diff --git a/media-sound/sonata/Manifest b/media-sound/sonata/Manifest
index 4a125c990e67..15f8f6513533 100644
--- a/media-sound/sonata/Manifest
+++ b/media-sound/sonata/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST sonata-1.7.0.tar.gz 2258617 BLAKE2B 704f673737095351f88f64bc858db465b26d8e0fdb34cbb4d3917abe65ec276ec3e6419edd41d9e8b193a886c8dfd178b5fc94daa4a178aae817c2d3024c266b SHA512 c60c16b6cca439c2063069ceea62afdb9f09c9735d36ba42e2b5b1caf07506f15d722d75c68e355db4615b937a728679aeae1619527ac8267feec111635c27f5
+DIST sonata-1.7.2.tar.gz 2257885 BLAKE2B 222bc515a6af7dac402fc26de6888effbe557e73865549855e37132fd40311a34b93512dff8d1df9bfbac7d2466f2c38fa5e22b6b2d4906683998422b95db427 SHA512 10b868cdab744f2c40f89763b23d851849e087bc3170538aaa1f229d3adb1e2e7c7805649ebb7bf6a82f8265ec9f4d78528122450f3d599c0149c4e66ceac163
diff --git a/media-sound/sonata/files/sonata-1.7.2-fix_version.patch b/media-sound/sonata/files/sonata-1.7.2-fix_version.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..dac9026a00f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-sound/sonata/files/sonata-1.7.2-fix_version.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/sonata/version.py
++++ b/sonata/version.py
+@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ except ImportError:
+     build_ver = None
+ 
+ # Should be the most recent release
+-default_version = "v1.7.3"
++default_version = "v1.7.2"
+ 
+ def _version():
+     '''Get the version number of the sources
diff --git a/media-sound/sonata/sonata-1.7.2.ebuild b/media-sound/sonata/sonata-1.7.2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..30297a6ce6da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-sound/sonata/sonata-1.7.2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..13} )
+DISTUTILS_SINGLE_IMPL=1
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+inherit desktop distutils-r1 xdg
+
+DESCRIPTION="Elegant GTK+ music client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD)"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.nongnu.org/sonata/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/multani/sonata/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~x86"
+IUSE="dbus taglib"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-libs/glib:2[introspection]
+	x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf:2[introspection]
+	x11-libs/gtk+:3[introspection]
+	x11-libs/pango[introspection]
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		dev-python/pygobject:3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/python-mpd2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dbus? ( dev-python/dbus-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+		taglib? ( dev-python/tagpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	')
+"
+BDEPEND="sys-devel/gettext"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-fix_version.patch
+)
+
+distutils_enable_tests unittest
+
+src_compile() {
+	distutils-r1_src_compile
+	# see bug #956771
+	find "${WORKDIR}" -name 'genversion.*' -delete || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	distutils-r1_src_install
+	doicon -s 128 sonata/pixmaps/sonata.png
+	rm -r "${ED}"/usr/share/sonata || die
+}