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NAME

cava — Cross-platform Audio Visualizer

SYNOPSIS

cava [ -p path to config file ] [ -v version ]

DESCRIPTION

The cava Console-based Audio Visualizer for Alsa. Cava is a bar spectrum audio visualizer for the Linux terminal using ALSA, pulseaudio, pipewire or fifo buffer for input. This program is not intended for scientific use. It’s written to look responsive and aesthetic when used to visualize music.

Options

-p

Path to config file.

-h

Display helpful information.

-v

Show the current version of cava .

Keys

Up

Increase sensitivity.

Down

Decrease sensitivity.

Left

Decrease number of bars.

Right

Increase number of bars.

r

Reload config.

c

Reload colors only.

f

Cycle foreground color.

b

Cycle background color.

q

Quit.

FILES
˜/.config/cava/config

Per user configuration file.

AUTHORS

cava was written by Karl Stavestrand. May 29, 2024 CAVA (1)