It is true that ffmpeg can't do this directly. However, the ffmpeg project ships with a command line ffplay utility that is a very capable command line interfac

It is true that ffmpeg can't do this directly. However, the ffmpeg project ships with a command line ffplay utility that is a very capable command line interface media player. This uses the libav* libraries of ffmpeg for its work. On a side note, ffplay has a really neat feature: while playing an audio file using ffplay, it displays a spectrogram by default.