* feat(themes): add semantic tokens for the theme-store contract (B0 P1) Additive: define --highlight, --accent-2, --bg-deep, --bg-elevated and --text-on-accent on the :root base as --ctp-* mappings. They resolve per-theme automatically and nothing consumes them yet (zero behaviour change) — groundwork for replacing direct --ctp-* use in components. * refactor(themes): components consume semantic tokens, not --ctp-* (B0 P2) Replace every direct --ctp-* reference in component/layout/track CSS and TSX inline styles with the readable semantic token (--bg-app, --accent, --highlight, --text-on-accent, …). --ctp-* now survives only as the Catppuccin palette layer the base maps from, and as the deliberate categorical rainbow in Composers/Genres/artistsHelpers (left untouched). This is the readable contract surface for the community theme store. Divergences (theme set a semantic var != its --ctp- source) are corrections — the element now uses the theme's real semantic colour. * feat(themes): add player-bar title/artist color tokens New optional --player-title / --player-artist, defaulting to --text-primary / --text-secondary so nothing changes unless a theme overrides them. Lets a theme give the now-playing readout its own colour as a plain token. * refactor(themes): token-only theme library (flatten, whitelist, one file per theme) Turn every built-in theme into a single self-contained [data-theme] var block of semantic whitelist tokens (plus the internal --ctp-* palette layer): - Flatten all themes: drop structural override rules, @keyframes, and global-token overrides (radius / shadow-elevation / transition / spacing / font / focus-ring). Signature player-bar readout colours are preserved via the new --player-title / --player-artist tokens. - Normalize the var blocks to the semantic whitelist: drop the alternate token vocabulary (nav-active / scrollbar / bg-input / success / border-default / ...); rename --success -> --positive and --border-default -> --border where no whitelist equivalent was set. Migrate the few components that read those tokens to the whitelist equivalents. - Split multi-theme files so each theme ships as its own file, making the built-in set 1:1 with the per-theme store packaging. Kept as-is (built-in, not flattened): the two colour-blind-safe accessibility themes, plus the two curated core skins. * chore(themes): remove seven themes retired after the token refactor These themes leaned on heavy structural overrides and were dropped rather than flattened. Full removal each: the CSS file(s), the index.css import, the Theme type union, and the ThemePicker entry. * feat(themes): granular tokens — track lists Wire track rows to per-region tokens: row hover (--row-hover), the now-playing row + indicator (--row-playing-bg / --row-playing-text), track title/artist/ number/duration text, column-header text, row dividers, and the resize-handle active colour. Covers the desktop tracklist, the shared song-row (Tracks hub / search), and the mobile tracklist. Drop a baked border fallback. Visual no-op. * feat(themes): granular tokens — cards Wire album and artist cards to per-region tokens (--card-hover-border, --card-title, --card-subtitle, --card-placeholder-bg). Visual no-op. * fix(themes): drop undefined/baked colour aliases Replace the undefined --bg-surface (resolved to nothing — broken placeholder backgrounds and filter input) with --card-placeholder-bg / --input-bg, and the baked-hex aliases --color-error / --color-warning with --danger / --warning so themes can actually recolour them. * feat(themes): Spectrum demo theme + trim unused cascade tokens Add a loud built-in demo theme that gives each region its own hue (sidebar green, player pink, lists cyan, cards gold, menus red, controls blue) so the per-region granularity is obvious when you switch to it. Drop two unused cascade tokens (--sidebar-text-active, --row-active-bg) and the unused on-media block (those media surfaces stay static by design). * style(themes): make Spectrum demo brutally loud Full-saturation neon per region (toxic green sidebar, magenta player, cyan lists, acid-yellow cards, blood-red menus, electric-blue controls, purple scrollbar) so the per-region separation is unmistakable. The earlier soft tints were too subtle to read. * feat(themes): name the granular demo theme Braindead * feat(themes): granular per-region tokens — cascade layer + sidebar Add an optional per-region token layer (semantic-cascade.css) so a theme can recolour individual regions — sidebar hover, player controls, list rows, menus, inputs, on-media surfaces — independently of the global tokens. Every token defaults to its base token (or a media-safe literal), so this is a visual no-op until a theme overrides one; it only adds control points. Wire the sidebar region as the first consumer and drop the baked grey fallbacks (--bg-tertiary, etc.) that no theme could reach. * feat(themes): granular tokens — controls, menus, scrollbar Wire inputs, buttons, sliders, the custom-select, context menus, submenus and modals to per-region tokens, and tokenise the scrollbar. Complete B0 by dropping the last direct --ctp-* references in the input/button/progress/ scrollbar utility CSS. Fix three undefined-token bugs that fell back to nothing (so no theme could reach them): --surface-2 (context-menu hover had no highlight), --bg-surface (submenu create-input had no background), and the baked grey fallbacks in the custom-select. Every other new token defaults to today's value — a visual no-op that only adds override points. * feat(themes): granular tokens — player bar Wire the desktop player bar's transport controls, time toggle, and overflow menu to per-region tokens (--player-control, --player-time-toggle-*, etc.). Fix the undefined --surface-hover/--surface-active grey fallbacks on the time toggle. Visual no-op; defaults match today's values. * chore(themes): remove empty theme stub files Six theme CSS files were reduced to comment-only stubs by the flatten sweep but their files and @import lines remained. Five are empty structural companions of now-flattened themes (morpheus, p-dvd, aero-glass, luna-teal) and two are orphans of cut themes (order-of-the-phoenix, pandora). Removed the files and their imports. * feat(themes): runtime injection foundation for the theme store Plumbing for installed community themes ahead of the in-app store UI, nothing user-visible yet: - installedThemesStore: persisted (localStorage) record of installed community themes incl. their CSS text, so an active community theme is available synchronously at startup (no flash, fully offline). - themeInjection: reconcile <head> <style data-installed-theme> elements with the store; lightweight defense-in-depth sanitize on top of CI. - themeRegistry: jsDelivr registry client with a 12h localStorage cache and stale-on-error fallback. - App: inject installed themes before applying data-theme, in both webviews. - themeStore: widen the Theme type to accept dynamic installed ids. * feat(themes): dedicated Themes settings tab Move theme selection and the day/night scheduler out of Appearance into a new dedicated Themes tab — the future home of the community Theme Store. Appearance keeps grid columns, visual options, UI scale, font and seekbar. - ThemesTab: theme picker + scheduler (relocated verbatim). - AppearanceTab: drop the two relocated sections + now-unused imports. - Register the tab in settingsTabs (Tab union, resolveTab, search index) and Settings (tab bar, render, label map). - i18n: settings.tabThemes in all 9 locales. * feat(themes): community Theme Store browse + install Add the Theme Store section to the Themes tab: - Fetch the jsDelivr registry (12h cache, stale-on-error fallback). - Search by name/author/description + filter by light/dark + refresh. - Per-row CDN thumbnail, name, author, description and actions: Install / Apply / Update / Uninstall. Installing fetches the CSS, persists it (localStorage) and the runtime injection applies it; uninstalling the active theme falls back to the matching core. - Rating slot left reserved (deferred). - i18n: themeStore* keys in all 9 locales. * feat(themes): slim bundle to fixed cores + flat Themes tab Remove the 86 store palettes (incl. braindead) from the app bundle — the CSS files, their index.css imports, the Theme union and the picker data — leaving only the six fixed cores (Catppuccin Mocha/Latte, Kanagawa Wave, Stark HUD, Vision Dark/Navy). Everything else installs from the store. Themes tab is rebuilt flat (no collapsible accordions): - "Your Themes": one card grid of the fixed cores + installed community themes; click to apply, uninstall on community ones (active theme falls back to the matching core). Catppuccin prefix on Mocha/Latte; a CVD-safe pill on the colour-blind-safe Vision themes. - Scheduler day/night options include installed themes. - Theme Store: alphabetical order, thumbnail lightbox, and a submit hint above the search linking to the themes repository. - Nav order: Servers, Library, Audio, Themes, Appearance, Lyrics, … - ThemePicker accordion removed; fixed-theme data moved to fixedThemes.ts. - i18n for all new strings across 9 locales. * feat(themes): reset removed-from-bundle themes to a bundled fallback After slimming the bundle to the six fixed core themes, a profile upgraded from an older build may have an active or scheduler theme that is now store-only and not installed — it has no [data-theme] block and would render as unstyled :root. Reset any theme/themeDay/themeNight that is neither bundled nor installed to a bundled fallback: Mocha for the main + night slots, Latte for the day slot. Runs synchronously in runPreReactBootstrap, rewriting the persisted selection in localStorage before React mounts (no flash; Zustand rehydrates after first paint). No auto-install and no network — the fallback is always a bundled theme, so it works offline. * feat(themes): floating back-to-top button on the Themes tab The Themes tab can get long (theme grid + scheduler + full store list), so add a floating back-to-top affordance that appears once the page is scrolled and smooth-scrolls to the top. It is portalled into the route host and positioned absolute against it — the main scroll viewport sets contain: paint, which would otherwise make position: fixed resolve against the scrolling box and drift with the content. Reusable component (scroll viewport id + threshold props); i18n common.backToTop added in all nine locales. * feat(themes): accessibility + state polish for the Theme Store - Reuse the shared CoverLightbox for the thumbnail preview instead of a second inline dialog — gains a visible close button and a focus-managed, portalled dialog, and drops duplicated markup. - Theme cards expose aria-pressed so assistive tech announces the selected theme, not just the visual check. - Transient store messages get live-region roles (loading/empty/install failure = status, fetch error = alert). - Thumbnails degrade gracefully when offline/missing (hide the broken-image glyph; the thumbnail button no longer stretches with the row, so its background can't show as letterbox bars). * feat(themes): larger store-row thumbnails (120x75 -> 200x125) The list previews were too small to make a theme out; bump the display size (same 1.6 aspect). Thumbnails are now served at 720x450, so the larger display stays crisp. * fix(themes): bust thumbnail cache on registry change jsDelivr serves theme thumbnails with a 7-day max-age, so when a thumbnail is updated the webview keeps showing its cached old image (the path is unchanged). Append the registry's generatedAt as a cache-busting query to the thumbnail URLs (list + lightbox); it changes on every themes push, so a registry refresh makes the webview re-fetch and reflect the current CDN image instead of a stale one. * docs(themes): changelog + credits for the Theme Store Add the 1.48.0 "Themes — community Theme Store" changelog entry (PR #1009) and the matching line in the Psychotoxical credits. * fix(themes): address PR review (uninstall hygiene, validation, polish) Uninstall/scheduler & validation: - uninstallTheme() repairs every selection slot (active + day + night), not just the manual one, and is shared by both uninstall buttons (dedup). - Validate theme CSS at install time and skip persisting CSS that won't inject (no more "installed/active but renders nothing" with no feedback). - Harden the runtime validator: exactly one rule, scoped exactly to the theme's [data-theme='<id>'] selector (no unscoped/foreign selectors), no at-rules, url() only data:, no expression()/javascript:, size-capped. Tokens & polish: - Fix three dangling undefined tokens (--surface-2 x2, --bg-surface). - Finish the warning/success token sweep (--warning / --positive, themeable). - Apply the active theme synchronously before React mounts (no first-frame flash) and inject installed themes up front. - One-time, dismissible notice when the slim-bundle migration reset a theme. - Update badge uses semver, not string inequality. - Offline/stale indicator in the store; cross-window theme sync; drop the now dead REMOVED_THEME_REMAP and Card.mode field. Tests: themeInjection (validator + sync), themeRegistry (cache/force/stale/ malformed), uninstallTheme (slot repair), migration notice. i18n in all nine locales. Full suite green (1755 tests). * test(bootstrap): cover startup theme apply + cross-window sync The review fixes added applyThemeAtStartup / installCrossWindowThemeSync to bootstrap.ts (a hot-path file) without tests, dropping its coverage to 68.3% and failing the frontend hot-path coverage gate (>=70%). Add unit tests for both (and the no-op / malformed-storage paths); bootstrap.ts is back to ~98%.
A modern desktop client for self-hosted music libraries
Fast. Native. Beautiful. Built for people who actually care about their music collection.
Psysonic is built primarily for Navidrome and also works with Gonic, Airsonic, LMS and other Subsonic-compatible servers, depending on the features supported by your server.
Available languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Norwegian Bokmål, Dutch, Romanian, Russian and Chinese.
More translations are added over time.
No telemetry • Native performance • Navidrome-first • Community driven
What is Psysonic?
Psysonic is a desktop music client for self-hosted music libraries. It is designed for people who want the freedom of their own server without giving up the comfort, polish and speed of a modern music app.
It is built with Rust, Tauri v2 and React, with a strong focus on responsiveness, customization, practical music-library workflows and a user interface that does not require a manual before you can press play.
Psysonic is optimized first and foremost for Navidrome. Other Subsonic-compatible servers can work well too, but advanced features may depend on server-side support.
Highlights
Playback & Queue
- Gapless playback
- Crossfade
- ReplayGain support
- LUFS-based Smart Loudness Normalization
- AudioMuse-AI support
- Infinite Queue
- Smart Radio sessions
- Fast and responsive playback handling
- Low memory usage compared to heavy web-first clients
Audio Tools
- 10-band Equalizer
- Equalizer presets
- AutoEQ headphone correction
- Per-device optimization
- Loudness-aware playback options
Library Management
- Fast search across large libraries
- Albums, artists, tracks and genres
- Ratings support
- Multi-select bulk actions
- Drag & drop playlist management
- Smart Playlists
- Built for large self-hosted collections
Lyrics & Discovery
- Synced lyrics with seek support
- Lyrics provider support: YouLy+, LRCLIB and NetEase
- Auto-scrolling sidebar lyrics
- Fullscreen lyric mode
- Last.fm scrobbling
- Similar artists
- Loved tracks and listening stats
Sharing & Social Listening
-
Magic Strings sharing:
- share albums, artists and queues
- Navidrome user management helpers
- fast account sharing
-
Orbit shared listening sessions:
- host-controlled synchronized playback
- session invites via link
- guest song suggestions
- real-time queue interaction
Personalization & Accessibility
- Large theme collection
- Catppuccin and Nord inspired styles
- Glassmorphism effects
- Font customization
- Zoom controls
- Keybind remapping
- Theme Scheduler for automatic day/night switching
- Colorblind-friendly theme options
- Keyboard-friendly navigation
Power User Extras
- CLI controls
- USB / portable sync
- Backup and restore settings
- In-app auto updater
- LAN / remote auto switching
Orbit brings synchronized shared listening sessions directly into Psysonic.
Start a session, invite others with a link and listen together with host-controlled playback, shared queue interaction and guest song suggestions. It is built for real-world music sharing without turning your self-hosted setup into a social-media circus.
Platforms
| OS | Support |
|---|---|
| Windows | Native installer |
| macOS | Signed DMG |
| Linux | AppImage / DEB / RPM / AUR (psysonic, psysonic-bin) / NixOS |
Install
Linux
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/main/scripts/install.sh | sudo bash
Linux builds are also available through GitHub Releases, AUR and Cachix/Nix.
AppImage runs under X11/XWayland — it pins
GDK_BACKEND=x11for a stable WebKitGTK stack. For a native-Wayland launch, use the.deb,.rpm, AUR, or Nix packages, which follow your session's display server.
Windows
Download the latest installer from the GitHub Releases.
macOS
Download the signed DMG from the GitHub Releases.
Development
Contributor expectations (PRs, CI, Tauri boundary, UI): CONTRIBUTING.md.
git clone https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic.git
cd psysonic
npm install
npm run tauri:dev
Build release:
npm run tauri:build
Privacy
Psysonic is built for self-hosted music collections. Your library is yours.
- No telemetry
- No spyware nonsense
- No analytics harvesting
- No hidden tracking
See TELEMETRY.md for the telemetry stance and PRIVACY.md for how each opt-in integration handles data.
Community & Support
Join the community, report bugs, suggest features, share themes and help shape the future of Psysonic.
License
Psysonic is licensed under the GNU GPL v3.0.
Forks and Attribution
Psysonic is free and open-source software under the GPLv3. You are welcome to fork it, modify it and build upon it under the terms of the license.
If you publish a modified or rebranded version, please make it clear that your project is based on Psysonic and preserve proper attribution to the original project.
That is not about preventing forks. Forks are part of open source. It is about being honest with users and contributors about where the work comes from.
Features, design work and implementation ideas developed in Psysonic should not be presented as unrelated original work in downstream projects.
Own your music. Enjoy the client too.
Psysonic brings a modern desktop experience to self-hosted music libraries.

