An elegant music player built using Electron and React. Inspired by Oto Music for Android by Piyush Mamidwar. With simplicity and design in mind, this app was made to overcome problems when using default music apps on platforms that lack essential features. It packs a horizon of features including, - Organize your songs, artists, albums, and playlists with ease. - Create playlists that meet your needs. - Sing along with song lyrics. - Support for synced lyrics. - Keep your favorite songs and artists close to you. - Read your favorite artist's biography. - Personalized music shuffling.(Upcoming) - Change between Light and Dark themes with ease. - A mini-player to help focus on what matters at the moment. - Edit the metadata of your songs easily and conveniently. - Search through your library with the help of song filters.
Nora can open or be associated with 10 file types:
.m4a.flac.mp3.wav.wma.aac.ape.opus.amr.ogg
Nora version history
3.0.0
🎉 New Features and Updates - Added an experimental full-screen player mode. Fixes #222. - Added support for translating lyrics. Fixes #239. - Added support for dynamic themes based on the currently playing song. - Added experimental support auto-updating Nora. - Added support for navigation between prompts for supported prompts. - Greatly reduced unnecessary re-renders in turn improving overall performance. - Added a feature to prevent the display from going to sleep in situations with no user activity like displaying lyrics. - Moved notifications to the bottom right corner of the window. - Added support for Discord Rich Presence. - Added a progress bar to the bottom of the full-screen player. - Added keyboard shortcuts to control prompt menu back/forward navigation buttons. - Added Turkish translations. Thanks @mikropsoft. - Added support for filtering songs and artists in selected pages. 🔨 Fixes and Improvements - Greatly improved palette generation duration. (90% faster) - Fixed some localization bugs in Nora. - Fixed a bug where Nora doesn't send albumArtist data when scrobbling songs. - Improved performance when sending scrobbling and now playing data to Last.fm. - Fixed a bug where albums related to artists are not shown. - Fixed a bug where special characters are not shown when localizing text in Nora. - Fixed a bug where metadata updates of songs outside the library fail. - Improved animations when displaying lyrics. …
2.5.0
※ This update includes some of the most requested features such as 10-band equalizer, localization support, reading/writing lyrics from LRC files and a lot of bug fixes. 🎉 New Features and Updates - Added localization support for Nora. - Added a setting to change the language in Nora. - Added support for reading album artists in songs. - Added support reading and writing song lyrics to .LRC files. Fixes #215. - Added a feature to play the next/previous lyrics line using Alt + Up/Down shortcuts for synced lyrics in LyricsPage. Fixes #216. - Added support for 10-band equalizer. - Added partial support for saving song album artist. - Added migrations support for local storage. - Added support for saving LRC files in a separate folder other than the folder where the relevant song is located. - Added support for renaming the playlist. - Scrobble song requests now include albumArtist data. - Sorting songs with track number now also considers their disk numbers. Fixes #211. - Added up next song popup for the mini-player. - Added a button to clear app local storage data. - Added support for holding metadata saves if that song is currently being played to prevent player confusions and song corruptions. - Added support for saving lyrics to an LRC file if edited through the SongTagsEditingPage. - CurrentQueuePage now shows the remaining time of the queue. - Added a new button to add an instrumental line below when editing lyrics lines. …
Frequently asked questions
Is Nora free?
Yes. Nora is free and open-source software released under the MIT License license.
What is the latest version of Nora?
The latest version is 3.1.0, released on Mar 29, 2025.
Is it safe to download Nora?
The download button links to the official installer published on github.com, the same file Windows Package Manager installs. You can verify the downloaded file by comparing its SHA-256 checksum with b3fa8f614c47cdfe7c73bbae6daccd01b67e1cec25b4450a61e605698458c1cd.
Which Windows versions does Nora support?
Nora runs on Windows and is available for 64-bit (x64), 32-bit (x86), ARM64 systems.
How do I install Nora silently?
Run the offline installer with "Nora.v3.1.0-stable-win-x64.exe" /S /ALLUSERS, or install it with Windows Package Manager: winget install --id=Sandakan.Nora -e --silent.
How do I uninstall Nora?
Open Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find Nora and select Uninstall. From the command line, run winget uninstall --id=Sandakan.Nora -e.
What file types can Nora open?
Nora supports 10 file types, including .m4a, .flac, .mp3, .wav, .wma, .aac, .ape, .opus and more.
Alternatives to Nora
Other Audio programs for Windows from different developers.
