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Spek

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Spek helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram. Spek is free software available for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X.

FLAC file analysis

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • AU flagAustralia

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Flathub
  • Flatpak
Discontinued

The latest version (0.8.5) is from January 2023.

4 / 5 Avg rating (6)
64likes
3comments
0news articles

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2.  Works Offline
  3.  No Tracking
  4.  No registration required
  5.  Dark Mode
  6.  Spectrogram view
  7.  Audio Visualization

 Tags

  • spectrum-viewer
  • spectrogram-analyzer
  • audio-utility
  • spectrogram
  • acoustic-spectrum-analyser
  • acoustic-spectrogram-viewer
  • acoustic-spectrogram-analyser
  • Spectrum
  • spectrum-analyser
  • spectrogram-viewer

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    POX removed Spek as alternative to GoldWave
    3 days ago
  • Melatonin-Samba liked Spek
    about 1 month ago
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    POX removed Spek as alternative to Audio Hijack
    about 1 month ago
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    POX removed Spek as alternative to Adobe Audition
    about 1 month ago
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    POX removed Spek as alternative to Tenacity
    about 2 months ago
  • POX updated Spek
    5 months ago
  • juppytaar updated Spek
    6 months ago
  • kakha_k rated Spek  
    6 months ago
  • kakha_k liked Spek
    6 months ago
  • RemovedUser updated Spek
    6 months ago
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Spek information

  • Developed by

    AU flagAlexander Kojevnikov
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4
  • Alternatives

    46 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

Audio & Music

GitHub repository

  •  2,896 Stars
  •  271 Forks
  •  131 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jul 28, 2024 
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Spek, and it has gotten 64 likes

Spek was added to AlternativeTo by Tag on Mar 23, 2012 and this page was last updated Jan 24, 2025.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Alejandro Medina
Jul 19, 2018
2

My favorite spectrogram analyzer because is really fast and easy to use, even when it is buggy sometimes.

Weltall
Jun 27, 2021
0

Used it a couple years ago. It did it's job good enough, even if it was a bit buggy. I liked it =)

lightbringergames777
Jun 1, 2020
0

Very quick and easy to use. Does what it says on the tin. Found it very useful when comparing formats and conversion settings before re-encoding a large batch of needlessly high-quality files.

What is Spek?

Spek helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram. Spek is free software available for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X.

Features:

  • Supports all popular lossy and lossless audio file formats thanks to the FFmpeg libraries.
  • Ultra-fast signal processing, uses multiple threads to further speed up the analysis.
  • High number of frequency bands for the best spectrogram quality.
  • Shows the codec name and the audio signal parameters.
  • Allows to save the spectrogram as an image file.
  • Drag-and-drop support; associates with common audio file formats.
  • Auto-fitting time, frequency and spectral density rulers.
  • Available in Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian.

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