Ad-free playback
Request filtering plus cosmetic cleanup. Promoted tracks and banners never reach the player.
SoundCloud
without
the noise.
A real desktop app for the catalog you already use. Ad-free playback, synced lyrics, a 10-band EQ, offline downloads and Discord Rich Presence.
- Playback
- Ad-free, offline, media keys, MPRIS
- Toolkit
- Synced lyrics, 10-band EQ, visualizer
- Build
- Electron, MIT licensed, v3.0.0
A player, not a tab.
SoundCloud has the catalog. SixteenCloud gives it a proper desktop home: window controls, media keys, a queue that survives, and no browser furniture around the music.
Your music shouldn't live between twenty tabs and a password prompt. Open the app, press play, close the lid. That's the whole idea.
The player wraps the SoundCloud web experience in Electron, then adds what a music app is expected to have: a tray icon, media keys, MPRIS on Linux, a mini player, downloads, lyrics, an equalizer and a visualizer wired to the real audio graph.
It is built for Linux first, and packaged for Windows and macOS from the same codebase. No account tricks and no second library to keep in sync.
0
ads. No promoted tracks, no interruptions.
10
EQ bands, with presets and per-track memory.
9
lyric sources, synced and plain.
3
platforms from one codebase.
Built for listening.
Small details everywhere, so the only thing you notice is the music.
Playback
Everything between pressing play and hearing the track.
Synced lyrics
Time-synced LRC with auto-scroll and a 3D roulette view. Nine sources with a fallback chain.
10-band EQ
A real Web Audio graph with presets, a visible curve, and memory per track.
Visualizer
Several modes driven by the actual analyser node. Idle-friendly, never a fake animation.
Library
What you keep, what you play next, and what the outside world sees.
Downloads
Tracks and playlists, HLS-aware, with a queue, quality presets, output folder and history.
Discord Rich Presence
Track, artist, elapsed time and artwork on your profile as soon as the song starts.
System
The parts that make the app feel native to the machine it runs on.
Linux, first class
Tray, MPRIS, media keys, desktop entry and notification controls. Not an afterthought.
Themes and accents
AMOLED Black, Light, Nord, Catppuccin Mocha, Dracula — or your own CSS and accent.
Geo-unblock
Optional proxy routing for region-locked catalogs. Off by default, one switch away.
Auto-update
Signed Windows installer and AppImage builds check GitHub Releases for new versions.
The actual app.
Screenshots from the 3.0.0 build. No mockups, no marketing gloss.
Discover
The Discover feed, minus promoted cards and banners.
Pick your platform.
One codebase, three builds. Updates come straight from GitHub Releases.
Portable by default.
- Download the AppImage from the latest release.
- Make it executable, then run it.
- Tray, MPRIS and media keys are already wired in.
chmod +x SixteenCloud.Setup.3.0.0.AppImage
deb and pacman packages are on the releases page.
No admin required.
- Download the installer.
- Run it. It installs for your user only.
- If SmartScreen appears, choose More info, then Run anyway.
- FormatNSIS installer
- InstallPer user
- Admin rightsNot required
The build is signed. Updates install in place.
Unzip and drag.
- Unzip the archive.
- Drag SixteenCloud to Applications.
- Clear the quarantine flag once.
x86_64 only — Apple Silicon runs it through Rosetta.
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/SixteenCloud.app
The build is unsigned. The command above removes the warning.
Older 2.x builds migrate to 3.0.0 through the same release feed. On Wayland, launch with --ozone-platform=wayland if the window stays hidden.