"PulseAudio Spectrum Analyzer" is a software tool designed to display audio waveforms graphically. This software helps users visualize audio frequency variations and analyze audio performance in real-time. It provides graphical representations of audio streams, allowing users to identify audio peaks, glitches, unexpected amplitude changes, or frequency distortions.
One of the great features of this software is the cimpulse module. It creates a pulse audio connection context that reads the output stream from pulseaudio in a thread natively, which can then be read from Python. Additionally, cimpulse allows users to specify whether they want to output the raw stream or output the fft of the raw stream.
Screenlets is the name of both a set of independently-developed widget applications and the widget engine which runs them. The engine works primarily on X11-based compositing window managers, particularly the Compiz (under Linux) architecture. Initially, screenlets were exclusively scripted in Python and drawn in SVG. However, starting from version 0.0.14, the software provided support for web widgets as well.
To Install, follow these steps:
1) Install packages (Ubuntu): sudo apt-get install python-gtk2 python-cairo libfftw3-3. If you are using the screenlets version, install it with the following command: sudo apt-get install screenlets
2) Download and extract Impulse.tar.bz2
3) To execute the program, run the command python Impulse/Impulse.py, or double-click on the Impulse.py file and click run. If you are using the screenlets version, move Impulse to ~/.screenlets/, then open up the screenlets manager and start Impulse.
Overall, Impulse - PulseAudio Spectrum Analyzer is an easy-to-use software that offers advanced functionality for users. It is user-friendly, customizable and provides a unique feature set that is perfect for those looking to add some visual appeal to their desktop.
Version 0.2-r21: N/A