SPEK(1)

📦 version 0.8.5, in arch rolling, debian bookworm, debian trixie, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

💖 SPEK 💖

aka SPEK(1) — bestie, you're about to meet the Acoustic Spectrum Analyser and honestly? she ate. Version 0.8.5 of the manual, and she's gorgeous. Let's get into it. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

Spek — the Acoustic Spectrum Analyser. That's her full government name. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

spek [OPTION ...] [FILE]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Okay so literally all Spek does — and she does it beautifully — is generate a spectrogram for the input audio file. That's the whole gig. And she serves. 🔥

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -h, --help — prints the help message, then dips. no notes. 💖
  • -V, --version — spills the version info, then bounces. iconic. ✨

🎀 KEYBINDINGS 🎀

🍓 Notes

Heads up bestie: on OS X you use the Command key instead of Ctrl. iykyk. 💅
  • Ctrl-O — open a new file. fresh start energy. 🦋
  • Ctrl-S — save the spectrogram as an image file. preserve the moment fr fr. 📸
  • Ctrl-E — show the preferences dialog. make her yours. 💜
  • F1 — open the online manual in the browser. yes, this manual. meta. 🙈
  • Shift-F1 — show the about dialog. who made her? go find out. ⭐

🌸 Spectrogram

  • c, C — change the audio channel. switch it up. 🔄
  • f, F — change the DFT window function. the mathy glow-up. ✨
  • l, L — change the lower limit of the dynamic range in dBFS. 📉
  • p, P — change the palette. a whole aesthetic reset. 🎨
  • s, S — change the audio stream. 🌊
  • u, U — change the upper limit of the dynamic range in dBFS. 📈
  • w, W — change the DFT window size. lowkey the main character. 👑

🧚 FILES 🧚

  • ~/.config/spek/preferences — the config file for Spek, stored in a simple INI format. cute, tidy, no chaos. 💖

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Alexander Kojevnikov <alexander@kojevnikov.com>. Other contributors are listed in the LICENCE.md file distributed with the source code. shoutout to the whole group chat of devs. 🫶

🌟 DISTRIBUTION 🌟

The latest version of Spek may be downloaded from <http://spek.cc>. go get her, bestie. 💅✨

k that's the whole thing, no cap. this page came from the User's Guide, dated 2023-01-09, and it's page SPEK(1) of the manual — periodt. 💖🎀🦋

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