#soundview

A high-performance voiceprint and analyzer music visualizer - don't miss a beat.

#Screenshots

Click the images to see videos:

#Install/Quickstart

Install a recent version of SDL2 and Rust/cargo, then build and run the latest release as follows:

$ cargo install soundview
$ ~/.cargo/bin/soundview

Several optional arguments can be found by running ~/.cargo/bin/soundview -h.

#Viewing local audio

Soundview can look at any audio "recording" device on your system, either using the --device argument or by pressing the rightarrow/leftarrow keys to rotate between devices.

Out of the box, many systems only have input devices for microphone/line-in. In this situation, visualizing the audio that is playing on the system requires installing a virtual recording device. There are many options for doing this, depending on what operating system you are using.

• Linux: Out of the box, PipeWire and PulseAudio should have input devices named Monitor of <x>. If you point Soundview to these Monitor devices, you should be able to visualize any playing audio. On startup, Soundview defaults to devices that have "Monitor of" in their name.
• OSX: BlackHole is free and should work, but we haven't tried it ourselves. You should be able to point Soundview to the virtual BlackHole device.
• Windows: VB-CABLE is donationware and should work, but we haven't tried it ourselves. You should be able to point Soundview to the virtual VB-CABLE device.

#Keyboard shortcuts

• Q/Esc: Exit
• F/F11: Toggle Fullscreen (use --fullscreen to enable on startup)
• R/Space: Rotate between vertical/horizontal modes (use --orientation to configure on startup)
• Right/Left: Switch to next/prev device (use --device to select on startup)

#Building from main

To build the latest unreleased code, download and build from git as follows:

$ git clone https://git.sr.ht/~nickbp/soundview
$ cd soundview
$ cargo build && ./target/debug/soundview # debug build
$ cargo build --release && ./target/release/soundview # release build

#License

This project is licensed under the FAFOL. This is intended to restrict use of the project for purposes that would be considered unethical by its authors.

#Contributing

Contributions are welcome and appreciated. Contributions must be provided under the license terms described above.