Music visualization

GLava – OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer for desktop windows or backgrounds

Last Updated on August 11, 2021

In Operation

GLava offers 5 different modules. Here’s the default visualizer shows cava style vertical bars.

If you want to try the other visualizers, run them with the -m flag, or edit the file ~/.config/glava/rc.glsl.

If you fancy something different, try the radial visualizer. It shares similarities with bars, except the bars are drawn around a circle.

To see the radial visualizer, type at a shell: glava -m radial

The wave visualizer depicts the raw left audio wave received from your input. It’s the least interesting visually in my opinion.

The fourth visualizer is graph. graph draws a vertical, solid graph of the fft output data.

The last visualizer is circle. This is a circle-style visualizer where the radius is the visualizer amplitude.

The music tracks are from the album Wake up by The Kyoto Connection. The Kyoto Connection is a free music project by Facundo Arena. The album is released under a Creative Commons license. Open source music played with open source software on an open source operating system. That could be my catchphrase.

Next page: Page 3 – Other Features

Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Other Features
Page 4 – Summary

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