Pakua WaveFlow 1.3.0

1.3.0 (2026-05-26)
✨ What's new in v1.3.0
WaveFlow 1.3.0 is the theming & motion release — every panel, modal and
overflow menu animates now, with 10 brand-new theme presets to pick from.
Plus a substantial round of audio-quality surfacing, smart-playlist
additions, and 1080p polish.
🎨 Themes & motion
- 10 new theme presets picked from the Settings → Appearance card —
Émeraude (default), Midnight, Sunset, Lavender, Crimson, Ocean and friends.
Each ships an OKLCH accent palette plus an ambient background tint that
re-skins the whole app, including dark-only OLED and Neon variants.
- Panels, modals and menus animate in/out with framer-motion springs —
the queue, lyrics, now-playing right panels slide, modals fade with
backdrop blur, the overflow menu pops smoothly. No more snap-on / snap-off.
🎤 Lyrics
- Auto-discover sidecar .lrc / .txt files next to your tracks (or in
a sibling Lyrics/ folder, case-insensitive). Runs before LRCLIB, so your
K-Pop / J-Pop rips with embedded lyrics never need a network call.
- One-tap switch between Immersive Now Playing ↔ Fullscreen Lyrics — the
new icon in the lyrics header swaps to the cover view without going through
the main window.
- Word-synced lyrics: spacing between tokens restored on Enhanced LRC sources
that omit spaces between word stamps.
- Fullscreen lyrics rendered through a portal so the opacity transition no
longer bleeds through during the open/close animation.
🎛️ Audio quality
- Audio pipeline popover on hover over the quality footer — shows the
full Source → Processing → Output chain (DSD → PCM, Resample, Downmix,
EQ, ReplayGain, Normalize, Mono, Speed) with a green "Bit-perfect" pill
when nothing is touching the stream.
- Resampling arrow surfaced directly in the quality strip when the
source rate differs from the device rate.
- Hi-Res badge + Spotify-style label in the player bar with their own
visibility toggles in Settings → Appearance.
- About: Rubato version corrected (1.0 → 2.0, was lagging behind the
Cargo.toml bump).
🎵 Player polish
- Unified player-bar layout panel in Settings → Appearance — every
player button (Mini-player, Immersive, Lyrics, Queue, Device, A-B, Sleep,
EQ presets, Audio-quality strip) is toggleable from one place. The cover
click action is configurable too: Immersive (default) / Now Playing panel
(Spotify-style toggle) / none.
- EQ presets for 20 musical styles, accessible from the player bar
popover or the overflow menu.
- Scroll wheel on the volume slider adjusts the level — Apple Music /
Spotify gesture.
- Mini-player remembers its window position and size across launches,
with offscreen-fallback to the bottom-right if a monitor disconnected.
📻 Smart playlists
- New "On Repeat" smart family — single playlist of your top ~30 tracks
from the last 30 days by play count, deterministic ordering. The cover is
an indigo→black branded tile with a rainbow infinity-loop motif rasterised
from SVG via resvg/usvg/tiny-skia at runtime.
- Daily-Mix cover compositor: dedupes identical inputs so a 1-artist
playlist no longer renders the same picture four times.
🔗 Integrations
- Native OS track-change notifications — toast in Windows Action Center,
macOS Notification Center, and libnotify on Linux. Opt-in (off by default).
- Similar artists: Last.fm's getSimilar returns placeholder pictures
since their image API was killed in 2019. We now backfill with Deezer
search_artist for every cache miss, in parallel, before responding.
⚡ Performance
- Library tab prefetch in parallel with skeleton on first load — Songs,
Albums, Artists, Genres, Folders feel instant after the first paint.
- Bulk list payloads trimmed via a shared artwork_base so 6000-track
libraries don't ship 6000 copies of the same hash prefix over IPC.
- Skeletons and lazy-chunk prefetch generalised across every view.
🛠️ Queue, Wrapped & 1080p polish
- Queue: manual additions stack in your user queue instead of being
appended at the absolute end — matches how Spotify queue works.
- Up Next list now fills the available height in the queue panel
instead of being capped to a thin window.
- WaveFlow Wrapped banner is gated to its season (Dec 1 → Jan 31) by
default, with auto / always / never toggle in Settings →
Appearance and a per-year dismiss button.
- Overflow menu caps its height + scrolls at 1080p (was overflowing the
viewport on short screens).
- Daily Mix grid switches to flex-wrap with capped basis so the row no
longer jumps to two columns awkwardly.
- Modal scrims get backdrop blur for better separation from the page
behind.
- Artist tiles drop the violet halo on dark portraits.
- Onboarding: 1080p layout rescued + new profile-name step.
- Playlist edit modal: stop freezing after cover upload.
📦 Recommended install
Use your distro's package manager so updates flow through the same tool
you already use for the rest of your system.
Windows
winget install InstaZDLL.WaveFlow
Arch / Manjaro / EndeavourOS / CachyOS
yay -S waveflow-bin
# or: paru -S waveflow-bin
Fedora / RHEL / Rocky / Alma / CentOS Stream
sudo dnf copr enable instazdll/waveflow
sudo dnf install waveflow
Debian / Ubuntu / Mint / Pop!_OS
The Debian package is wave-flow (kebab-case, required by the Debian
naming spec — Tauri bundles it that way from the WaveFlow product
name).
sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://packages.buildkite.com/instazdll/waveflow/gpgkey \
| sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/waveflow.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/waveflow.gpg] https://packages.buildkite.com/instazdll/waveflow/any/ any main" \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/waveflow.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install wave-flow
macOS
No package manager yet — grab the .dmg from the assets below. The
bundle is not Apple-Developer-signed; right-click → Open the first
time, or run xattr -cr /Applications/WaveFlow.app to clear the
quarantine flag.
Standalone download
Everything is also available as a raw bundle in the assets below —
.AppImage, .deb, .rpm, .exe, .msi, .dmg for users who'd
rather skip the repo.