General Sound Visualization.

[mstrcarrick]

I am currently trying to create a complete desktop replacement skin and I am lacking some pizzazz. I think adding a scope or bar like visualization would be awesome. I am not sure how to do it. I have attached a screenshot of what I have so far as far as the rest of the skin goes. I am running this on a computer with windows 7 64bit. I would like to know what plugin I can get to do this and how to use the plugin.

[thatsIch]

I am currently trying to create a complete desktop replacement skin and I am lacking some pizzazz.

Pizzazz?

I think adding a scope or bar like visualization would be awesome.

of what?

Cant help without information what you want to visualize.

[mstrcarrick]

I want to visualize any and all sounds coming from the sound card. For instance; game sounds, movies, music, system sounds, webpage sounds. All sounds.

[MerlinTheRed]

I'm not aware of any plugin that provides this kind of sound information. It would probably use a sizeable chunk of your CPU time too, because it would need to be redrawn so often.

[mstrcarrick]

I am not so worried about the cpu usage. I am currently running 3 I-7 6 core processors in tandum.

[jsmorley]

As far as I know, not only can't Rainmeter do this, but I don't think it would really be possible or at least practical at all. Visualization effects that you see in programs are done by the program creating the sound (like a media player) or a tool written specifically for a certain sound card / sound chip. There really isn't any way I am aware of to capture "general" sound output from any application, analyze it some way to create the visualization pattern, and then send it on its normal way to speakers or whatever.

It's a computer, so I suppose anything is possible, but I just would not hold my breath.

[MerlinTheRed]

Samurize had a plugin for Winamp that did something like this. If you'd want something like this for Rainmeter, you'd need to write both a Winamp and a Rainmeter plugin and have both of them communicate in some way. Certainly not very easy and it would only work for this one application.