pi-chinese-motivation

Plays motivational music while Chinese-origin models (DeepSeek, MiMo, MiniMax, Kimi, Qwen, etc.) are thinking — so the longer DeepSeek takes, the more intense the soundtrack gets.

• Starts as a quiet murmur at 15% volume
• Ramps up +4% every 1.5 seconds to 75%
• After ~20 seconds of thinking: 💥 bit-crusher distortion kicks in
• Distortion worsens from 10-bit → 3-bit (completely blown out)

Stops instantly when the model responds. Only mpv is needed for full modulation; ffplay/vlc work as fallback players with cached audio.

Install

# From npm (once published)
pi install npm:pi-chinese-motivation

# From git
pi install git:github.com/kaueDM/pi-chinese-motivation

# Local development
pi install ./path/to/pi-deepseek-motivation

Usage

Enabled by default for Chinese-origin models. Disable with CLI flag or slash command:

pi --no-motivation-music

| Command | Effect | |---------|--------| | /motivation-music | Full status | | /motivation-music on/off | Toggle | | /motivation-music cache | Pre-download audio to /tmp/pi-motivation-music/ | | /motivation-music url <url> | Change the YouTube soundtrack |

Prerequisites

• mpv — for YouTube streaming + real-time modulation
• yt-dlp — required by mpv for YouTube; also used for caching
• Optional: ffplay or cvlc — fallback players for cached files

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt install mpv yt-dlp

# macOS
brew install mpv yt-dlp

# Arch
sudo pacman -S mpv yt-dlp

How it works

agent_start fires
  ├─ mpv starts via IPC socket (--input-ipc-server)
  ├─ Volume ramp: 15% → 75% over ~22s
  ├─ After 20s: lavfi-acrusher activates
  └─ agent_end → killed instantly

The extension hooks into pi's agent_start/agent_end events and only triggers when the active model matches known Chinese AI providers (DeepSeek, Moonshot/Kimi, Alibaba/Qwen, ByteDance/Doubao, Zhipu/GLM, Baidu/ERNIE, Tencent/Hunyuan, Xiaomi/MiMo, MiniMax, StepFun, 01.AI/Yi, Baichuan, SenseTime).

License

MIT