About
This 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
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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]
This 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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Oh, no. XD I just have it set to that because I'm stupid. I'm really from the uk.
And thanks
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.
Haha I know that old old music looks geometrical
Yeah its probably not obvious
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
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.