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Summary

The Linux release builds the visualizer capture with audio-viz only, so it captures through PipeWire and nothing else. On a system without a PipeWire server (plain PulseAudio or ALSA, or a proot Linux on Android) the visualizer gets no audio. Adding audio-viz-cpal did not help: with both features on Linux, src/infra/audio/mod.rs picked PipeWire at compile time and left the cpal capture as dead code.

• New src/infra/audio/fallback_capture.rs: with both features on Linux, AudioCaptureManager opens PipeWire and, when that fails, an ALSA monitor or loopback device through cpal. With audio-viz alone it is still PipeWireCapture, and other platforms are unchanged.
• src/infra/audio/capture.rs: a new new_monitor_only, which the fallback uses, never falls back to the default input, which can be a microphone. The Linux scan also matches loopback devices.
• cd.yml: both Linux release rows add audio-viz-cpal.
• ci.yml: the all-sources legs and the coverage run add it too, so they keep matching the release rows.
• AGENTS.md and CHANGELOG.md describe the fallback.

Testing

• cargo fmt --all: no changes
• cargo clippy -- -D warnings passed (Finished) for the all-sources leg list with audio-viz-cpal, the soloist leg, the gui leg, default, telemetry,tui and telemetry
• cargo test --no-default-features --features telemetry,tui: test result: ok. 1802 passed; 0 failed
• cargo test: test result: ok. 2320 passed; 0 failed; 8 ignored
• cargo test with the gui leg features: test result: ok. 2245 passed; 0 failed; 30 ignored, bindings unchanged
• On an NVIDIA Shield (aarch64, Debian in proot, PulseAudio but no PipeWire server), a cross build with the new Linux release feature list logged:

  [audio-viz] PipeWire capture error: CreationFailed
  [audio-viz] PipeWire capture did not start; visualizer has no audio
  [audio-viz] trying the ALSA capture instead of PipeWire
  

  and the visualizer showed "Capturing audio" with the peak level moving with the music.

Not run: the all-sources test leg (it includes cover-art, which hangs on the terminal query on my machine) and a PipeWire desktop run of this build. The PipeWire path itself is unchanged.

Additional notes

The release binary still links libpipewire-0.3.so.0, so a system without the library cannot start it at all; this PR only covers a missing server. cpal only sees ALSA devices, so on PulseAudio without PipeWire the monitor has to be defined as an ALSA PCM; the changelog shows how, and my Shield uses one named pulse_monitor. The PipeWire warning "visualizer has no audio" still prints before the fallback. I left it so a PipeWire-only build keeps that message.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Linux audio visualization now tries PipeWire first, then falls back to an ALSA-exposed monitor or loopback device if PipeWire is unavailable.
  • The fallback does not use the default input device. PulseAudio users may need to configure their sink monitor as an ALSA PCM with “monitor” in its description.
  • The PipeWire library remains required to start the app.

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Walkthrough

Linux capture tries PipeWire first, then uses cpal monitor-only capture if PipeWire initialization fails. Linux build and CI feature sets enable both capture features. Documentation describes the fallback and device selection.

Changes: Linux audio capture fallback

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Capture selection and backend wiring src/infra/audio/fallback_capture.rs, src/infra/audio/mod.rs, src/infra/audio/capture.rs	Adds AudioCaptureManager and exposes it on Linux when both visualization features are enabled. The manager tries PipeWire, then cpal monitor-only capture, and delegates capture queries to the selected backend. new_monitor_only disables default-input fallback.
Feature configuration and documentation .github/workflows/cd.yml, .github/workflows/ci.yml, AGENTS.md, CHANGELOG.md	Enables audio-viz-cpal alongside audio-viz in Linux build and CI feature sets. Documents the PipeWire-first fallback and its device-selection behavior.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Visualizer
  participant AudioCaptureManager
  participant PipeWireCapture
  participant CpalCapture
  Visualizer->>AudioCaptureManager: Create capture manager
  AudioCaptureManager->>PipeWireCapture: Try initialization
  alt PipeWire initializes
    PipeWireCapture-->>AudioCaptureManager: Capture backend
  else PipeWire initialization fails
    AudioCaptureManager->>CpalCapture: Try monitor-only capture
    CpalCapture-->>AudioCaptureManager: Capture backend or failure
  end
  Visualizer->>AudioCaptureManager: Request spectrum, recent audio, or active state
  AudioCaptureManager-->>Visualizer: Return delegated result

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Merge Risk: Low · up to 48efc

A narrow class of ALSA fallback devices may fail to provide visualizer audio; negotiate supported sample formats before relying on those devices.

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- Line 11: Update the Linux visualizer changelog entry to clarify that ALSA
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Major · Recognize ALSA loopback devices. · capture.rs:109

src/infra/audio/capture.rs:109
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Recognize ALSA loopback devices.

For an ALSA capture device named Loopback, the Linux selector does not match the only name check, "monitor". new_monitor_only disables the default-input fallback, so the fallback can return None even when loopback capture is available.

Include "loopback" devices in the existing candidate selection:

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-            if name_lower.contains("monitor") {
+            if name_lower.contains("monitor") || name_lower.contains("loopback") {

This is required for the PR objective of supporting a monitor or loopback fallback.

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Update the Linux capture-device candidate check using name_lower to recognize
device names containing “loopback” as well as “monitor,” so ALSA Loopback
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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff finding at src/infra/audio/capture.rs:109: 48efc5a applies your suggestion, so the Linux scan now matches "loopback" as well as "monitor". Please verify.

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Minor · Handle ALSA formats other than f32. · capture.rs:181-220

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Handle ALSA formats other than f32.

The PipeWire fallback calls CpalCapture::new_monitor_only, and the new Linux scan can select ALSA loopback devices. get_compatible_config discards the format from default_input_config(), while build_stream always requests an &[f32] callback. If a selected ALSA monitor or loopback device supports only its non-f32 default format, CPAL rejects the stream and open returns None. Preserve the selected format and convert its samples to f32 before sending them to the analyzer.

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@LargeModGames Verified commit 48efc5a1. In src/infra/audio/capture.rs, Line 109 now accepts device names containing either "monitor" or "loopback". Line 108 converts names to lowercase, so both matches are case-insensitive.

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