Ratewise 0.1.3

Ratewise has a redesigned window. Nothing about what it reads or writes has changed.

Install

chmod +x Ratewise-x86_64.AppImage
./Ratewise-x86_64.AppImage

Runs on x86_64 with glibc 2.28 or newer (RHEL 8, Debian 10, Ubuntu 20.04 onward). It doesn't need libfuse2. Check the download against Ratewise-x86_64.AppImage.sha256.

New look

• Overview: the rate, bit depth and channels a device is running at, in large type, with the period and buffer latency underneath. Supported sample rates are shown as a grid, with the 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz families side by side by multiple, and the rate in use is marked.
• Sidebar: an icon for each kind of device (USB, HDMI, built-in, Bluetooth, microphone), and the running rate in green while something is playing.
• Settings are grouped into sections, and every option that can't be picked still explains why when you hover it.
• Buffer size: a new slider with a stop at each power of two from 32 to 8192 frames. It shows the latency per cycle, and the arrow keys move it.
• Reviewing a change: the plan is laid out step by step, and file changes are coloured line by line.
• Bottom bar: quiet when nothing is pending; shows how many changes are waiting and the Apply buttons when something is.
• Light and dark themes both follow the system, or switch with the button at the bottom of the sidebar.

Bluetooth support from 0.1.2 is still untested on real hardware. If you try it, please say whether it worked in an issue, and attach the output of ./Ratewise-x86_64.AppImage capture-fixture <some folder> (it removes user names, host names and Bluetooth addresses).

Tested

The window draws and doctor runs on Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04 and 24.04, Debian 11 and 12, Fedora, openSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch Linux (X11), plus Arch on Wayland.

If something goes wrong, ./Ratewise-x86_64.AppImage doctor reports what it can see. Crash reports go to ~/.local/state/ratewise/.