Vibe is a desktop music visualizer for Wayland which turns currently playing audio into shader-driven graphics.
Its approach is closer to a programmable wallpaper than a conventional spectrum analyser: the visual output is created by shaders and can react to audio data in real time. It is inspired by GLava and Shadertoy and is intended for compositors which implement the wlr-layer-shell protocol. That requirement means it fits naturally with many wlroots-based desktops and compositors, but it is not a universal Wayland visualizer.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports multiple Shadertoy-like shaders, allowing different visual scenes to be combined or selected.
- Feeds processed audio information into shaders so that graphics can respond to the music being played.
- Accepts shaders written in both WGSL and GLSL.
- Includes predefined visual effects and components for users who do not want to build every scene from scratch.
- Uses wgpu for rendering with Vulkan and OpenGL ES backends enabled by the project.
- Uses Wayland-native window handling through winit and Smithay client components.
- Separates its audio, renderer and main application code into distinct Rust workspace components.
- Supports configuration files and watches for configuration changes so the running visualizer can refresh its setup.
- Can be directed to the monitor source of a PipeWire or PulseAudio setup using ordinary Linux audio routing tools.
- Provides a Nix flake in addition to source builds for users working in Nix-based environments.
Website: github.com/TornaxO7/vibe
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Developer: TornaxO7
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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