audiowaveform mit Homebrew, Nix, scoop installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• audiowaveform

Projektgeschichte

The project began as a public source release on 2013-10-14 in the BBC GitHub repository, with Chris Needham as the author. The current official Codeberg repository records the BBC GitHub repository as its original URL, and the README now identifies Chris Needham and contributors as the authors.

The official changelog shows steady growth from the 1.0 series into a more general media conversion and rendering tool: direct PNG output arrived in 2013, JSON waveform output and configurable image colors in 2014, FLAC support in 2014, Ogg Vorbis and automatic zoom-to-width behavior in 2018, Opus input in 2022, bar-style rendering in 2023, raw audio input in 2024, and Windows UTF-8 filename support in 2025.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The README documents installation paths across Ubuntu PPA packages, Debian and RPM release assets, Arch AUR, Homebrew, Windows binaries, Docker, and Nix. The supplied package-manager facts also show Homebrew, Nix, and Scoop coverage, which matches its role as a small binary tool that packagers can expose as a single executable.

Wie es verwendet wird

The core command reads MP3, WAV, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, raw, .dat, or JSON waveform data and writes WAV, .dat, JSON, or PNG. It computes min/max sample pairs over a zoom window, can read or write standard streams with explicit formats, and can split channels or render fixed-width waveform images.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

audiowaveform is interesting to package maintainers because it sits at the intersection of C++, image output, and codec libraries while still behaving like a classic filter-style CLI. Its release assets and package notes cover several Linux families, macOS/Homebrew, Windows, Docker, and Nix, making it a good example of a multimedia utility that is useful only when the binary and its codec dependencies are packaged cleanly.

Zeitleiste

• 2013: Initial public release.
• 2014: JSON waveform output, image color options, and FLAC support were added.
• 2018: Ogg Vorbis input and automatic zoom-to-width rendering were added.
• 2022: Opus input support was added.
• 2023: Bar-style waveform rendering and JSON input support were added.
• 2025: The current Codeberg repository was created with the BBC GitHub repository listed as the original URL.
• 2026: Version 1.11.1 fixed Ubuntu packaging scripts.

Related projects

• The README credits Audacity, madlld, and pdjson code, and links a separate compile-static-audiowaveform project for Windows binaries.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/bbc/audiowaveform
• https://codeberg.org/api/v1/repos/chrisn/audiowaveform
• https://codeberg.org/chrisn/audiowaveform/src/branch/master/CHANGELOG.md
• https://codeberg.org/chrisn/audiowaveform/src/branch/master/README.md