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This reminds me of the early Winamp 5 days, circa 2005-2008. Music visualizers seem to be a forgotten art today.

by thomastjeffery 3y ago

flpdbt 3y ago
long live MilkDrop!
- lagniappe 3y ago
  More of a Geiss person myself
mattl 3y ago
Forgotten just like screensavers. It’s sad and I hate it.
- IG_Semmelweiss 3y ago
  I have a screensaver running that cycles thru a decade of family pictures and some cool wikipedia featured photos. I do agree that screensavers aren't as pervasive as in the 2000s, but its not dead like winamp visualizers , or are they ?
  - mattl 3y ago
    I have XScreensaver on all devices. It’s the first thing I install.
  - omnicognate 3y ago
    Not only are they not dead, the need for them as a screen protection feature is back because OLED screens can suffer burn-in. My Apple TV box has a screensaver called Aerial that downloads new videos daily. Some of them are incredible.
Minor49er 3y ago
On the contrary, they have merely evolved. Artists these days are putting out "visualizers" that are somewhere between the media player visualizers of old and fully-fleged music videos (with karaoke-style screens mixed in in the case of the "lyric video" style of visualizer) Most people listening to digital music do it through streaming, so the local media player isn't getting much attention anymore. For artists, it's cheaper to put something out that has a minimal, looping, branded animation than a full music video, especially now that video editing is so commonplace these days. There are also software options that will generate these videos with just a few clicks (which, unsurprisingly, resemble their media player ancestors) Along with this, though, a lot of artists are also livestreaming "concerts" from their rooms on platforms like YouTube, Discord, and reddit. The landscape is changing, but in some interesting ways For me, I still rock my CDs and Soulseek collection from time to time on Windows Media Player which still supports the visualizers from the early 2000s. They are even still served on Microsoft.com
nzoschke 3y ago
They’re not totally dead. Winamp and milkdrop run in the browser https://www.jukelab.com/s/dkhpmnq https://www.jukelab.com/s/dkhpmnq And I use milkdrop for live visuals at the club
ocrow 3y ago
Does anyone else remember Jeff Minter's virtual light machine (VLM) and other early experimental digital interactive light shows?
- m-i-l 3y ago
  Didn't have an Atari Jaguar CD myself, but I did have a friend with one, and have fond memories playing with the Virtual Light Machine. Never knew anyone with a Nuon so never got to play with the VLM-2 though. Was always comparatively disappointed with subsequent music visualisation like MilkDrop and Geiss on Winamp to be honest - they always seemed to be just doing their own thing without as much reference to the music, and of course without the interactivity you were just watching rather than playing (or consuming rather than creating).

This reminds me of the early Winamp 5 days, circa 2005-2008. Music visualizers seem to be a forgotten art today.

flpdbt 3y ago

long live MilkDrop!

lagniappe 3y ago
More of a Geiss person myself

mattl 3y ago

Forgotten just like screensavers. It’s sad and I hate it.

IG_Semmelweiss 3y ago
I have a screensaver running that cycles thru a decade of family pictures and some cool wikipedia featured photos. I do agree that screensavers aren't as pervasive as in the 2000s, but its not dead like winamp visualizers , or are they ?
- mattl 3y ago
  I have XScreensaver on all devices. It’s the first thing I install.
- omnicognate 3y ago
  Not only are they not dead, the need for them as a screen protection feature is back because OLED screens can suffer burn-in. My Apple TV box has a screensaver called Aerial that downloads new videos daily. Some of them are incredible.

Minor49er 3y ago

On the contrary, they have merely evolved. Artists these days are putting out "visualizers" that are somewhere between the media player visualizers of old and fully-fleged music videos (with karaoke-style screens mixed in in the case of the "lyric video" style of visualizer) Most people listening to digital music do it through streaming, so the local media player isn't getting much attention anymore. For artists, it's cheaper to put something out that has a minimal, looping, branded animation than a full music video, especially now that video editing is so commonplace these days. There are also software options that will generate these videos with just a few clicks (which, unsurprisingly, resemble their media player ancestors) Along with this, though, a lot of artists are also livestreaming "concerts" from their rooms on platforms like YouTube, Discord, and reddit. The landscape is changing, but in some interesting ways For me, I still rock my CDs and Soulseek collection from time to time on Windows Media Player which still supports the visualizers from the early 2000s. They are even still served on Microsoft.com

nzoschke 3y ago

They’re not totally dead. Winamp and milkdrop run in the browser https://www.jukelab.com/s/dkhpmnq https://www.jukelab.com/s/dkhpmnq And I use milkdrop for live visuals at the club

ocrow 3y ago

Does anyone else remember Jeff Minter's virtual light machine (VLM) and other early experimental digital interactive light shows?

m-i-l 3y ago
Didn't have an Atari Jaguar CD myself, but I did have a friend with one, and have fond memories playing with the Virtual Light Machine. Never knew anyone with a Nuon so never got to play with the VLM-2 though. Was always comparatively disappointed with subsequent music visualisation like MilkDrop and Geiss on Winamp to be honest - they always seemed to be just doing their own thing without as much reference to the music, and of course without the interactivity you were just watching rather than playing (or consuming rather than creating).