Fountain of Colors, desktop music visualizer

Realtime FFT music visualizer with scalable bars and colors

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Examples  —  Settings overview  —  How-to: Rainmeter (1)  (2)

Installation:

Download Rainmeter  (2 MB)  •   Windows 7, 8, 10

Download skin (1.4 MB)  •  Right-side of this page

v4.0a18 (14 Nov 2025)  - (Alpha 18)

- Prompt invite to our Discord server.

v4.0a17 (11 Oct 2022)  - (Alpha 17)

- Decreased smoothness. (5 avg. values)

- Decreased interpolated samples. (16384)                           - Increased sensitivity. (40dB)

- Decreased lower-bound frequency. (20Hz)                       - Disabled fading peak update interval.

- Decreased fading peak decay duration. (390ms)

v4.0a5 (13 Jun 2020)  - (Alpha 5)

Imported new menu from Monstercat Visualizer.             - 10px Thickness; 6px Gap; 275px Height;

v4.0a1 (25 Feb 2020)  - (Alpha 1)

Added "Fading Peaks" effect.

- Improved audio plugin.

- Decreased sample size. (2048)

v3.8.4 (15 Jan 2019)

- Skin revealed by default w/o playing audio (1px Min Bar Height)

v3.8.2 (02 Nov 2018)

- Fix freezing: Use efficient event-driven update loop in separate thread

- Fix visual data loss: Store buffer data properly before buffer release

- Crash prevention: Stop device re-initialization on error in update loop

- Use "Pro Audio" task for high priority access to the low-latency stream

v3.8 (14 Aug 2018)

- Improvements in the modified AudioLevel plugin:         - Zero-padding for smoother bass section                           - Hann periodic window for better spectral analysis         - Stereo-to-mono corrected using time-domain average

- Resume capture more quickly by releasing buffer earlier

- Use engine's minimum supported buffer size for faster release

- Support more devices, try IsFormatSupported() for requested formats

- Stop doing unnecessary FFTs for non-selected channels (see notes)

- Move FFT outside capture loop; skip RMS/Peak calculation in Bands (v3.7.1)

- Recommended default setting: Smoothness (0 past values)

v3.6.21 (02 Nov 2018)

- Restore intended timing behavior (Rollback vanilla plugin to RM 4.1)

(Default settings used in latest version):

v3.6.7 (08 Feb 2017)

Filters (0ms Attack) (0ms Decay);

v3.2 (15 May 2015)

Bands generated (80)

Optionally, you may reset your skin settings to the latest defaults by using the "Clean Install" skin version inside the top-most dated link

 Troubleshooting:

  •  Close the options window during installation

  •  Close Notepad or any text editor with skin files open during installation

  •  Run "GenerateBands.ini" or "Initialize.ini" skins after installation

  •  Open Volume Mixer, set player and Rainmeter volume level equal to system volume

  •  Use PCM format, disable sound enhancements in your audio device's settings

  •  Requires Windows 7 Service Pack 1 with Platform Update or later

  •  More troubleshooting: forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.…

 Credits:

    dgrace — AudioLevel plugin

    SnGmng — Improved AudioLevel plugin

    smurfier — Original ColorChanger.lua script

    Kittoes — Skin generation concept

    Free Nature Stock — Wallpaper

    Functionality included in old versions -

    HiTBiT-PA — Color picker from Desktop VU-Meter 3

    Socks the Fox — Wallpaper colors from Chameleon plugin

    Brian — System colors from SysColor plugin

    jsmorley — InputText demo for editing settings

    MarcoPixel — Display audio device name from Monstercat Visualizer

    Blantas — Context menu concept from Animated Vinyl Player

    poiru — Custom song colors via NowPlaying plugin