I've been using Winamp to display visuals for a production, but I would rather use a dedicated visualization software, as I'm dealing with live audio. Are there any good visualization software that work much like Winamp's visualizations and go with the music?
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The Geiss Winamp vis plugin (by the same guy who wrote MilkDrop), has a screensaver version available that reacts to any audio being played.
PlasmaVis comes as a Windows Media Player vis plugin, a screensaver and stand-alone visualizer.
SoundSpectrum has a bunch of music visualizers that are highly recommended.
VSX (VisXtreme/Visualization Xtreme) and VSXu/VSX Ultra are great as well.
You can also check out this list of music visualization software on Wikipedia for more.
Soundspectrum has the best visualizations ever, particularly "G-Force", "Aeon" and "WhiteCap". Aeon is slower but the most sophisticated and in 3D. They have two others, "SoftSkies" and "Winter Wonders", but I find these much less interesting. You can download them for free, but you will have just a basic viz constantly interrupted by the word "Soundspectrum". Upgrading is a must, the cheapest upgrade is $20 each for a year, the top upgrade is $30. This includes constant updates, "standalone" (the viz works without music) and a screensaver. You can keep and use the viz's after a year, but then the updates will stop.
These visualizations are extremely sophisticated and adjustable, quite a level above Milkdrop and all the Geiss viz's. They work on many media players, when downloading them (from the site itself is best), check on the drop down list all the media players you want to use them with.
WhiteCap can be embedded in most Classic Winamp skins, even the "old" skins, which I think is a nice plus.
Highly recommended, but don't bother if you aren't prepared to buy the top version.
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