cava

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "CAVA [![Build Status](https://github.com/karlstav/cava/workflows/build-and-test/badge.svg)](https://github.com/karlstav/cava/actions)\n====================\n\n**C**ross-platform **A**udio **V**isu**a**lizer\n\nby [Karl Stavestrand](mailto:karl@stavestrand.no)\n\nNow also supports [dumb terminals](https://github.com/karlstav/cava/blob/master/TERMINAL.md)!\n\n![spectrum](https://github.com/karlstav/cava/blob/master/example_files/cava.gif \"spectrum\")\n\n[Demo video](https://youtu.be/9PSp8VA6yjU)\n\n- [What it is](#what-it-is)\n- [Installing](#installing)\n  - [From Source](#from-source)\n  - [Package managers](#package-managers)\n- [Capturing audio](#capturing-audio)\n  - [Pulseaudio](#pulseaudio)\n  - [Pipewire](#pipewire)\n  - [ALSA](#alsa)\n  - [MPD](#mpd)\n  - [Sndio](#sndio)\n  - [OSS](#oss)\n  - [JACK](#jack)\n  - [squeezelite](#squeezelite)\n  - [macOS](#macos-1)\n  - [Windows](#windows)\n- [Running via ssh](#running-via-ssh)\n- [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)\n- [Usage](#usage)\n  - [Controls](#controls)\n- [Configuration](#configuration)\n- [Using cava in other applications](#using-cava-in-other-applications)\n  - [cavacore](#cavacore-library)\n  - [Raw Output](#raw-output)\n- [Contribution](#contribution)\n\n\n\nWhat it is\n----------\n\nCava is a bar spectrum audio visualizer for terminal or desktop (SDL).\n\nworks on:\n* Linux\n* FreeBSD\n* macOS\n* Windows\n\nThis program is not intended for scientific use. It\u0027s written to look responsive and aesthetic when used to visualize music.\n\n\nInstalling\n------------------\n\n### From Source\n\n#### Installing Build Requirements\n\nRequired components:\n* [FFTW](http://www.fftw.org/)\n* libtool\n* automake\n* pkgconf\n* build-essentials\n* [iniparser](https://github.com/ndevilla/iniparser)\n\n\nRecommended components:\n\nThe development lib of one of these audio frameworks, depending on your distro:\n* ALSA\n* Pulseaudio\n* Pipewire\n* Portaudio\n* Sndio\n* JACK\n\n\nOptional components:\n* SDL2 dev files\n* autoconf-archive (needed for setting up OpenGL)\n* [ncursesw dev files](http://www.",
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