Category Archives: Visualization

Visualiztion applications or plugins

foo_pcm_dsd_vu ~ Foobar PCM/DSD/DOP VU Meters

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PCM/DSD VU is a native visualization component for foobar2000, providing real-time analog, digital, and bar-style VU metering for both PCM and DSD playback.

Features:

  • Automatic PCM/DSD identification using DoP signal analysis.
  • Real-time left/right channel level visualization.
  • Analog VU, digital, and bar-style meter displays.
  • RMS, peak, crest factor, and loudness measurements (LUFS and LRA).
  • Configurable meter movement, decay, appearance, and colors.
  • 24 external skin profiles with PCM/DSD-specific backgrounds.
  • Standalone window and Columns UI embedded panel support.
  • Native Windows x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) builds.

www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_pcm_dsd_vu
github.com/jjh212/PCM_DSD_VU_RELEASE

Levyra-deepsound ~ FOSS Music Player

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Play streamed music and your own files in the same app, save tracks for offline listening, and follow synced lyrics. Levyra does not need an account and does not track you.

Features:

  • Native playback: Media3 and ExoPlayer on Android, libVLC through direct C bindings on Windows (no web wrappers).
  • Gapless & audio tuning: uninterrupted album transitions, crossfade, pitch shifting, custom playback speed, 10-band EQ, and AutoEQ headphone profiles.
  • SponsorBlock: automatically skips sponsored segments, intros, outros, and non-music chatter.
  • Audio & video modes: one-tap switch between audio-only streaming and full video with subtitle tracks.
  • Clean offline downloads: saved directly in device storage as standard M4A files with metadata, artwork, and lyrics.
  • Unified library: local files and streamed tracks share the same playlists, favorites, and queues.
  • Optional YouTube Music sign-in (Android): connect your account to browse your music and import playlists, liked songs and albums. No account needed if you’d rather keep using Levyra as it is.
  • Queue Spaces: keep multiple active listening sessions side by side without losing your current queue.
  • Synced lyrics: tap-to-seek, manual timing adjustments, dedicated Bluetooth latency offset, and non-Latin romanization.
  • Visuals: motion artwork on the Now Playing screen, falling back to animated album covers.
  • Global skins (Android): seven complete looks, each with its own layout and not just a new set of colors. Nocturne 78 brings vintage hi-fi warmth, Prism pairs deep black with raspberry accents, Torque goes for bold graphite shapes and Ivory is a soft, bright look with a dark mode of its own. Spotify Style, Apple Music Style and YouTube Music Style follow the layouts people already know from those apps. Every skin restyles Home, Explore, Library, Settings, the mini player and the full player. You’ll find them under Settings → Design → Skin. Levyra Default stays the default, and your customizations are kept when you switch back and forth.
  • Theme Studio: sixteen presets, including Midnight, Aurora, Pure Material, Velvet and Editorial. You can also build your own themes: pick background, surface and accent colors from swatches or a HEX code, choose light or dark, set how round the corners are, then save, rename or duplicate them. Levyra Aura stays the default, and one tap brings it back.
  • Mini player studio: five alternative mini player designs (Super Expressive, Floating, Liquid Glass, Ultra Compact and Artwork Focus), each with its own size, shape, progress bar and control options, plus a live preview. The original mini player stays the default, so nothing changes until you pick something else.
  • Navigation studio: four extra styles for the bottom bar (Super Expressive, Floating Dock, Minimal and Expressive Compact). Drag the buttons into the order you like, hide Explore or Library, choose when labels show, and pick the indicator, icon size, height and background. Home and Search always stay in the bar.
  • System integration: Android Auto, lockscreen media controls, persistent notifications, and Quick Settings tile.
  • Device integration (Android): Levyra recognizes the phone it runs on and turns on what that system supports. On HyperOS 3 it shows synced lyrics in the Super Island, on OriginOS it shows the current track in the Atomic Island, and OPPO, OnePlus and realme keep their system lyrics panel. Samsung’s Now Bar and other phones use the standard media controls. Settings → Integrations shows what was detected and links to the right battery page for background playback.
  • Song recognition: on-device music identification through the microphone or internal audio, saved in local history.
  • Explore: live radio stations, international charts, and genre or mood browsing.
  • Levyra Vault: backup and restore playlists, favorites, history, and preferences in a single local file.
  • Private stats: on-device play counts and listening hours, with optional Last.fm and ListenBrainz scrobbling.

github.com/LUC4N3X/Levyra-deepsound

ProM ~ ProjectM As Plugins

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projectM is an awesome music visualizer. DISTRHO ProM makes it work as an audio plugin (CLAP, LV2, VST2 and VST3).

ProM visualization

github.com/DISTRHO/ProM

Riff ~ FOSS Cross-platform Music App

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Riff is an open-source, telemetry-free desktop music app and player for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It unifies playback across YouTube Music, YouTube, SoundCloud, and offline local media into a single high-performance interface without ads, subscriptions, or login constraints. Provides very fancy UI and layout.

Built with Electron, Vanilla JavaScript, and WebGL, Riff provides responsive UI interactions and hardware-accelerated audio visualization without runtime framework overhead. The project is distributed under the MIT license and enforces strict privacy: all configuration, cached streams, and playback history remain strictly on the local machine.

Features:

  • High quality streaming with YouTube Music, YouTube, and SoundCloud without third-party advertisements or account requirements
  • Offline lossless playback with full local library support for high resolution formats including FLAC, WAV, MP3, OGG, and M4A.
  • Easy built-in audio editor, downloading with effects or trimming 10-band & 3-band equalizer, and real-time DSP effects (speed, pitch, reverb, distortion).
  • 1-Click multi-platform playlist migration: Direct import and resolution of public playlists from Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and SoundCloud
  • Material Design 3 UI: Dynamic color extraction from album artwork, deep UI theming, responsive layout presets, and an integrated CSS editor
  • Hardware-Accelerated Visuals: Canvas and WebGL visualizers including real-time frequency analyzers, an interactive squiggly progress scrubber, and synchronized karaoke lyrics.
  • Discord Rich Presence: Real-time playback status reporting track metadata, artist info, and elapsed time to Discord.
  • Zero Telemetry: No tracking identifiers, analytics pings, or background data collection.
  • Fullscreen mode with fancy lyrics animation.
  • Albums – see all of your favorite artist albums.
  • Customization – built in theme editor, configure everything, and a CSS editor, with animated backgrounds and interface opacity sliders.
  • Plugins – built-in plugin feature where you can add a plugin to edit how Riff works with something or add a new function.

riff.hs.vc
github.com/rootscripts/riff

Ritmolux ~ Real-time Music Visualizer

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A lightweight, real-time music visualizer built around one shared Rust core that turns a stream of PCM audio samples into GPU-rendered visuals. Two frontends consume that core:

  • Standalone app (Windows, macOS and Linux) — pure Rust (winit + wgpu), fed by the OS’s system-audio capture.
  • foobar2000 plugin (Windows-first) — a thin C++ shim over the core’s C ABI, fed by foobar’s own visualisation_stream (no loopback needed on that path).

The core is source-agnostic: it takes interleaved/mono PCM frames and does not care whether they came from loopback capture or foobar. That single abstraction is what lets one visual codebase serve both frontends.

ritmolux visualization

github.com/IgorKonovalov/Ritmolux
igorkonovalov.github.io/Ritmolux/gallery

Luminous ~ A Home For Music You Own

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Luminous is a fast, local-first player for your own audio library. Built for anyone who wants the convenience of a modern streaming app without giving up ownership of their music. Turn a folder of files into a library you’ll enjoy browsing and listening to.

esoltys.dev/luminous
github.com/esoltys/luminous

Geiss ~ Screensaver & Winamp Plugin

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The Geiss screensaver and Winamp music visualization plug-in.

geiss visulization

github.com/geissomatik/geiss

foo_spectrum_compare ~ Multispectrogram Comparison

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A vertical multitrack spectrum comparison panel component designed for foobar2000, suitable for the default UI (DUI).

Features:

Configuration persistence: Panel settings are serialized using the .fth format.

Floating panel: Supports use as an independent floating panel, which can be opened through the main menu “View” (hold Shift to show hidden menu items).

Vertical multi-track comparison: Select multiple audio tracks and divide them vertically into equal sections. Up to 4 audio tracks can be compared simultaneously to show frequency characteristics.

Background thread analysis: Each audio track is decoded and analyzed in an independent thread, without blocking the UI. Analysis begins immediately upon selection, with loading in seconds.

Spek-style color schemes: 3 built-in color palettes—Spectrum (Spek’s classic rainbow), SoX, and Mono (monochrome).

Frequency axis labeling: The left side displays a linear frequency scale of 0–22 kHz, which can be toggled in the right-click menu.

Timeline markings: The bottom displays time scales at 20-second intervals, which can be toggled in the right-click menu.

Custom title format: Supports foobar2000 titleformat syntax for custom track tags, displayed by default %title% | %codec% | %bitrate% kbps[ | $info(bitspersample) bit] | %samplerate% Hz | $info(channels) CH | %path%. Right-click to edit the format and press Enter to confirm; the spectrum will not be reloaded.

DPI-aware: Correctly scales on high-resolution screens such as 4K, with spacing, fonts, and axes all adapting automatically.

Double-buffered rendering: The overall image is output with double buffering, resulting in flicker-free switching between songs.

Bilingual interface: The right-click menu supports one-click switching between Chinese and English, and the language setting is persistent with the panel configuration.

foo_spectrum_compare display

github.com/a1waysbeta/foo_spectrum_compare

keppi ~ Simple Windows Visualization

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A simple music visualizer I wrote to refresh my C♯ knowledge. Windows-only and requires .NET Framework 4.5.

keppi visualization

sourceforge.net/projects/keppi

Sonic Topography ~ Music Player & Visualisation

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Sonic Topography is a desktop music player and 3D music visualization application. It transforms the low, mid, and high frequencies in music into three-dimensional terrain that undulates, glows, and flashes, turning listening to music into a breathing sound map.

sonic topography display

github.com/yin-yizhen/sonic-topography

spotatui ~ Standalone Terminal Player

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spotatui plays Spotify natively and streams YouTube, your local files, Subsonic or Navidrome and 30,000+ internet radio stations from a single keyboard-driven player. Spotify is optional. So is the AI DJ.

Features:

  • Multiple sources — Spotify optional. Play from Spotify, Local Files, a Subsonic/Navidrome server, Internet Radio, YouTube, or Qobuz. The free sources need no Spotify account; press d to switch between them at any time.
  • Native streaming. Play Spotify audio directly, no official app or spotifyd required — spotatui appears as its own Spotify Connect device (Premium required).
  • Synced lyrics. Line-by-line lyrics that follow playback.
  • Real-time audio visualizer. A system-wide FFT visualizer (press v) that reacts to whatever is playing.
  • Cross-source play queue. Press z on any track to queue it — the queue plays across every source before your current context resumes.
  • Lua plugins. Extend spotatui with event hooks, commands, keybindings, popups, and theming.
  • Listening history & recap. spotatui keeps a local play history and can generate a shareable HTML recap (spotatui history recap).
  • Full CLI. Most of what the UI does is scriptable — playback, search, playlists, shell completions. Run spotatui --help.
  • Lightweight. ~78 MB RAM while streaming, versus a full Electron client. See Performance.

spotatui.com
github.com/LargeModGames/spotatui

Bòcan Music ~ macOS Music & Podcast Player

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A native macOS music and podcast player and library built with Swift 6 and SwiftUI. Features gapless playback, AcoustID fingerprinting, smart playlists, lyrics, visualizers, scrobbling, and a DSP/EQ engine powered by FFmpeg.

bocan-music interface

github.com/bocan/bocan-music
bocan.app