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Published: 2010-12-11 00:46:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 6804; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 150
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Description
AboutThis is an Audio Visualizer Template I made to start making an entry for #Actionscript-as-Art audio visualizer contest [link] [link] [link]
It features "load from drive", "rewinding" and both sound wave and spectrum visualization together.
Aims
But I am actually pursuing more with this then just a starting point for me. Here are my self serving plans with it:
1) To be a starting point for anyone who does not know from where to start (I do wish to see as many work as possible
)2) To enforce adding "load music from hard drive" functionality on other works (I would like to pick my own music to see how it visualizes
)3) To enforce "rewinding" functionality (boy I miss it sometimes with those visualizers
, its hard to make to not get in a way of visualization visually though)P.S Also visualization part here is SLOW. I was thinking on optimizing it but then I understood that this is a good motivation to scrap it and make your own. In the end what I want to share here is not visualization but basic backbone of features for it.
Source code
Here you can download the source [link]
It's AS3 class that theoretically does not depend on Flash IDE/Flex or anything. I used it with empty FLA file that is included too and I am not sure if it will work out of the box with Flex.
Credits
For MP3 loading uses class by Flexible here [link]
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Hmm? You are from antarctica? Cold place
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Oh, no. XD I just have it set to that because I'm stupid. I'm really from the uk.
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Hmm, that's probably lest interesting of ones I made. Check music atom thingy
And thanks
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That is way to cool not to be faved. Awesome work
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Hmm, thanks 
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Wonder, your scripting skills never cease to amaze me, nice work
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ou oh.. ~3fps 
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Heh, as I said it is pretty bad on performance side but I decided not to fix it to motivate people to change theirs
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Great starting point! Thanks for putting this on here, will definitely encourage more entries
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you can almost do the streching thing on it
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Hmm not sure I understand what you mean
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by holding down and moving the slider back and forth, you can get a similar effect to vinyl stretching, almost~
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Ouh that
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Nice. Will look into source code later. Looks nice so far.
Why is the visualizer image symmetric? Is it meant for the left/right channels?
The result looks rather funny when I try to listem to some old NES music: [link]
Speaking of AS classes, there was a time when I didn't know what to do when I found sample programs that comes in nothing but AS files. Never thought FLAs could simply link to them by simply entering the class name.
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Yeah to left is left channel and ti right the right channel. In some songs there is only one or both are same so you do not see difference, in others there is difference.
Haha I know that old old music looks geometrical
Yeah its probably not obvious
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had that in mind when the contest was announced, thanks for the effort.
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Welcome I guess but as I wrote there I want others to have such features
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This is pretty cool except I think the visuals are too jumpy. A bit of transition gradient wouldn't do bad.
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Well visualization was not really an aim here, just wanted to show spectrum and wave together. Decided leave it as is as motivation for other to remove that part and do their own
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I see, we've had the same idea to load mp3 files directly from the local machine, except I've done it myself... took me a bit of time, but a really interesting thing to do.
I'm steadily progressing in my own project (~1600 lines so far), and I expect to finish in the next ten days.
In parallel with loading a mp3 from a ByteArray, I've taken a look around trying to access a streaming embedded sound in AS3, but it seems that only the MovieClip subclasses created by Flash environment can access theses
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I see, nice job, I find it quite hard to write your own parser of sound from scratch...
Hmm library I am using uses that, it loads mp3 from disk from bytearray, then parses and embeds it in to virtual SWF file, then loads this file.
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I can say that it does work right out of the box with Flex
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