Waves Desktop

The Tauri version of Waves — a local-first music player with real-time audio visualizers. Built with Tauri 2 + SvelteKit (Svelte 5) + Bun, mirroring the toile build-and-publish-to-website pipeline.

Stack

• Frontend: SvelteKit (static adapter), Svelte 5 runes, vanilla CSS
• Audio: Web Audio API — <audio> element + AnalyserNode (4096-point FFT) feeding canvas visualizers. No Rust DSP needed.
• Backend (Rust): minimal — a scan_dir command (recursive folder scan with lofty metadata) and read_cover (embedded album art as a data URL). File access via Tauri's asset protocol.

Visualizers

Two real-time, 60fps canvas visualizers (log-grouped frequency bins, asymmetric rise/fall easing, graceful idle states):

• Bars — 64 bottom-anchored spectrum bars with gradient + glow.
• Radial — 128-spoke mirrored ring that slowly rotates.

Develop

bun install
bun run tauri dev

Build + publish

./release.sh            # Apple Silicon DMG → ../waves-website/static/downloads/Waves-aarch64.dmg
./release.sh --intel    # Intel DMG → Waves-x64.dmg

The website serves Waves-aarch64.dmg from its downloads/ folder via a "Download for Mac" button, exactly like toile.