# Waveform Generation

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/waveform-generation/192779
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [June 30, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/waveform-generation/192779 "2006-06-30T23:42:54Z")
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### Author: ![bigmtnskier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a4c791/32.png) [@bigmtnskier](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bigmtnskier)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/waveform-generation/192779/1 "2006-06-30T23:42:54Z")

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Hi there,

Does anyone know how to generate an audio waveform (visualization) from a wav or mp3 with PHP? The server has root access…

Is there a linux program to generate them via a command? If so, PHP can run the program using the [exec](http://us2.php.net/function.exec) function along with some additional parameters, such as wav/mp3 location, et cetera.

Thanks!

-bigmtnskier 🙂

[COLOR=“Silver”]Btw, I don’t know much about linux 😛  
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