quies

TUI ambient sound mixer — layer lofi, noise, and nature sounds from your terminal.

Install

cargo install quies

Requires yt-dlp for YouTube audio:

brew install yt-dlp

Usage

Daemon mode (background playback)

quies start              # start with default preset
quies start focus        # start with focus preset
quies status             # show what's playing
quies vol brown 0.3      # set brown noise to 30%
quies mute pink          # toggle mute on pink noise
quies add lofi https://youtu.be/0NCrui_dYJY  # add YouTube audio layer
quies add rain https://example.com/rain.mp3   # add direct audio URL
quies stop               # stop daemon

TUI mode (interactive)

quies                    # TUI with default preset
quies focus              # TUI with focus preset

 quies
 ▸ ~ Brown Noise     ████████████░░░░░░░░  60%
   ~ Pink Noise      ██████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░  30%
   ♪ lofi            ██████████░░░░░░░░░░  50%

 j/k select  h/l volume  m mute  q quit

Audio layers

Add audio from YouTube or direct URLs to mix with noise generators:

quies start
quies add ambient https://youtu.be/0NCrui_dYJY   # downloads via yt-dlp
quies add rain https://example.com/rain.mp3       # downloads via curl
quies vol ambient 0.3                             # adjust volume
quies status                                      # shows download progress

• YouTube URLs use yt-dlp (must be installed)
• Direct HTTP URLs use curl
• Files are cached — re-adding the same URL is instant
• Audio loops seamlessly
• Max file size: 200MB

Presets

License

MIT