Cant find an mp3 player that runs visualizations. What the heck is going on here? Even the crappy LG chocolate has an mp3 player with visualizations. What the heck is going on?
Last edited by onion; December 6th, 2009 at 01:24 AM.
Visualizations are videos running made from random patterns that react to the music being played. Windows media player runs one when you play an mp3 and basically all Windows based mp3 audio players have it.
Last edited by onion; December 6th, 2009 at 04:59 PM.
Visualizations are videos running made from random patterns that react to the music being played. Windows media player runs one when you play an mp3 and basically all Windows based mp3 audio players have it.
Ah okies, thanks for helpin this out of date old man lol.
The GPU has nothing to do with rendering the visualizations since its all 2D. The crappy LG chocolate even has an mp3 player with visualizations and its hardware sucks. Reality is not what you make believe it is or what you "think" it is. People like you are a big problem with online forums. Just please stop posting.
That was pretty rough......
Please keep it nice , The OP was merely posting what they think / Their opinion.
I'm not sure if the Android API has support for audio visualizations, at least none that would sync with the audio that is playing. I had an idea for an app that was essentially a visualization for audio coming in through the mic, but I'm not finding any API controls that give you access the raw audio information (frequency/tone, volume level, etc.). I haven't read through the whole API yet so it might be buried somewhere in there.
I did find an app called "FaceIT" which claims to work off audio input from the mic, but I think it's tied to the speech recognition API so that wouldn't work for an audio player visualizer.
At this point I think the only option would be something that draws randomly without regard for the music that is currently playing.
It's at least possible, Android definitly has the hardware power for it, I had a app on my old Instinct that had a built in visualization, which has no where near the power of any Android handset.
Think it's just a matter of time. I would settle for one with a equalizer though.
Last edited by Dre89; December 30th, 2009 at 09:25 PM.
The real find would be a music player with a damn EQ!
Do a market search for "equalizer" and there are a few (same developer different versions). The reviews don't look too promising but you never know. I personally have not tried them.
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Do a market search for "equalizer" and there are a few (same developer different versions). The reviews don't look too promising but you never know. I personally have not tried them.
Yeah I saw those and the reviews scared me away. Didn't sound like it worked at all.
yeah i saw those and the reviews scared me away. Didn't sound like it worked at all.
i just got the trial versions and they were horrible, ALL SONGS WERE ORGANZIED BY SONG TITLES, NOT BY ARTIST AND YOU ARE UNABLE TO CHANGE THAT....AT LEAST IN THE FREE VERSION.
Last edited by dancingxtortoise; January 2nd, 2010 at 11:09 PM.
They just released the API update for 2.1. I didn't see anything in the update notes that would allow for the creation of audio playback visualizations. If it's in the API, i can't find it. I'm just a novice programmer, but I would think you need something that can return either the frequency/tone being played in order to render a visualization as the frequency/tone of each beat changes. Here is the description of the "Media" API (which is where I think this support would be):
"Provides classes that manage various media interfaces in audio and video. The Media APIs are used to play and, in some cases, record media files. This includes audio (e.g., play MP3s or other music files, ringtones, game sound effects, or DTMF tones) and video (e.g., play a video streamed over the web or from local storage).
Other special classes in the package offer the ability to detect the faces of people in Bitmaps (FaceDetector), control audio routing (to the device or a headset) and control alerts such as ringtones and phone vibrations (AudioManager). "
It may be buried in the API somewhere, but I think if it was, someone would have created it by now.
As for the live wallpaper in the video, my only guess is that:
A: It's actually a video file playing a pre-recorded visualization with the audio.
B: They are using the "speech to text" function to generate a visualization (i.e. each word that it thinks is being said represents a different wave form in the visualization).
Not sure if B can be run against an mp3 file, so the answer is more likely A.
I don't know why this wouldn't be something built into Android, but it looks like we'll have to wait for an update before we get MP3 visualizers.
If I'm wrong and someone knows of a way to do this, please let me know!
Sorry for replying to such an old post, but I found this thread when googling for "Android music visualisations" a while ago. To my dismay, I found out they barely exist, so I went and wrote my own. It's gotten only 5 star ratings so far, and not just from family and friends either
So if you were following this thread, or came here through Google like I did, and you still want to try a visualisation app that works with any media player out there, fire up the Android market and do a search for:
Visualisator 5000
Try the (ad-supported) free version or buy the full version for peanuts!
For all interested this is now possible in Gingerbread, both EQ and visualization -- both were possible before but they should be easier for devs to code now
There are many discussions about media player visualization that it is possible or not. But I can't still scrap the main point of possibility for that.
Somebody said the wallpaper provided the visualization but I can't see it.
If it does Android provides API that supports for visualization.
But I also can't find it.
If anyone knows. please help me how i can get stream from player that is being played.
Thank you
Cyanogenmod 7.1 has visualizer live wallpapers. And they are working with any kind of music player, but they didn't look very well. At least they are working
Any good updates to visualizer apps?
Having a hard time finding a good one.
Now that we are past GB...
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MP3 player with visualizations...none exist????
