spek/README.md

Spek

Spek is an acoustic spectrum analyser written in C and C++. It uses wxWidgets for the GUI and FFmpeg libraries for audio decoding.

Spek is available on *BSD, GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

Find out more about Spek on its website: http://www.spek-project.org/

Spek 0.7 - Released 2011-04-24

New Features And Enhancements

Spek 0.7 is part of beta 0.x releases, leading up to a stable 1.0 release later this year. Check Spek website for the roadmap.

New features since 0.6:

• Added translations in 8 languages
• Preferences to select a language and to check for a new version
• Spectral density ruler
• Added a menu bar, cleaned up the tool bar.
• Better OS X integration

Enhancements:

• Show the version number in the window
• Pre-compute the cosine table to speed up analysis by ±16%
• Use jhbuild and ige-mac-bundler to build and package Spek on OS X
• spek(1) man page
• Avoid using APIs depreciated in GTK3

Bugfixes:

• Fixed link activation on OS X (issue 31)
• Fixed new version detection on OS X
• Fixed duration for unsynchronised ID3v24 mp3 tags (upstream fix)
• Fixed rigth click → Quit (issue 24) and the ⌘ Q shortcut (issue 44)

Sources / Packages

• Spek 0.7 tarball:

  • http://spek.googlecode.com/files/spek-0.7.tar.bz2

• Windows and Mac OS X binaries:

  • http://spek.googlecode.com/files/spek-0.7.msi
  • http://spek.googlecode.com/files/spek-0.7.zip
  • http://spek.googlecode.com/files/spek-0.7.dmg

• Unix packages:

  • https://github.com/alexkay/spek/blob/master/INSTALL.md

Dependencies

• wxWidgets >= 2.8
• FFmpeg libraries:
  • libavcodec >= 52.123
  • libavformat >= 52.111
  • libavutil