Flatsonar

Supersonic

by Drew Weymouth

A lightweight cross-platform desktop client for Subsonic and Jellyfin music servers

Broad permissions Flathub reviewed GPL-3.0+ v0.22.1
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About

A lightweight cross-platform desktop client for Subsonic and Jellyfin music servers.

Features:

  • Fast, lightweight, native UI, with infinite scrolling
  • Light and Dark themes, with optional auto theme switching
  • High-quality gapless audio playback powered by MPV, with optional audio exclusive mode
  • ReplayGain support (depends on files being tagged on server)
  • MPRIS and Mac OS media center integration
  • Scrobble plays to server, with configurable criteria
  • Multi-server support
  • Primary and alternate server hostnames, e.g. for internal and external URLs
  • Set filters in albums browsing view
  • Sort tracklist views by column and configure visible tracklist columns
  • Set/unset favorite and browse by favorite albums, artists, and songs
  • Shuffle and repeat playback modes (partial; shuffle album, playlist, artist radio, random songs)

Permissions

2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • your keyring / saved passwords
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.secrets
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • network
    --share=network
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to xdg-run/pipewire-0
    --filesystem=xdg-run/pipewire-0:ro
  • access to xdg-run/keyring
    --filesystem=xdg-run/keyring
  • access to ~/.config/pipewire
    --filesystem=~/.config/pipewire:ro
  • system tray
    --talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher
  • notifications
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
  • talks to org.gnome.keyring.SystemPrompter
    --talk-name=org.gnome.keyring.SystemPrompter
  • media player controls (MPRIS)
    --talk-name=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player
  • registers as a media player (MPRIS)
    --own-name=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Supersonic

Who publishes this

On Flathub: the manifest was reviewed and built on Flathub's infrastructure, but the developer has not verified ownership of the app id.

  • on Flathub: manifest reviewed and built by Flathub; the developer has not verified the app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

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