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I’m happy to announce the release of Spek 0.6 – a multi-platform acoustic spectrum analyser. This version is about 3 times faster than 0.5 thanks to the lightning-fast FFmpeg decoders and the new multi-threaded analysis algorithm. Spek 0.6 also features dramatically reduced size of the Windows installer (from 17.1 MiB to 9.8 MiB) and OS [...]

Next version of Spek will use FFmpeg libraries to decode audio files. There are several reasons for the switch from GStreamer: GStreamer is a fantastic framework for building complex multimedia pipelines, however what Spek really needs is a simple decoder and FFmpeg’s libavformat and libavcodec do just that. To handle some audio formats (e.g. APE [...]