Scope 0.360 is here!

Scope is a program that visualizes any music you can play on your computer! Use your favourite music player and enjoy accurate visualization!

Animated GIF preview

You need only to change your microphone settings from volume control, after that, you are all set and ready to go!
Alternatively, you can drag & drop files to Scope icon, and it will start playing them sequentially, visualizing everything at the same time.

Interpretation of what is show on screen


Instructions

Linux binary included, make sure you have SDL, portaudio and mpg123 libraries in your system. Windows versions of these libraries are bundled in this packet.

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Synaesthesia, another great visualizer, both for GNU/Linux & Windows. Coded by Paul Harrison, and a Windows port by Nils Desle. Works similarly to my program, by reading input device. Released under GNU GPL v2.

Instructions

To play mp3

To play mp3 files, just drag & drop the files to scope.exe. If you want to listen to many mp3 files, select them all and drag & drop one of them while all of them are selected. Then, Scope starts to play them one after one.

To listen to capture device

Locate Volume Control from system tray:

If you did not find Volume Control from system tray, you can alternatively press Win + R and then type sndvol32 to Run window.

Double-click on Volume Control to bring it up:


Next, click on Options and from the drop-down menu click Properties:


Then, click on Recording radio-button. Click through the menu to show all volume controls for recording.

Now, click OK. This should bring you volume controls of recording devices of your sound card:


You can try out and select any of the recording devices to see what Scope will visualize. However, if you want to see sound that you can hear from speakers / headphones, select Wave Out Mix or Stereo Mix or any device that has word Mix in it's name.
Remember also to set the recording volume.

Now you are all set! Have fun! To top


For advanced users, there is command-line options. Help for command-line options for this program you can get by typing scope.exe -h.

Other information

Copyright (C) 2010 Tatu Portin. Scope source code is licensed under GNU GPL version 3.
Scope uses open source libraries, Simple DirectMedia Layer, PortAudio and mpg123. Both libraries can be compiled in GNU/Linux and other systems.

Contact me: portin1986@gmail.com