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Synaescope itself is a visualisation program available in AlsaPlayer and as a plug-in for XMMS based on the Synaesthesia program. The word has been invented so doesn't really mean anything other than the program itself, I guess the developers were alluding to 'Kaleidoscope' when naming it.

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Original von smooth_hound

Synaescope itself is a visualisation program available in AlsaPlayer and as a plug-in for XMMS based on the Synaesthesia program. The word has been invented so doesn't really mean anything other than the program itself, I guess the developers were alluding to 'Kaleidoscope' when naming it.

Hmmm, here's what I found at dict.org:
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=synaesthesia

And I found this link:
http://www.thecure.com/robertpages/synaesthesiapiece.html

So it seems to be about "seeing sounds", which is exactly
what you describe as the function of the program :-)

Now Synaescope seems to be derived from synaesthesia
and the Greek word scopein (to look, to observe).

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Original von cmbofh


Now Synaescope seems to be derived from synaesthesia
and the Greek word scopein (to look, to observe).

Which would make Synaescope mean something like
"observing the seeing of sounds"?!

I guess I'm taking this a bit too far now...;-)