EBUMETER(1)

🎚️ EBUMETER — bestie's guide to the loudness meter 💖

okay so before we even start: this is the ebumeter(1) page, section 1 of the manual, and it's giving general commands manual energy. buckle up 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

ebumeter — a audio loudness meter for Jack Audio Connection Kit 🎧

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ebumeter [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you run it, you give it options if you want, it does its thing 💅

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

ngl bestie, this manual page only documents ebumeter briefly — it's a lil summary, not the whole saga.

and here's the tea ☕ — this manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. so somebody had to step up and write one fr fr 🙈

ebumeter is a audio loudness meter, and what it does is let you measure Momentary (400 ms), Short term (3s) and Integrated (from start to stop) Loudness. 👑

This meter displays also LRA — loudness range — which helps you decide if compression is needed. so when you're sitting there wondering "do I need to compress this??" the LRA is literally right there answering you 💀✨

ebumeter is primarily aimed for broadcasting, but can be useful in other situations too. so like, broadcasting is the main character here, but it's not gatekeeping — it'll show up for other situations as well 🫶

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h — Display short info. a lil snack of information, not the full meal 🍓
• -n <clientname> — Name to use as jack client. pick your jack client name, make it cute, make it yours 🌈
• -g <geometery> — Window position. tell it where to park the window on your screen 🪟

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

jackd(1).

like, go read that one too. the lore connects 🔥

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🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

ebumeter was written by Fons Adriaensen <fons@linuxaudio.org>. legend behaviour honestly 👑

This manual page was written by Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes@seznam.cz>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). so generous, so iconic 💖

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lowkey obsessed with how this whole thing came together: original program, no manual page, Debian said "not on my watch," and now you're reading it. ate. no cap. 💀✨

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and that's a wrap, bestie 🎀 this was EBUMETER(1), from the general commands manual — source/version EBUMETER(1), dated May 13, 2011. go measure some loudness, you've got this 💅🦋