Noctis

A music player that respects what's yours. Zero tracking, total control.

 

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Screenshots

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Install

Windows — via a package manager:

# winget
winget install heartached.Noctis

# Scoop (add the bucket once, then install)
scoop bucket add noctis https://github.com/heartached/scoop-bucket
scoop install noctis

# Chocolatey
choco install noctis

Or download the installer / portable zip from the latest release.

macOS / Linux — download the .dmg / AppImage from the latest release.

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Features

Everything below ships in the box — no accounts, no upsells, no telemetry.

• Lossless formats — FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, APE, WavPack (plus MP3, AAC, OGG, Opus, WMA, M4A)
• Gapless playback & crossfade
• Parametric equalizer with presets
• Bit-perfect WASAPI exclusive output with a live signal-path badge (Windows)
• ReplayGain & loudness normalization
• Audio converter — batch transcode to FLAC, MP3, AAC, and more (ffmpeg-backed)
• Floating mini player
• Songs, Albums, Artists, Folders & Playlists views
• Release-type aware sections (Albums / Singles / EPs / Compilations) with filter chips
• Smart playlists, favorites & drag-to-reorder playlists
• Full metadata editor with artwork, lyrics & per-track options
• Drag-and-drop import and multi-select bulk actions in every view
• Duplicate finder & file organizer (rename/move by metadata)
• Command palette for fast navigation
• Library statistics plus a "Wrap" year / month listening recap
• Synced lyrics via LRCLIB & NetEase with offline cache
• Plain + synced lyrics editor with .lrc sidecar export
• Side lyrics panel alongside any view
• Share lyrics as image cards or short video clips
• Cover Flow album browsing
• Animated cover art for the now-playing track
• Dynamic ambient backgrounds on lyrics & album pages
• Custom themes & accent colors with a built-in theme editor
• Navidrome, SMB & WebDAV remote sources with offline cache
• Web remote — control playback from your phone's browser over your LAN
• Artist images & bios via MusicBrainz and Deezer; artwork lookup via iTunes
• Last.fm scrobbling + album descriptions
• ListenBrainz scrobbling
• Discord Rich Presence
• In-app self-update from GitHub releases

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Build

git clone https://github.com/heartached/Noctis
cd Noctis
dotnet run --project src/Noctis/Noctis.csproj

Requirements: .NET 8 SDK

Supported platforms: Windows 10/11 (x64), macOS 12+ (Intel & Apple Silicon), Linux (x64 & ARM64).

Native dependency — libvlc

• Windows: bundled automatically via NuGet — nothing to install.
• macOS: install VLC (Noctis loads libvlc from /Applications/VLC.app):

  brew install --cask vlc

• Linux: install via your package manager. The -dev package provides the unversioned libvlc.so symlink that the .NET loader looks for:

  # Debian/Ubuntu
  sudo apt install libvlc-dev
  # Fedora
  sudo dnf install vlc-devel
  # Arch
  sudo pacman -S vlc

Running a downloaded build (macOS / Linux)

The macOS and Linux artifacts on the Releases page are unsigned self-contained builds. After unzipping:

macOS:

cd Noctis-macos-arm64
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine .   # remove Gatekeeper quarantine flag
./Noctis

Linux:

cd Noctis-linux-x64
chmod +x Noctis
./Noctis

Build for another OS

dotnet publish src/Noctis/Noctis.csproj -c Release -r linux-x64   --self-contained
dotnet publish src/Noctis/Noctis.csproj -c Release -r osx-arm64   --self-contained
dotnet publish src/Noctis/Noctis.csproj -c Release -r osx-x64     --self-contained
dotnet publish src/Noctis/Noctis.csproj -c Release -r linux-arm64 --self-contained

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Star History

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Feedback

If you have any feedback about bugs, feature requests, etc. about the app, please let me know through issues.

Yours Truly, heartached.

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License

MIT — see LICENSE

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Warning

Windows may flag the installer as untrusted because it isn't code-signed. This is normal for indie software — the app is safe to use.