Version 3.2

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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Free and open source. Made in Canada 🍁 Available in seven languages.

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

What's New

Versions 3.0 – 3.2
New
- Missing drive protection: unplug an external drive and your songs stay in the library until you decide
- ASIO output on Windows, straight to your DAC or audio interface
- Song and Artist Radio: an instant queue built from your own library
- Seven languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Ukrainian
- Love and rate together, synced with ListenBrainz when you sign in with MusicBrainz
- Free-frequency parametric EQ with AutoEq headphone profiles
- Live lyrics in the miniplayer, plus word-by-word sync
- Info sidebar for the song, album, or artist you're viewing
- Pinned playlists, albums, and artists in the sidebar
- Auto-organize new music into your folder pattern
- Portable mode with a standalone Windows ZIP
- Much faster syncing for large WebDAV libraries
- AppImage is back for Linux
Version 2.5
- OpenSubsonic streaming from Navidrome, Nextcloud Music, Gonic, and more
- Two-way server sync for plays, favourites, and ratings
- Artist profiles and portraits from MusicBrainz, fanart.tv, and Wikidata
- Album links to Discogs, AllMusic, and Wikidata
- Audio Pipeline inspector and playbar quality badge
- Opus playback
- Repeat Album mode
- Smart playlists from folders
- Share cards for playlists, artists, and stats
- Official Flatpak

Artists, filled in

Every artist page, written for you.

Artist pages fill in on their own from MusicBrainz and fanart.tv — logos, artwork, bio, and upcoming concerts — with the info sidebar one click away.

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.

Stay in the flow

A miniplayer for quick skips, without the whole window.

Shrink Luminous to a compact, always-on-top miniplayer with live lyrics and full playback controls — a fraction of the footprint.

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.

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.

Shape your sound

An equalizer tuned to your headphones.

Drag bands right on the response graph, type exact values, or import an AutoEq profile for your headphones — up to 20 bands of parametric EQ.

Parametric equalizer with its response graph

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

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.

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.

Love and rate

A heart and stars, side by side.

Love a song, dislike it with a right-click on the heart, and give it 1 to 5 stars on its own. Sign in with MusicBrainz and your loves and ratings sync with ListenBrainz both ways.

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.

Tidy by default

Organize your files, automatically.

Sort your library into folders with your own naming template. Turn on auto-organize and new music and tag changes are filed into place as they arrive — no tidying up afterwards.

Get Luminous

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

Windows

Windows 10 & 11 — installs and updates automatically.

Portable ZIP No installer — keep Luminous and its data together, even on a USB drive.

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.
AppImage Runs on most distributions — download, make it executable, and play.