Coffee Music Visualizer

A personal GUI + TUI music visualizer written in Rust.

About this project

I decided to write the visualizer because existing projects didn't suit me. Some too slow, some didn't have the visualizer I like, some take up too much cpu usage, etc.

This project also serves as my playground, so you'll see a lot of weird implementations in the source files.

v0.5.1 Hot fix

Fix compilation failure in terminal mode

What's new in v0.5.0

Terminal and minifb mode have been moved to their own features. You'll need to recompile with --features terminal and/or --features minifb to use them.

v0.5.0 introduces Winit as the default window backend for Coffeevis. Cvis can still be launched with minifb with the --minifb flag. Coffeevis is now also Wayland by default.

The app now has a new set of visualizers called Milky. These visualizers (should) look more artistic and colorful than the default Classic visualizers. Currently there's only 1 visualizer in the set lol. I plan to design some more by 0.6.0.

With performance improvements Cvis should now use less CPU usage, and even less when idle.

Examples:

Platform support

Coffeevis is built for and runs on Linux. Windows, MacOS and BSD support is not available.

Installation

Run cargo install coffeevis

To run coffeevis in a terminal, use:

cargo install coffeevis --features terminal

If for some reason you want to use minifb, use:

cargo install coffeevis --features minifb

Configuration

Coffeevis does not remember settings and does not generate config files (feature won't be implemented unless requested).

To get around this, make a user script that runs coffeevis with flags

E.g:

#!/bin/bash

/path/to/coffeevis --fps 60 --no-auto-switch --size 40x40

Flags

Coffeevis supports temporary options at launch

Notes

Upon launch coffeevis will grab your default audio source, use an audio config tool to direct your desired source to coffeevis (e.g. pavucontrol).

On Wayland, coffeevis cannot set itself on top so you will have to rely on an external tool. For example, on KDE Plasma, you can use the window rules feature.

When input is quiet, the visualizer will try to amplify the input so that the visualizers don't become boring.

Coffeevis prints text directly to stdout, rendering may be heavy depending on your terminal.

A terminal with GPU-accelerated support is recommended (i.e Alacritty, Kitty, Wezterm, ...)

A maximum resolution is built into the console mode (default: 50x50). Coffeevis will render in the center of the screen if terminal dimensions are larger than the limit.

Keyboard shortcuts

Global

Terminal

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