Helix 0.2.1

✨ What's New in v0.2.1

This release fixes the cross-platform build pipeline. Linux builds are now attached reliably, and the release includes a simple portable Linux tar.gz archive in addition to AppImage, .deb, and .rpm.

Features

• Cinematic ambient mode — Reactive full-app background that pulses with your music
• 7 visualizer modes — Bars, Wave, Mirror, Radial, Aurora, Grid, Tunnel
• Remote FFT visualization — YouTube and SoundCloud tracks feed real frequency data
• Volume persistence — Volume level is remembered across restarts
• Bilingual UI — English and Spanish

Platform Support for This Alpha

Platform	Formats	Status
Linux	.deb, .rpm, AppImage, .tar.gz	✅
Windows	MSI, NSIS installer, portable .exe	✅
macOS (Apple Silicon)	DMG	✅
macOS (Intel)	Deferred for this alpha	⏸

Checksums

Every binary has a corresponding .sha256 file. Verify downloads:

sha256sum -c Helix_0.2.1_amd64.tar.gz.sha256

Notes

• On Linux, .deb and .rpm are the recommended packages for this alpha
• AppImage is available, but may have graphics/runtime issues on some Wayland setups
• Windows installers are unsigned. Windows 11 may show a SmartScreen warning — click "More info -> Run anyway"
• yt-dlp is auto-downloaded on first run — no manual installation needed

Helix 0.2.0

✨ What's New

• Cinematic ambient mode — Reactive full-app background that pulses with your music, toggleable from Settings with an intensity slider
• 7 visualizer modes — Bars, Wave, Mirror, Radial, Aurora, Grid, Tunnel — switchable via an in-visualizer selector
• Remote FFT visualization — YouTube and SoundCloud tracks now feed real frequency data to the visualizer via Web Audio AnalyserNode
• Visualizer overlay with track title — Fullscreen visualizer shows the current track title with auto-hiding controls on mouse idle
• Cinematic sidebar — Sidebar background goes translucent when cinematic mode is active
• Volume persistence — Volume level is remembered across app restarts
• i18n (English, Spanish) — Full UI translation support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix volume slider and mute not responding in WebKitGTK
• Fix volume scaling mismatch between UI (0-100) and backend (0.0-1.0) for local playback
• Fix UI lock after adding a track from Search to a playlist
• Fix WebKitGTK/JSC JIT crash on Linux debug builds (JIT disabled for Linux dev)
• Fix dead high-frequency bins in visualizer (capped rendered FFT range to 12kHz)
• Fix ambient blur overlay showing when cinematic mode was off

📦 Downloads

Platform	File	Type
Windows	Helix_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe	NSIS installer (recommended)
Windows	Helix_0.2.0_x64_en-US.msi	MSI installer
Windows	helix.exe	Portable executable
macOS (Apple Silicon)	Helix_0.2.0_aarch64.dmg	DMG

⚠️ Windows builds are unsigned. See the README for SmartScreen workaround.

ℹ️ Linux and macOS Intel builds were not attached to this release due to a CI configuration issue. They will be available from the next release.

🔑 Checksums

Every binary has a corresponding .sha256 file. Verify downloads:

sha256sum -c Helix_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe.sha256

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Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.2.0

Helix 0.1.0

✨ What's New

• YouTube & SoundCloud streaming — Search and play music without accounts
• Local file playback — Play your own music library with native Symphonia decoding
• Queue & playlists — Full playback control with shuffle, repeat, and playlist management
• Audio visualizations — Real-time spectrum analyzer with FFT data from the native audio pipeline
• yt-dlp auto-download — No manual setup required, yt-dlp is fetched on first launch
• Artist & album detail views — Browse and play from artist pages and album collections
• Grouped search — Search results organized by tracks and artists
• Home recommendations — Backend-driven snapshot of suggested content

📦 Downloads

Platform	File	Type
Linux	Helix_0.1.0_amd64.AppImage	AppImage
Linux	Helix_0.1.0_amd64.deb	Debian package
Linux	Helix-0.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm	RPM package
Windows	Helix_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe	NSIS installer (recommended)
Windows	Helix_0.1.0_x64_en-US.msi	MSI installer
Windows	helix.exe	Portable executable

⚠️ Windows builds are unsigned. See the README for SmartScreen workaround.

🔑 Checksums

Every binary has a corresponding .sha256 file. Verify downloads:

sha256sum -c Helix_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe.sha256

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Full Changelog: https://github.com/netcraker01/helix/commits/v0.1.0