Hey! I'm the maker of Sonora, a local-first music player with synced karaoke-style lyrics and optional Genius metadata enrichment.
Curious to hear from this community: what's the one thing that annoys you most about Spotify/Apple Music/whatever you use now, or what would make you switch to a local-first player? Trying to figure out what to prioritize for the next beta, thanks for checking out the launch!
Hey everyone!
I built Sonora because I wanted a simple, modern and local music player - just point it at a folder of MP3s and it organizes everything into albums, artists and playlists.
What started as "I just want lyrics" turned into automatic synced lyrics, and later an optional Genius integration to fill in missing artist info and metadata during a scan. I also added a built-in tag editor so I didn't need a separate tool to fix titles/covers.
It's still in beta. Windows builds are the most polished, Linux/Android are build-from-source for now. Would love feedback, bug reports, and feature ideas!