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projectM - cross-platform music visualization. Open-source and Milkdrop-compatible

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Show HN: Banger.show – create colorful visuals for your songs in seconds | Jul 2023
ProjectM is the spiritual successor to Winamp's visualiser:

https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm

Webamp · Winamp 2 in the Browser | Sep 2022
Related. Nice standalone open source music visualizer like winamp https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm
Astrofox – Turn Audio into Videos | Jul 2022
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Check out projectM, "an open-source project that reimplements the esteemed Winamp Milkdrop": https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm
WinAmp Community Update Project | Feb 2022
For the visualizations - Milkdrop is alive and well as projectM (which sometimes comes bundled with VLC, sometimes not?): https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm

Which has a ridiculous level of cross-platform compatibility. I can throw up 3 copies of projectM-pulseaudio on my big 3-monitor work machine and have it listen to any audio sink, I've got it installed on my Android TV and it happily responds to whatever audio's being played, so works with streaming apps and whatnot.

There's also thousands and thousands of presets you can add which the community has been adding to since way back when it was still milkdrop, and people have made curated lists like this person's NestDrop: https://thefulldomeblog.com/2020/02/21/nestdrop-presets-coll...

Show HN: YouTube Musical Spectrum – visualizer for YouTube with musical notes | Aug 2021
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There is a standalone visualizer that is my go to, projectm. It's a spiritual successor to the visualizer from winamp days and is compatible with the old milkdrop presets.

I haven't been able to find a proper way to set up mesh size on windows but if you're running it on linux or android, those options are available too.

https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm
Winamp Skins Collection | Dec 2020
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Sadly the NestDrop tool in the article you linked is Windows only, and proprietary.

But Milkdrop is alive in open source cross-platform too. https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm
Show HN: NestDrop – realtime VJ engine using Milkdrop | Feb 2020
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thanks a lot for the curated collection! I've been tinkering a bit with milkdrop visualization on the raspberry pi 4 using projectM [1] and found the amount of mediocre presets in the full collection quite high :/ will certainly be using your curated list as a new starting point for finding my own favourites

[1] https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm
MilkDrop – Hardware-accelerated music visualization plugin for Winamp | Jan 2020
MilkDrop has since long time ago, stopped being maintained. For a modern alternative, projectM (https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm) is free software implementation of MilkDrop using OpenGL.
WebGL Fluid Simulation | May 2019
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There is also the open source reimplementation of Milkdrop called projectM, which might be of interest to you.

https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm
A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript | Feb 2018
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Is projectM[1] not a suitable replacement for MilkDrop visualizations? Comes built into Clementine[2].

[1] https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm [2] https://www.clementine-player.org/