Question An MP3 player that shows an animated Sine wave during playback?

[Mugsy]

Help. I need to create a quick animation for the playback of an MP3 file.

I already looked for a generic animated GIF and came up dry, and I tried a half-dozen players, but the closest I came was a bouncing bar graph in WinAmp.

Does anyone know of a player that fits the bill? TIA

 

[Ralston18]

What specific players have you tried?

 

[Mugsy]

What specific players have you tried?

WinAmp
Windows Media Player Classic
MS Windows Media Player Legacy
The default Win10/11 "Media Player"

Thx.

 

[dwd999]

Help. I need to create a quick animation for the playback of an MP3 file.

I already looked for a generic animated GIF and came up dry, and I tried a half-dozen players, but the closest I came was a bouncing bar graph in WinAmp.

Does anyone know of a player that fits the bill? TIA

You could try the free Audacity sound editor. If you zoom in on the audio stream as it plays you will get to a point where you see a sine wave of the audio. You could screen capture this and maybe it would suit your purpose.

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www.audacityteam.org

 

[Mugsy]

You could try the free Audacity sound editor. If you zoom in on the audio stream as it plays you will get to a point where you see a sine wave of the audio. You could screen capture this and maybe it would suit your purpose.

Audacity ® | Free Audio editor, recorder, music making and more!

Audacity is the world's most popular audio editing and recording app. Edit, mix, and enhance your audio tracks with the power of Audacity. Download now!

www.audacityteam.org

Thx, but two problems with that:

1) An extreme zoom on a sample in Audacity is only a line, not a sinewave.
2) It's not animated.

I'm looking for a "strobing sinewave" effect (something you often see in the movies when they show the recording of a person/computer talking.)

 

[dwd999]

Thx, but two problems with that:

1) An extreme zoom on a sample in Audacity is only a line, not a sinewave.
2) It's not animated.

I'm looking for a "strobing sinewave" effect (something you often see in the movies when they show the recording of a person/computer talking.)

You're not doing it right. Open up whatever audio you have and begin playing. Press Ctrl-1 to zoom in 12 or 13 times and you'll get a representation of whatever audio is playing that looks like an animated sine wave. Or if you want it to look like a perfect sine wave, select Generate, Tone, Generate to create a perfect sine wave and then press Play and Ctrl-1 10 or 11 times to zoom in and show the sine wave moving across the screen.

 

[Mugsy]

Ah, that's closer. But still not quite what I'm looking for.

In previous attempts with Audacity, I would select a segment to zoom in on, and the result was a just tiny static segment. I never though to try to zoom the entire file.

But I'm still looking for more of a "pulsing screen" look than a scroll.

 

[dwd999]

You're not doing it right. Open up whatever audio you have and begin playing. Press Ctrl-1 to zoom in 12 or 13 times and you'll get a representation of whatever audio is playing that looks like an animated sine wave. Or if you want it to look like a perfect sine wave, select Generate, Tone, Generate to create a perfect sine wave and then press Play and Ctrl-1 10 or 11 times to zoom in and show the sine wave moving across the screen.

Perhaps you mean something that looks like a Vectorscope rather than a sine wave. Try searching for images of vectorscopes to see if that's more like the image you have in mind.

 

[Ralston18]

@Mugsy

Per @dwd999: as stated search for vectorscope images.

For example.

https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-a-vectorscope-definition/

From the link:

Video editing software with vectorscope​

• Adobe Premiere Pro
• Final Cut Pro
• After Effects

 

[Mugsy]

Perhaps you mean something that looks like a Vectorscope rather than a sine wave. Try searching for images of vectorscopes to see if that's more like the image you have in mind.

Hmm. I looked and that's not quite it either.

I wish I could better describe what I'm picturing in my head.

I searched YT and this was about as close as I could get (still not it though.)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_kA0g-QpGA


Picture something more like rubber bands stretched across the screen pulsing with the audio.

 

[dwd999]

Picture something more like rubber bands stretched across the screen pulsing with the audio.

Do you mean something like a horizontal VU meter? But would it be from left to right, or do you want something from the center outwards towards each side? A horizontal VU meter is used in programs like Magix Sound Forge where you can move the meter to the top or bottom of the screen. There are other meters which are generally used to demonstrate stereo separation which have a center point and the meter bar extends to the left or right to demonstrate how much of the stereo content is on each side.

 

[Mugsy]

Do you mean something like a horizontal VU meter? But would it be from left to right, or do you want something from the center outwards towards each side? A horizontal VU meter is used in programs like Magix Sound Forge where you can move the meter to the top or bottom of the screen. There are other meters which are generally used to demonstrate stereo separation which have a center point and the meter bar extends to the left or right to demonstrate how much of the stereo content is on each side.

Top to bottom out from a middle baseline, not the sides. Thx.