### 10-Band Graphic Equalizer - Full EQ in Rust audio engine via EqSource<S> biquad peak filters - 10 built-in presets + custom preset save/delete - EqSource::try_seek() implemented — also fixes waveform seek which broke silently when EQ was introduced (rodio returned SeekError::NotSupported) - EQ state persisted in localStorage, synced to Rust on startup ### Connection Indicator - LED in header (green/red/pulsing) with server name and LAN/WAN label - Offline overlay with retry button when server is unreachable - useConnectionStatus hook ### New App Icon - New logo (logo-psysonic.png) applied across Login, Sidebar, Settings, README and all Tauri platform icons (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS) ### Now Playing Page - New /now-playing route added ### Fixes - WaveformSeek: mousemove/mouseup on window to fix drag outside canvas Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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CLAUDE.md
This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.
What is Psysonic
A desktop music player (Tauri v2 + React 18 + TypeScript) for Subsonic API-compatible servers (Navidrome, Gonic, etc.). UI is styled after the Catppuccin aesthetic with glassmorphism effects.
Commands
# Dev mode (Linux — uses X11 backend to avoid WebKit compositing issues)
npm run tauri:dev
# Equivalent to: GDK_BACKEND=x11 WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 tauri dev
# Production build
npm run tauri:build
# Frontend-only dev server (no Tauri shell)
npm run dev
# Type-check + bundle frontend
npm run build
There are no test scripts. TypeScript compilation (tsc) is part of the build.
Architecture
Stack
- Frontend: React 18 + TypeScript + Vite, served inside a Tauri WebView
- Backend: Rust (Tauri v2) — handles tray icon, media key shortcuts,
exit_appcommand, and the full audio engine - State: Zustand stores (no Redux)
- Audio: Rust/rodio engine (
src-tauri/src/audio.rs) — downloads track bytes via reqwest, decodes with symphonia, plays via rodio. Replaces Howler.js. See detailed notes in the Notes section. - API: All server communication goes through
src/api/subsonic.ts— a thin wrapper around axios using Subsonic token auth (MD5 hash of password + salt) - i18n: react-i18next, all translations inline in
src/i18n.ts(English + German)
Key files
| File | Role |
|---|---|
src/api/subsonic.ts |
All Subsonic REST calls + buildStreamUrl / buildCoverArtUrl / buildDownloadUrl helpers. Also exports pingWithCredentials() and coverArtCacheKey(). getRandomSongs includes a _t timestamp param to prevent browser/axios caching. |
src/utils/imageCache.ts |
IndexedDB image cache (30-day TTL) + in-memory object URL Map. getCachedUrl(fetchUrl, cacheKey) is the main entry point. Capped at 150 entries with LRU eviction + URL.revokeObjectURL. Max 5 concurrent fetches. |
src/components/CachedImage.tsx |
Drop-in <img> replacement that resolves via the image cache. Also exports useCachedUrl(fetchUrl, cacheKey) hook for CSS background-image use cases. Uses cancellation flag to prevent setState on unmounted components. |
src/store/authStore.ts |
Multi-server support via ServerProfile[] + activeServerId. getBaseUrl() / getActiveServer() used by subsonic.ts. Persisted via localStorage (synchronous — do not change to async storage). |
src/store/playerStore.ts |
Playback state, queue, scrobbling at 50%, server queue sync (debounced 1.5s). Persists currentTrack, queue, queueIndex, currentTime for cold-start resume. |
src-tauri/src/audio.rs |
Rust audio engine: audio_play, audio_pause, audio_resume, audio_stop, audio_seek, audio_set_volume commands. Emits audio:playing, audio:progress (500ms), audio:ended, audio:error events. |
src/store/themeStore.ts |
Theme selection (8 themes), applied as data-theme on <html> |
src-tauri/src/lib.rs |
Tray menu, media key global shortcuts (disabled on Linux), exit_app command |
src/App.tsx |
Root routing, RequireAuth guard, TauriEventBridge (media keys → store actions) |
src/i18n.ts |
All translations (en + de) inline. Language persisted in localStorage('psysonic_language'). |
src/components/Sidebar.tsx |
Sidebar nav + UpdateToast component. On mount (1.5s delay) fetches https://api.github.com/repos/Psychotoxical/psysonic/releases/latest, compares tag_name against version imported directly from package.json (build-time constant — more reliable than getVersion() from Tauri API), and shows a toast above Statistics only when a newer version exists. Silently no-ops if offline. |
src/components/AlbumHeader.tsx |
Extracted from AlbumDetail — cover art, album info, play/enqueue buttons, bio modal, download. |
src/components/AlbumTrackList.tsx |
Extracted from AlbumDetail — tracklist with star ratings, codec labels, VA artist column, context menu. |
src/components/QueuePanel.tsx |
Queue sidebar. Shows song count + total duration below title. Items get .context-active class while their context menu is open. |
packages/aur/PKGBUILD |
AUR package definition for Arch/CachyOS. Installs a wrapper script at /usr/bin/psysonic that sets GDK_BACKEND=x11, WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1, WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 before launching the binary. |
Multi-server support
authStore holds a ServerProfile[] array and an activeServerId. The ServerProfile shape is:
interface ServerProfile {
id: string;
name: string;
url: string;
username: string;
password: string;
}
Use getActiveServer() to get the current server, getBaseUrl() to get its URL.
Login / connection flow
- Connection is tested with
pingWithCredentials(url, username, password)fromsrc/api/subsonic.tsbefore writing anything to the store. - Only after a successful ping:
addServer()+setActiveServer()+setLoggedIn(true). RequireAuthinApp.tsxredirects to/loginif!isLoggedIn || !activeServerId || servers.length === 0.- Do not call
addServer()before verifying the connection — this avoids a rehydration race condition with Zustand's async storage.
Auth salt security
secureRandomSalt() in subsonic.ts uses crypto.getRandomValues() (not Math.random()) for all token auth salts.
Image caching
buildCoverArtUrl() generates a new ephemeral URL on every call (new salt) — the browser cache is useless. All cover art and artist images are cached via:
coverArtCacheKey(id, size)— stable key:${serverId}:cover:${id}:${size}CachedImagecomponent oruseCachedUrlhook — resolve via IndexedDB, fall back to direct URL- Use
useCachedUrl(notCachedImage) for CSSbackground-imageproperties - Gotcha:
useCachedUrl/ hooks fromCachedImage.tsxmust be called unconditionally, before any earlyreturnin the component. Derive inputs from nullable state (e.g.album?.album.coverArt) rather than placing the hook after guard returns.
Data flow
authStore.getBaseUrl()returns the active server's URLsubsonic.tscallsuseAuthStore.getState()directly (not hooks) to build each requestplayerStore.playTrack()callsinvoke('audio_play', { url, volume, durationHint }), callsreportNowPlaying, listens foraudio:progress/audio:endedevents, triggers scrobble at 50% viascrobbleSong, and debounces server queue sync- Tauri events (
media:play-pause,tray:play-pause, etc.) are bridged to store actions inTauriEventBridgeinsideApp.tsx - On cold start (app restart): if
currentTrackis in localStorage,resume()callsaudio_play+ seeks to savedcurrentTime
Adding a new page
- Create
src/pages/MyPage.tsx - Add a
<Route>inAppShellinsrc/App.tsx - Add a sidebar link in
src/components/Sidebar.tsx - Add i18n keys to both
enTranslationanddeTranslationinsrc/i18n.ts
Adding a new Subsonic API call
Add a function to src/api/subsonic.ts using the api<T>() helper. The helper automatically injects auth params and unwraps subsonic-response.
Themes
8 themes are available, selectable in Settings. themeStore persists the choice and sets data-theme on <html>. All component CSS uses semantic tokens (--accent, --text-primary, etc.) — only the player button gradient and a few decorative elements reference --ctp-* palette vars directly, so every theme must define the full --ctp-* set.
| Theme | Style | Accent |
|---|---|---|
mocha |
Catppuccin dark | Mauve |
macchiato |
Catppuccin medium-dark | Mauve |
frappe |
Catppuccin medium | Mauve |
latte |
Catppuccin light | Mauve |
nord |
Nord Polar Night dark | Frost #88c0d0 |
nord-snowstorm |
Nord Snow Storm light | Deep-Blue #5e81ac |
nord-frost |
Nord deep ocean blue | Frost #88c0d0 |
nord-aurora |
Nord Polar Night + aurora | Purple #b48ead |
Light-theme gotcha: The Hero and Fullscreen Player sit on top of album-art backgrounds with dark overlays. Their text colors are hardcoded white (not var(--text-primary)) so they stay readable in light themes (Latte, Nord Snowstorm).
Artists page — initial avatars
Artist images are intentionally not loaded on the Artists overview page (grid + list view) to avoid slow server disk I/O on large libraries. Instead, each artist gets a colour-coded initial avatar: first letter of the name (skipping leading punctuation/numbers), colour deterministically hashed from the name using Catppuccin palette variables. Artist images are still loaded on the individual ArtistDetail page (cached via IndexedDB). In the grid view, the initial avatar is a circle (border-radius: 50%, border: 2px solid with the accent colour) centred inside the card. Name and album count below are centre-aligned.
Artist cards
ArtistCardLocal uses the same structure as AlbumCard: no padding, full-width square cover via aspect-ratio: 1, info below. Both use flex: 0 0 clamp(140px, 15vw, 180px) inside .album-grid so they stay the same size as album cards.
NowPlayingDropdown — Live button
src/components/NowPlayingDropdown.tsx polls getNowPlaying every 10 seconds in the background. Navidrome keeps stale "now playing" entries for several minutes after playback stops. To fix this: entries belonging to the current user (ownUsername) are filtered by the local isPlaying state from playerStore — so the badge disappears instantly when the user pauses or stops, without waiting for the server to clear the entry. Clicking an entry navigates to the album page (/album/:albumId) if stream.albumId is available.
i18n
All German strings live exclusively in src/i18n.ts — never hardcode German in .tsx files. Translation namespaces: sidebar, home, hero, search, nowPlaying, contextMenu, albumDetail, artistDetail, favorites, randomMix, randomAlbums, playlists, albums, artists, statistics, login, common, settings, help, queue, player.
German terminology: "Queue" is always "Warteschlange" in German — never leave "Queue" untranslated in DE strings.
Tauri capabilities
Tauri v2 capability configs live in src-tauri/capabilities/. Schema is auto-generated into src-tauri/gen/schemas/. Modify capabilities there when adding new Tauri plugins or IPC commands.
Release / CI
Releases are triggered by pushing a v* tag. The GitHub Actions workflow (.github/workflows/release.yml) builds for macOS (arm64 + x86_64), Linux (Ubuntu 24.04 → deb + rpm), and Windows.
The workflow is split into three jobs: create-release (creates the GitHub Release with changelog body from CHANGELOG.md), build-macos-windows (macOS + Windows via tauri-action), and build-linux (Ubuntu 24.04, manual, builds only deb + rpm via --bundles deb,rpm).
AppImage is no longer built. The AppImage was fundamentally incompatible with non-Ubuntu distros (Arch, Fedora) due to the bundled WebKitGTK conflicting with the system's Mesa/EGL stack.
Linux distribution channels
| Distro family | Package |
|---|---|
| Ubuntu / Debian | .deb from GitHub Releases |
| Fedora / RHEL | .rpm from GitHub Releases |
| Arch / CachyOS | AUR: yay -S psysonic or paru -S psysonic |
AUR package (packages/aur/PKGBUILD)
- Maintained at
aur.archlinux.org/packages/psysonic(account: Psychotoxical) - Builds from source using the system's own WebKitGTK — no bundled libs, no EGL issues
- Installs a wrapper script at
/usr/bin/psysonicsettingGDK_BACKEND=x11,WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1,WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 - When releasing: bump
pkgverinpackages/aur/PKGBUILD, copy to~/aur-psysonic/, runmakepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO, commit and push to AUR remote
Notes
- Media key shortcuts (
MediaPlayPause, etc.) are not registered on Linux (see#[cfg(not(target_os = "linux"))]inlib.rs). Spacebar is the keyboard shortcut for play/pause instead. playerStorepersistsvolume,repeatMode,currentTrack,queue,queueIndex, andcurrentTimetolocalStoragevia Zustandpartialize. The audio engine state is runtime-only (Rust side).- Auth data is persisted via
localStorage(synchronous Zustand storage). Do not switch to@tauri-apps/plugin-storeforauthStore— async storage causes a rehydration race condition wheregetActiveServer()returnsundefinedbefore state is restored. tauri.conf.jsonCSP is set tonull— a stricter CSP breaks HTTP requests in WebKitGTK on Linux.- App logo:
public/logo.png(used in login page and elsewhere). All platform icons generated from this vianpx tauri icon public/logo.png. - Audio engine (Rust/rodio):
audio_playdownloads the full track via reqwest, decodes with symphonia/rodioDecoder, appends to aSink. A generation counter (AtomicU64) cancels in-flight downloads when the user skips. Progress is tracked via wall-clock (seek_offset + elapsed) clamped toduration_secs— notsink.empty()(unreliable in rodio 0.19).audio:endedfires after 2 consecutive ticks wherepos >= dur - 1.0s. Tauri IPC parameter names are camelCase (durationHint, notduration_hint) — this is a hard-learned gotcha, do not revert. - Seek:
playerStore.seek()debounces by 100 ms, then callsinvoke('audio_seek', { seconds }). The Rust side callssink.try_seek()and updatesseek_offset+play_started. - Cold-start resume:
resume()checksisAudioPausedflag. If true (warm resume), callsaudio_resume. If false (cold start after restart), callsaudio_playwith saved URL thenaudio_seekto savedcurrentTime. Position preference: server queue position > 0 → use server; otherwise use localStorage value. - Drag-and-drop: All drag sources use
dataTransfer.setData('text/plain', ...)— WebView2 (Windows) does not support custom MIME types likeapplication/json. Queue reordering calculates the drop target index frome.clientYat drop time (iterates[data-queue-idx]elements, picks the first whose midpoint is below the cursor).fromIdxcomes fromdataTransfer(set indragstart, always reliable).onDragEndclears refs synchronously. All drops are handled by the<aside>container — noonDropon individual queue items. - Drag-and-drop cursor (Linux): WebKitGTK does not honour
dropEffectfor cursor display — the cursor may show as forbidden or no indicator depending on the compositor (KDE Plasma vs GNOME). DnD works correctly regardless. This is a known WebKitGTK limitation, not fixable from web content. - Fullscreen Player ("Ambient Stage"): Single centered column — no tracklist. Background uses the artist's
largeImageUrlfromgetArtistInfo()(falls back to cover art). Three CSS-animated color orbs (--ctp-mauve,--ctp-blue,--ctp-lavender) drift behind everything. Cover has a slow breathing animation (cover-breathekeyframe). Long song titles scroll as a marquee (MarqueeTitlecomponent — measures overflow viagetBoundingClientRect+ResizeObserver, animates via CSS custom property--scroll-amount).Track.artistIdis populated fromSubsonicSong.artistId(Navidrome returns this field) across all 18 track-construction sites. - Sidebar: Fixed width via CSS
clamp(200px, 15vw, 220px)— no drag-to-resize. Collapsed state (72px) persisted inlocalStorage. Update notification uses Tauri Shell pluginopen()to launch the system browser —<a target="_blank">does not work inside a Tauri WebView. - Artist page — external links: Last.fm and Wikipedia buttons open in the system browser via
open()from@tauri-apps/plugin-shell. Button label temporarily changes to "Opened in browser" / "Im Browser geöffnet" for 2.5 s as visual confirmation. - Tracklist columns: Order is
# | Title | [Artist (VA only)] | Favorite | Rating | Duration | Format. Format column uses120px(NOTautoor1fr) —autocaused misalignment because header and track-row are independent grid containers: "FORMAT" header text is narrower than "MP3 · 320 kbps", so thefrtitle column calculated differently in header vs rows, shifting all subsequent columns.1frfixed alignment but made the format column too wide. Fixed120pxfits all codec strings (MP3/FLAC/OGG · kbps) and aligns perfectly. Total row uses explicitgrid-columnnumbers (not negative indices). - AlbumDetail: Thin orchestrator (
src/pages/AlbumDetail.tsx) — state, handlers,useCachedUrlhook, rendersAlbumHeader+AlbumTrackList+ related albums section. Logic is split into the two extracted components. - Playlists page: List layout (not card grid) with sort buttons (Name / Tracks / Duration, toggle asc/desc) and a filter input. Play icon and delete button appear on row hover.
- Statistics page: Library stat cards (Artists / Albums / Songs / Genres), Recently Played, Most Played, Highest Rated, Genre Chart. Data loaded in parallel via
Promise.allSettled. No decade distribution (API caps byYear at 200 — all bars show "200+" which is useless). - Context menu:
songandqueue-itemtypes both have "Go to Album" (Disc3icon, shown only whensong.albumIdexists) and "Favorite" options. Context menu type union:'song' | 'album' | 'artist' | 'queue-item' | 'album-song'. - QueuePanel meta box: Shows title (no link) → artist (linked to
/artist/:id) → album (linked to/album/:id) → year (if available). Cover art is 90×90 px, top-aligned. Default panel width 340 px. Header shows song count + total duration below the queue title. - Queue hover: Queue items use
.context-activeCSS class when their context menu is open, keeping the hover highlight visible. - Random Mix hover: Row uses
.context-activeCSS class when a context menu is open for that song.contextMenuSongIdstate cleared viauseEffectwhencontextMenu.isOpenbecomes false. - Favorites songs: Full tracklist layout matching AlbumDetail —
track-row-vagrid with#, Title, Artist, Duration columns and a header row. Artist name clickable → artist page. "Add all to queue" button (btn btn-surface) next to the section title sends all favorited songs to the queue. - Random Mix — Genre Filter:
excludeAudiobooks+customGenreBlacklistinauthStore(persisted). HardcodedAUDIOBOOK_GENRESlist inRandomMix.tsxandAUDIOBOOK_GENRES_DISPLAYinSettings.tsxmust be kept in sync. Filter checkssong.genre,song.title, andsong.album. Clickable genre chips in the tracklist let users add genres to the blacklist on the fly. - Random Mix — Super Genre Mix: 9 super-genres defined in
SUPER_GENRESconstant. Server genres fetched viagetGenres()on mount;availableSuperGenresfilters to those with ≥1 keyword match.loadGenreMixuses progressive rendering —setGenreMixSongsupdated after each genre request resolves. Genre list capped at 50 (randomly sampled) so total fetch stays near 50 songs — no over-fetching.genreMixCompletestate gates the "Play All" button: button staysbtn-surfacewith liven / 50counter while loading, switches tobtn-primaryonly when all songs are ready. - RandomAlbums: No auto-refresh timer — loads once on mount, manual refresh button only.
loadingRefguards against concurrent fetches. - Queue shuffle:
shuffleQueue()in playerStore keeps current track at index 0, Fisher-Yates shuffles the rest. - Tooltip z-index:
.main-contenthasz-index: 1so tooltips in the content area render above the queue panel (which has no z-index but appears later in DOM order). Multi-line tooltips: adddata-tooltip-wrapattribute + use\nin the string; CSS rule[data-tooltip-wrap]::after { white-space: pre-line; max-width: 220px }. - Version: 1.5.0