with a slash.
  • The Play button on a library page no longer sits on Loading while the track you left off on is being made ready to resume.
  • Listening history shows when you played a song in your own time zone instead of UTC.
  • Table filters such as the album year span or Favorites only are kept across restarts, the way sorts and views already were.
  • Apple Music similar tracks link to their artist and album again.
  • Seeking back in a local MP3 with a PNG cover lands where you asked, instead of the song starting over while the progress bar runs on.
  • An Apple Music library song whose catalog copy Apple has pulled is left out of Favorites, and the song count leaves it out too, instead of failing when played.
  • Pinning an Apple Music album, artist or playlist to the sidebar works again. The pin is kept by Sonora, since Apple Music has no pins of its own.
  • Deezer playlists found by search show who made them.
  • A Spotify pin past Spotify's own limit is kept by Sonora instead of being refused, so the sidebar can hold as many pins as you like.
  • A YouTube Music track whose download stalls is tried again and then skipped, instead of leaving the player silent until a restart.
  • A local album with a damaged tag no longer takes the day and month of its date, like 312, as its year.
  • The Modified column of local playlists shows the date they last changed instead of staying blank.
  • An untagged song sitting directly in your music folder no longer takes the name of the folder above it as its artist.
  • Saving the tag editor no longer erases a release date it could not read, like 99 or 平成11年, when the year was left alone.
  • Lyrics from Apple Music, Musixmatch, LrcLib and NetEase no longer go missing when the provider sends a timestamp or song length out of range.
  • The local library no longer fails to load when a file's date tag is written like 平成11年 or ２００４.
0.37.0
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Added

  • The AppImage can be updated through AppImageUpdate or an AppImage manager.
  • An Open log button under SettingsAbout opens the file Sonora logs to, for attaching to a bug report.
  • Deezer as a provider: your favorites, playlists, albums and search, with FLAC playback where the account allows it.
  • Apple Music as a provider: your library, playlists, search and stations. Playback needs Google's Widevine module. Sonora uses the copy a browser on your computer has, or offers to download it from Google and shows Google's terms first. Settings can remove a downloaded module again.
  • Local files are a lyrics provider for the synced or plain lyrics embedded in them or kept in a same-name .lrc file beside them, and can be preferred over the others.

Fixed

  • On Windows, the window minimizes, restores and closes with the system animations again.
  • On Windows, Sonora no longer keeps the installer's administrator privileges after an update, so window managers like FancyZones can control it again.
  • A local album folder named like 10000 Days keeps its name instead of turning into 0 Days from the year 1000.
  • Lyrics from a provider no longer go missing when its synced sheet carries a timestamp too large to read.
  • Opening a file whose link has a % before a non-ASCII letter no longer crashes Sonora.
  • On Windows, launching Sonora while it sits in the tray brings the window back even when the running copy was started with administrator privileges.
  • Saving the tag editor keeps the extra genres or artists and the full release date of fields you left alone.
  • The local library no longer fails to load when a folder holds a tagged file whose name is not valid Unicode.
0.36.0
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Added

  • Sonora is published as an AppImage for x86_64 and aarch64, beside the Flatpak and the plain binaries. Make it executable and run it; it needs no installation and stays a single file, but it does not update itself.
  • On Windows, hovering Sonora's taskbar button puts previous, play/pause and next under the thumbnail preview, so a track can be paused or skipped without raising the window. The glyphs follow the icon pack chosen under SettingsAppearance.
  • Buttons on the Discord status, under Settings, Discord. Pick Provider to link the track on the service it plays from, Sonora to link the project page, or both. Discord shows them to your friends only, never to you, and the provider button stays off while Hide details is on.
  • Sonora scrobbles to Last.fm, Libre.fm, ListenBrainz and Maloja, under SettingsIntegrations. Last.fm asks for your own API key and secret, Libre.fm only for approval in the browser, ListenBrainz for a user token and Maloja for a server address and one of its API keys. Connect as many as you like and every one of them gets the listen once you are halfway through a track. Each has its own switch, which stops submissions without disconnecting the account.

Changed

  • Every language Sonora ships is translated in full. German, Spanish, French, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese and Turkish no longer fall back to English for the equalizer, the sleep timer, the Discord status, pinned items or the fullscreen controls.

Fixed

  • On Linux with an NVIDIA GPU, clicking Sign in on YouTube Music under Wayland closed Sonora with a Wayland protocol error. The sign-in window now paints through shared memory on that driver, the same as setting WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 by hand. A value you export yourself is left alone.
  • Libraries stopped at 10000 entries: a local folder with more songs than that listed only the first 10000, and the same cap applied to albums, artists, playlists and every streaming provider. Every list now loads in full.
0.35.0
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Added

  • A ten band equalizer under Settings, Playback. Turn it on, pick a preset such as Bass boost or Vocal, or drag the bands yourself; changes are heard as you make them, on every provider and on local files alike.
  • A Hide fullscreen controls setting: Automatic fades the playback controls out while the pointer is still, Always hidden keeps them away, and Always shown keeps them on screen.

Fixed

  • Some mp3 files remuxed by an old ffmpeg loaded fine and then played silence from start to end. Their VBR header claims zero frames, and the gapless trim believed it; such files now play.
  • Switching the theme back to System picks up the light or dark mode the system is in now, even if it changed while a fixed theme was selected.
  • On Linux under fractional scaling, a window whose size landed on half a device pixel showed a thin strip of compositor blur along its right or bottom edge. Sonora now steps such a size down by one pixel so the edge sits on the pixel grid.
0.34.4
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Changed

  • Updated and completed the Indonesian translation.
  • Song lengths in tables and track lists use equal-width digits, so the column lines up.
  • Settings offers Paste cookies manually for YouTube Music beside the browser sign-in, so an account can be connected that way without first removing every other provider.

Fixed

  • The left sidebar stays smooth with a long Pinned section or Show full library on. It used to build every entry on every frame, even the ones scrolled out of view. Now it draws only the rows on screen and rebuilds the list only when something in it changes.
  • On Nix, the YouTube Music sign-in no longer goes black after the email step. The package now gives WebKit the GStreamer plugins it needs to play a page's media.
  • On Windows, the sign-in window opens when Sonora is installed under Program Files. It used to fail with 0x80070005 because the browser it embeds tried to keep its data next to the program, where a normal user cannot write. That data now lives under your local app data.
  • In the fullscreen view, the volume slider is no longer cut off when you hover the speaker button while the controls are still sliding in.
0.34.3
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Fixed

  • The cookie sign-in window opens natively on Wayland and no longer needs XWayland. It also opens on desktops that export GDK_BACKEND=wayland, which used to fail with "cannot reach the display server".
  • The Nix package can open the sign-in window: it now ships webkitgtk and the TLS module the page needs, instead of reporting that webkit2gtk is not installed.
  • The left sidebar steps aside on the same frame the queue opens or closes, instead of waiting for the next redraw.
0.34.2
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Added

  • You can choose to show the track's artist, title, or both as the Discord status name, in addition to Sonora, Provider, and Music.
  • Discord status can be configured to stay or hide when the track is paused.

Fixed

  • The Motion setting's System option now follows the operating system's reduced-motion preference on Linux, macOS and Windows, refreshing when Sonora comes back to the foreground. Older Linux portals that do not expose the standardized setting safely keep normal animations.
  • Local M4A files show their embedded cover art.
  • On Linux under Wayland, the cookie sign-in window draws its page instead of staying blank.
  • The arrow that floats over a scrolled queue brings the now-playing track back into view instead of jumping to the top of the history. It only goes to the top when nothing is playing.
0.34.1
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Fixed

  • The Flatpak can show what you are playing on Discord. It reaches the Discord socket whether Discord is installed natively or as a Flatpak.
0.34.0
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Added

  • Sonora shows up in Open With for audio files. Opening one plays it right away; opening several queues them to play next, in order, right after whatever is already playing, whatever provider that came from.
  • Sonora can put what you are playing on your Discord profile. Turn on Show on Discord under SettingsIntegrations. The status is called Sonora by default, and can name the service the track came from or just say Music instead; it can carry a badge of that service, and it can hide the details and say only that music is playing. Cover art reaches Discord only from Spotify and YouTube Music, since Discord fetches the image itself and cannot read a local file or a self-hosted server.
  • Sonora speaks Turkish. Pick Türkçe under SettingsGeneralLanguage, or leave the language on System and it follows a Turkish desktop on its own.
  • Sonora speaks Chinese. Pick 简体中文 under SettingsGeneralLanguage, or leave the language on System and it follows a Chinese desktop on its own.
  • The sidebar keeps one Pinned section for everything you pin, whatever provider it came from, so a streamed album can sit between two local playlists. The order is the one you drag, and it holds even where the provider cannot reorder its own pins. Click the heading to fold the section away; it starts folded.
  • Pin sits in the context menu of every album, artist, playlist and song, not only the ones already in the sidebar.
  • Pinning something from Spotify pins it in Spotify too, and anything pinned there turns up in Sonora on its own.
  • The button beside Pinned sorts the section alphabetically or by type. Picking the same order again turns it around, and once more hands the list back to the order you dragged.
  • Show full library, in that same menu, lists the rest of your albums, artists and playlists under the pins, with a mark on the pinned ones.
  • A Back to top button appears in the sidebar and in the queue once either is scrolled, and glides back rather than jumping.
  • YouTube Music signs in through a window Sonora opens itself, on macOS, Windows and Linux. Sign in with Google there and Sonora takes the cookies it needs; the window keeps nothing, so browsing YouTube or Gmail in your regular browser no longer signs Sonora out. On Linux it needs webkit2gtk, which most desktops already have.

Changed

  • The tray menu draws the cover of the playing track beside its name, and clicking that row opens the song page.
  • Hovering the tray icon names the playing track, the way it already did on Linux.
  • The sleep timer lives under SettingsPlayback. Turn it on there and a Configure button opens the slider; the moon button leaves the player bar.
  • Pasting a YouTube Music cookie header is gone. The sign-in window replaces it, and where Sonora cannot open one only Guest mode is offered.

Fixed

  • A submenu that has no room beside its menu opens over it instead of under its rows, on whichever side has more room. The Add to playlist list in a narrow window no longer shows the context menu's items through it.
  • The song count on an album or playlist page follows a language change. It used to keep the language the page was first opened in.
0.33.0
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Added

  • Appearance settings carry a Blur switch, on by default, that draws the window over a blurred desktop once the opacity drops below 100%. At full opacity the window stays plain and the switch is greyed out.

Fixed

  • Playlists with more than 200 tracks load in full again. The remaining pages arrive in the background after the first one shows.
  • Windows no longer draws its own minimize, maximize and close buttons beside the ones Sonora draws in its title bar.
  • A maximized window on Windows stops at the taskbar instead of covering it.
0.32.0
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Added

  • Windows on ARM gets a native build: releases carry an aarch64-pc-windows-msvc executable and a Sonora-Setup-arm64.exe installer, and the in-app updater fetches that one on an ARM machine.
  • A Shuffle button sits beside Play on every album, playlist, artist and library page. It turns shuffle on and starts the collection from a random track.
  • On macOS, Sonora follows the platform's shortcuts: ⌘W closes the window, ⌘M minimises it, ⌃⌘F toggles native full screen, ⌘H and ⌥⌘H hide Sonora or everything else, and ⌘[ / ⌘] step through history. Text fields take the Cocoa conventions too: ⌥ arrows and ⌥⌫ work by word, ⌘⌫ and ⌘⌦ clear to either end of the field, ⌘↑/⌘↓ jump to the ends, and the Emacs control keys (⌃A, ⌃E, ⌃B, ⌃F, ⌃D, ⌃H, ⌃K) do what they do everywhere else on a Mac. The menu bar gains Edit and Window menus and the usual Settings, Hide and Show All items.
  • A sleep timer pauses playback after 1 to 120 minutes, or at the end of the current track. Drag the slider under the moon button in the player bar, and hide the button altogether under SettingsPlayback if you never use it.
  • Local albums and artists take a heart too: on their pages, in the library grids and in the context menu.
  • Play from any Subsonic or OpenSubsonic server: Navidrome, Airsonic, Gonic and more. Sign in under SettingsAccounts with the server address, a username and a password. Your Library then lists the whole server, songs included, with a Favorites only filter for what you starred.
  • Sonora's own window corners can be rounded from Appearance, with the radius picked the same way as the UI corner radius: Square, Subtle, Rounded or Round. On Windows this maps onto DWM's own rounded presets; on Linux and FreeBSD it applies with client-side decorations, where the compositor otherwise leaves the window square.
  • Window controls can be drawn as traffic-light dots from Appearance, on Windows and Linux. They follow the existing controls-side setting, same as the standard controls.

Changed

  • Local Music lists every imported song, album and artist under the same four tabs as Your Library, and a Favorites only filter narrows each of them to what you starred. The separate Favorites tab is gone. Spotify and YouTube Music keep showing only what you saved.

Fixed

  • The Flatpak remote and the standalone bundles follow the repository to sonorahq.github.io/sonora. A remote added before the move needs flatpak remote-modify --user --url=https://sonorahq.github.io/sonora/repo sonora once.
  • The Flatpak shows its tray icon on KDE Plasma and other StatusNotifier desktops, so Close to tray keeps Sonora playing after the window closes. The sandbox forbids the well-known bus name the tray used to claim, and Sonora now registers under its unique connection name instead.
  • A track that fails to load no longer stops playback. Sonora shows a toast, waits out the short back-off and moves on to the next track in the queue, skipping the broken one even in repeat-one.
  • Local track lists keep each row's own embedded cover art when the table is sorted or recycled.
  • Seeking, and starting a track, count as playing only once the audio actually comes out. The lyrics and the progress bar wait at the target until then instead of running ahead while the track buffers, and the old audio stops the moment you seek or pick another track. Seeking repeatedly, as when clicking through the lyrics, no longer queues every position behind the last. The play button follows what you asked for and flips the moment you press it.
  • On macOS, a socket file left behind by a crash no longer disables single-instance handling: the next launch notices nothing is listening, takes the socket over, and later launches and spotify: links reach that window again instead of opening a second Sonora.
  • Local music now carries a date added, taken from when each file was last changed, so the Date added column fills in and sorting songs, albums and artists by it works.
  • A YouTube Music sign-in now keeps the cookies Google refreshes during a session, and writes them to cookies.json beside the credential file. The pasted cookies no longer stop working when Google rotates them.
0.31.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Nix users can manage Sonora through Home Manager. The flake exposes homeManagerModules.default with a programs.sonora option whose settings are merged into settings.json on each launch.
  • Sonora speaks Indonesian. Pick Bahasa Indonesia under SettingsGeneralLanguage, or leave the language on System and it follows an Indonesian desktop on its own.
  • On Linux and FreeBSD, Sonora can switch between server-side and client-side window decorations from Appearance and shows its own window controls automatically with client-side decorations.

Changed

  • Window position, sidebar sizes, playback mode, table layouts, pins, listening history and local playlists now live in one state.sqlite file in the data directory, and settings.json keeps only preferences. Existing files are migrated on the first start.
  • YouTube Music sign-in now opens your default browser from the cookie instructions dialog. Browser cookie extraction and automatic refresh from browser profiles have been removed.
  • Each provider keeps its sign-in in its own credentials.json under the cache folder, readable only by you. Existing Spotify and YouTube Music sign-ins move over on the first launch.

Fixed

  • Playback no longer falls silent on PipeWire systems with a large graph quantum, such as a default Arch Linux install. The audio stream now keeps 50 ms of buffer regardless of the quantum, and a recovered underrun no longer restarts the player.
  • Pressing play on an album, playlist or artist with shuffle on now opens with a random track instead of always the first one.
0.30.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Closing the window no longer stops the music: Sonora stays in the system tray with play/pause, previous, next, show and quit at hand, and the Dock icon steps aside on macOS until the window is back. Turn it off under SettingsGeneralWindow if you would rather it quit.
  • Sonora speaks Spanish. Pick Español under SettingsGeneralLanguage, or leave the language on System and it follows a Spanish desktop on its own.
  • Sonora speaks Japanese. Pick 日本語 under SettingsGeneralLanguage, or leave the language on System and it follows a Japanese desktop on its own.
  • Lyrics have their own size, set separately for each surface. SettingsPlaybackLyrics size (panel) and Lyrics size (fullscreen) scale the lyrics text from 60% to 200% on top of the base font size.
  • Fullscreen artwork now has a real-time spectrum visualizer, which can be switched off under SettingsAppearanceVisualizer.
  • The playlist library can be filtered to show only playlists you own.
  • Opus audio playback.
  • Lyrics fetching for local files can be switched off under SettingsPlayback.

Changed

  • The fullscreen title and artist names stay on screen while the player is idle. Only the heart beside the title fades, the way it already did in the narrow lyrics view.
  • YouTube Music cookie onboarding now walks through the browser steps in a clearer checklist.

Fixed

  • Playback now skips deleted or unavailable playlist songs when moving forward or backward.
  • Installing the standalone .flatpak bundle now registers the Sonora repository, so flatpak update keeps it current, and it can replace an install made from the repository.
  • Emoji in playlist, track, and artist names now render instead of falling back to missing-glyph boxes when the UI font has no emoji glyphs.
  • Changing the audio output restarts playback on the selected device.
  • Artwork uses less memory while images load and remain cached.
  • Local music cover thumbnails are cached under $XDG_CACHE_HOME instead of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
  • Passwords typed into a server login form are hidden as you type them.
  • Local albums list their tracks in playing order, by disc and track number, instead of the order the folders happened to be read in.
  • A track from a Subsonic server starts as soon as the first seconds have arrived, instead of after the whole file has downloaded. Seeking and skipping answer straight away, and the progress bar follows the sound rather than the decoder.
  • The system Now Playing widget reads cover art from Sonora's own cache, so a cover that fails to download no longer takes the app down on macOS, and the widget shows artwork offline.
0.29.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Sonora ships as a Flatpak. Every release attaches a bundle for x86_64 and aarch64, and adding the Sonora repository once (flatpak install --user https://sonorahq.github.io/sonora/sonora.flatpakref) keeps it current through flatpak update.
  • Italian and Brazilian Portuguese translations.

Changed

  • Each section of Your Library appears as soon as it has loaded instead of waiting for the slowest one, and a section that fails no longer holds the others back.
  • Quick Picks and Listen Again start the chosen song at once and fill the queue behind it with recommendations, instead of queuing the rest of the shelf.
  • The fullscreen player's controls settle in and out on a spring when it wakes or goes idle.
  • Karaoke lines that overlap in time each keep sweeping until they finish, background vocals sing through in a softer tone, and a finished line fades to gray instead of snapping.
  • Windows uses Sonora's window controls without the native system control strip.
  • The best match on the search page carries a play button whatever it is, so an album, artist or playlist starts from there just like a song. In the single-column layout it scrolls with the results instead of staying pinned above them.

Fixed

  • Large Spotify libraries load again: track and album metadata is fetched in smaller batches that stay within what the service accepts.
  • Content no longer shows through an overlaid sidebar when window transparency is enabled.
  • Building Sonora on Windows no longer requires a separately installed SQLite library.
  • A sign-in failure in Settings now appears on the card of the service you were signing in to.
  • Running Sonora through Nix on a system other than NixOS finds a Vulkan driver and the ALSA plugins it needs for audio.
0.28.1
Release Diff

Changed

  • Sonora now uses the SQLite library your system provides instead of compiling in its own copy, so SQLite fixes reach it through a normal system update. Windows still carries its own.
0.28.0
Release Diff

Added

  • SettingsAppearance can swap the interface icons between four sets: Lucide, Iconoir, Remix and Solar. Each entry in the picker previews a few of its own glyphs, and an icon a set does not carry falls back to Lucide.
0.27.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Local Music stays in the sidebar before a folder is picked, and every one of its pages offers a Choose folder button so the library can be set up without opening Settings.
  • A toast that names an album, artist, playlist or song turns that name into a link to its page.
  • The sign-in screen carries a one-off checkbox that helps count how many people use Sonora. It is ticked by default and sends a single anonymous ping with your next action on that screen; untick it to send nothing. The checkbox never returns once you have signed in or answered it.

Changed

  • Pinned items keep a single order across providers, so a streaming pin and a local one can sit next to each other in the sidebar.
  • An empty list or grid now shows a large icon above the message that was already there.
  • Menus, dropdowns, dialogs and toasts now appear with the same short fade the page transition uses.
  • Navigating again while a page is still fading in restarts the fade instead of cutting it short.
  • Toasts block clicks on whatever sits under them, and stay up while the pointer is on them.
  • The artwork, lyrics and queue pill in fullscreen stays visible while the pointer is on it.
  • Episodes for Later no longer shows up among your YouTube Music playlists. Sonora does not play podcasts, so the container was never usable.

Fixed

  • Making a Spotify playlist public or private works again. The request was rejected, so the menu toggled the label without changing anything on the account.
  • A text field no longer keeps its selection highlight after it loses focus.
  • Page content no longer shifts by a pixel when a navigation transition finishes.
0.26.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Local Music is its own sidebar entry that expands into Songs, Favorites, Albums, Artists and Playlists, and it reuses the Your Library screen.
  • Imported songs can be hearted. Local favorites are their own section and are kept on this machine.
  • Local playlists can be created, renamed, deleted and filled with imported songs; they are kept in a database beside the rest of the local library.
  • Imported songs can be retagged from a dialog with Song, Album and Details tabs. Sonora writes the file and rescans the folder.
  • An imported album picks up a cover.jpg sitting in the album folder, and an artist folder can carry a portrait: artist.jpg wins, then folder.jpg, then cover.jpg, in jpg, jpeg, png or webp.
  • Imported albums can be shown as a list as well as a grid.
  • Sorting an imported grid groups its cards under headings, the way the library grid does.
  • Settings picks which entries the sidebar shows: Home, Search, Your Library, Local Music and History.

Changed

  • Imported music is called Local Music.
  • Saved songs are called Favorites: the library tab, the page title and the Add to Favorites and Remove from Favorites menu items.
  • An album card names the release year before the artist, on the artist page, in the library, in search and on Home. An imported album takes that year from the track tags or from a year at the start of the album folder name.
  • A local playlist card counts its tracks where a streamed one names its owner.
  • The YouTube Music guest button in Settings reads Use Guest mode, and the browser import button there drops the Firefox footnote that only applies on the sign-in screen.

Fixed

  • A dialog taller than the window scrolls instead of running off the edge.
  • Pointing at the artist under a card no longer underlines the title above it. A title underlines when you point at the title itself.
0.25.0
Release Diff

Added

  • YouTube Music listeners see their Listen Again history and personalized Quick Picks on Home.
  • Shift-click or Shift-Up/Down selects a range of rows in a table. On songs, the context menu acts on all of them.
  • Ctrl-click (Cmd-click on macOS) adds or removes individual rows from a table selection.
  • Enter play/pauses the selected song when a table has exactly one row selected, or opens the selected album, artist or playlist.
  • Delete or a Remove from library (or playlist, or history) action asks before it runs.
  • Search results can be moved through with the arrow keys, including left and right between columns, and Enter play/pauses the selected song.
  • Text fields have a Cut, Copy, Paste and Select all context menu.
  • Search results for albums and playlists can be saved to the library from the context menu.

Changed

  • The list/grid toggle is labelled Grid instead of Cards.
  • Clicking a song, album, artist or playlist in a table selects the row. Double-click or Enter still plays a song or opens an album, artist or playlist.
  • Dialogs pack the title, copy and buttons more tightly, with a divider above the actions.

Fixed

  • Following and unfollowing an artist now updates the subscription in YouTube Music.
  • YouTube Music Quick Picks paginate when the window cannot fit all three columns and never reuse recommendations from a previously connected Spotify account.
  • Saving or removing a song, album or artist that the service refuses now says so instead of quietly flipping the control back.
  • Double-clicking a word and dragging selects further words, instead of stopping at the first.
  • Opening a settings file this build cannot read no longer replaces it with empty defaults, so pins stay on disk.
  • Long titles on pinned sidebar items ellipsize instead of drawing past the panel.
  • The left sidebar scrolls again when pinned items run past the player bar.
0.24.1
Release Diff

Added

  • Hovering an album card's title shows the full name, so two releases that share a truncated title can be told apart.

Fixed

  • A track added to the playlist you have open appears in it right away, instead of only after you leave the page and come back.
0.24.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Sonora keeps a listening history on this device: the last 500 tracks you played and when you played them. Open it from the sidebar, play anything back from it, drop a single play from its context menu, or clear the whole list.
  • The explicit badge sits next to the track title in the player bar and on the fullscreen now playing screen, the same way it does in a table.
  • Spotify listeners now have a page of their own, with their avatar, display name, follower and following counts and public playlists. Open it from a playlist owner, from the person who added a track, or from a spotify:user: link.
  • A playlist on someone's profile answers a right click with the same menu as everywhere else.

Changed

  • The startup screen picker lists screens in sidebar order, with History at the end.
  • Lyrics are set three pixels larger on the fullscreen now playing screen. The lyrics panel beside the app is unchanged.

Fixed

  • Autoplay of similar tracks is remembered between runs instead of turning itself off at every start.
  • The fullscreen title holds still while the like button beside it fades in and out.
  • Blur is drawn cleanly across a wide surface, so a translucent background no longer smears at its edges.
  • A song that appears more than once in a list no longer lights up every copy while it plays. Only the first row is marked, and in the listening history that is the most recent play.
  • A Blend lists who added each track in place of the date, which moves every day and says little. Other playlists with more than one contributor keep the date and put that person's avatar next to it, and a playlist you built alone looks exactly as it did.
  • Imported songs no longer offer Add to playlist. A local file cannot go into a Spotify playlist, so the action never did anything.
  • The left sidebar scrollbar is easier to hit. Its resize edge starts a few pixels further in, so dragging the scrollbar scrolls the list instead of resizing the panel.
  • The typeface picker opens at once on a machine with many fonts installed: it previews only the names in view, a few families per frame, rather than loading every one up front.
  • Enter picks the highlighted typeface, and filtering the list moves the highlight to the first match instead of leaving it on a row that is no longer there.
  • On Windows, dragging Sonora to a screen edge snaps it, hovering the maximize button opens Snap Layouts, and clicking its taskbar icon minimizes the window.
  • On Windows, a maximized Sonora no longer runs under the taskbar, so nothing is cut off at the bottom of the screen.
  • The Windows installer offers to create a desktop shortcut with the box already ticked. Untick it before installing to go without.
0.23.0
Release Diff

Added

  • A battery saving setting under Appearance caps the frame rate of animations while Sonora is not the focused window: light, medium or strong, for 90, 60 or 30 frames a second. It is off by default, and a change applies from the next launch.

Changed

  • The karaoke sweep advances on a clock of its own instead of following the display refresh rate, so a fast panel no longer spends frames on it, and battery saving paces it too while Sonora is in the background.

Fixed

  • Switches appear already on or off when a screen opens, instead of sliding into place after it.
  • With the theme set to System, Sonora no longer opens as a light window and fades into the dark palette. It remembers what the system last reported and starts there.
  • On macOS the lyrics sheet showed only the lines around the one being sung. The rows it blurs above and below render again.
0.22.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Escape closes any open menu, not only the ones that hold a text field. It watches keystrokes rather than the Dismiss action, which the fullscreen and search-field handlers were swallowing before it could reach a menu.

Changed

  • The sign-in screen gives each service its own tab instead of standing them side by side, and guest sign-in is one button underneath rather than a row of them.
  • The lyrics sheet travels on a spring, overshooting a little and settling, where it used to ease to a stop. The rows still trail behind it one at a time.
  • On Windows the frame no longer carries the system window buttons, leaving only the ones Sonora draws.
  • Context menu entries that queue something now read "Add to queue" instead of naming the album or the artist a second time. The row you right-clicked already says what it is.
  • The queue writes "from" in lower case beside Now playing.
  • Track titles no longer underline when the pointer is over them, in the queue, on the home page, in search results and on the library card grid. Clicking one plays it, it does not open a page, so the underline promised a link that was never there.
  • The sidebar's nested tabs drop the small dash beside each row, and the vertical guide moves under the icon of the row that opened them.
  • German, French, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian cover every string again. The font picker, the lyrics settings, the romanization list, the sign-in problems and the update prompts had been falling back to English.

Fixed

  • A submenu with no room to its right opens to the left of the menu instead of sliding over it. 0.21.0 claimed this, but a submenu carried a second window-fitting wrapper of its own, and that inner wrapper both hid the submenu's size from the outer one, which then had nothing to shift by when it flipped, and re-anchored the panel to the top left and slid it back under the window edge, on top of the menu it hangs off. A submenu now renders its panel directly and only the outer wrapper places it.
  • YouTube Music plays on an account without Premium again. Sonora asks for the guest audio streams rather than the ones such an account cannot be handed.
  • Seeking far into a track scrolls the lyrics to the new verse. The sheet went blank for a moment and then dropped the verses in from off screen, because it moved to the destination at once and only presented the journey.
  • A verse no longer loses its lower half while the sheet is in motion. Rows were drawn where they had been laid out and shifted afterwards, so whatever reached past the edge of the panel was cut away before it moved.
  • A line keeps the colour it already had while it hands over to the next one. It used to flash white first, which was wrong for lines lit word by word and for anything on screen while paused.
  • A wrapped lyric line no longer starts its second row with a space.
0.21.0
Release Diff

Added

  • The queue now says where the music is coming from, next to Now playing, and the name opens that album, playlist or artist, your liked songs or the imported tab. Starting a track from a table row used to leave no source recorded at all, so there was nothing to show; every way of starting playback now carries one, and it is kept with the queue across a restart.
  • Artist cards have the play button album and playlist cards already had.

Changed

  • The lyrics sheet drags its rows along when it scrolls itself, on a verse change or after clicking a verse. Each row is held back on a spring of its own, so they come to rest one after another instead of the sheet arriving all at once. Scrolling the lyrics yourself is left alone: the rows stay exactly where you put them.
  • Cover art is cached on disk, so images come back without fetching them again after a restart.
  • The track title in fullscreen is set semibold, both in the large view and in the strip.
  • Lines in the lyrics sheet sit a little further apart.

Fixed

  • Scrolling the "Add to playlist" list no longer closes it. Every row reported hover on its own account, so as the list glided under a still cursor the row being left behind could have the last word and start the close timer. The submenu now tracks hover for the panel as a whole, and it stays open while the pointer is anywhere over it, the gap beside it, its scrollbar, or the row it hangs off.
  • Moving back from a submenu onto the row that opened it no longer closes the submenu and leaves it stuck shut until the pointer has been away and returned.
  • A submenu that would run off the right of the window now opens to the left of the menu instead of sliding over it.
  • Turning the left sidebar off no longer leaves its width behind as empty space. A cached view is laid out from the style the cache is given and never consults its own, so hiding itself was not enough to give the room back.
  • Lyrics no longer jerk at the end of a verse change. Rows are drawn at the exact offset they are given rather than rounded to whole pixels, which forced a slowing row either to sit on its last pixel for several frames and then hop, or to stop while it was still visibly moving.
  • A verse no longer shifts sideways the frame its growth or fade finishes. Both animations now end at the size the line is actually set in, so shaping it at one size and scaling it to another can no longer disagree by a pixel, which a right-aligned background verse showed as a jump.
  • The lyrics blur keeps up with a long jump, such as scrubbing from the end of a track back to the start. It is worked out from where a row is drawn instead of where it was laid out, so it no longer goes missing at the edge the sheet is coming from.
  • A background lane no longer jumps as it finishes opening. The room it needs is measured from the line height it inherits and counts the gaps between lanes, so nothing is left clipped until the last frame.
  • Scrolling the lyrics with a trackpad stops the panel following the sung verse, the same as a mouse wheel already did.
  • The wider gap above a change of voice no longer stretches that row.
0.20.0
Release Diff

Changed

  • Lyrics settle once instead of improving in stages. Sonora asks every source at once, and used to put up each answer that beat the last, so the words could change under you two or three times in the first seconds of a song. It now shows the first answer that has timings, and swaps at most once more: the moment a word-by-word sheet arrives, since nothing beats one, or else when every source has answered and the best of them is known. That one change comes in through a blur and a fade rather than appearing abruptly. Lyrics without timings are not shown at all until the search is over, so a plain sheet no longer flashes up in place of the synced one that was still coming.

Fixed

  • Lyrics blur and dim smoothly as they move rather than in three visible steps. The depth of field was rounded to whole pixels so neighbouring lines could share a filter, which left a line jumping between a handful of levels instead of following the scroll.
  • Scrubbing a track that is still loading no longer starts it from the beginning. The seek was sent to an engine that was not ready for it and lost, so playback began wherever the track had loaded and the position jumped back a moment later. It is now applied again as soon as playback starts, which matters most on YouTube, where a track can take seconds to come up.
  • A verse growing into place no longer steps through a few sizes, and the sheet no longer settles with a jolt once it has finished. The growth is drawn at the size the verse ends up and scaled into place from its leading edge, so the text is measured and drawn once instead of once per frame, and every line reserves the room the sung one needs, so becoming the sung line moves nothing around it.
  • The word-by-word highlight no longer slips backwards inside a word. Lyrics providers split a word where it is sung in two — "nothing" arrives as "no" and "thing" — and the soft trail the highlight carries hardened at every one of those boundaries and softened again on the next, which moved the visible edge back about half a character. The trail now runs the whole way across a line and only sharpens as the line fills.
  • A verse growing into place no longer costs a dropped frame. It was animated by setting a slightly different text size on every frame, and both the shaped line and every rasterised glyph are keyed by size, so the whole verse was measured and redrawn from scratch each frame. The size now lands on the pixel grid, which asks for two or three sizes across the whole growth.
  • Lyrics no longer hitch as a track loads or as verses scroll into view. Measuring a line asked the text system to shape every piece of it separately, which on Japanese, Chinese and Korean lyrics is one shaping call per character and, on the frame a sheet first appears, hundreds of them at once. A line is shaped once now, and the widths that come back also account for the kerning between one piece and the next, so the highlight sits exactly where the glyphs do.
0.19.1
Release Diff

Changed

  • Sonora redraws far less of the window at once. A word-by-word lyric line, a melody break and a verse change each rebuilt the player bar, the sidebar and the toolbar on every frame they animated, and scrolling a busy screen rebuilt the same things again, so the two together could not keep pace. Scrolling Home or your songs while the lyrics move is smooth now.
  • Sonora looks for a newer version on Linux and macOS too, where the setting for it was already offered but never did anything. It only tells you: installing in place stays a Windows-only path, because that is the only build Sonora ships an installer for. The setting starts off there, since a distribution or a tap can trail a release by weeks and there is nothing to act on until it catches up, and the notice says to update Sonora the way you installed it.

Fixed

  • Long descriptions in Settings wrap onto a second line instead of being cut off.
  • The lyrics panel measures a line once per panel width rather than on every frame, and a verse well outside the panel holds its place without being laid out at all.
0.19.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Right-clicking an artist now offers Play artist, Play next, Add artist to queue, Follow and Copy link, wherever the artist appears. It only ever offered Copy link before.
  • Albums and playlists on Home and on a genre page answer a right-click with the same menu they have in Your Library, so a card and a row no longer disagree about what you can do with an item.
  • The song page and the now-playing artwork in the player bar answer a right-click with the track menu. The song page had no context menu at all, and the artwork ignored the click even though the title beside it did not.
  • Songs, albums, playlists and artists can be dropped straight onto the queue. Drop between two queued songs to slot them in there, or anywhere else in the pane to add them at the end.
  • Sonora tells you when a newer version is out. On Windows it asks GitHub once at startup and, if a release is newer than the running build, floats a card in the top-left corner with the new version number, a link to what changed, and a choice between Later and Update. Update downloads the installer, checks it against the release checksums, runs it and starts Sonora again when it is done. The card appears once per launch and never nags mid-session, and the check can be turned off under Settings, About.
  • Sonora reopens at the size and position it had when you closed it, and maximized if you left it that way. A saved position that no longer lands on a connected display is dropped, so unplugging a monitor cannot leave the window off screen. Wayland does not hand a window its position, so there only the size and the maximized state come back.
  • Settings, Appearance can pick the interface font. The list is searchable and holds every font installed on the machine that can actually set the interface, so the script-only families a system carries do not clutter it, and Bundled keeps the Inter that ships with Sonora.

Changed

  • Previous restarts the track you are on once you are more than three seconds into it, and only steps back a track if you press it near the start. There is also nothing to step back to on the first track of a queue, so there it always restarts.
  • New installs start with different defaults. Album art tints the theme, corners are rounded rather than subtle, volume normalisation is off, and lyrics are romanized for Japanese, Chinese and Korean only. Albums, playlists and artists open as cards, an artist's own page as a list, and both sidebars are a little narrower. Anything you have already set is left alone.
  • The lyric line being sung is set a little larger than the rest, and grows into that size as it arrives instead of only brightening. Entering or leaving fullscreen no longer replays that growth for a line that arrived a while ago.
  • Background vocals only show on the line being sung. They fade in as the line arrives and fade out as it leaves, instead of sitting under every line in the sheet, and the space they take opens and closes with them so the lines below do not jump.
  • Lyrics blur and dim by how far a line sits from the one being sung on screen, not by how many lines away it is. The lines next to the sung one are already slightly soft, and every line further out is softer than the one before it, all the way to the edge of the panel. A line never fades so far that it cannot be read, and pointing at one still brings it back sharp. The panel also takes longer to carry the next line into place. Scrolling the lyrics by hand is unchanged.

Removed

  • The "Karaoke motion" setting is gone. Every word-by-word highlight now travels on the Smooth curve, which is what the setting defaulted to, so anyone who left it alone sees no change.

Fixed

  • Lyrics no longer run past the edge of the panel. Japanese, Chinese and Korean lines had no place to break, because a line was only ever split where it had a space, so a whole verse was laid out as one unbreakable row. They now break between characters, and never before a closing bracket or a mark like a comma that has to stay with the character in front of it.
  • Non-Latin lyrics are set in the same weight as the rest of the text. Inter carries no Japanese, Chinese or Korean glyphs, so those came from whatever the system offered and arrived at regular weight next to bold Latin.
  • Turning Karaoke lyrics on no longer widens the gaps between words. The line being sung was laid out one box per word so it could be highlighted piece by piece, and each box was measured on its own; it is now a single run per line with the highlight clipped over it, which is what every other line already did.
  • The word-by-word highlight keeps pace with Japanese, Chinese and Korean lines, where it used to stall and then jump ahead to catch up. It travels on an eased curve, which reads as a flourish across a word of Latin letters but not across a single wide character, and lyrics for those languages are timed one character at a time or, worse, a whole phrase at a time: the highlight raced most of the way over a character and then crawled the rest. Wide characters and phrases now fill at an even pace, and the soft edge the highlight carries no longer hardens on every character it crosses, which was dragging the visible edge back half a character at a time. A word followed by a rest also finishes where it is sung instead of drifting on through the silence.
  • Japanese, Chinese and Korean lyrics keep their spacing when a line's word timings do not line up with its text. Sonora fell back to spacing the words out as if they were English, which put a gap between every character.
  • Album covers no longer leave a thin line across the player bar as they scroll past it. Card grids and the shelves on Home were drawing one row beyond the edge of what you can see, and a single pixel of it fell outside the clip.
  • The Songs tab in Your Library no longer stutters on a large collection. Its play button was building a copy of every song in the list on every frame, so the bigger the library the worse it scrolled.
  • A word-by-word lyric line never breaks in the middle of a word. Each word is laid out on its own so it would be squeezed rather than moved down when it did not fit, splitting "upon" across two lines as "u" and "pon". A word that does not fit now moves to the next line whole. Punctuation timed as its own word goes with it, so a line no longer wraps to leave a lone "?" or "," on the last row.
  • Turning volume normalisation or gapless playback on or off keeps the song you are on. Both settings can only take effect on a fresh player, so Sonora used to drop the track and send you back to nothing; it now rebuilds the player and puts the song back where it was. A song that was paused stays paused rather than starting itself.
  • YouTube tracks no longer leave a short silence between them. The audio YouTube serves carries a fraction of a second of encoder padding at each end, which nothing in the decoding stack was removing, so it played as a gap however early the next track was fetched. Sonora now reads how much to drop from the file itself and trims it.
  • Imported tracks run into one another with no gap. The next track was already decoded and waiting behind the current one, but Sonora tore it down and started it again the moment the song changed, so every boundary cost a stumble.
  • Spotify playback on Windows no longer hisses in the background, which was loudest at low volume. Sonora asked the output device for a stream it could not give and settled for the poorest sample format on offer instead of the one the device already runs at, so every track was played through a needlessly coarse output. It now opens the device at its own format, the way YouTube and imported tracks always have.
  • Rows in the list view of Albums, Playlists and Artists can be dragged by their name. The name column swallowed the press, so the only place a row could be picked up from was its cover.
  • Dropping something in the space between two pinned items in the sidebar, or between two queued songs, puts it there instead of at the end.
  • The minimize and close buttons work on Windows, where a click on either did nothing. Maximize is still handed to Windows itself, which is what lets it restore a maximized window and open the Snap Layouts flyout on hover.
  • Double-clicking the title bar maximizes the window and restores it when it is already maximized. Nothing happened on macOS before, because the first click started a window drag that swallowed the second.
  • A lyric sheet that only says the song is instrumental is read as instrumental instead of being shown as the song's words, whatever case it is written in.
0.18.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Word-by-word lyrics now come from Apple Music's own sheets first, through a public catalogue that needs no Apple account. They bring background vocals on their own line, the songwriters, and, on a duet, which of the two singers holds each line.
  • A duet now reads as one. Lines sung by the second voice sit against the right edge of the panel, the way Apple Music lays them out, and their background vocals follow to that side. "Shallow", "Under Pressure", "Summer Nights" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" all split this way.
  • Musixmatch is asked second and covers songs Apple has no sheet for, such as YOASOBI's 夜に駆ける. When Musixmatch decides the network is asking too often it stops answering, so Sonora leaves it alone for ten minutes and the other sources carry on.

Changed

  • Lyrics now appear as soon as the first source answers instead of once the slowest one has. In a 255-track library the words show up after about 50 ms rather than 840 ms, because Spotify and LrcLib answer in well under a tenth of a second while Kugou and NetEase take one to three.
  • A sheet on screen is only ever replaced by a better one. Plain text gives way to line-by-line timing and line-by-line to word-by-word, so a slow karaoke sheet still takes over when it lands. Between two sheets of the same kind the better match wins, so Apple's words replace a karaoke sheet that arrived first.
  • Lyrics are kept between runs, so a song you have played before shows its words with no wait at all. The lyrics for the next song in the queue are fetched while the current one is still playing, so skipping forward usually costs nothing either.
  • A karaoke sheet now borrows its words from the line-synced sheet already on screen and keeps only the word timing, so the line breaks, capitalization, punctuation and spelling stay exactly as they were and the switch to word-by-word highlighting is barely visible. In a 255-track library 47 of the 48 karaoke sheets match up this way; one that cannot be matched is shown as its provider sent it. Background vocals stay on their own line under the main one, and a sheet is only reshaped when nearly every line of it finds a match, so a song whose two sheets disagree about whole verses keeps the timing its provider gave it. A sheet that carries its own background vocals or duet voices is left exactly as it came, since reshaping it would flatten them.
  • Verses from every source are capitalized the same way, so a sheet that no other source can shape still reads consistently.
  • A sheet that appears part-way into a song puts the verse being sung straight where it belongs instead of scrolling down to it from the top. Verse-to-verse scrolling while a song plays is unchanged.
  • Verses now ease into and out of focus as the song moves on, rather than snapping between sharp and blurred on the frame the line changes. The notes marking an instrumental break blur along with the verses around them instead of staying sharp.
  • Settings gained "Karaoke motion", which chooses how the word-by-word highlight travels across each word: Steady keeps the constant speed it has always used, while Gentle, Smooth, Snappy and Glide ease it over a longer stretch, each easing off as it reaches the next word. Words whose timings sit on top of each other used to flip instantly; every eased setting sweeps them over about 150 ms instead, and a word is still fully lit by the time the next one starts, however long it is held.
  • A verse now stays lit until the next one begins, rather than dimming the moment its last word has been sung. There is always a current verse on screen, so the gap between two karaoke lines no longer leaves the panel with nothing highlighted. An instrumental break still shows its notes in place of a verse.
  • A karaoke line fades out when it finishes the same way a line-timed one does. It used to drop straight to its dimmed colour the moment the word-by-word highlight stopped drawing, and the panel briefly treated the pause between two karaoke lines as though the song had gone back to the first verse.

Fixed

  • The last word of a karaoke line is fully lit by the time the line ends. Every eased karaoke motion stretched the last sweep past the word itself, so a line that handed over to the next one mid-sweep lit its remaining words in a single frame.
  • The soft edge trailing the karaoke highlight now narrows as the highlight lands on the end of a word, rather than disappearing in one frame once the word is fully lit.
  • Credits are no longer shown as lyrics. Sheets that opened with a title and artist line, a version tag such as "Edited Version", a copyright notice, or a block of "Produced by", "Recorded by" and per-instrument credits now start at the first sung line.
  • Right-clicking the song title in fullscreen opens the track menu when the window is too narrow to show the lyrics beside the artwork. Only the wider layout answered a right-click before.
0.17.1
Release Diff

Added

  • The lyrics panel tells an instrumental track apart from one whose lyrics are simply missing: a guitar and "This song is instrumental" when a lyrics provider says the track has no words, and a crossed-out microphone and "No lyrics found, sorry!" when nobody has them.

Changed

  • Karaoke lyrics now come from Kugou as well as NetEase Cloud Music, and Spotify hands over its own lyrics for the track it is playing, matched by track rather than by title. Across a 255-track library that lifts word-by-word coverage from 55% to 78% and leaves NetEase supplying a fifth of it rather than nearly all.
  • The AMLL community database is no longer queried: it held a matching sheet for one track in a 255-track library while costing a request for every track played.
  • The lyric line being left behind fades out quicker than the incoming line fades in.

Fixed

  • Japanese romanized lyrics now read as words rather than as fragments: kanji keep their word readings (君 is "kimi", not "kun"), verb endings stay attached to their stem ("oshietekureta" instead of "oshie tekureta"), particles are romanized as they are spoken ("wa" for は, "o" for を), and small つ doubles the next consonant instead of appearing as "tsu".
  • NetEase sheets no longer render their own metadata as lyrics: a leading "artist - title" line or a Title/Album/By block is dropped, and doubled spacing between words is collapsed.
  • A sheet whose header names a different song is rejected, so a mismatched upload no longer replaces the right lyrics.
  • Lyrics typed with lookalike Cyrillic letters are folded back to Latin, so they read as the words they imitate instead of picking up a spurious romanized line beneath them.
  • Background vocal lines no longer show doubled spacing once they start being sung, and stray markup such as "<-3>" left in an upload is dropped instead of appearing mid-verse.
0.17.0
Release Diff

Added

  • The theme picker offers a System option that follows the operating system's light or dark appearance, switching automatically when it changes.
  • Lyrics now also come from the AMLL community database and NetEase Cloud Music alongside LrcLib, and the best match is chosen more reliably: the album is taken into account, truncated uploads fall behind, duplicate uploads collapse into one entry, and word-synced lyrics win over line-synced ones.
  • The lyrics panel names its source and the songwriters beneath the verses.
  • Word-synced lyrics light up word by word as they are sung, with a soft sweep across each word. Line-synced lyrics keep the existing line highlight.
  • Background vocals in parentheses render as their own smaller line beneath the verse, with their own timing, and standalone echo lines attach to the verse they answer.
  • Lyrics in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Cyrillic, Greek or Arabic can show a romanized pronunciation line, switchable per writing system in SettingsPlayback.
  • Long instrumental breaks show notes in the lyrics panel that light up as the break plays out; clicking them seeks to the start of the break.
  • Karaoke word highlighting can be turned off in SettingsPlayback.
  • Word-synced lyrics appear as soon as the first provider answers instead of waiting for the slowest one.
  • Windows releases ship an installer alongside the portable binary.

Changed

  • The fullscreen panel switcher and volume popup are solid instead of translucent and frosted, so they read clearly over artwork.
  • Lyric matching drops hits whose title, artist or length do not fit the playing track, along with sheets that are mostly stretched shouting, and section labels such as [Chorus] no longer render as verses.
  • The playback clock eases toward corrections from the engine instead of snapping, so lyrics and the seek bar never jump backwards mid-word.
  • The active lyric line brightens in and the previous one dims out with a short transition.

Fixed

  • Audio opens with the device's own output configuration, so devices that reject the previously assumed format play again.
  • The volume bubble stays put while dragging, and fullscreen seeks preview the target position instead of waiting for the engine to catch up.
0.16.3
Release Diff

Fixed

  • The About the artist dialog now shows the full biography in a scrollable pane that fades out at the bottom, instead of only the artist's name.
  • Dialogs no longer spill past the window on narrow viewports; they always keep a margin from the edges.
  • Synced lyrics hold the first and last line at the same follow position as every other line, instead of leaving them stuck at the top or the bottom of the panel.
0.16.2
Release Diff

Added

  • Fullscreen controls fade away after a few seconds without mouse or keyboard activity, leaving only the cover, the track title and artists, and the lyrics or queue panel; the cover grows into the freed space. Any activity brings them back.

Changed

  • Track tables start out with roomier title, artist and album columns, so a fresh install needs less dragging before it reads well.
  • In fullscreen, the cover column and the lyrics or queue panel now split the window evenly, with the same spacing between them as around them.
0.16.1
Release Diff

Added

  • Playlists show when each track was added, in a sortable Date added column.

Fixed

  • The play overlay and cover darkening now really do appear on queue rows — the artwork was painted over them.
  • Long single-artist names in a table are cut with an ellipsis instead of being sliced mid-letter.
0.16.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Removing a track from a playlist shows a confirmation toast, mirroring the one for adding.

Changed

  • Track rows look and behave the same everywhere — queue, search results and quick picks share one entry: artwork with a play overlay on hover, a hover-underlined title, artist links, and in the queue a remove button on the right.
  • Album, playlist and artist cards are built from one shared piece, so shelves, the library grid and search results no longer drift apart in typography or behaviour.

Fixed

  • The play overlay on track rows appears when you point at the row — including the queue, where it never showed — and its tooltip no longer pops over rows that are not being pointed at.
  • Clicking the play control on a paused track resumes it from where it stopped; quick picks and search used to restart the track from the beginning.
  • Queue rows no longer vanish abruptly inside the edge fade — they now dissolve with it — and the queue scrollbar is no longer dimmed by that fade.
  • The library says when a section failed to load instead of presenting an empty table that looks like an empty library, and it says so per section — songs can arrive while artists fail.
  • Removing a track from a playlist updates the playlist everywhere at once; the track count and the "Add to playlist" menu used to keep the old state until a full reload.
  • A failed search no longer leaves its error on screen after signing out.
  • Disabled buttons no longer show tooltips.
  • Switches sit pixel-exact inside their track.
  • YouTube Music plays again. YouTube stopped serving the clients Sonora asked for: the download of every track was refused part-way through, and the fallback it tried next was refused outright. A signed-in session now streams through the YouTube Music client itself, which also hands over a better stream — 256 kbps instead of 128. Without an account Sonora asks as a headset would, with a visitor id issued by YouTube rather than one it made up.
  • Playing without a YouTube account says so once instead of failing track after track. YouTube now turns anonymous listeners away from most music, and Sonora used to work through the whole queue, waiting six seconds between refusals. It now stops at the first one and asks you to sign in.
  • A signed-in YouTube session survives a restart. Sonora used to keep the cookies it copied from your browser the day you signed in, and YouTube rotates those every few hours, so your library quietly went missing. When you signed in through a browser, Sonora now re-reads its cookies each time it starts and keeps the copy fresh.
  • Playing after the app had been open for a long time no longer says the track cannot be played. Suspending the machine, or any long enough network break, killed Sonora's connection to Spotify for good and every track after that failed to load. Sonora now notices the connection went stale and reconnects on its own, keeping the track you were on and resuming it where it stopped.
0.15.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Appearance settings carry a Reduce motion choice — follow the system, always or never — so you can decide up front whether Sonora animates its interface.
  • Appearance settings also carry an Animation speed choice — slow, standard or quick — that stretches or tightens every interface animation to taste.
  • Fullscreen is a real player now: large artwork that swaps to the album's high-resolution cover as soon as it arrives, the track and its artists, a seek bar, transport controls, and a pill that puts lyrics or the queue beside the artwork — the same lyrics and queue as the side panel, with everything they can do. On a narrow window the chosen panel takes over the whole body instead. Press f to go fullscreen and Escape to come back to wherever you were.
  • Lyrics read like a stage now: the lines around the one being sung are softly blurred, the line under the pointer sharpens as you reach for it, and the top and bottom of the list fade out instead of being cut off. Hovering a line still seeks to it.
  • Appearance settings gained an Advanced group, starting with an adaptive context menu. Turned on, a track's menu leaves out what the row already shows — its album or its artist. It ships off.

Changed

  • Switches now slide and fade between on and off instead of snapping, at a fixed control speed that the animation speed setting deliberately leaves alone.
  • Long lists, grids and the home shelves cost far less to draw, so scrolling them stays smooth where it used to stutter. Sorting and filtering a large library got cheaper too.
  • A sign-in that fails now explains itself in plain words on a small card, on the login screen and in account settings — being outside your account country, an expired session, no connection, a cancelled browser approval — instead of showing the raw message from the streaming library. An unrecognised failure is trimmed down to one readable sentence too.

Fixed

  • Signing in with an account that has no Spotify Premium closed Sonora outright, and it kept closing on every launch until the cached session was deleted by hand. Sonora now stays open, forgets that session and explains on the login screen that streaming needs Premium.
  • The volume percentage now sits above the slider handle instead of trailing the pointer, so it reads as a label on the handle you are dragging.
  • A shelf on home — Your Mood Mixes — arrived from Spotify with no names and no covers and drew as a row of blank cards. Those mixes are now filled in from the playlists themselves, in the background, so the rest of home appears straight away.
  • The window buttons on macOS sat in the wrong place.
0.14.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Searching now reaches the whole catalogue for albums and playlists, not just the ones your library already knows about. The third column of results holds both, tagged so you can tell them apart, and a playlist behaves like one everywhere: open it, play it, pin it or right-click it for the usual menu. Albums and playlists you have saved still come first. Spotify and YouTube Music both answer these searches from their own catalogue.

Changed

  • The songs, artists and albums columns in search scroll smoothly however many matches come back, and each column still scrolls on its own.

Fixed

  • Sonora sat redrawing the window as fast as the screen allowed whenever the lyrics panel was open, heating the machine and draining the battery while nothing on screen was moving. It now rests when there is nothing to draw.
  • When Spotify ships a new build of its web player, album, artist and search pages recover on the next attempt instead of failing for hours.
0.13.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Sonora remembers what you were listening to. Reopen it and the track you left off on is waiting, paused where you stopped, with the rest of the queue and the tracks you already heard still in place. It is readied silently in the background, so press play and the music starts from that second at once, without the progress bar sliding into place first.
  • Double-clicking a word in any text field selects it, and a third click selects everything in the field.
  • The search field carries a clear button while it holds text, so one click empties it and brings the full list back.

Changed

  • The home feed, genre pages and the genre grid in search scroll and resize without stuttering, however many shelves the feed carries.
  • The single-column search results scroll smoothly however many matches come back, because only the rows on screen are drawn.

Fixed

  • Switching music service, or signing out, now clears the queue, the history and the current track, so nothing from one service is left sitting in the player when you move to another. Music from your imported folder keeps playing.
  • YouTube tracks that refused to play now do. When YouTube turns down the quick route, Sonora works out the stream signature itself and plays the track anyway, often at a higher bitrate.
  • Pinned items now belong to the service they came from, so switching service shows that service's pins alongside your imported ones instead of dead rows that failed to open. Switching back brings the earlier pins straight back, and existing pins are cleared once on this upgrade.
  • Search results no longer all look like the track that is playing: only the song actually playing is highlighted and shows a pause button.
  • Song titles in search results are readable again instead of being cut after a few letters: the three columns only appear once there is real room for them, and a song's duration no longer takes space away from its title.
  • Every search result answers a right-click now, not just songs. Artists and albums open the same context menu they have elsewhere in the app, in the combined list as well as the three columns.
  • The genre grid on search scrolls all the way to its end, so the last row of plates no longer sits flush against the player bar with its bottom cut off.
  • Album, playlist and artist lists in your library end with the same breathing room as every other page instead of stopping against the player bar.
0.12.1
Release Diff

Fixed

  • The queue scrolls with the same glide as the rest of the app instead of jumping.
  • The language picker is wide enough for its search field.
0.12.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Search now opens on a grid of genres, and every genre leads to its own page of playlists, albums and sub-genres, in cards or in a compact list.
  • The home page carries a feed from the service you are signed in to — daily and artist mixes, editorial playlists and discovery shelves — with placeholder shelves while it loads, so the page is useful before you like a single song.
  • German and French translations.
  • The language picker has a search field, so a language is one keystroke away instead of a scroll.

Changed

  • Scrolling glides to a stop instead of jumping, at the same speed on any refresh rate. Holding Shift over a shelf scrolls it sideways, and a shelf no longer steals a plain wheel scroll.
  • Searching keeps what is already in your library above the catalogue results, so a match stops sinking the moment the service answers.
  • Artist names in the narrow search layout are links again, and a table column stays hidden when no row carries a value for it.
  • Sonora describes itself as a music streaming client rather than a Spotify client.

Fixed

  • Home, the genre pages and the genre grid only build what is on screen, which removes the stall on pages with many covers.
  • Opening a genre on YouTube Music no longer crashes on the texture atlas.
  • Genre pages that carry nothing playable, and podcast-only entries, disappear from the grid by themselves.
  • The Nix package installs the released binary instead of wrapping the loader, so audio mixers and process lists show Sonora rather than ld-linux.
0.11.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Importing a YouTube Music session, or pasting cookies, now asks which Google account to use when the session is signed in to more than one, and Sonora stays on the account that was picked.
  • The "Paste cookies manually" dialog spells out where the value comes from — which request to open in the developer tools, which header to copy, and which cookies the value has to carry.

Changed

  • Importing a browser session is limited to Firefox-based browsers, which the login screen now says under the button. Chrome, Edge, Brave and the other Chromium browsers are no longer offered; paste the cookies manually to sign in from one of those.
  • Connecting a service from the settings now happens there: the cookie dialog, the browser and account pickers and a cancel button all appear in Manage accounts, and a failed attempt reports the reason on that service's card.
  • The queue and the lyrics are opened from a pair of buttons in the player bar instead of the floating pills inside the sidebar, and pressing the button of the panel already on screen closes the sidebar again.
  • An artist page opens with the same card deck the home screen uses for quick picks: 30 popular songs across paged columns of five, each card playing the artist's popular list from that song and showing the track length. Names below a title appear only where the song is shared with someone else. A button in the toolbar switches the section back to the old table, and the choice is remembered.
  • The card deck keeps one height whatever it holds — a short last page leaves empty rows instead of shrinking — and quick picks on the home screen now mixes 30 songs to fill it.
  • The artist page reads as an overview: the table view lists five songs and expands to ten, releases show two rows and expand to the whole discography, and the artist's biography closes the page in the same card the song page uses.
  • The "About the artist" card clamps the biography to three lines and opens the full text in a dialog; from a song page that dialog also offers a jump to the artist.
  • The library lists what changed last first: saved albums carry the date they were saved, playlists the date they were last edited, and albums, playlists and followed artists all open sorted by that date until a different sort is chosen. Both dates are new sortable columns.
  • A narrowing table now gives up one column at a time, in order of how much each column matters, instead of dropping three of them at one width and squeezing the rest. The artist of a song is the first to go, since the album column carries the same information.

Fixed

  • Connecting a service from the settings no longer throws you onto the login screen, and a failure no longer signs you out of the service you were already using.
  • Waiting for a browser authorization can be cancelled instead of leaving the app stuck until it is restarted, and cancelling now shuts the callback server down. Signing in again used to fail with "Address already in use" until Sonora was restarted.
  • Cancelling a sign-in no longer flashes the empty library behind the login screen.
  • Artwork that does not arrive square — an artist portrait, a cover embedded in a local file — is cropped to its middle instead of spilling out of its frame, so a round portrait is round again.
  • A pinned table header no longer trembles by a pixel while the page scrolls, and the wheel now works over the header and over a column edge instead of stopping there.
  • An artist page lists the whole discography — every album, single, compilation and alternate edition such as a deluxe or anniversary release — instead of only the most recent releases.
0.10.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Anything can be pinned to the sidebar. Drag an album, artist, playlist or song out of a grid, a table, a search result, the queue or a page header and drop it into the left sidebar; it stays there across restarts, reorders by dragging, and opens a context menu that matches what it is.
  • Playlists that arrive without artwork get a cover of their own, stitched together from the first four tracks and kept on disk so it is built only once.
  • Content cards carry a play control on their artwork — a button in the corner of a tile, a dimmed cover on a row — and it stays visible while that item is playing.
  • The left sidebar scrolls once its contents outgrow the panel.
  • Local music reads more formats, gains its own toolbar, and keeps the list header in place while scrolling.
  • A playlist that already holds a track marks it, and adding a second copy asks first.

Changed

  • Playlist covers are fetched at the largest size the service offers rather than the smallest.
  • The appearance settings put the opacity and adaptive theme switches above the font size.

Fixed

  • The edge used to resize a side panel no longer competes with the row sitting underneath it.
  • A playlist that lists the same track more than once keeps every copy.
  • The lyrics pane returns to the top when a new track starts, and its scrollbar stays asleep until it is needed.
  • A menu item that carries only a tick no longer reserves room for an icon beside it.
  • Rounded corners nest correctly inside the container that clips them.
0.9.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Sonora can play the music already on this device: point it at a folder in the settings and its files show up as tracks, albums and artists next to the streaming services.
  • The right sidebar shows the lyrics of the playing track next to the queue, switched with a pair of floating pills at its foot. Timed lyrics highlight the line being sung, scroll along with it, and jump playback to a line when it is clicked.

Changed

  • The right sidebar is opened from the toolbar rather than the player bar, and the player bar button in its place opens fullscreen instead.
  • A narrow window drops the right sidebar entirely rather than letting it cover the page; lyrics and the queue live in fullscreen there.
0.8.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Sonora can now sign in to YouTube Music as an alternative to Spotify. The login screen offers both services; YouTube Music can be browsed as a guest, connected by importing an existing browser session, or connected by pasting cookies, and the whole library — liked songs, playlists, albums, artists, search, and radio — works through the same interface.
  • The general settings gain a "Manage accounts" section: every service is listed with its own sign out, switching to a service already connected takes effect immediately, and a service that is not connected yet offers its sign-in options right there — including importing from a named browser.
  • The login screen puts each service in its own column with guest mode below them, and importing a YouTube Music session asks which browser to read it from — Firefox, Zen, LibreWolf, Floorp, Waterfox, Mullvad, Tor, Pale Moon, Basilisk, SeaMonkey, Chrome, Chromium, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, Yandex, Arc, Thorium and Helium are recognised, including Flatpak and Snap installs.
  • YouTube Music albums and playlists play the album audio of a song rather than its music video, so a track lasts as long as its listed length.
  • Switching, pausing, resuming, and seeking a YouTube Music track fade in and out instead of clicking, the previous track stops the moment a new one is picked, and the transport stays responsive while the next track loads.

Changed

  • Release cards on an artist page show the release year instead of repeating the artist's name.

Fixed

  • A disabled button reads clearly instead of fading its label into its own background.
  • Pasting YouTube Music cookies happens in a dialog that can be dismissed, so a sign-in started by mistake no longer leaves the login screen waiting for input.
  • Signing out of one service switches to another service still connected, and only falls back to the login screen once nothing is connected.
  • YouTube Music playlists you own are recognised as yours, so renaming, changing visibility and deleting are offered instead of an unsupported "remove from library" that always failed.
  • Creating a YouTube Music playlist reports success instead of an error, and the new playlist appears straight away rather than after a refresh.
  • Removing a track from a YouTube Music playlist works for tracks whose music video was swapped for its album audio.
  • A YouTube Music playlist you own no longer lists its privacy setting as its owner.
  • The player switches to the next YouTube Music track the moment the previous one ends, instead of lagging up to half a second behind the audio.
  • A YouTube Music session whose saved cookies stopped working falls back to guest browsing or the login screen instead of failing with an error.
0.7.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Sonora keeps a log file at $XDG_STATE_HOME/sonora/sonora.log, so a problem noticed after hours of use can still be diagnosed without having started the app from a terminal.
  • Playback failures explain themselves: a track that cannot be played is named in a toast, and if Spotify refuses the account playback keys entirely, Sonora says so once and stops instead of failing through track after track.

Fixed

  • Sonora holds on to far less memory during long listening sessions: cover art it has not shown for a while is released instead of being kept until the app closes, and cover art whose page was left before the download finished no longer stays in memory for the rest of the session.
  • The left sidebar keeps the width you gave it. A window too narrow to fit it now hides it and brings it back at that same width, instead of squeezing it down to its narrowest and forgetting the width you had; it can still be resized while it sits over the content.
  • Card views stay responsive in large libraries: album, song and playlist grids now draw only the rows on screen, so resizing the window no longer stutters or reloads covers, and an artist's discography opens without a pause.
0.6.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Sonora answers the system media controls: media keys, the desktop's now-playing widget and lock-screen controls can play, pause, skip, seek and set the volume, and they show the current track with its cover art.
  • Spotify links open in Sonora: a spotify: link to a track, album, playlist or artist opens that page, handing it to the window already running instead of starting a second one.

Changed

  • The app presents itself as Sonora rather than sonora, in the window title, the application menu and the Windows file properties.
0.5.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Albums and playlists can be added to and removed from the library, from their context menu and from a heart button beside Play on their page.
  • A transparent window background, with an opacity slider under Appearance settings.
  • Settings are split into General, Appearance, Playback and About tabs, reachable from the sidebar.
  • Copy link actions for tracks, albums, playlists and artists.
  • Monthly listeners on the artist page, and play counts beside an artist's popular tracks.
  • Toasts confirming queue and playlist additions.
  • The volume can be set by scrolling the mouse wheel over the volume control.
  • Turning on radio appends what it will play to the queue and lists it under a Similar tracks section, picked from the last track you queued. Those tracks play, reorder and can be removed like any other queue entry.
  • Tooltips on icon-only controls across the player, title bar, toolbar and queue.
  • The next track is fetched before the current one ends, so it starts without a gap.
  • Gapless playback, on by default and switchable under Playback settings: an album runs from one track into the next the way it was sequenced, instead of being cut at the track boundary.

Changed

  • Settings that are on or off are switches instead of text buttons.
  • Context menu entries are grouped into sections separated by a rule.
  • The sidebar always collapses when the window gets narrow; the setting that governed it is gone.
  • Skipping quickly through several tracks only loads the one you stop on.
  • The seek and volume sliders have a taller grab area, so they are easier to hit without looking any thicker.
  • Library cards are virtualized, artist release artwork loads only once it is scrolled to, and the artwork image cache is bounded, so large libraries stay responsive.
  • Headings, quick pick titles and queue track names are lighter and no longer bold.
  • Releases ship static Inter faces instead of the variable font.
  • Song, artist and album pages load their details in fewer requests.

Fixed

  • Radio builds its set of similar tracks once, instead of replacing it on every track it plays.
  • Durations in search results stay on one line.
  • Library cards keep their scroll position when you come back to them.
  • The settings menu in the sidebar folds away when you navigate off settings.
  • The Play button on a page plays the list as it is shown, so filtering or sorting no longer starts a track that is not in view.
  • An empty library section says so instead of showing a bare table, and a filter that matches nothing says that too.
  • Quick picks asks you to like a few songs once the library has loaded, instead of pulsing placeholders forever.
  • The no-matches note in search lines up with the results above it.
  • Clicking a dropdown trigger below the title bar closes its menu instead of leaving it open.
  • Releases on the artist page answer to a right-click with the album menu.
  • The percentage and timecode bubbles no longer appear below a slider, where a click would not land.
  • Rows in quick picks, the queue and search results are inset by the same amount on all four sides, instead of drifting a pixel between the top and the bottom.
  • Timestamps an hour or longer carry an hours field instead of overflowing the minutes.
  • Track menus no longer offer a link to the page that is already open.
  • A right-click on a table row no longer also opens the menu behind it.
  • Artist release artwork no longer disappears while the page scrolls.
  • The library card grid is padded on both sides.
  • Play counts of zero are treated as unknown rather than shown as zero.
0.4.1
Release Diff

Added

  • An About page crediting the team.

Changed

  • Shuffle, repeat and whether the queue panel is open are remembered between sessions.

Fixed

  • Play next inserts after the current track instead of appending to the queue.
  • Resizing one side panel no longer resizes the other.
  • A panel responds only to its own drag grip.
  • A button label truncates instead of overflowing its button.
  • Long song metadata is contained rather than spilling out of its row.
0.4.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Playlist management: create, rename, delete, change visibility, and add or remove tracks.
  • Albums and playlists can be queued as a whole from their menus.
  • Library cards are laid out on a grid that adapts its column count to the space available.
  • Toasts above the player report playlist changes.

Changed

  • Item menus are built from one shared definition rather than per-screen copies.
  • Track columns are composed from one shared set across every table.
  • Playlist edits update the library in place instead of reloading it.
  • The library Songs tab stays in list mode, where a card grid adds nothing.
  • The text input moved into the design system, and side panels are built on one panel primitive.

Fixed

  • Radio started from a search result is seeded with the track that was picked.
  • A newly created playlist is named on creation instead of appearing untitled.
0.3.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Columns can be reordered by dragging a header and resized by dragging its edge. Widths, order, hidden columns and the active sort are remembered per table between sessions.
  • Library sections switch between the table and a card grid through a new View control, remembered per section.
  • A sort control in the toolbar, so sorting works in card mode as well as in the table.
  • Card mode groups rows under first-letter or year headings when the active sort is groupable.
  • Album and playlist artwork carries a Play button that starts, pauses and resumes in place.
  • Go to album and Go to artist in the track context menu; the latter opens a submenu when a track has several artists.
  • Queued tracks gained clickable artists, a remove button on hover and the full track menu.
  • Liked tracks, with like icons shown on tracks inside albums and playlists.

Changed

  • Track, album and playlist cards are now one primitive rather than four parallel implementations.
  • Right-click context menus are a separate element from button dropdowns.
  • Every icon was refreshed from Lucide 1.30.0, and the sidebar toggle moved to the panel-left family so its divider and arrow match a left-hand panel.
  • Album cards show the artist instead of the release type.

Fixed

  • Column headers no longer overlap each other; a column either shows its full heading or is dropped.
  • Clicking a menu trigger a second time closes the menu instead of reopening it.
  • Selecting an option no longer dismisses the filters, columns or sort dropdown, so several options can be picked and the duration slider can be dragged.
  • Right-clicking another row moves the context menu in one click.
  • Submenus no longer block clicks across the whole window.
  • Ghost and outline buttons show a visible hover on the player bar, which is painted in the same colour their hover used to be.
0.2.0
Release Diff

Added

  • Added an About tab in settings carrying the copyright, the warranty disclaimer and links to the license and the source.
  • Added THIRD-PARTY.md, listing every bundled dependency and the full text of every license. Packages and release archives now ship it alongside the Inter and Lucide license files.
  • Added a Nix package that installs the prebuilt release binary instead of compiling GPUI.

Changed

  • Licensing. Sonora is now released under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. Earlier releases carried no license file at all, which left them undistributable; GPUI depends on zlog and ztracing from the Zed repository, both GPL-3.0-or-later, so every binary ever built from this tree was already covered by the GPL. Versions 0.1.0 and 0.1.1 are therefore to be read as GPL-3.0-or-later as well.

Fixed

  • Spaced the sidebar tabs apart and drew menus on the popover surface.
0.1.1
Release Diff

Added

  • Localized the interface with Fluent, shipping English, Russian, Ukrainian and Polish.
  • Added a language setting that follows the system locale by default.
  • Added an application icon for macOS, Linux and the disk image.

Changed

  • Releases now ship bare executables for Linux and Windows and a universal disk image for macOS.
  • Shuffle moved into the queue, so the queue panel shows the order that will actually play.

Fixed

  • Capped the volume taper at unity gain; the top of the slider no longer clips.
  • Aligned the scrubber thumb with the pointer across the whole track.
0.1.0
Release

Initial release: a native Spotify client with playback, an interactive queue, the saved library, search, album, playlist, artist and song pages, context menus and adaptive theming.