Category Archives: Visual

Mcool ~ Lightweight Music Player

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Minimalist local music player for windows, transparent, borderless and buttonless.

Features:

  • Portable, free, open-source software. (Delphi, MIT open-source license)
  • Operating System: Windows XP/7/8/10, 简体 / 繁體 / English / Unicode
  • Minimalist, transparent, “no interface, only music”.
  • Optimized for local lossless music playback. Powered by Bass library, with excellent performance and high quality sound effects. Modular design, can be highly customized.
  • Supports lightweight media library, lyrics and visual effects. Can be minimized to the system tray, takes very few system resources, suitable to listening to music when working.
  • These features come from user suggestions: tag editing, automatic switching list, play queue, mouse gestures, equalizer, audio device selection, the global volume wheel (over systray), font settings, minimalist mode, mouse transparent, pin to desktop and a simple layout.
  • Supports APE / FLAC / WavPack / MP3 / OGG / TTA / TAK / Musepack / AAC / AC3 ​​/ WMA / Wav / CD / ALAC / Aiff / MOD / CUE (almost all local music formats from lossy to lossless, and supports video formats by plug-in)

mcool.jpg

mcool.appinn.me

Foobar2000 ~ Columns User Interface (CUI)

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Columns UI is an alternative skinnable user interface for the Foobar2000 audio player.

  • Playlist view with columns, grouping and artwork
  • In-line metadata editing
  • Customizable layout through interchangeable panel and toolbar components
  • Built-in panels: playlist view, artwork view, filter, item details, item properties, playlist list, playlist tabs, tab stack
  • Built-in toolbars: menu, buttons, seekbar, playback order, volume, spectrum analyzer
  • Extensible through official and third-party panel and toolbar components

Website
Documentation
Hydrogen Audio Forum

Advanced CUI Themes:
EOLE ~ github.com/Ottodix/Eole-foobar-theme
Georgia ~ hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=116190.0

CUI Components:

foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_uie_tagger_mod
foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_youtube
github.com/reupen/console_panel

  1. foo_uie_albumart
  2. foo_uie_albumart_mod
  3. foo_uie_albumlist
  4. foo_uie_biography
  5. foo_uie_color
  6. foo_uie_console
  7. foo_uie_elplaylist
  8. foo_uie_eslyrics
  9. foo_uie_esplaylist
  10. foo_uie_library_tree
  11. foo_uie_lyrics_panel
  12. foo_uie_lyrics2
  13. foo_uie_lyrics3
  14. foo_uie_metronome
  15. foo_uie_output_switcher
  16. foo_uie_panel_splitter
  17. foo_uie_playlists_dropdown
  18. foo_uie_ptb
  19. foo_uie_sql_tree
  20. foo_uie_trackinfo
  21. foo_uie_typefind
  22. foo_uie_vis_channel_spectrum
  23. foo_uie_vis_peakmeter_spectrum
  24. foo_uie_wsh_panel_mod
  25. foo_uie_wsh_panel_mod_plus

EOF

foo_chronflow ~ Foobar2000 Cover Flow Display

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Add a configurable Cover Flow display to Foobar2000.

foo_chronflow - no border

Download and install foo_chronflow

github.com/Chronial/foo_chronflow
www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_chronflow
hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,108450.0
hydrogenaudio Wiki

Resources:

github.com/ghDaYuYu/foo_coverflow

StereoTool ~ Analysis & Imaging Tool

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The Complete Stereo Imaging And Analysis Tool. StereoTool offers ultra-precise control of input gain and individual pan for left and right channels, accurate visual feedback reflecting the signal content with; a vectorscope, PPM meters for inputs/outputs, phase correlation meter permanently monitoring the signal and individual left and right polarity reversal – No dongle or registration required – 100% Freeware!

stereotool-v3-full

www.flux.audio/project/stereo-tool-v3

Friture ~ Real-Time Audio Analyzer

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Friture is an application to visualize and analyze live audio data in real-time. Friture displays audio data in several widgets, such as a scope, a spectrum analyzer, or a rolling 2D spectrogram.

This program can be useful to analyze and equalize the audio response of a hall, or for educational purposes, etc.

The name Friture is a french word for frying, also used for noise in a sound.

Friture helps you to understand audio data with several widgets:

  • spectrum analyzer
  • rolling 2D spectrogram
  • fraction-of-octave analyzer
  • delay estimator
  • etc.
image of the friture user interface

friture.org
github.com/tlecomte/friture
apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PH4BL3F5Q2H

foo_enhanced_spectrum_analyzer ~ Foobar Spectrum Display

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Works with Columns UI and Default UI.

foo_enhanced_spectrum_analyzer

Hydrogen Audio Topic
Download

Spectralissime ~ The Spectrum Analyzer

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Spetralissime is a standalone Spectrum Analyzer application based on high precision band pass filter bank, more adapted to the human audition. Spectralissime gives a more consistent spectrum analysis and allows better understanding of any audio phenomena thanks to its constant precision, from 20 Hz to 20 kHz.

SpectralissimeScreenShot

Website

Discogs Enhancer ~ Chrome Browser Extension

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Discogs Enhancer is a free, open source extension that adds extra features to both Discogs.com and Chrome.

You can block sellers, use a dark theme, see price comparisons, get feedback notifications, convert foreign currencies, search Discogs and other online record shops with any highlighted text, improve tracklist readability, customize lots of Marketplace aspects, and more!

Every feature is optional so you can choose only the features you want to use.

www.discogs-enhancer.com

Soundgrain ~ Granular Sound Synthesis

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Soundgrain is a graphical interface where users can draw and edit trajectories to control granular sound synthesis. Soundgrain is written with Python/WxPython and uses Pyo as its audio engine.

Soundgrain_screenshot

ajaxsoundstudio.com/software/soundgrain

Album Art Downloader ~ Obtain Album Artwork

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The Album Art Downloader is a program designed to make life easier for anyone who wishes to find and update their album art for their music collection. The sources for the pictures can be defined by creating plugin scripts.

albumartdownloader

sourceforge.net/projects/album-art
sourceforge.net/p/album-art/discussion
HydrogenAudio Topic

WaveSurfer ~ Visualize & Manipulate Sound

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WaveSurfer is an open source tool for sound visualization and manipulation. Typical applications are speech / sound analysis and sound annotation / transcription. WaveSurfer may be extended by plug-ins as well as embedded in other applications.
Features:

  • Customizable – users can create their own configurations. Localization support.
  • Extensible – new functionality can be added through a plugin architecture.
  • Embeddable – WaveSurfer can be used as a widget in custom applications.
  • Transcription file formats – reads, and writes HTK (and MLF), TIMIT, ESPS/Waves+, and Phondat. Support for encodings and Unicode.
  • Multi-platform – Linux, OSX & Windows.
WaveSurfer

sourceforge.net/projects/wavesurfer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaveSurfer

JScript Biography ~ Foobar2000 Biography Script (Old)

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There is an updated version here.

Adding scripts is one method used to extend Foobar’s abilities. Not only are there quite a few existing useful scripts, new custom scripts can be written. One great script is the Biography script which displays biography and rating information from both AllMusic and Last.FM

Biography plugin - allmusic reviewScript Panel:

JScript ~ github.com/marc2k3/foo_jscript_panel/releases

Script:

JScript Biography ~ hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112913.0

The most recent version of the script is on, or near, the last page of this discussion.
  1. Download and unzip the newest version of the Biography script
  2. Download and install foo_jscript_panel
  3. In Foobar2000 select “Layout > Enable Layout Editing Mode”
  4. Add a new panel or tab to your Foobar interface
  5. Right click in the new area and select “Add New UI Element…”
  6. Select “JScript Panel” in the Utility section
  7. You should now see a JScript panel and “Click here to open editor.”
  8. Click on the panel to open the editor and click the “Tools” button and select “Import” and navigate to the biography script folder, select the script file (biography.txt) and click “Open”
  9. Click “Apply”, Dismiss the popup message and click “Ok”
  10. Disable “Layout editing mode” in the “View” menu

Forum Discussion:

hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112914.msg929674