SonicTree is a Linux music player for local music playback and filesystem-based navigation. It allows you to browse collection directly from your existing folder structure, build playlists and play music without maintaining a music library database.
* Version - 1.5.0
* Platform - Linux
* Architecture - x86_64 (64-bit)
Whats new in 1.5.0
SonicTree 1.5.0 improves folder browsing and playlist management, adds shuffle playback, and includes refactoring, bug fixes, and other enhancements.
- Improved File Mode performance for large music collections.
- Cleaner folder tree display using folder names.
- Shuffle playback with Playback menu controls and a status bar indicator.
- Append to Playlist for recursively adding supported audio files while preserving the existing playlist and playback position.
- Code improvements, bug fixes, and other enhancements.
Features
- Designed around local folder-based music playback for clean and distraction-free listening experience
- Playback Architecture Powered by GStreamer for stable playback pipeline and decoder handling
- Audio metadata support powered by TagLib
- Low CPU usage during playback . Small and stable memory footprint with minimal background overhead
- Gapless Playback for improved listening experience for continuous albums, live recordings, and gapless music.
- Smooth and responsive playback experience with stable long-session playback behavior
- Playlist quoue, Playlist sorting, Repeat modes, Shuffle playback and Session timer
- Keyboard shortcuts for playback, seeking, and volume control
- Persistent application settings
- Hardened release binaries with Full RELRO, Stack Canary, PIE, NX, and FORTIFY_SOURCE.
- SHA-256 checksums and GPG signatures included for release verification.
- High-resolution playback — Preserves high-resolution source formats whenever the underlying audio output path supports them, without deliberately resampling or converting the audio.
- Distribution Official: Linux AppImage packages, accompanied by SHA-256 checksums and GPG signatures for verification. Community: Arch Linux (AUR) package maintained by the community.
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