◆ FONOTEK
Your music. Your library.
The Linux desktop app that downloads your music, files it with spotless tags and album covers, plays it — equalizer, synced lyrics — and syncs it to your Hidizs player in one click.
Free · AppImage & .deb · UI in 9 languages · Personal use only
Everything it does
Smart downloads
YouTube & SoundCloud search, URL pasting, full playlists, and an artist mode that fetches whole discographies via Deezer.
Spotless tags
Cleaned-up titles, correct albums and track numbers, real 1000×1000 album covers embedded in every file.
Clear library
List or cover-grid view, sort by recently added or most played, instant Ctrl+F search, duplicates finder.
Full player
10-band equalizer, fade between tracks, repeat, shuffle, session resume, media keys (MPRIS).
Synced lyrics
Fetched automatically, highlighted line by line in rhythm, and copied to the player as .lrc files.
Playlists
Play-next queue, reorderable playlists, exported as M3U8 files your DAP can read.
Hidizs sync
Automatic detection, incremental copy, per-artist selection, stale-file cleanup on the card.
Tag editor
Fix artist, title, album, track number: the file is re-tagged, re-filed, and the cover looked up again online.
Two themes, 9 languages
Light or dark neobrutalism; UI in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Russian.
How to install
Installer script Recommended
One command: installs the package and its dependencies (yt-dlp, FFmpeg), creates the menu entry.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tashikomaaa/fonotek/main/scripts/install.sh | bash.deb package Debian / Ubuntu
Full integration: applications menu, icon, uninstall with apt remove fonotek.
wget https://github.com/tashikomaaa/fonotek/releases/latest/download/fonotek_0.2.0_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./fonotek_0.2.0_amd64.debAppImage Any distro
No installation: one file, runs anywhere.
wget https://github.com/tashikomaaa/fonotek/releases/latest/download/Fonotek-0.2.0.AppImage
chmod +x Fonotek-0.2.0.AppImage
./Fonotek-0.2.0.AppImageBuilt for the Hidizs AP80 Pro-X
And for any player mounted as USB storage. Fonotek downloads m4a/AAC — natively decoded by HiBy OS — with covers that actually show up on the screen.
- Plug the player in over USB (Storage mode).
- Fonotek detects it and compares it with your library.
- Hit “Sync”: only missing files are copied, M3U8 playlists and .lrc lyrics included.
- Eject, update the player's music database, listen.
