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Re: Show HN: A music player that creates real-time music videos

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Post by fernly »

aeroheim wrote: post #5
what_is_orcas wrote: post #3

Are there any demos available? Like, examples of what the music videos look like? I'm a little wary of downloading what appears to be closed-source software and running it, especially if I don't know if it's something I'd be interested in using. Otherwise, it's a really cool idea (I LOVE the old winamp visualizers).

Hey, thanks for your interest! The footage in the trailer shows what the music videos look like. All of it is recorded directly from the app, and there's a section where the UI is hidden and it's mostly effects and transitions going on (that's the music video part). In hindsight I might not have made that part clear enough. Also, the old winamp style visualizations were super badass! They played a huge part in my int…

> The footage in the trailer shows what the music videos look like

What, the static anime girl with a ken burns pan and zoom?

Re: Show HN: A music player that creates real-time music videos

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Post by powersnail »

aeroheim wrote: post #29
powersnail wrote: post #27

I just tried this, and I only got the big logo slowly floating in the middle of the screen, no matter what music I play. Am I missing something?

Hey, You need to add images to it for it to visualize. You could try with some of your favorite wallpapers perhaps. The docs on the site cover how to do it, but I'm going to work on making it more clearer.

Ah, I see. It's a little un-intuitive, to be honest, that a music visualization needs the user to supply an image. Perhaps supply a default image, or use the album art if the music file has one embedded?

Re: Show HN: A music player that creates real-time music videos

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Post by sydthrowaway »

raptortech wrote: post #21

The demo here is underwhelming compared to old-school winamp visualizers. But I think that with deep learning, there is now a real opportunity to make a kickass visualizer. Take a GAN and set the latent vector according to the DFT of the audio stream -- it would be super trippy. You could even use WaveNet and CLIP to make the visuals match the lyrics.

The winamp ones were done by genius demosceners

Re: Show HN: A music player that creates real-time music videos

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Post by kfarr »

sydthrowaway wrote: post #33
raptortech wrote: post #21

The demo here is underwhelming compared to old-school winamp visualizers. But I think that with deep learning, there is now a real opportunity to make a kickass visualizer. Take a GAN and set the latent vector according to the DFT of the audio stream -- it would be super trippy. You could even use WaveNet and CLIP to make the visuals match the lyrics.

The winamp ones were done by genius demosceners

Yeah to this day I think of Winamp visualizers as still the best implementation of music visualization ecosystem to date. iTunes had (has?) visualization plugins but didn’t compare to the hey day of Winamp. Seems like people just stopped trying in this category? Not sure where the audio visualization scene is at

Re: Show HN: A music player that creates real-time music videos

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Post by dvt »

kfarr wrote: post #34
sydthrowaway wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The winamp ones were done by genius demosceners

Yeah to this day I think of Winamp visualizers as still the best implementation of music visualization ecosystem to date. iTunes had (has?) visualization plugins but didn’t compare to the hey day of Winamp. Seems like people just stopped trying in this category? Not sure where the audio visualization scene is at

Don't mean to hijack this thread, but I built out a mini Spotify player with visualization support: https://github.com/dvx/lofi

Even had a few folks contribute a couple of neat visualizations[1] :)

PS: Visualizations were unfortunately deprecated on Macs since like 1.5.0 because of the incredible difficulty of getting the audio stream data. Pretty sure there's no way of doing it these days outside of a kext.

[1] https://github.com/dvx/lofi/tree/master/src/visualizations

Re: Show HN: A music player that creates real-time music videos

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Post by elevaet »

kfarr wrote: post #34
sydthrowaway wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The winamp ones were done by genius demosceners

Yeah to this day I think of Winamp visualizers as still the best implementation of music visualization ecosystem to date. iTunes had (has?) visualization plugins but didn’t compare to the hey day of Winamp. Seems like people just stopped trying in this category? Not sure where the audio visualization scene is at

I remember back in the winamp days thinking "this is awesome, I can't wait to see how much more awesome this is in 15 years!".

Alas progression in tech can't be taken for granted.

Re: Show HN: A music player that creates real-time music videos

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Post by larrysalibra »

codetrotter wrote: post #24
aeroheim wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do have a twitter video available (no youtube unfortunately, sorry!) https://twitter.com/hyperchroma/status/1464656712544174083 I'm not sure if the trailer loading is an issue on the site - could you check the console for me and see what it says?

I’m on iOS too. From experience it’s usually because the video container, codec, or options, you are using for the video is not supported by iOS. In your case I see you are using a webm container. iOS prior to version 15 does not support webm natively. Then earlier this year they started adding support for parts of webm in iOS 15. https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/10/apple-adding-webm-audio-codec... I recommend converting…

I’m on the latest version of iOS (15.1.1) and it doesn’t load for me either. Perhaps the server hosting the video file is overloaded?

Re: Show HN: A music player that creates real-time music videos

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Post by bryans »

raptortech wrote: post #21

The demo here is underwhelming compared to old-school winamp visualizers. But I think that with deep learning, there is now a real opportunity to make a kickass visualizer. Take a GAN and set the latent vector according to the DFT of the audio stream -- it would be super trippy. You could even use WaveNet and CLIP to make the visuals match the lyrics.

Metagroove is a pretty great visualizer that has the same vibe as Winamp's, but with a modern touch -- and more importantly, a modern resolution.

https://marumari.itch.io/metagroove

https://www.reddit.com/r/WeAreTheMusicMakers/comments/jqda6f...

Re: Show HN: A music player that creates real-time music videos

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Post by dapids »

dvt wrote: post #35
kfarr wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah to this day I think of Winamp visualizers as still the best implementation of music visualization ecosystem to date. iTunes had (has?) visualization plugins but didn’t compare to the hey day of Winamp. Seems like people just stopped trying in this category? Not sure where the audio visualization scene is at

Don't mean to hijack this thread, but I built out a mini Spotify player with visualization support: https://github.com/dvx/lofi Even had a few folks contribute a couple of neat visualizations[1] :) PS: Visualizations were unfortunately deprecated on Macs since like 1.5.0 because of the incredible difficulty of getting the audio stream data. Pretty sure there's no way of doing it these days outside of a kext. [1] http…

Actually the new Music.app will load visualization plugins on SIP disabled systems from a specific folder and specific format, although it's been far too long now for me to remember where that folder was. I'm sure some keen reversers can take a look at Music.app and figure it out again. I for one absolutely love the iTunes visualizers, they even have hidden key commands to manipulate them with.
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