CAVA(1) General Commands Manual CAVA(1)

cava — Cross-platform Audio Visualizer

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

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.

Path to config file.
Display helpful information.
Show the current version of cava.

Increase sensitivity.
Decrease sensitivity.
Decrease number of bars.
Increase number of bars.
Reload config.
Reload colors only.
Cycle foreground color.
Cycle background color.
Quit.

~/.config/cava/config
Per user configuration file.

cava was written by Karl Stavestrand.

May 29, 2024