Most media-players come with a visual spectrum analyzer (aka equalizer spectrum) – why? I’m not sure because it doesnt “improve” your music. Its just a bit of bling – nice to have, pretty etc.
My favourite media player as you know by now is Rhythmbox – and it doesnt have one…
Well it does now!
I took a couple of days out to pull together the above. The code is a bit rough around the edges but heck – its a start.
Its my first attempt delving into the gstreamer API. For my inspiration, I looked at Deepin Music Player – it comes with a spectrum analyzer. Deepin is GTK2, gstreamer v0.10 & python 2 based. Thus I borrowed, updated and reworked to make it work with GTK3 – gstreamer 1.0 & Python3 – all requirements to make the plugin work in Rhythmbox 3
Feel free to look at the code – its GPLv3 based – so code patches, graphical improvements etc are more than welcome.
I’ll update this in my rhythmbox PPA soon – but feel free to grab from GitHub
EDIT: 14/06/14 – now available as a debian package – sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-spectrum
cd ~/.local/share/rhythmbox.plugins git clone https://github.com/fossfreedom/rhythmbox-spectrum.git
Then enable the plugin in the plugins window. Toggle the spectrum analyzer via the new View Spectrum menu option.
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