Spek – Acoustic Spectrum Analyser

Spek (IPA: /spɛk/, ‘bacon’ in Dutch) helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram.

Screenshots

Spek showing the spectrogram of a FLAC file.	The same file encoded as a 320kbps MP3.	320kbps transcoded to -V2 MP3. Don't do that!

Download

Spek 0.1: tarball, NEWS

To build and run:

$ tar -xjvf spek-0.1.tar.bz2
$ cd spek-0.1
$ ./configure
$ make
$ src/spek

Or `sudo make install` to have it installed.

Requirements: GTK+ ≥ 2.14, GStreamer ≥ 0.10.17 (including gst-plugins-base and gst-plugins-good). For MP3 support you also need gst-plugins-ugly.

News

2010-05-10: Introducing Spek

Roadmap

Features planned for the 1.0 release:

• Windows port
• Time and frequency rulers
• Zoom and horizontal scroll
• Adjust spectral density range (dB)
• Open and associate with audio files
• Use multiple threads to speed up analysis

Contribute

Spek is free and open source software licensed under GNU GPLv3. The project is written in Vala, the code is hosted on Gitorious.

Patches are very much welcome and can be sent by email or as Gitorious merge requests.

Report bugs and request new features by editing this wiki page or by email.

Feedback

Spek is maintained by Alexander Kojevnikov, you can contact him by email.