# Install asak with Homebrew, Nix

Cross-platform audio recording/playback CLI tool with TUI. Version 0.4.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-20. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#asak.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:asak
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install asak
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#asak
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/as/asak/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:asak
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.4.0
- **Source summary:** Cross-platform audio recording/playback CLI tool with TUI
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/chaosprint/asak>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/chaosprint/asak>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-20T14:55:28-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- asak (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.4.0
## Project history and usage

asak is a Rust terminal audio utility that combines playback, waveform preview, recording, and audio device selection in a keyboard-driven TUI. Its upstream README presents it as a current-working-directory audio browser and recorder rather than a long-running daemon or studio suite.

### Project history

The public GitHub repository was created in February 2024. By the documented 0.3.x releases, asak already exposed the core terminal workflow; the 0.3.7 release description calls out improved UI plus MP3 and Ogg support, and the 0.4.0 release is described upstream as a new UI and logic pass.

### Adoption history

Its package-manager footprint is still young and modest: the Homebrew and Nix package facts in the input show it has crossed from a GitHub/Cargo-style Rust project into Unix package-manager distribution, but there is no official upstream narrative of broad adoption.

### How it is used

Users run `asak` from the directory containing audio files, choose Play, Rec, or Settings, browse supported audio files, preview waveforms, record WAV files, and select playback or recording devices. The README notes Linux builds usually need ALSA and JACK development packages through cpal.

### Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, asak is interesting as a small modern Rust TUI sitting at the boundary between terminal UX and native audio stacks. Its build script generates shell completions and man pages, and its Linux dependency notes make audio backend packaging visible.

### Timeline

- 2024-02: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2024-06: v0.3.3 release published.
- 2026-04: v0.3.7 release notes describe improved UI and MP3/Ogg support.
- 2026-04: v0.4.0 release notes describe a new UI and logic update.

### Related projects

- cpal is the Rust audio I/O layer mentioned by the README for Linux audio dependencies.
- ratatui-style terminal audio tools and waveform browsers occupy a similar CLI/TUI niche, though the upstream README does not name direct sibling projects.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/chaosprint/asak>
- <https://github.com/chaosprint/asak#readme>
- <https://github.com/chaosprint/asak/releases>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - asak: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/as/asak/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/asak.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/asak.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph