jack_meter(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

jack_meter — a console based Digital Peak Meter for JACK. that's it, that's the whole vibe. peak levels, in your terminal, no GUI required 💅

✨ SYNOPSYS ✨

(yes bestie it's spelled like that, we don't fix it, we respect it)

jack_meter [ -f freqency ] [ -r ref-level ] [ -w width ] [-n ] [ <port>, ... ]
jack_meter -h

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so jack_meter is a basic console based DPM — that's a Digital Peak Meter — and it's lowkey iconic for one specific reason: it was written for quickly checking remote signal levels, without having to run X11 just to use a pretty graphical meter like meterbridge. no cap. just numbers and bars in your terminal, slaying.

the port parameter is optional, bestie. and when it's missing?? then you have to connect up the meter to an input port manually yourself. you got this. 🫶

and if you specify more than one port, the inputs get mixed. that's the tea. ☕

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -f freqency — how many times per second to refresh the meter. the default is 8. that's 8 little refreshes per second, keeping your eyes fed. ✨
• -r ref-level — the reference signal level for 0dB on the meter. this is the whole calibration vibe check. ⭐
• -w width — the width of the meter, in number of characters. the default is 79, which is one less than the typical terminal width. (79 is that girl, honestly. she fits.) 💅
• -n — outputs the meter level as a number in decibels instead of a bar graph display. so like, digits instead of vibes. both are valid. 🔥

also there's a -h chillin' in the synopsis up there 👀 she's in the family photo even if she's not down here in the list. iconic behaviour, honestly.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• http://www.aelius.com/njh/jackmeter/
• http://plugin.org.uk/meterbridge/
• http://jackit.sourceforge.net/

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Nicholas J. Humfrey <njh@aelius.com> — the main character who wrote this whole thing. bow. 🫶

version 0.3, September 2005 — yeah she's an elder but she's still serving 💜 and that's the whole jack_meter(1) manual, bestie. go meter something. periodt. 🎀✨