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 f

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