From 76bcc531f96977b5cb469cc29172e5ac36953f6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kenneth Reitz <me@kennethreitz.org>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 01:38:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?play.py:=20spectrum=20log=2015=E2=86=928=20?=
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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 play.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/play.py b/play.py
index 1c65c25..516a01c 100644
--- a/play.py
+++ b/play.py
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ def play_audio(buf, sample_rate, title="", info_lines=None, offset_sec=0.0):
                         hi = lo + 1
                     bands.append(np.mean(fft[lo:hi]))
                 # Log scale — human hearing is logarithmic
-                bands = [np.log1p(b * 15) for b in bands]
+                bands = [np.log1p(b * 8) for b in bands]
                 peak = max(bands) if max(bands) > 0 else 1
                 # Multi-row spectrum: map each band to 0..n_rows*4 height
                 max_h = n_rows * 4