Noctis

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

   

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Screenshots

Word-by-word karaoke lyrics

Home

Cover Flow

Album pages

Themes & accent colors

More screenshots — Hi-Res library, parametric EQ, lyrics panel, queue, artist pages

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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

Sound

• Plays everything — FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, APE, WavPack, MP3, AAC, OGG, Opus, WMA, M4A
• Bit-perfect exclusive output on Windows, with a live signal-path badge
• Parametric EQ with presets
• Gapless playback, crossfade & AutoMix
• ReplayGain volume leveling
• Batch converter between formats (ffmpeg)

Library

• Songs, Albums, Artists, Folders & Playlists views
• Albums split into Albums / Singles / EPs / Compilations
• Smart playlists & favorites
• Full metadata editor — artwork, lyrics, per-track options
• Drag & drop import, watched folders, bulk edits
• Duplicate finder & file organizer
• Command palette
• Listening stats + a monthly / yearly Wrap

Lyrics

• Word-by-word karaoke lyrics, Apple Music style
• Auto-fetched from LRCLIB & NetEase, cached offline
• Lyrics panel you can keep open next to any page
• Built-in lyrics editor with .lrc export
• Share lyrics as image cards or short clips

Look & feel

• Cover Flow browsing
• Animated cover art
• Ambient backgrounds on lyrics & album pages
• Themes & accent colors, plus a custom theme editor
• Floating mini player

Connect

• Discord Rich Presence
• Scrobble to Last.fm & ListenBrainz
• Stream from Navidrome, SMB & WebDAV
• Web remote — control playback from your phone
• Artist images & bios via MusicBrainz and Deezer
• Updates itself 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.