spek/MANUAL.md

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NAME

Spek - Acoustic Spectrum Analyser

SYNOPSIS

spek [OPTION ...] [FILE]

DESCRIPTION

Spek generates a spectrogram for the input audio file.

OPTIONS

-h, --help

Output the help message then quit.

-V, --version

Output version information then quit.

KEYBINDINGS

Notes

On OS X use the Command key instead of Ctrl.

Menu

Ctrl-O

Open a new file.

Ctrl-S

Save the spectrogram as an image file.

Ctrl-E

Show the preferences dialog.

F1

Open online manual in the browser.

Shift-F1

Show the about dialog.

Spectrogram

c, C

Change the audio channel.

f, F

Change the DFT window function.

l, L

Change the lower limit of the dynamic range in dBFS.

p, P

Change the palette.

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.

FILES

~/.config/spek/preferences

The configuration file for Spek, stored in a simple INI format.

AUTHORS

Alexander Kojevnikov alexander@kojevnikov.com. Other contributors are listed in the CREDITS.md file distributed with the source code.

DISTRIBUTION

The latest version of Spek may be downloaded from https://www.spek.cc.