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Summary

Adds several new retro visualizer styles and a personal gruvbox based theme. Closes #901
Part of #3 (adds the Gruvbox Cove preset)

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> cargo fmt --all
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> cargo clippy --no-default-features --features telemetry,tui -- -D warnings
Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 37.29s

> cargo test --no-default-features --features telemetry,tui
test result: ok. 1719 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 3.75s

> cargo test
test result: ok. 2218 passed; 0 failed; 8 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 3.78s

Tested on Windows 11. The new visualizer and theme tests are part of both test runs (tui::ui::head_unit::tests::*, tui::ui::retro::tests::*, core::theme::tests::*). The session_plays is never used warning from the test builds comes from existing code that only the GUI build calls, not from this change.

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Also bundles my personal Gruvbox-cove preset, happy to split it out.


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  • New Features

    • Added seven visualizer styles: Head Unit, Analog VU, Winamp, Phosphor Scope, Outrun, Rack EQ, and Cassette Deck.
    • Cycle through all visualizer styles with V; selections persist between sessions.
    • Added waveform visualization for supported visualizer modes.
    • Added the Gruvbox Cove theme preset, selectable with Alt-, or configuration.
  • Documentation

    • Updated visualizer and theme documentation with the new styles, waveform behavior, and preset details.

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The audio visualizer adds seven styles, waveform data, a Head Unit renderer, and six retro renderers. The change also adds the Gruvbox Cove theme preset and updates configuration, documentation, localization, and cycling tests.

Changes: Audio Visualizer Styles

Layer / File(s) Summary
Style options and audio data
src/core/user_config.rs, src/core/i18n/screens.rs, src/infra/audio/analyzer.rs, src/infra/audio/mod.rs, src/core/app/audio_analysis.rs, src/core/app/settings_apply.rs, docs/configuration.md, CHANGELOG.md
The visualizer list and localized labels include seven styles. SpectrumData includes up to 480 samples from the newest 50 ms of audio. Tests, configuration, changelog text, and cycling documentation cover the expanded list.
Shared retro rendering and six styles
src/tui/ui/retro/mod.rs, src/tui/ui/retro/vu.rs, src/tui/ui/retro/winamp.rs, src/tui/ui/retro/scope.rs, src/tui/ui/retro/outrun.rs, src/tui/ui/retro/rack_eq.rs, src/tui/ui/retro/cassette.rs
Shared audio, drawing, animation, and dispatch utilities support six retro renderers: Analog VU, Winamp, Phosphor Scope, Outrun, Rack EQ, and Cassette Deck.
Head Unit rendering and TUI dispatch
src/tui/ui/head_unit.rs, src/tui/ui/audio_analysis.rs, src/tui/ui/mod.rs
The Head Unit renderer draws a perspective display, level meter, and playback readout. The audio-analysis screen selects each renderer and passes analyzer and playback data.

Gruvbox Cove Theme

Layer / File(s) Summary
Gruvbox Cove preset and documentation
src/core/theme.rs, docs/themes.md
The preset enum, ordered list, display-name lookup, parser, theme construction, and documentation include Gruvbox Cove.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c1447

This PR adds new visualizer styles and a Gruvbox Cove theme. A minor readability concern about the playbar progress text color in the new theme may remain. It is cosmetic and does not block merging.

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Out of Scope Changes check Error The GruvboxCove theme adds a preset, theme construction, parsing, enumeration, tests, documentation, and changelog content. Directly linked issue #901 covers visualizer styles and waveform delivery.… Remove the GruvboxCove implementation and related documentation, tests, and changelog changes, or provide an active linked issue that directly scopes the theme work.
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Title check Passed The title uses the allowed conventional-commit prefix feat: and concisely describes the main changes: new retro visualizer styles and the Gruvbox Cove theme.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #901 requires seven visualizer styles, V cycling, and recent waveform data for Phosphor Scope and the Winamp scope strip. The changes add all seven styles, include them in `VisualizerStyle::al…
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Issue #901 requires seven visualizer styles, V cycling, and recent waveform data for Phosphor Scope and the Winamp scope strip. The changes add all seven styles, include them in VisualizerStyle::all(), route them to renderers, update localization and configuration documentation, and add analyzer waveform data with focused tests. The summary also reports passing formatting, clippy, and test commands.

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The GruvboxCove theme adds a preset, theme construction, parsing, enumeration, tests, documentation, and changelog content. Directly linked issue #901 covers visualizer styles and waveform delivery. The supplied linked issues contain no active issue that scopes the theme work.

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Remove the GruvboxCove implementation and related documentation, tests, and changelog changes, or provide an active linked issue that directly scopes the theme work.

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Actionable comments posted: 4

🧹 Nitpick comments: 1
src/tui/ui/head_unit.rs: 1

94-118: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reuse the shared retro helpers instead of keeping second copies in head_unit.rs.

head_unit.rs repeats code that retro/mod.rs already exports:

  • resample (the same as retro::resample, plus an equal-length shortcut)
  • lerp, rgb and Rgb
  • fold_stereo, which matches retro::Audio::mono
  • Canvas and the Braille packing in Canvas::blit, which match retro::Dots and Cells::dots

The copies have already started to differ. Canvas::blit breaks color ties by count only. Cells::dots breaks ties toward the brighter color. If the Braille packing changes later, the two styles will drift further apart.

Import retro::{lerp, rgb, resample, Rgb} and use Audio::mono for the fold. Keep Canvas only if the glass-background fill needs it. You can do this by adding an optional background argument to Cells::dots.

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Review comment at @src/tui/ui/head_unit.rs around lines 94 - 118:
Replace the duplicated helpers in the head-unit rendering path with the shared
retro implementations: import and use retro::lerp, rgb, resample, and Rgb; use
Audio::mono instead of fold_stereo; and use retro::Dots/Cells::dots instead of
the local Canvas and Braille packing, adding an optional background argument to
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Review comments at @src/core/theme.rs:
- Line 565: Update the Gruvbox Cove theme’s playbar_progress_text to use the
existing dark analysis_bar_text color, then update both LineGauge label render
sites to apply playbar_progress as the label background while retaining
playbar_progress_text as the foreground.

Review comments at @src/tui/ui/retro/cassette.rs:
- Around line 48-50: Update the cassette height calculation in the cassette
rendering layout so wh is capped at the space above the LED rows, using the
existing minimum height of 6. Preserve the current width and centering
calculations, and ensure the shell does not overlap the meter block for short
areas.
- Around line 66-67: Replace the single State field reel_angle with reel_angles:
[f32; 2], and update spin to advance each reel independently using its scaled
rate, wrapping each angle at 60 degrees before adding the reel offset. Remove
the shared wrapped-angle update and ensure all reel-angle accesses use the
per-reel array.

Review comments at @src/tui/ui/retro/rack_eq.rs:
- Around line 92-98: Update the ladder rendering loop in the rack EQ drawing
logic to derive the band spacing from ww, using the available half-width and
clamping the step between 3 and 5 columns. Replace the fixed 5-column multiplier
in the band x-coordinate calculation with this computed step so both L and R
ladders remain separated at narrow widths.

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Review comments at @src/tui/ui/head_unit.rs:
- Around line 94-118: Replace the duplicated helpers in the head-unit rendering
path with the shared retro implementations: import and use retro::lerp, rgb,
resample, and Rgb; use Audio::mono instead of fold_stereo; and use
retro::Dots/Cells::dots instead of the local Canvas and Braille packing, adding
an optional background argument to Cells::dots only if needed for the
glass-background fill. Remove the redundant local implementations while
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  • src/core/user_config.rs
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  • src/tui/ui/head_unit.rs
  • src/tui/ui/mod.rs
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head_unit.rs copies resample, lerp, rgb and the Braille canvas from retro/mod.rs, and the two have already drifted (Canvas::blit breaks color ties differently from Cells::dots). Please make Head Unit use the retro helpers. Cells::put also writes one char per cell, so a CJK title in the Cassette label, Winamp title bar or Outrun corner loses every other glyph. Head Unit's set_stringn already handles that. Small one: the doc on cycle_visualizer_style still says Cava and Bar Graph.

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#904 just merged a visualizer_style row in docs/configuration.md that lists only Cava and BarGraph. Please add HeadUnit, AnalogVu, Winamp, PhosphorScope, Outrun, RackEq and Cassette there when you rebase.

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src/tui/ui/retro/mod.rs: 1

204-215: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the per-cell heap allocation in Cells::dots.

Vec::with_capacity(2) allocates on the heap for every terminal cell, on every frame. At 300x80 that is 24,000 allocations per frame. At the reported 62 FPS that is about 1.5 million allocations per second. All six retro styles and the Head Unit stage call Cells::dots. A Braille cell has at most 8 dots, so a fixed-size array on the stack is enough.

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-        let mut counts: Vec<(Rgb, u8)> = Vec::with_capacity(2);
+        let mut counts: [(Rgb, u8); 8] = [((0, 0, 0), 0); 8];
+        let mut used = 0;
         for (dx, column) in BITS.iter().enumerate() {
           for (dy, bit) in column.iter().enumerate() {
             if let Some(color) = canvas.get(cx * 2 + dx, cy * 4 + dy) {
               bits |= bit;
-              match counts.iter_mut().find(|(c, _)| *c == color) {
+              match counts[..used].iter_mut().find(|(c, _)| *c == color) {
                 Some((_, n)) => *n += 1,
-                None => counts.push((color, 1)),
+                None => {
+                  counts[used] = (color, 1);
+                  used += 1;
+                }
               }
             }
           }
         }

Then use counts[..used].iter() in the max_by_key call below.

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Review comment at @src/tui/ui/retro/mod.rs around lines 204 - 215:
Update Cells::dots to replace the per-cell Vec allocation with a stack-allocated
eight-entry [(Rgb, u8); 8] array and a used counter. Search only the used slice
when finding or selecting colors, and write new color counts into the next
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- Around line 598-607: Update the header title sizing logic around the local
text selection and centering width calculation to use unicode display width via
the existing unicode-width dependency instead of chars().count(). Uppercase the
title once, measure spaced and uppercase text with UnicodeWidthStr, truncate
without exceeding room by accumulating UnicodeWidthChar widths, and use the
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- Around line 204-215: Update Cells::dots to replace the per-cell Vec allocation
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Pre-merge checks failed. Please resolve the failing checks before merging.

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CodeRabbit flags the bundled theme as out of scope, happy to split it if you'd prefer.

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CodeRabbit flags the bundled theme as out of scope, happy to split it if you'd prefer.

It's fine you can ignore it, will take a proper look tomorrow

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