Luminous Music Player

Version 2.5

A high-performance home for the music you already own.

Luminous is a fast, local-first player for your own music — on your drive, a network share, or your own server.

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Get it from Microsoft Store More download options

Free and open source. Made in Canada 🍁 Available in English and French.

  • Native — Rust and Tauri. No Electron.
  • Works with WebDAV & OpenSubsonic
  • Lightweight
  • No Subscription
  • No Data Collection
Luminous home screen Luminous home screen

What's New

Local & instant

Your library, indexed and instant.

Every track stays on your disk — Luminous just makes it fast to find. Search across artists, albums, and songs as you type, with a now-playing bar that's always one click away.

Albums view Albums view

Smarter playlists

Playlists that build themselves.

Create smart playlists from your own rules, or drop into auto playlists already built around decades, genres, and BPM — always up to date as your library grows.

Auto and smart playlists Auto and smart playlists

Genres, organized

Genres, curated your way.

Drag tags between genre cards to build your own sub-genre hierarchy, right down to Shoegaze under Alternative or Synthwave under Electronic.

Genre browser Genre browser

Know your habits

See how you actually listen.

Track your listening streak, see when in the day you tune in most, and browse your top artists and albums over the past week, month, or year.

Listening stats Listening stats

Stay in the flow

A miniplayer for quick skips, without the whole window.

Shrink Luminous to a compact, always-on-top miniplayer for quick skips while you work — full playback controls, a fraction of the footprint.

Miniplayer Miniplayer Miniplayer showing its hover controls Miniplayer showing its hover controls

Make it yours

A player that matches your music, not the other way around.

Choose from predefined themes, or turn on the dynamic theme and watch the whole interface repaint itself around every album's cover art — the look always matches the music.

Dynamic theme recolouring the interface to match album art

Lyrics, synced

Follow along, line by line.

Time-synced lyrics track the song in real time, with inline editing when the timing needs a touch-up. No lyrics found? Add and sync your own.

Synced lyrics view Synced lyrics view

For power users

Find any track by the rules you set.

Type field:value terms — genre:rock — to filter your whole library in one line, right down to advanced tags like Initial Key and BPM, then turn any search into a smart playlist with one click.

Advanced search Advanced search

Clean metadata

Tag editing that stays out of your way.

Fix a title, artist, or album straight from the track — no external tools needed. Edit tags one song at a time or in bulk, or hand it off to MusicBrainz Picard for automatic lookups, and keep your library consistent.

Shape your sound

A graphic equalizer, tuned your way.

Dial in a 10-band graphic EQ with genre presets to start from, then save your own, or switch to the 20-band parametric EQ for surgical control over frequency and Q. Fine-tune the low end or tame harsh highs — the changes apply instantly as you play.

Tidy by default

Organize your files, automatically.

Point Luminous at a messy folder and it sorts files into a clean artist/album structure on disk, renaming as it goes — your library stays organized without you touching a thing.

Get Luminous

Download Luminous and turn your folder of files into a real music library.

Windows

Get it from Microsoft Store

Windows 10 & 11 — installs and updates automatically.

Linux

Add repo & install

Linux — add the esoltys.dev repo once, then updates automatically.

  • .deb package Debian, Ubuntu, and derivatives. Updated via your package manager.
  • .rpm package Fedora, openSUSE, and derivatives. Updated via your package manager.