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A WebGL Music Visualizer

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65 points by CPLNTN · 26 comments

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pzo

Consider adding sample audio file to test features without login to Spotify - Helpful for people who are on mobile and keep passwords on desktop password managers

smlacy

Cute idea and great execution. The first track I tried [1] has no discernible "Beat" so it kinda just goes wild at its own tempo, a total mismatch for the music I was playing.

1. The Album Leaf https://open.spotify.com/artist/02uPe16VFxPaiueQsPEDkE

tarentel

https://www.kaleidosync.com this is the actual product. Requires a spotify login though.

thih9

What is the license of this project? Before looking at the code I usually want to know that in case I wanted to reuse or contribute. I didn’t find a LICENSE file or any note. Does anyone know?

chaosprint

Fantastic idea and implementation! Just FYI, it seems that in the music community, there are quite some complaints about how Spotify distributes the income for artists. I don't know the details so no further comments from me. But I think it would be great if this project can be abstracted into an indie Web Audio visualisation lib. I would be keen to try it with my project Glicol:

https://glicol.org

There I have only basic visualisation so far.

asxd

This is really cool. It would be nice to have a way use custom audio, but I really like the range of visualizations and the interface. (one very minor issue is that the scrollbars seem to intermittently appear on firefox when dragging sliders)

edit: It would also be cool to see the visualizer's current estimate for the BPM.

2nd edit: Is the shader code for the visualization's available anywhere?

cobertos

Syncing music from Spotify is illegal under their Developer Policy, a client wanted to do it recently and it seemed iffy that you wouldn't eventually get shut down.

Section iii, bullet 6: https://developer.spotify.com/policy/#iii-some-prohibited-ap...

  • k12sosse

    Always interesting to see some of the rules imposed by a company that started by using unlicensed MP3s from The Pirate Bay. Guess you gotta keep the record companies happy.. after you make your first couple million, that is.

CPLNTNOP

For those nostalgic folks that miss music visualisers

sedivy94

I was tearing through GitHub last year to find a project like yours. Since then, this has been the gold standard for audio-reactive visuals in the browser. I was so impressed.

fleddr

It visualizes something but I fail to detect the correlation with the music playing.

difosfor

Doesn't seem to work on my iPad unfortunately.

m00dy

just curious how it would look like under German techno

Kalanos

.gif it up man

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