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Audio Visualizer, works on any website. Press icon or 'Ctrl+Q' to start/stop. ♪ ┐(・。・┐)
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Uploading of scenes to https://audiovisualizer.net/ now works again!
Contributing to the extension at https://github.com/afreakk/ChromeAudioVisualizerExtension is very welcome!
* Works on any website.
* Choose among several scenes.
* Share custom scenes.
* It's Open Source
* MilkDrop added! check it out! with 100 different presets!
(more support for milkdrop will come in the future!)
* Adjust General settings to get different effects(on almost all scenes).
(DrawMode, TransparentBackground etc.)
* Play around with scene settings to fundamentally change any scene.
(scenes look pretty boring with default settings)
* Save and/or share custom scene settings as stand-alone scenes.
Note: This extension contains flickering effects.
Hotkeys:
* Ctrl+Q - Toggle visualizer on/off. (sometimes have to click 2 times to start)
* Alt+Q - Open options.
Tips:
* Under scene settings, hover mouse over the value you want to change, then drag mouse up/down while holding down left mouse button to increase/decrease value.
* Set LatencyHint to interactive, it will make the spectrum analyzis more precise, but might trigger a bug where you get choppy sound.
In that case, set it back to 'playback'.
Contribute:
* Suggestions, pull requests, new scenes or other ideas are very welcome.
https://github.com/afreakk/ChromeAudioVisualizerExtension
Patch notes:
6.0.12
- Reduce amount of permissions needed.
6.0.11
- Fix bug which affected playing on youtube, things should be more stable now.
6.0.10
- Less crazy default settings for Spectrum Analyziz
6.0.9
- Disabled a couple of butter-scenes that were laggy.
6.0.8
- Chrome update broke utilized functionality, cannot set runtime.Port.name directly anymore, resulted in extension throwing exception and not being able to pass audiodata to scenes. now fixed by passing name in object to chrome.tabs.connect.
6.0.6-7
- Added option `opacity` to SpectrumAnalizyz
- Made ProceduralTerrain lower poly by default (you can still choose whatever poly resolution you want in scene-settings)
- Added option `FadeControls` (fades controls out when mouse is not over controls when enabled)
6.0
- MilkDrop support added (from butterchurn ttps://github.com/jberg/butterchurn) !!
- More support for this will be added, like possibility to create and use custom MilkDrop plugin
5.2
- Make custom ProceduralTerrain scenes work, they were bugged.
- Make transparent background work in proceduralTerrain
- added scene: DacingCubes3DSinus
- added scene: DacingCubes3D
- added site for sharing scenes
- added scene: DancingCubes
- added option: 'LatencyHint', default value is set to: 'playback'.
Earlier we always used 'interactive', but that caused choppy sound on some browser versions.
'playback' option is less precise than 'interactive', so if you dont have any choppy-issues with 'interactive', you should run 'interactive' :).
- made seventies scene more reactive to music
5.1
- added procedural-terrain scene !
5
- added import and export custom scene, now you can share your scene with others!
4.500.1.5
- webgl scenes added back.. seems chome has fixed it?
4.500.1.4
- webgl scenes removed, chrome+contentscript+webgl,- somethings not working right.
4.500.1.3
- Startupscene now working + optimization.
4.500.1
- DrawMode should now work without transparentmode. (transparentmode will always be active in the background while drawmode is enabled(so the scene doesnt redraw its background))
4.500
- Performance improvement, found a bug in code that resized the canvas each frame. Drawmode is back and working (except for in opengl scenes: spinningcube, sinusmode and madness)
Canvas is no longer following scrolling.
4.420.9
- Madness Scene added :O
4.420.8
- stability and performance update and removed drawmode(was not working with newer chrome).
4.420.7.2
- Canvas width will no longer make a vertical scrollbar, and canvas will now be locked to scroll height. (can make it an option, if anyone actually liked being able to scroll away from the canvas)
4.420.7
- New icon! :)
4.420.5-6
- New feature: DrawMode (located under settings) for cool effects (does not work on hexagon, spinningcube or sinuscolormix)
- Save Scene Bugfix
4.420.1-4
- bugfixes (context offset ++) new forked-scene (PainScene from WormScene)
- Added full-screen setting.
4.420
- two new scenes(DotsAndLines and ParticleCircle), better options and options experience and general code improvements(hopefully).
4.20
- Major bugfix regarding spectrum data, so everything is much better now.
revamped some scenes, added webgl support and addeed 2 new webgl scenes.
3.52042
- fftSize added to options
3.420
- fleshed out options
2.43
- stability etc
2.41
- improved gui/options and errorhandling
2.37
- categorized gui + new scene "Swipe"
2.36
- Custom example included, changed some scenes(some earlier saves may break)
2.35:
- Now you can save and load custom scenes, and view/delete them in extension options.
Latest reviews
- (2023-08-27) _CsAvIeR _: You all did an amazing work
- (2023-08-26) Javan Ochoa: doesnt work
- (2023-07-16) Alexander Popov (AlexWayfer): It's kind of working, but breaks the audio and not sticking (at Deezer).
- (2023-06-28) Amy u: For some reason whenever I want to use It, It mutes the music which Is weird. Other then that cool extension.
- (2023-06-04) Saro Amani: It is awesome.
- (2023-02-15) Emma Behrens: I love the visuals, it makes listening to techno really fun and stuff but it makes the music glitchy sometimes, it's really annoying
- (2023-02-08) Ubaidullah Murad: It's awesome for an easy way to add visualizations to spotify (includes milkdrop)
- (2023-01-18) Danieru: Pretty laggy on amd a8 5600k apu.
- (2023-01-06) Matt LaVoie: I've been wanting something like this for years, thank you!
- (2022-11-17) Thom Patton: Been using this beast for years. I love the visualizations with any music. A great selection of presets, too! There is a bug when hitting Ctrl+Q to start or stop Visualizer that seems to disconnect YTMusic from the sound hardware, requiring a reload of the page to fix. This is fairly annoying when I just want to downvote a song or skip ahead in my playlist.
- (2022-11-15) TNS: The details are inaccurate
- (2022-11-02) Jake Miller: The milkdrop visualization is incredible, ranging from night sky, to ocean with constellations. 3D synthetic material panes, drops. Color chasing, etc. Tons of high quality variety for free.
- (2022-08-26) ARClegend_18: It's wild mate. Awesome tool if you want some trippy visuals for your music. Also good for just trippy visuals in general. Easy to use.
- (2022-08-17) Superk 05: One of the best things i have experienced in a while also some pretty good wallpaper material!
- (2022-08-14) Jake Vanderrol: Awesome, everyone that had Win Amp back in the day thanks you. It's pretty damn awesome!
- (2022-07-23) Daniel Toruno: This is my new favorite thing on the internet. Thank you so much for these inspiring and easily accessible visuals.
- (2022-07-08) Jason: Thank you for this, would love to see continued updates and build a sub model!
- (2022-07-04) Charles Gibbs: The visuals are so cool and really accompany the music, if you get this, make sure to listen to some Hendrix, it is an experience, no pun intended.
- (2022-06-09) Mac Parise: does not work for opera extensions
- (2022-05-12) Fun zone: Don't use if your computer is slow like mine.
- (2022-03-30) Ivanna Marcano: THIS EXTENSION IS SO COOL ITS LIKE GOING ON AN ACID TRIP
- (2022-03-30) CJMH: Absolutely Fantastic! Is there any way it can be used against the audio feed without having it over the screen that is managing the music, so you don't have to stop the visual or go transparent to control the music?
- (2022-02-18) Luke Flegg: Errr... wot. This is insanely incredible for a "just works" Chrome extension. Damn. Best kept party trick
- (2022-01-18) Kalle Almqvist: Almost perfect, Would be cool if I could set it to only show scenes that does not flicker so much. Seems like I can spend some time configuring this tho.
- (2021-12-03) Areej: Really cool visualization and I really like it, but it gets super glitchy. If I try to mirror it to the tv it ends up being laggy and even more glitchy. If they just fixed this issue it would be perfect.
- (2021-11-01) Atle Magnussen: Awezome
- (2021-10-05) Foaming Hippo: This stopped being a chrome extension when the shapes became 4d
- (2021-08-13) Kelvin Copeland: So simple, so wonderful. Good job!
- (2021-06-11) Marcos Estêvão Cardoso: Existem coisas na vida que são a pura expressão da arte, esta extensão é uma delas.
- (2021-05-09) Vanya Kashaed: Наконец-то нашел это приложение!
- (2021-04-04) paw lean: wow. just wow
- (2021-03-30) Thomas Salmon: Wow, stunning little extension that works really slick. Yay, it's like WinAmp in your browser! Nice job and very easy to manage.
- (2021-03-22) I like Portal 2 ΔΔΔ: It looks great, but I would like SpectrumAnalyzis to have a function so that the gap between the strips could be adjusted, as well as for the spectrum to take sound from one tab and show it to another
- (2021-03-18) everymo: looks absolutely AMAZING found this on my school chromebook by accidentally pressing ctrl+q thanks random dude that used to use my chromebook and somehow downloaded this
- (2021-03-15) Willehado Leano: Pretty Good and seems to run Smoother than the Butterchurn extension this is based on.....but the PROBLEM is....it covers the entire page contents that is running this extension UNLIKE the Butterchurn extension which can run on a seperate window. This NEEDS to be able to run on a separate window....I use a Web based DJ app and run this but it covers the Turn tables so that I cannot DJ.....with Butterchurn I click on the extension and it pops up on a separate window. Please add this ability!
- (2021-03-09) Jay-ar Sareno: Excellent. Can even share custom presets, thanks!
- (2021-02-01) James Bird: The best visualizer available in chrome extensions. Lots of scenes and apparently adjustable scene settings, but the prebuilt ones are good enough for me. Really good job by the developer. bug: Sometimes fails to re-enable audio when closing the visualizer, easily fixed by refreshing the page, but annoying, as i lose my place in the currently playing song.
- (2021-01-30) fred「Amidweiz」 fuchs: Fantastic audio visualizer, the only thing I'd suggest is to be able to run the visualizer when playing files locally through chrome when opening a file.
- (2021-01-29) Levente Csapó: a bit buggy and sometimes messes with the audio but some of the effects are crazy, i swear the visuals in MilkDrop are like having a fever dream x10 this is honestly amazing
- (2021-01-28) SkysLimitGaming: nice but bass is too sensitive and WHY DOES IT SAY IM SHARING MY SCREEN?????????????????????? r u tryna get data stop it. I cant have you always watching my screen
- (2021-01-17) Dave Lapsley: Attempting to fix problems previously experienced, this is what seems to happen every time. (Reinstalled 5 different times so far.) Upon install, it works absolutely perfectly. Crystal. No complaints. For about 20 minutes, maybe 30. Despite music still playing, the visualizations just stop. At this point a manual scene selection will occasionally work, but it remains fixed. Otherwise, with all the settings the same, restarting the browser etc and restarting the visualizations is when the chopped lag renders the computer and the audio unusable. Uninstalling and reinstalling works and I'll have another 20 or 30 of perfect function again.
- (2020-12-29) Дмитрий Токарев: Самое лучшее из имеющихся
- (2020-12-25) Mathew Casillas: very beautiful pictures being created by audio with this extension. what did you use to make this? i would love to make some nice pictures with the same amazing effects...
- (2020-12-24) Maxwell Darwin: I really love this visualizer, but the only thing I would like to do is create a playlist of visuals. I don't like all of them and I want the ability to remove some and keep a list of favorites. Please add this. It doesn't seem like it would be too complicated to do. Thank you for making this.
- (2020-11-26) Jason De Sante: Difficult to use on mac, can't rebind hotkeys (hotkey to start is same hotkey to close chrome on mac). Can't use with music on computer. So you can get a beautiful visualizer with bad sound quality, or good sound quality with no visualizer. I would much rather this program be able to listen to the OS' sound, because I'm not going to compromise sound quality just for nice visuals.
- (2020-11-06) • HeyDud3s •: It doesnt actually match with the music, you can pause it and it keeps going.
- (2020-10-25) Josh Bauer: This is amazing... I was skeptical that any Chrome extension could really do this... thanks for proving me wrong :) "Hexagon" is my favorite option by the way
- (2020-09-15) Agoston David: almost perfect. I have an 100hz monitor and as I can see the visualisation caped at 60 FPS
- (2020-08-04) Anthony Nguyen: Feels like the controls could be more clear. Is this supposed to be audio reactive? Can't seem to get it to react to the music.
- (2020-08-01) Денис Дмитриев: Отлично! Самое то для Яндекс музыки!
Latest issues
- (2024-01-12, v:6.0.12) Thet & Ryan: A slight hiccup
After pressing ctrl+Q 4 times (Launch and terminate x 2) the tab keeps sharing and results in complete audio loss until a new tab is opened. Otherwise I am really impressed with this near perfect online visualizer. Kudos! - (2023-08-17, v:6.0.12) Νίκος Κοκολακης: auto start
Hi there ! This is a GREAT extension. I do have a litle problem thow: I use another extension called "Easy auto Refrsh" in my stream, so everytime the site refreshes automatcally, I need to restart manually the audio visualizer. Is there any way that I don't need to do that? Thanks in advanve! Nikos - (2023-06-22, v:6.0.12) Milko Videv: Wow! I've never seen anything like it. Ever!
Wow, wow, wow! - (2023-01-28, v:6.0.12) William Schott: How do I get the Scroll bar on the right to go away?
Is there anyway to get the scroll bar on the right to go away? - (2023-01-11, v:6.0.12) E E: No questions here, just wanted to say thanks for developing this! BEST VISUALIZER hands down
No questions here, just wanted to say thanks for developing this! BEST VISUALIZER hands down - (2022-07-08, v:6.0.12) Simon Lewis: Doesn't work?
Maybe I'm braindead but this simply doesn't work. I can click the icon and press Ctrl+Q as much as I want but nothing happens. Tried it with Spotify and Youtube. - (2022-06-28, v:6.0.12) Graeme Kilshaw: Lyrics & Speech Visualizer
I'm looking to download an audio visualizer for visualizing lyrics and speech in real time, with custom fonts. I could start out with a speech to text app, or another open source audio visualizer platform or application. I want my research, and a video featuring my experiment, to be published on "Experiments with Google". https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ My fonts for the new lyrics and speech visualizer are available at: https://www.github.com/friendshipcube If you want to learn more about the friendship cube code, please visit: https://www.vimeo.com/friendshipcube or text me via twitter: https://www.twitter.com/friendshipcube - (2022-05-12, v:6.0.12) Michelle Lee: Video Download
Hello! Love this extension awesome work :) I'm super new to the audio visualizer world but I was wondering if there is a way to save a scene? I tried clicking on the export scene option but nothing seemed to happen( I'm on a mac). Is there another way to download these visualizers? That would be such a blessing, thanks a ton! - (2022-01-16, v:6.0.12) B: MIlk Drop Slow FPS
Hi, I have an nvida 1070 but Milk Drop from rate is 4 to 10 fps. - (2021-10-22, v:6.0.12) Peter Swan: Scenes missing?
Recently formatted my machine. Added it back in raw from the Chrome store. I see a few of the scenes are missing now. Like the castle in the clouds for instance. Where would I find a list of files to upload for the scenes? - (2021-08-24, v:6.0.12) JT03: Milkdrop Scene running at 10 FPS
Every other scene runs fine, only milkdrop runs average of 10 fps sometimes slowing down to about 4 FPS. I've cleared cache, freed storage, checked temperatures to make sure my cooling was doing its job, updated drivers etc... Have been using this plug-in for over a year now without any issue before this started earlier in the week. - (2021-07-13, v:6.0.12) Jelle Vink: Chromebook Audio Only
I'm using the paid ProjectM version on a Pixelbook, but it seems only the mic can be used as audio source. I have changed the settings for "Audio Mode" from "Auto" to "Audio Only" but it doesn't seem to pick up any audio when playing for example something on YouTube. I have checked the permissions of the app and it only lists "Use microphone" permissions, nothing else is listed or has been asked for by ProjectM. Am I missing something ? Thanks ! - (2021-03-15, v:6.0.12) Willehado Leano: A Separate window for this Audio Visualizer?
Hellow, I really like this and seems smoother than the Butterchurn extention. But I use a DJ app and this covers the whole page....I need the visuals on a separate window like Butterchurn, so that I can dj with the DJ webapp, and run the Visualizer on a separate window so that I can drag it to an external monitor or Projector to display the visuals. This wold make this alot more useful even for professional work. - (2021-02-27, v:6.0.12) Jaffer Hussain: scrolling
how can u make it where u scroll it follows u. like when u scroll its stuck in one position - (2020-12-24, v:6.0.12) Maxwell Darwin: Request for Scene Playlists
Hi there, I really love this extension, but there are some scenes that I personally don't like. Since all of the scenes are individual files anyway, could it be possible to add a setting that allows for custom playlists (favorites) and the ability to put them in specific orders? - (2020-11-29, v:6.0.12) Ethan Foster: Add it as a plug in for OBS.
I wanted to use this plug in for my stream but the screen window causes both the extension and Spotify to lag like crazy making both not all that nice to watch. If you need a testing for this you can contact me on Discord via Fonix#5265. Also could work if it was transferred to a desktop app. - (2020-11-09, v:6.0.12) michael liddy: Audio jumps time, breaks up, sometimes seems to change speed or delays.
I down load the app/extension and start it on an internet station that I like. The audio jumps and crackles and appears to time shift (erratic tempo). But wait! If I uninstall the program without 'Xing' out of the app it works beautiful. Of course the app goes away if I shut it off. I have several computers, Dell, H.P., ASUS. Windows 10/Chrome, different music stations/sources. All act the same. Got any idea? - (2020-11-04, v:6.0.12) riku mura: Permission for using screenshot of generated visualization.
I would like to use a screenshot of visual image generated by this extension. Is it fine to use it for my SNS profile picture? If any permission is needed, who should I ask for permission. I appreciate any suggestions from you. Thank you, - (2020-08-22, v:6.0.12) CosmicSweaterGod: drawmode
what exactly is drawmode? - (2020-08-05, v:6.0.12) Chris Hone: Single browser window...
Fantastic visualiser! If using say Amazon music on Chrome, you have to stop the visualiser to change the music, is there a way to do this without stopping the visualiser please? Many thanks - (2020-07-17, v:6.0.12) Tartaruga De Cartola: Start/stop
Hey! I tried to use your extension, but I can't use it. I'm on a Mac, so if I press ctrl + q, nothing happens. If I try command + q, I quit google chrome. Is there any way to change the way to active it so I can use it? - (2020-06-20, v:6.0.12) ZENX: Software version
Hi, this extension is awesome but can you please make an windows 10 version witch doesnt run in browser without the controll panel so i can use it for a dj set? - (2020-06-10, v:6.0.12) Robert Christiaanse: Very simple request: Make it possible tuo use another key combination to start and stop
Hi, I really like your extension. Works great. I use a custom extension which already uses CTRL Q, so it would be very handy if I could use another key combination, preferably one key only (ie. @), because many combination with CTRL are already taken...) Further from that, brilliant! - (2020-05-09, v:6.0.12) Noel Sigafoos: Lagging
Hello, from what I could see, your extension is so so cool!!! Sadly whenever I start up the extension my music becomes very very laggy to the point that I cannot really listen to it. I have turned on FPS and it normally hits 3-16fps and 40 on a good few seconds. This might be a me issue though. Is this visualizer better for computers with better GPU? I think my laptop may be a quite a few years old. Super duper cool product still!! - (2020-04-05, v:6.0.10) some weird kid: Youtube
Basically when I click the button while on a youtube video the video statics for a second and then it doesnt work.. and also if you click the button too many times it mutes the tab and you have to make a new tab - (2019-10-13, v:6.0.10) Razvan Neagu: How do I import custom scene?
First of all, I love the visualizer; it looks amazing - THANK YOU!! Can you advise how do I import presets? I think I am doing it right but the steps that I take crashes the plugin; the imported preset does not display but more than that, the sound stops! I do this: 1) Click on Control > Share Scenes > Scene Sharing. 2) This takes me to http://audiovisualizer.net/. 3) Select a preset from there and click [Get scene] button. 4) Click [copy to clipboard] icon. 5) Go back to my browser tab and paste in Share scenes > Import scene > --> ImportInput. 6) Click on -->Import scene (I tried clicking on the text and on the white space to the right that looks like an empty text field but that now I think may be a button?). 7) I notice that scene appears labeled at the bottom in the Scene text field (with "_custom" appended). 8) I also notice the scene does not look right; it shows as a black blob in the middle of the screen ****ISSUE: When I select the new custom scene, there are two major issues: a) The scene does not display b) Audio cuts out and no way to bring it back but if I wait it out for a minute or so it sometimes comes back... Looks like there must be a different way to correctly import scenes? Thanks! - (2019-06-25, v:6.0.10) cookie boi: milkdrop
When I open the extension, milkdrop doesnt automatically open. then when I click it manually it will open another scene not milkdrop. No matter what I do it wont work, help? - (2019-02-16, v:6.0.7) Derek B: Audio
It no longer reacts to the music. It just plays. Worked fine when i first downloaded it, and i haven't changed anything since. Kept trying last night and noticed after I hit ctrl+q a few times it would just cut my audio out entirely until I restarted chrome. Not sure why this happened. Still my favorite visualizer. If you have any suggestions they would be much appreciated!!! - (2019-01-21, v:6.0.7) Misfitt: Cant get it working
Im sitting on google trying to get it to turn on but I cant, I clicked it a couple of times and did the ctrl-q but it still isnt working - (2018-11-22, v:6.0.7) Zoe Davies: How to question!
How do i set this up as a basic bars style visualizer? I presume its possible but i cant figure it out! Thanks in advance - (2018-11-04, v:6.0.5) Steven Zolneczko: Open Controls Bar
Is there a way to make the Open Controls bar on the top right disappear when I don't need it? Or be transparent? It is distracting when lighter coloured visuals are on. Thanks! - (2018-10-16, v:6.0.5) Coleman Platt: Customizing Spectrum analysis scene
Any way to do advanced customization on the spectrum analysis scene, id like the bars to be a bit transparent and closer together by a pixel. I would also like them to change colors according to a fixed point on the web page. Any chance i can get you to add this or add this myself? - (2018-08-29, v:5.2.15) control panel gone
how do i get the control panel back after closing it? - (2018-06-15, v:5.2.12) Matthew Zheng: Extension Toggle Failing
The extension usually works perfectly fine; however, it seems that if I use the extension one day, then the next day the toggle fails on the website I used it on previously. For example, yesterday I was using the extension while listening to music on Youtube. I am now no longer able to get the visualizer to start on Youtube (any video), but I am able to use it elsewhere (even sites with no audio). Thanks for your help! - (2018-02-13, v:5.2.7) Samantha Bailey: procedural terrain
the coolest scene is the procedrual terrain but its the only setting that makes the music skip but it is the my favorite i so hoope u can fix it :)