Help me with spectrum analyzer^^

[macs91]

hi guys ^^
I have an idea for a skin but I do not know how I can create it.
my idea is a media player (winamp and/or itunes) with spectrum analyzer
what kind of string I need to create the spectrum analyzer?
example of a spectrum analyzer:
http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/spec50.jpg
http://www.newfreedownloads.com/imgs/3648-w520.jpg
thanks a lot
macs

[jsmorley]

Sorry, this really cannot be done in Rainmeter

[macs91]

mmm...why not ?

[MerlinTheRed]

Rainmeter needs the spectrum info in order to display it. Since up to now there is no plugin that gets this information from a media player, and since there are almost no media players that even make this info accessible from the outside, it can't be displayed in a skin yet. Also spectrum analyzers tend to need a very frequent update rate, probably meaning a lot of stress on the cpu.

[SkullBreaker88]

Hi, I'm very interested in the possibility of having a cool spectrum analyzer in rainmeter... it would be like a dream come true!

Maybe I'm saying something stupid but... isn't there a way to get spectrum values directly from windows (or from soundcard) instead of a single, fixed music player?
I'm no coder, but on windows Vista+ there is the possibility to use desktop gadgets, and there is (more than) one that simply shows a spectrum analyzer, and it works with any sound that you listen form your headphones (even the 'click' of opening a directory in windows! So even for youtube, movies, *YOUR* music player... anything!).
By looking at it it seems xml+html+css+javaScritp code to get the thing to work and show, but I suppose getting the spectrum-values is all delegated to the dlls provided in the gadget (ATL90.dll, msvcr90.dll and WASAPIlib.dll on this one).

In this situation, would it be so difficult for a skilled coder to 'steal' the usage of these dlls in the javascript code and adapt it for rainmeter?

The gadget i'm talking about can be found here:
http://download.orbmu2k.de/download.php?id=41
from the page:
http://blog.orbmu2k.de/sidebar-gadgets/spectrum-analyser-sidebar-gadget-skin

Thanks, and sorry for my English

[fragger505]

http://www.sillanumsoft.org/download.htm

Possible to create a plugin that grabs data from this?