Everything new in Mechvibes since 3.0 ⭐

Hey everyone 👋

Mechvibes 3 came out on October 30, and 13 updates have shipped since then, several of them straight from requests here. Here's all of it in one place.

From your requests

- Star your favorite sound packs (3.5.6): star packs on the Sound packs page, and the pickers on Home list only your starred ones, so favorites are one click away. The packs that come with the app start out starred, and the shuffle button picks from your stars.

- Auto-mute while your mic is in use (3.5.1, 3.5.3): Mechvibes goes quiet during calls and recordings and comes back when they end. Windows, macOS and Linux. Your own Ctrl+Alt+M mute stays as you left it.

- Your own sounds in Mood (3.5.2): add an MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC or M4A, like a lo-fi track or a café recording, and it loops under your typing with its own volume.

- Mute Mood from the tray (3.5.4, 3.5.5): muting Mechvibes now quiets Mood too. Prefer Mood to keep playing during calls? There's a switch for that in Settings.

Make it look like yours

- A new Customize page with Themes, Colors, Logo and Background.

- Share your whole look as one .mvtheme file, or publish it on mechvibes.com/themes and get a short link that shows a preview card on Discord.

- Install themes from the library in one click, see a preview first, pick which parts to use, and Undo if you change your mind.

- Four ready-made themes: Retro Beige, Midnight Blue, RGB Night and Rainy Cafe.

- No Save button: your changes save on their own.

Sound packs

- Install packs from mechvibes.com/sound-packs in one click (Windows and Linux). The same button updates a pack when a newer version is out.

- Packs you added to Mechvibes 2 come over by themselves.

- Packs without an icon get a colored cover with their initials.

- The Windows key, Home, End, Page Up and friends play their own sound again, and the mouse wheel makes sound on Windows.

- Packs with one file per key play every key, and stereo sounds no longer swap left and right.

Smoother every day

- Start hidden in the tray, with sounds on.

- A build for Intel Macs, and on macOS hiding the window also hides the Dock icon.

- Linux: the AppImage starts on Fedora, the tray menu keeps working while the window is hidden, and on X11 a keyboard or mouse you plug in later is heard within seconds. Thanks to Palatis on GitHub for that last one!

- Windows: no more double sounds when one copy runs as administrator, and upgrading through winget removes Mechvibes 2 for you.

- Mood volume sliders no longer lag while you drag them.

- The one anonymous usage ping now goes to mechvibes.com, which keeps only a daily count and no IP address. You can still turn it off in Settings.

Update from inside the app, or grab the latest version here: https://github.com/hainguyents13/mechvibes/releases/latest

What should come next? Drop your ideas below, I read every one 🙂