The recollection that this used to exist is false — `git log --all -S
mpris` finds nothing on any branch. What has always been there is the
desktop *notification* on a track change, which is D-Bus but not MPRIS: a
popup is neither a status-bar entry nor a key target. So this is new, not
a regression.
Everything the protocol needs was already on the wire, so cbd-tui gains a
second front-end onto the two channels it already has: stream updates in,
MessageFromUi out. The MPRIS player is a peer of the UI thread — it
commands the server through the very channel the keybindings use, and it
learns the result the way the UI learns about a keypress from another
client. No proto change, no server change.
The decisions worth knowing (architecture/mpris.md):
- An absolute protocol over a toggling server. Play/Pause/SetShuffle/
SetLoopStatus consult the last state the server broadcast and send
nothing when it already matches, or the pause key would start playback
on a paused player. Volume is the same idea with arithmetic; muting is
spelled "volume 0", and the setter mutes on a zero target so the level
survives to be unmuted to.
- No URL reaches the bus. xesam:url would have to be the stream URL,
which clients never see and which several providers sign with
credentials, and every peer on a session bus can read properties. The
trackid is the queue position — also the only spelling that is a valid
object path.
- mpris:length is omitted when unknown rather than sent as zero, which
would make consumers draw a full progress bar.
- Unrepresentable requests are refused, not approximated: repeat-one,
rates other than 1.0, OpenUri, Raise, and Quit — a status-bar button
has no business closing someone's terminal.
- No session bus is a normal way to run (ssh, a tty, a container): the
connection carries a timeout and its failure is an info log, after
which the client behaves exactly as before.
Behind the `mpris` feature, on by default beside `notifications` and
forwarded by `cbd`; the nix package names it in headlessFeatures, since
naming a feature set at all replaces the crate defaults. It costs one
crate and no system library — zbus speaks D-Bus in pure Rust and
notify-rust had already brought it in.
Verified with the real thing, not only a test double: under
dbus-run-session, playerctl lists the player, reads its metadata
("Playing: the artist - the song (4:00)"), and drives play-pause,
`position 30+` and `volume 0.8` into the right commands. It also refuses
`next` when the queue is empty, which is CanGoNext being honest. The
committed bus test covers the round trip and skips where there is no bus.
`opus` conflated two axes: decoding Ogg-Opus, and vendoring the C library
to do it. So the only way to avoid a cmake build of libopus was to give up
Opus playback -- the wrong trade for Nix, which already ships one.
The adapter crate draws the line already: symphonia-adapter-libopus own
`bundled` feature is what pulls opusic-sys/bundled and with it cmake. So
declare the dependency `default-features = false` and add
`opus-bundled = ["symphonia-adapter-libopus?/bundled"]`, forwarded up
through crabidy-server and cbd. It stays in every `default`, so a plain
cargo build still needs nothing installed; opting out is the packager act.
The weak `?/` is load-bearing -- a plain `/bundled` would enable the
optional dependency itself, and `opus-bundled` would quietly become a
second "do we decode Opus" flag.
The flake native build then drops cmake and takes libopus from nixpkgs;
`headlessFeatures` already omitted opus-bundled, so it opts out for free.
The cross build keeps the vendored copy: it links statically, and an
unbundled -lopus would need a static aarch64 libopus staged for the target
the way alsa-lib is.
That exposed an older bug. rustc stamps no RUNPATH, and the -L from
buildInputs arrives through NIX_LDFLAGS, which ld-wrapper does not mirror
into the binary -- so the package linked cleanly and then refused to start.
RUNPATH was empty, meaning libasound.so.2 had never resolved either: the
package always depended on the caller having it on LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which
this repo dev shell happens to set. autoPatchelfHook now fills the RUNPATH
from buildInputs (plus stdenv.cc.cc for libgcc_s, the compiler own
unwinding runtime, which no crate declares) and fails the build on anything
it cannot resolve. Verified by running each binary under `env -i`, and with
LD_BIND_NOW=1 so every opus symbol binds eagerly.
Also: devenv sets OPUS_LIB_DIR, without which the unbundled build dies as
"mold: fatal: library not found: opus"; check-features *builds* the two
libopus variants rather than clippy-ing them, since clippy links nothing and
cannot tell a resolvable -lopus from a missing one; and cbd was missing an
`rss` pass-through, so the bundle could not select that provider alone.
Requested alongside this: the spectrum shadows fall over 10 seconds instead
of 4. The config default and SpectrumStyle::default are two spellings of
one thing, so the config test now asserts the whole resolved style equals
SpectrumStyle::default() rather than field-by-field.
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All on by default, so a plain build is unchanged (verified: the default
dependency set for crabidy-server is byte-identical to before). Tailor a
smaller binary with --no-default-features --features …
(architecture/build-features.md).
Compile-time features draw dependency boundaries; the existing
crabidy-server.toml providers list keeps doing per-mount runtime
toggling. The compile-time set bounds the runtime one: a provider built
out cannot be enabled from the config, and naming it earns one startup
warning rather than silence.
- crabidy-server: tidal · youtube · fyyd · abs · soundcloud · jamendo ·
fs · opus · spectrum · web-ui, plus the all-providers group.
- fs is local files *and* persistent state (D5): the /fs mount, the
content store behind /crabidy and /orphans, bookmarks/captures, queue
persistence, and scan. Without it Capture/SaveQueue answer
Unimplemented and scan says which feature is missing — never a panic.
- opus drops symphonia + symphonia-adapter-libopus, and with them the
bundled libopus C build (no more cmake requirement). It also decides
whether scan indexes .opus at all, so scan never indexes what this
build cannot play. An Ogg-Opus file in an opus-less build reports the
missing feature and is skipped like any undecodable file.
- spectrum drops realfft and the FFT task; clients just never receive a
frame. cbd-tui gains notifications (notify-rust, a D-Bus stack).
- crabidy-server/cbd features print the compiled set, and startup logs
it, so a tailored binary is self-describing.
Not gated, deliberately: [auth]/argon2 (a build ignoring configured
hashes would run open — fail-open security hole), and hls.rs /
spectrum_tap.rs / windowed_http.rs (no dependency of their own, so
gating them buys cfg noise and nothing else).
devenv gains check-features: the curated matrix (defaults, nothing, each
provider alone, each axis dropped, both worked examples, the client
crates) all clippy-clean under -D warnings.
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The audio-devices command only listed. Give it an optional positional
argument: with none it lists as before; with a device name (or
case-insensitive fragment) it writes that into [audio] device in
crabidy-server.toml and then lists, so the same command both configures
and confirms (the chosen device is marked with *). If the fragment
matches no current output device it still writes but warns, mirroring
the server's startup fallback -- so a typo is caught here, not as silent
output.
Plumbing: AudioDevices carries an AudioDevicesArgs { device: Option }
on both `crabidy-server` and `cbd`; cli::audio_devices takes the option
and, when set, loads/updates/stores the settings via the existing
ServerSettings writer. README shows the set form.
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The player always opened the system default output device. On a
Raspberry Pi that default is often HDMI, so playback ran but nothing
came out of the headphone jack or a USB/DAC -- "it plays but I hear no
sound".
Add an [audio] device option to crabidy-server.toml: a case-insensitive
substring of the output device name (a memorable fragment is enough).
The player engine opens the first matching device and falls back to the
system default with a warning if none matches. Absent config keeps the
system default, so existing setups are unchanged.
To discover the names, a new `crabidy-server audio-devices` subcommand
(also on `cbd`) lists the output devices and marks the one the current
config selects, using the same match the server applies at startup.
Plumbing: audio_player::output_device_names() enumerates via cpal;
Player::new(Option<String>) replaces the device-less construction
(Default = new(None)); Playback::new takes the device and serve() reads
it from settings. cpal's name() is deprecated in favor of description(),
but name() returns the ALSA-stable string users see in `aplay -l` and
match against, so it is kept behind a documented #[allow(deprecated)].
README documents the [audio] device option under the Pi/config section.
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Every binary is now a clap-derive CLI; no subcommand keeps the current
default (run server / TUI / both).
- cbd-cli: run_remote executes library/queue/global against a running
server (mirrors RpcClient; direct Stop; connect+request timeouts;
concise errors; human-readable listings).
- crabidy-server: guard (hash + write [auth], stdin fallback, --no-config),
scan (walk + write .cbd-track.toml; --capture/--move via new
CrabidyStore::ingest_file), ServerSettings::store; replaces hash-password.
- cbd-tui: auth writes the client config; config load+override keeps the
first-run-defaults / flag-overrides-file behavior.
- cbd: union of server + client subcommands.
- build.rs in each binary generates shell completions + man pages
(OUT_DIR, and CBD_ASSET_DIR when set); devenv gen-cli-assets → dist/.
- README CLI section; tests for parse, config writers, scan/ingest, guard.
Deviations (plan/summary.md): ClapSerde kept; connection flags top-level
(not clap-global, to avoid colliding with auth --address); Box<dyn Error>
CLI reports per existing convention.
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cbd (server + TUI in one process) and cbd-tui (standalone client) both
read cbd-tui.toml, so pointing that file at a remote server for cbd-tui
also dragged cbds local TUI to the remote while its in-process server
ran unused. cbd now reads its own cbd.toml (same options, same localhost
default that matches its embedded server), so a self-contained cbd and a
remote-pointed cbd-tui coexist on one machine without their address
settings colliding.
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crabidy-server and cbd-tui become libraries with thin mains:
crabidy_server::serve(addr) hosts the whole server stack,
cbd_tui::run(config) the client loops. The new cbd binary logs both
halves to one file, starts the server in-process, waits for the socket
(adopting an already-running standalone server on an occupied port),
and runs the TUI against it over the unchanged localhost gRPC wire.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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