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picknick-juniEver wanted your desktop windows to jiggle around on-beat? I wrote a Winamp plugin to solve this important problem.
Download: https://mew.tv/projects/shaker.html
Source: https://git.sr.ht/~juni/shaker
Still using Windows 2000? I got you covered. <3
Felipe, o motoboy de treta@juni use linux! That good/old looking os Windows 95/XP is in almost all DEs/WMs today, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_(desktop_environment) (default on linuxmint.com), for instance
@fbobraga appreciated, but classic Windows has many other benefits over modern-day Linux distributions. It's not just the look and feel. :)
@fbobraga Yeah, I have been using Linux almost exclusively 2015-2020. Xfce, MATE, GNOME, KDE, custom openbox, Window Maker. I hate all of them, some more than others.
You're right, desktop Linux is surprising. Constantly. I don't want my OS to surprise me, I want it to work.
@juni I use exclusively Cinnamon now, after yers of XFCE) ^^
@juni I've use linux exclusively on my home since 2007 (but I've deal with windows for some employers)
XenonNSMB@juni i'm so glad you added support for peak
Arne Visscher@juni but now I can’t get anything done while listening to Venetian Snares 
renata@zomgwtfbbqkewl @juni Mr. Oizo’s Flat Beat is Level 2-3
Venetian Snares’ Gentleman would be level 8, easily.
Whenever I’m in public transit and some AH is listening to music on loudspeaker, I find myself within my rights to do the same and my artist of choice is VS.
It always works ☺️
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Peter Sanchez@petersanchez @benjojo It's really not (except for a recent maintenance release), but Windows is excellent at maintaining backwards compatibility so I'm just gonna keep using this adorable player.
Teh404Gal 
@juni THIS IS SO COOOL i wish there was a gnome pligin for this
David Zaslavsky@Teh404Gal @juni You know I was thinking, if the algorithm that computes the window position movements from sound waves (the choreographer, I guess) could be refactored out, I bet someone could turn it into a plugin for pulseaudio/pipewire and KDE/Gnome/etc. #linux
@diazona @Teh404Gal It's trivial. Take a look at detection.cc. DigestSpectrum() returns 1 if there is a peak and 0 if there isn't.
If you search for basic beat detection algorithms on the internet, you're 100% going to come across very similar concepts.
@juni @Teh404Gal Well there's more to it than that, there's also the part that takes those 1's and 0's and computes changes to apply to the window coordinates. Which I'm assuming is Render() in vis_shaker.cc, right?
@diazona @Teh404Gal Hmm, I might have misread your comment, sorry about that. The window shaking takes place inside Render() indeed. It's also more primitive than I'd like to admit. Fow now, at least.
@juni @Teh404Gal Oh no worries, I think it's cleared up now. (Especially now that I actually took a look at the code lol 😅 I definitely expected it to be more complex and harder to follow than it actually is!)
@diazona @Teh404Gal I really wanted to build a more sophisticated beat detection and presentation as well (still do!), but you're right, the results are already pretty good. So I didn't.
@juni @Teh404Gal Yeah it looks great as-is!
I did consider that if the part that turns audio into window positions were to get refactored out anyway, it might be a good candidate to make into some kind of pluggable module so people could substitute in other algorithms. But this is all very hypothetical at this point anyway.
@diazona @Teh404Gal That would be interesting, yeah! Feel free to use that code in any way you want to.
Personally, I'd like to keep the codebase's complexity low and Windows-centered for now.
@juni @Teh404Gal Of course, that definitely makes sense. What I had in mind was a totally separate project that would be a Linux "port" of your idea. Though honestly, as much as I would love to do it, I probably won't have time to any time soon. Maybe later, if nobody else does so first.
Thanks for offering permission though! If you wouldn't mind, perhaps you could add a LICENSE file at some point to make it official? Not that I don't trust you, but if someone does make a derivative project and a copyright-related problem ever does come up, it'd be handy to have something more prominent than an old (in the future) Mastodon post to point to as confirmation that it's okay. Y'know, for the lawyers 😛
@diazona Sure, I'm gonna add a LICENSE file tomorrow!
Edit: haven't decided on a license yet. But then again, I don't think a license is needed for someone to re-implement the idea?
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Looking at the code, the algorithm part of it seems pretty trivial
The only real work that would need to be done is the integration with the sound system and windowing system
The project does lack a license, which could make for an interesting legal situation, but I don't know if a license will be added in the future
The only real work that would need to be done is the integration with the sound system and windowing system
The project does lack a license, which could make for an interesting legal situation, but I don't know if a license will be added in the future
@usernameswift @diazona Thanks for making clear that the core of the project does not contain real work.
Hey, I respect you for putting up with the Windows windowing system
That thing is scary
That thing is scary
@usernameswift Less scary than dealing with two competing windowing systems at once while also dealing with twelve competing audio systems at once.
You have a point
That is why I dislike the Linux ecosystem, the fragmentation is quite problematic
That is why I dislike the Linux ecosystem, the fragmentation is quite problematic
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@usernameswift @juni i solve this problem by simply ignoring every possible tool that isn't what i am using
If it works, it works
@usernameswift @juni and work it does!
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@moshibar Yeah, it runs well via Wine, on both X11 and Wayland. That being said, Wine only seems to expose other Wine-related windows, so all it can do is shake programs launched through Wine. Not that useful, sadly :(
Wolfsbane@juni this likes look like this can be part of a malware meant to just fuck with people lololololololol
@wolfsbane this wouldn't scare any experienced Windows user. the entire OS is malware!
@juni fair point
Jyrden@juni I, for one, appreciate your track choice to showcase the windows bopping
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@juni @CircuitBird check this out!
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@juni lmao it's like there's a virtual subwoofer on the desktop
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Alexandre Mazari@juni looks groovy and all, but please tell me the Windows compositor/wm disallow an arbitrary client to affects other processes windows geometry by default! That's some X11-level craziness, if so!
@scaroo I have to disappoint you. The Windows API is very liberal regarding this behaviour. No privileged access needed. :^)
(However, the plugin cannot modify windows running under a more privileged account.)
Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)@juni I can't stop laughing every time I watch that demonstration video of yours.
And I can't stop playing the video again and again.
Someone send help!
And I can't stop playing the video again and again.
Someone send help!