A fast, professional audio metering and visualization application for Linux, built with Rust and PipeWire.
OpenMeters is a real-time audio metering and visualization application for Linux. It captures audio via PipeWire and displays it through various professional visualizations like loudness meters, oscilloscopes, spectrograms, and spectrum analyzers. It solves the need for a fast, customizable, and open-source audio analysis tool on Linux systems.
Audio engineers, musicians, podcasters, and Linux users who need real-time audio monitoring and analysis for production, mixing, or debugging purposes.
Developers choose OpenMeters for its high performance built with Rust, deep integration with PipeWire for flexible audio capture, and its comprehensive set of professional-grade visualizations—all available as free and open-source software.
Fast and professional audio metering/visualization for Linux.
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Built with Rust and optimized for low latency, it efficiently handles audio processing for professional monitoring, as highlighted in the README's focus on speed.
Leverages PipeWire to capture audio per-application or per-device, enabling targeted analysis without system-wide interference, a key feature for debugging.
Includes LUFS meters, spectrogram with spectral reassignment, and vector scopes, covering essential audio engineering metrics with multiple modes.
Offers bar mode, pop-out windows, and JSON-based theming, allowing users to tailor layouts and appearances via config files in ~/.config/openmeters/.
Limited to Linux with PipeWire, and bar mode requires Wayland, excluding users on other OSes or X11, as noted in the README's installation requirements.
The README warns that settings may reset inexplicably after updates with no backward compatibility guarantees, risking user customization and workflow disruption.
While Arch Linux has AUR support, other distributions require manual building from source with Rust, adding setup complexity and dependency management overhead.
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