Is there any jukebox screensavers like the winamp visualizations?

[mccoy178]

I am planning on building a wall mount touch screen juke that will have two 19" flat panel lcd's.  On the bottom will be the touch screen jukebox software.  On the top though, I want to have something like the skins from winamp.  That is so amazing!  Does anyone know of a software program that is similar to the visualization stuff of winamp that I could play all the time whether or not the juke is playing music?  I really, really like the winamp stuff.  Pretty cool.

The wife doesn't really know the true cost of this little idea .  I did pick up a 19" flat panel at comp usa tonight for 200.  This juke will have to be around for about a hundred years to pay for itself! 

[quarterback]

I want to have something like the skins from winamp.  That is so amazing!

Any ones in particular that you like?   I've downloaded a few but I'm curious what you're using.

[Dermbrian]

The wife doesn't really know the true cost of this little idea .  I did pick up a 19" flat panel at comp usa tonight for 200.  This juke will have to be around for about a hundred years to pay for itself! 

Actually, it is amazing how much the cost of owning a stereo (to use an outdated term) has come down.  To think that you can build a jukebox and furnish it with music by using an older PC and ripping your existing music collection (CD's or LP's or cassettes or 45's) for basically free is a modern day miracle. 

I'm turning 50, so my first stereo consisted of components that averaged $100 to $150 each; turntable, amp, tuner, cassette deck, speakers --- in 1980 dollars.  That was a typical starter system of mass marketed components.  Records at the time were about $9.99 each...same as I-Tunes today.  Now, I balk at spending more than $100 for an mp3 player that houses and plays my entire collection!

If I had the woodworking skills, I would definitely house it all in a furniture grade jukebox.  As it is, I plan to eventually settle on something more portable, probably about briefcase sized and self contained reminiscent of portable record players and stereos, but with a touchscreen jukebox interface and great speakers.  Eventually.

Brian

[mccoy178]

I agree.

[Dermbrian]

You're right.  That's a lot of $$$ for the video interface. 

And I don't think you're going to qualify for an EnergySTAR logo  for this beast. 


I wonder if the Geiss screensaver

   http://www.geisswerks.com/

and this software

   http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/

might somehow be used to do what you're trying to do.

Personally, I still prefer a color organ to the WinAMP visualization stuff.   I still wish I could find a software equivalent, where the color as well as the patterns react to music (low-midrange-high).


Brian

[quarterback]

Personally, I still prefer a color organ to the WinAMP visualization stuff.   I still wish I could find a software equivalent, where the color as well as the patterns react to music (low-midrange-high).

Yes!  Me too!    A lot of the WinAMP visualizations seem very similar to me and they all make me feel like I'm being sucked into a colorful tunnel in the center of my monitor.

I would love to find something that re-creates the old 70s color-organ-boxes I remember from my youth.

[digitaldj]

I am working on a circuit that will do color organ effect,

[mccoy178]

That is really cool!  So are you running tri led's?  Also, how many can that little idea of yours support?

I am using multiple vizualizations of winamp right now, and I think it would be something to have the lights around as an option.

[digitaldj]

You can use as many as these as you want or make them half the size you want. I am using seperate red, green and blue leds and a few of them and the way they are positioned is how i get the full color and brightness across the top lens. It took me a couple of months to develope what i have here and the reason for using seperate colors is that it allows mixing the colors better. RGB leds show 3 seperate circles of color which is bad you want those circles to be on top of one another for color mixing.
Kevin