Spek – Acoustic Spectrum Analyser

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

Screenshots

Spek in Ubuntu GNU/Linux showing the spectrogram of a FLAC file.	Spectral of the same sound track encoded as a 320kbps MP3.	Spek running under Windows 7.

Download

Spek 0.4 for Windows (x86 MSI installer, 17.1 MiB)

Spek 0.4 for GNU/Linux (source code tar.bz2, 192 KiB)

To install on Windows just download and double-click the MSI installer. After asking a few questions, Spek will install automatically.

To build and run on GNU/Linux:

$ tar -xjvf spek-0.4.tar.bz2
$ cd spek-0.4
$ ./configure
$ make
$ src/spek

Or `sudo make install` to have it installed.

Software 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

• 2010-05-21: Spek 0.4 Released
• 2010-05-17: Spek 0.3 Released
• 2010-05-15: Spek 0.2 - now works in Windows
• 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 can be sent by email or as Gitorious merge requests.

Report bugs and request new features here.

Feedback

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