---
name: "sonic-visualiser"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "sonic-visualiser"
version: "5.2.1-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sonic-visualiser"
---

# sonic-visualiser(1)

viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files

## NAME

sonic-visualiser - viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files

## SYNOPSIS

**sonic-visualiser** \[*options*\] \[*file*\] ...

## DESCRIPTION

**Sonic Visualiser** is a program for viewing and exploring audio data for semantic music analysis and annotation.

**Sonic Visualiser** could be of particular interest to musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers and anyone else looking for a friendly way to take a look at what lies inside the audio file.

After the installation, the application is available from the **Applications** menu.

## OPTIONS

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message and exit

- **--no-audio**

  Do not attempt to open an audio output device.

- **--no-osc**

  Do not provide an Open Sound Control port for remote control.

One or more Sonic Visualiser (.sv) and audio files may be provided.

## SEE ALSO

The complete documentation is available online at \<https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/documentation.html\>.

## AUTHOR

sonic-visualiser was written by Chris Cannam \<cannam@users.sourceforge.net\> and others.

This manual page was written by Alessio Treglia \<alessio@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).