• The extensive use of the plug-in based architecture is visible when one opens the Preferences panel. The whole input, output, visualization, DSP and general purpose trees are formed by installed plugins in the form of dll files. Newer distributions of Winamp bundled more plugins, and are capable of playing almost anything as a result.
• Here's one you can't get to work anymore because you need a key. Dynamic Surround: Used to output sound to a 5.1 setup. You can control which speakers get used and how much volume each has. It also had options like making the music swirl around the room, going from 1 speaker to the next.

FreeframePlugins-win - sfFreeFrame is a collection of open source visual plugins for FreeFrame 1.5 compatible hosts. This means they can be used for live visual performance using programs like Resolume Avenue, VDMX, MaxMSP/Jitter and more.

Accurate, detailed, customizable spectrum analyzer.

Accurate, detailed, customizable spectrum analyzer. I decided to resurrect this plug-in that I originally coded in 1998.

Staff review

A wonderful, accurate, customizable spectrum analyzer. It really is classic, too-- we first saw this thing way back in 1998.

Comments

Love it! Works perfectly. - September 4, 2010 by Doughnut

Windows 7 x64 Bit,Winamp 5.81Works great, but will not save profiles. - July 16, 2010 by [email protected]

I like this plug-in. Very much various colour motives. - February 8, 2010 by Mysterious Art

good - Good spectrum Visualization - September 15, 2009 by jmvwts

good - good plugin for me ) - July 7, 2009 by Roader Roader

Does Not Work in Winamp 5.551 - This appears to be an old plugin that once was famous, but now needs to be updated or deleted. - April 19, 2009 by Bruce Houston

Wonderful and useful - Very useful tool. But if only it had some shaping options on analyzing signal like A-B-C-Flat shapings. Sometimes the band bars rize too high and screen cuts the bars topmost. Also all the settings are fancy but more simple presets would be good. Wonderful and very useful. - March 24, 2009 by Onur Kilickiran

One of the best Visualizations going!!! - Thanks for bringing it back!!! - March 10, 2009 by Johny C

nice and usefull - This is a great plug-in. It takes the visualization concept back to basics: what is happening in this song?I would like to suggest an additional element: optional xy axis displying frequency(Hz) and volume(db).I recently started to have an issue with this plug-in though. It kicks my cpu load to 100% and it doesn't load. Anybody as some idea of how to solve this? - December 16, 2008 by ilikesound yesido

Good job! - This is a well done plug-in with a lot of possible configurations. It complements any skin (after matching the colors - which is easy) and gives a nice touch of hi-tech to Winamp.I like lots of options, and they further add to this plug-in's awesomeness. - November 5, 2008 by Paal Nilsen

Awesome - Great performance and responce, awesome visuals. Keep up the great work. - October 24, 2008 by sancho Sanchez

Perfect. - Does exactly what I wanted. - August 7, 2008 by NotAgOat gates

Best Spec analyser on Winamp..BUT - Worked great with previous winamp, but on two different computers running on XP, neither will play it now that I upgraded to latest wiamp...Thanks CBS...for screwing up a good player. I dont like the aol radio list on it either!! - July 10, 2008 by Michael Sullivan

Awesome - Nothing left to say... But option for fullscreen please? - May 20, 2008 by manoj k

Excellent - This plug in is excellent. Though it gave me a few errors initially but bugs are inevitable. Overall I would rate this excellent and request the creator to improve it. - May 17, 2008 by Ravi S.Maniam

simple stuff - this is so cool. and it's simple. easy to fit in. is it skinnable?my big question: how do i use 2 plug-ins of the same type at the same time?thanks! cheers! - April 23, 2008 by a b

nice and best - this is best Classic Spectrum Analyzer - April 11, 2008 by soon peng

Yeah man, top banana - Cant fault it. Its quick, accurate and useful. It can be matched in any colour to correspond with any skin, layout or OS. Mike, matey, youve done us proud. - April 1, 2008 by James Bowman

great - but i do missing realy the option FULL SCREEN!!!! - March 7, 2008 by m s

nice - it crashes winamp 5.5 - March 2, 2008 by Secret Verybigsecret

Not far from perfect - This is what Ive been looking for since 2 years. Does exactly what a Spectrum Analyzer should do (and, by the way, in constrast to many others analyzers around here with correct maths!). Also highly customable.Dear Mr. Lynch, at least I would rate it 5 if you could make the height of the plug-in customable und extend the possible range of the different values. Some people may like 'real' old school analyzer, wich means ohne 6 or 8 bars -> Bar width + spacing... - February 17, 2008 by Retronade -

BUG - HAVE BUG, BUG, AND BUG.MANY PROBLEMSIT'S BAD ! - January 24, 2008 by Henrique Palin

Finnaly, Brilliant - One problem, cannot close config box, rest of config box is still very buggy.But nice job man.%) - January 18, 2008 by Globe Trotter

Very cool... - ...and no problems with 5.5 so far. Also, it looks very nice with the Barracuda skin, especailly when you tweak the colours to suit. - January 13, 2008 by Mark Lockyer

awesome - this functionality should be built into the modern skins, but this plug-in solves that problem.anyone else think it's funny that there's an 'aurora borealis' profile and a 'northern lights' profile? - January 11, 2008 by a b

SIGH... - *Real* audio spectrum analyzers are supposed to have a *logarithmic* freqency axis.Analyzers like these (and all other spectrum analyzers for Winamp I've come across) with a linear frequency axes make pretty pictures but since 90% of the action is in the leftmost 10% of the display, they certainly cannot be called accurate. - January 1, 2008 by freakin' dutchman

AWESOME!!! - OMG! This is just the thing I have always wanted for the new Winamp!!! I have been using winamp forever and the one thing that made me love Winamp back in the v2.xx days was the fire style analyzer and ive always hated how the new winamp versions lacked it because it just looked so cool. Finally it has been brought to the new wimap and Mike I cannot even put into words how awesome it is! There is more options to mess with than I ever could of asked for. Thanks so much for creating this! SUPERB WORK!!! 5 Stars. - December 31, 2007 by Brandon Kramer

LORD 'AVE MERCY!!! - I only just registered just to give this the five star rating it deserves. Sits inbetween the bento player and the album list2... and I got this warm tingly feeling inside now. Nuff Said!! Respect - December 20, 2007 by mad duke

Good Stuff - Fits in place of Equalizer after it's set. I use classic skins. - December 9, 2007 by Mike Burns

!..Yes..! - This is like a breath of fresh air.! Hearkening back to a simpler time .. in a nicely done manner, very slick.!~Myr - December 7, 2007 by Myrddin Emrys

Cool - It's a way cool plug in!! Now if I can just figure it out.... - December 7, 2007 by Mark Davis

Solid Old-School Plugin! - Quite a few options for this type of vis plugin. Had no issues downloading, installing or running the plugin!I gave it 4.5 ****.* due to color editor having room for improvement, aside of that little annoyance I would highly recommend it!Rock on!!! - December 1, 2007 by dal kovac

ok lo - this is the best stuff i get man!!!u can change the colour and even stylei like it so much***************XOXOXO - November 27, 2007 by Phoon Kusanagi

Retro :D - Good-looking and highly customizable spectrum analyzer that really freshed up my Winamp.Haven't had any problems with it so far on my machine running Win XP Pro SP2 with Winamp 5.5. - November 24, 2007 by Platypus Pedersen

This keeps crashing winamp - I really like the plugin - want it as my full screen visualisation but keeps crahing winamp! please can someone fix .... - November 20, 2007 by jack scriven

Very Cool - I like it - used it back in the olden days & am glad it's back. Hopefully the V5.5 issue can be resolved .. no prob on my xp 1.33 ghz laptop w/2g mem but stops v5.5 on my xp 2.4ghz desk top w/512m mem - maybe i need more mem on the desktop ;-}Great Job MIke! - October 28, 2007 by paul wa

Excelent - Great spectrum analyzer. I use it for pro audio purposes.The only thing that bothers me a little is the lack of 'auto attach resize' funcionality. (Like the Gamut 2000) - October 18, 2007 by Alberto Del Trueno

Very Slick and Clean - However, WinAmp/AOL 5.5 does not like it. I was able to use it up to this point. Perhaps our friends at WinAmp could take a look into it. - October 17, 2007 by Steven Gonzales

Amazing! - Really cool plugin! All what a analizer needs. But it always crashes. - October 16, 2007 by NikoMitDaMacht n_a

spectrum analyzers are boring - amazing. simply, AMAZING. im use to pro-audio analyzers and this one has that live feel. great job! - October 16, 2007 by Joshua Marks

Just the thing I was looking for - Everything is great, I really wa happy to find it. But Winamp(5.5) crashes most of the times if I try to configure the Analyzer! Hope there's a fix for it! Good luck :) - October 15, 2007 by Indrek Palm

A Classic Indeed - I have had this vis plugin since 1999, on a win98se machine in college, I have run it on many machine since. A few weeks ago I purchase a new hp amd 64 bit quad core monster running Vista Ultimate and with a little coaxing I have the original sexy attach analyzer [vis_statan.dll] running on it as well(I'm a computer geek, oh, I official go by 'Systems Engineer' but computer geek will do). it's like a old friend. - October 13, 2007 by Wayne Hughes

Just Great - been using since ....? until it starting crashing previous winamp versions. Now this new version seems to work like a charm. This plugin is the reason i'm using winamp again. Should be a standard plugin. Great job +++ - October 10, 2007 by 6p4ck b

Nice look - I like this plug in, easy to install. and easy to configure. - September 30, 2007 by Jason MILLER

Wonderfull - Been looking for something like this for yrs, now i have it i'm one very happy person. Superb spect an' great work... - September 27, 2007 by john smith

Very stylish - Thats nearly the best thing you can find here to plug in your winamp ;) thats stylish, works on a slow cpu and may be configured very detailed! VERY GOOD WORK!!! :)Jonathan - September 25, 2007 by Jonathan Weber

Works great and looks fine. - This plugin works great and works nicely.I made a mirror for the plugin for those who cannot download off the Winamp SiteIt's at www.files.zerobrethren.com - September 15, 2007 by Alan Lay

It can't install ! - When i downloaded this plug-in and start to process installing,It say 'c:Documents and SettingsDesktopClassic_Spectrum_Analyzer is not a valid Win32 application'. - September 12, 2007 by Yang jian

Can't Download It - You get and error everytime you try. You get this.C:Users(your name)AppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsTemporary Internet FilesContent.IE50UY8FCBXClassic_Spectrum_Analyzer[1].exe is not a valid Win32 application. - September 11, 2007 by Tim Kovalcheck

yeah, looks nice - ...but I couldn't get it work either, so please: solve the prob mike ;) - September 8, 2007 by Florian Schneider

Looks great! - Downloads, but wont run here either. - September 8, 2007 by Finglonga .

Download is broken - Looks great and I want it.Fix the file and download mechanism please. - September 7, 2007 by Grail Knight

nice looking - it looks really good , but getting the same error 'not a valid win32 application' , hope it gonna be fixed soon .. - September 6, 2007 by opal opal

Bad file - This looks sweet but Winamp/AOL has messed it up so no one can download the file. - September 5, 2007 by Mark Brown

bad download - cannot make download work--not a valid win32... - May 13, 2007 by garylee molitor

Since Spotify has removed the feature of Spotify visualizer, lots of Spotify lovers tend to seek for a feasible Spotify visualizer for enjoying Spotify. However, as there are lots of visualizers existed on the Internet, not all of them are fully compatible with Spotify. In order to offer you the feasible music visualizer for Spotify, we have collected some considerable of them and would like to share them with you, ranging from online tools to desktop software with detailed features. You can pick up the one you love and save it as your Spotify music partner.

Pre-reading Concept: What is Music visualization? Music visualization is a video effect with the animated imagery in the electronic music visualizer and music player software or media player based on the loudness and frequency of each music track. With the music visualization embedded in music, music lovers can see the music with some beautiful pictures or 3D effects rendered in real-time as it is played.

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Part 1. Best 3 Online Music Visualizer for Spotify Free/Premium

No.1 Kaleidosync Spotify Visualizer

Brief Introduction: Kaleidosync Spotify Music Visualizer is an online music visualizer for all Spotify lovers. With Spotify account signed in and Spotify Music playing, users can enjoy Spotify Music with visualizers with flower-shaped animated pictures.

Features of Kaleidosync

#1 8 different but attractive animated pictures are available for shifting.

#2 With a one-click operation, you can enjoy music visualizer in Full Screen.

#3 Allow show track information and album artwork as per your needs.

#4 Multiple functions like Zoom, Brightness, Sides, and even RGB can be adjustable for shaping your own shapes.

Compatible System: Windows & Mac

Available for: Spotify Free & Premium

No.2 Wavesync Spotify Visualizer

Brief Introduction: Wavesync Spotify Music Visualizer is a simple but feasible Spotify music visualizer with colorful wave-shaped animated pictures. You can catch sight of the beautiful sound wave waving along with the playing of Spotify.

Features of Wavesync

Display the track information and album artwork when the song starts playing.

Compatible System: Windows & Mac

Available for: Spotify Free & Premium

No.3 Tessellator Spotify Visualizer

Brief Introduction: Tessellator Spotify Music Visualizer is a 3D interactive music visualizer for Spotify with moving pictures in different shapes, like pyramids, cubes, net structures, wavy textures, and more.

Features of Tessellator

#1 Various and different shapes are visible during the Spotify music playing in a 3D manner.

#2 Not allow getting this playing on mobile devices with some modern browsers like Safari.

#3 The song playing progress and the song titles with the contributing artists can be visible.

#4 Allow to skip the song, shuffle playing or add to favorite while playing the Spotify songs.

#5 Allow click right to save the animated pictures if you are fond of shapes.

Compatible System: Windows & Mac

Available for: Spotify Premium

How to Choose?

To choose your online visualizer, you can take a look at the merit and demerit of these 3 online Spotify visualizers.

Pons:

a. Enjoying music visualizers with the account login. No need to create a different playlist.

b. Easy to use and free even though you are not a tech-savvy person.

c. Fully compatible with Windows and Mac.

Cons:

a. The effect of some visualizers is unsurprising and cannot be shifted to a different visual effect.

b. Sometimes, your account will be automatically signed out or the whole visualizer progress will be suck during the music playing.

c. Internet connection is required so it is hard to enjoy the music when your computer or devices are offline.

For better choosing what kinds of Spotify visualizers, we also have collected some music visualizer software for you, which worth taking into consideration. Let's have a look at what are they and how to use this Spotify visualizer software.

Part 2. Top 3 Third-Party Music Visualizer Software

No 1. VSXU Music Visualizer

VSXU is a powerful music visualizer for Windows. No matter you are using Spotify online or offline, the VSXU music visualizer will be sensitive to recognize the music that you are playing. It will shift the visual effect from one to another different effects. You can see the line, pictures, and more moving along with the music going up and down.

Features of VSXU Visualizer

#1 Multiple shapes are visible and automatic switching during Spotify Music playing.

#2 Require downloading software for Spotify visualizers.

#3 No need to log in to your Spotify account.

Compatible system: Windows & Linux

Available for: Spotify Free and Spotify Premium

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No 2. PotPlayer

Although it is a media player, PotPlayer is another music visualizer that I'd love to recommend to you. Go to the 'Visualization' > 'Enable visualization' option for the audio tracks and now you can choose multiple visualization styles: WMP visualization, Slideshow, Floating ball, WMP visualization + Floating Ball, etc. Setting resolution per frame, frame per second, and adding slide effects are all supported by this powerful software.

Features of PotPlayer

#1 Easy to use with several but simple clicks and you can get music playing with visualizers.

#2 Display the moving shapes with the title, music formats, bitrate, sample rates, and more during the music playing.

#3 Allow skip, stop, sound control, and more during the music playing.

#4 No need to login to your Spotify account, enjoy visualizer at any time anywhere.

Compatible System: Windows & Mac

Available for: Spotify Free and Spotify Premium

No 3. VLC Player

VLC Player is a media player with a built-in music visualizer. You can enjoy more than 6 music visualizers when playing Spotify music. Apart from this, you can catch sight of the title of music at the beginning of the music playing.

Features of VLC Player

#1 Enjoy music visualizer without your Spotify account.

#2 Metadata such as titles and contributing artists are visible on the animated shapes.

Compatible system: Windows & Mac

Available for: Spotify Free & Premium

Q: How can I enjoy these Spotify visualizers?

A: If you want to use these third-party music visualizers, you need to download Spotify to non-DRM files and import them to it. As we all know that Spotify is DRM protected, to play Spotify music on a third-party visualizer program, what we need to do is to remove DRM restriction and convert Ogg Vorbis into the supported format. Here, we recommend a powerful software: TuneFab Spotify Music Converter.

You can download the TuneFab Spotify Music Converter and follow the guide to remove the DRM from Spotify. Then you can import the Spotify Music to the third-party music visualizers and enjoy the incredible visual effect.

TuneFab Spotify Music Converter is a perfect Spotify companion for better enjoying Spotify in different ways. Here is what TuneFab Spotify Music Converter capable of:

- Easy to use with simple drag and drop method or copy and paste the URL method;

- Freely convert Spotify music/songs/playlists/albums to MP3, M4A, WAV and FLAC and more in a twinkling;

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- Play Spotify music to various devices without the Spotify app;

- Keep metadata and ID tags such as titles, contributing artists, albums, artworks, and more;

- Music can be kept as original quality with adjustable music parameters like bitrates (reach up to 320Kbps).

- Support default conversion speed 5X to speed up the conversion.

- Support timely customer services.

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Editor's Note:

Now, you can easy to enjoy Spotify music visualizer online and offline with a powerful tool. What is your option? However, as for me, I would like to download the music with TuneFab Spotify Music Converter and enjoy Spotify Music with the VSXU music visualizer. Now, it is your turn to make up your mind and let Spotify Music Visualizer enrich your experience of Spotify Music enjoyment.