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Audio Analyzers

Vibe – Wayland music visualizer and shader player

October 15, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Vibe is a Wayland music visualizer for Linux with shader-based effects, audio-reactive rendering, and support for WGSL and GLSL shaders.

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Beskope – music visualizer for Linux and PipeWire

October 15, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Beskope is a PipeWire music visualizer for Linux with waveform and spectrogram views, MPRIS controls, and Wayland desktop integration.

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OpenMeters – audio metering/visualization program

February 14, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

OpenMeters is a fast and simple audio metering application for Linux, built with Rust and PipeWire. It’s in active development.

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Music visualization

spectroterm – terminal audio spectrum analyser

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

spectroterm displays live audio spectra in the terminal with frequency axes, configurable colours, falling bars, peak markers and PipeWire support.

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Music Visualization

Cavasik – configurable audio visualiser

May 2, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Cavasik creates animated audio visualisations with multiple drawing modes, mirrored patterns, gradients, colour animation and Cava controls.

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Music visualization

Cava – terminal and desktop audio visualiser

May 2, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Cava creates responsive audio spectrum visualisations with terminal and graphical displays, custom colours, shaders and multiple audio inputs.

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Music Visualization

Cavalier – customisable audio visualiser

April 30, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Cavalier displays music visualisations with multiple drawing modes, gradients, images, spectrum settings and a configurable interface.

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Audio Analyzers

sndpeek – real-time audio analysis and 3D visualisation

November 1, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

sndpeek visualises waveforms and spectra with a 3D waterfall, Lissajous display and real-time extraction of acoustic features.

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Music visualization

GLava – OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer for desktop windows or backgrounds

July 18, 2019 Luke Baker Desktop, Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

GLava is an OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer primarily used for desktop windows or backgrounds. It’s free and open source software.

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