Which music player has visualizations?

Question

I thought it was a stupid question, but my preferred player, Amarok, doesn't have visualizations. RhythmBox also. Where can I find a Linux player with interesting visualizations?

My 5 years old boy want to hear his CD with the funny things of mommy's computer.

Answer 1

Clementine has some visualizations.

Here is a screenshot of it.

Once Clementine is installed, you can enable it's visualization from Tools->Visualizations . You can then customize your visualization by right-clicking the window that shows up and then adjust the frame-rate, quality and the different visualizations that you would like. Choosing multiple visualizations keeps changing the visualization to loop among them.

Answer 2

Totem movie player has some nice visualisations that can be enabled via edit > preferences > display (see the second screenshot below). You can start the visualisations by playing a music track (when that option is is set in the preferences) and pause them by pausing the music track. There are many different visualisations to choose from and different effects can be combined.

I don't think that they respond to the beat of the music (i.e. get more frenzied as the tempo increases), but perhaps something like audiosurf might become available if Steam makes good its promise and comes to Ubuntu.

Answer 3

Thanks for all answers. I (ok, my son) really wanted one visualization that changed with the beats of the music. XBMC gave me it and a nice full screen interface.

Answer 4

VLC media player has visualizations too. vlc

Once installed, while playing an audio file, go to the menu → Audio → Visualization and select a visualization to display. Spectrum is a good one which changes upon beats (as per the requirement of the OP).

Another good player for Ubuntu with visualizations is Audacious. audacious . The good news about Audacious is, you can enable more than one visualizations with it.

After installation, while playing an audio file, go to View → Visualizations and select one. Here, I'm giving a screenshot of audcious player.

Answer 5

I suggest

1. qmmp it is more like Winamp.
2. Clementine

Both has built in visualizations.

personally, I like GMusicBrowser for its multi layouts, easy filter and easy multi id3 meta tag management. (it has no visualizations though)