SONE

SONE is a native, lightweight desktop client for TIDAL on Linux that pairs a

modern, polished interface with bit-perfect, lossless Hi-Res audio — no

compromise on either. Built with Tauri and Rust, it's small and fully native.

The interface is customizable to the core: a full-screen player with

karaoke-style synced lyrics, a floating miniplayer, and a theming engine that

derives a complete light or dark palette from any two colors.

It streams your library in lossless FLAC and Hi-Res quality up to

24-bit/192kHz, with gapless, silence-free playback. For bit-perfect output,

exclusive ALSA mode bypasses PulseAudio and PipeWire entirely, sending the

unaltered signal straight to your DAC — or use normal mode for casual

listening through your system's default output.

Audio

Lossless FLAC and Hi-Res streaming up to 24-bit/192kHz

Exclusive ALSA output — bypasses PulseAudio and PipeWire, sending bit-perfect audio straight to your DAC

Bit-perfect mode with bit-depth promotion to your DAC's native depth

Automatic DAC format and sample-rate detection, with graceful fallback on mismatches

Channel negotiation and a stereo mix matrix for fixed-channel DACs

Hot-swap DACs — the ALSA output re-initialises on device change, no restart needed

Signal Path Transparency — inspect the live pipeline and confirm a pristine, bit-clean path to your DAC

Gapless, silence-free playback