Comments on Nihilogic: Music visualization with Canvas and SoundManager2

I've been messing with dong this sort of work in A...

2009-10-26T20:01:09.965-07:00

I've been messing with dong this sort of work in AS3 using FlashDevelop and Flex, it's a lot of fun. I've always been an audio guy, but never actually stuck with it, I've always stuck to programming and game design; working with audio in game design has definitely given me a place to be proud of both game design and audio. I definitely love this kind of stuff though, I'm eager to throw it into game design in a new way. Thanks for sharing, awesome stuff.

Is it really fair to compare the two, though? Also...

2009-09-09T08:54:19.225-07:00

Is it really fair to compare the two, though? Also, check this out for something a bit closer to Noise Cradle.

Nice. I bet you can't get close to this though! ht...

2009-09-09T08:35:30.079-07:00

Nice. I bet you can't get close to this though! http://www.noisecradle.com

wow. it's really awesome.. wow~!

2009-04-17T04:55:00.000-07:00

wow. it's really awesome.. wow~!

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2009-03-13T02:15:00.000-07:00

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Absolutely, I agree. And there is no Flash hate he...

2009-03-12T10:24:00.000-07:00

Absolutely, I agree. And there is no Flash hate here - the right tool for the right job and all that - there are just some areas where it isn't/shouldn't be necessary to resort to plugin based technology.. Anyway, I suppose its widespread use has both upsides and downsides since it means that we do have that option for things like audio but it also makes it that much harder to replace. So, yea, I love your library but I'm also looking forward to the day that I won't need it!

Jacob: I met P01 some time in 2002 (via the Ozone ...

2009-03-12T09:48:00.000-07:00

Jacob: I met P01 some time in 2002 (via the Ozone Asylum JS/DHTML forum) and while none of us are really big Flash fans, I've come to realize that there are a few areas where it has advantages and is widely available due to the 90-something-percentile install base. That plus ExternalInterface (allowing JS/Flash communication) make doing stuff from JS-land possible, which means it's an attractive potential option to DHTML fans like ourselves.

In the meantime I'd love to see HTML 5 audio and video grow to a point where they can replace the reliance on Flash, and ultimately can provide a similarly full-featured API (eg., allowing access to waveform data and so on.)

@Scott: Thanks for digging, too bad it's down. May...

2009-03-12T08:36:00.000-07:00

@Scott: Thanks for digging, too bad it's down. Maybe I'll see if I can contact him.

@Mathieu: Yes you should. Scott has taken all (well, most of) the 'argh' out of sound in the browser, even if you do have to swallow the fact that it's Flash.

@Jacob: Neat. I should really look into SoundManag...

2009-03-12T05:44:00.000-07:00

@Jacob: Neat. I should really look into SoundManager2

@Darkimmortal: Saying " Yes, it is partly based on code from that Dynamic Hypnoglow thing " is kind of an understatement. I don't mind people using part or whole of of my code, especially when it's credited properly unlike here. Interesting use of the Dynamic Hypnoglow thing though.

OK, after a bunch of email archive and Get Satisfa...

2009-03-11T19:17:00.000-07:00

OK, after a bunch of email archive and Get Satisfaction searching, I eventually found it. It was a DJ/music project of sorts someone was working on, it came out of a SM2 discussion on frequency vs. waveform. Unfortunately it seems the site is down, at the time of writing at least. The developer is probably still around though and seemed like a cool guy, FWIW.

@Darkimmortal: Nice!@Scott: Thanks for clearing up...

2009-03-10T01:53:00.000-07:00

@Darkimmortal: Nice!

@Scott: Thanks for clearing up the security error issue a bit. It had me completely baffled until I somehow figured out that an open YT tab was causing the problem. I guess it makes sense, though, if the sound output isn't tied to the local SWF.

And do let me know if you find that visualizer :-)

Artistic! One of the niftier uses of SM2's spectru...

2009-03-09T19:20:00.000-07:00

Artistic! One of the niftier uses of SM2's spectrum data I've seen, someone else made a visualizer similar to those seen in WinAmp a number of months back. Unfortunately 20 minutes of searching my email didn't dig it up, but it was pretty good. Maybe they read your blog too and will chime in. ;)

Re: YouTube videos, security errors etc.: With computeSpectrum(), it attempts to read data from all "source" SWFs outputting audio (presumably) at the time, and it can't read "low-level" data by default because of cross-domain security restrictions. Put another way, soundmanager2_flash9.swf on A.com may not access sound data coming from (or originating from?) a .SWF on youtube.com. This may seem a bit odd, but consider that you could potentially "steal" audio from other .SWFs, etc. As far as I know, there is no way to isolate and read only the local .SWF's audio output as the soundMixer object is a Flash system global.

http://imgkk.com/Click JS Demo in the footer. Watc...

2009-03-09T18:34:00.000-07:00

http://imgkk.com/

Click JS Demo in the footer. Watch. :P

(Yes, it is partly based on code from that Dynamic Hypnoglow thing)

And yes, I'll admit my algorithm is slightly less complex, but it gets the job done :P

Thanks!@Steven Wittens: The thought had crossed my...

2009-03-09T16:04:00.000-07:00

Thanks!

@Steven Wittens: The thought had crossed my mind, actually. I've also been looking at MilkDrop, the files for that one would be pretty easy to parse.

Rebirth of demoscene!Awesome mashup :)

2009-03-09T15:58:00.000-07:00

Rebirth of demoscene!
Awesome mashup :)

Very impressive, Jacob. Especially great to see so...

2009-03-09T15:07:00.000-07:00

Very impressive, Jacob. Especially great to see some of the flocking behavior that I've only seen thus far inside the Processing domain.

Heheh, this is pretty whacky, but the performance ...

2009-03-09T14:14:00.000-07:00

Heheh, this is pretty whacky, but the performance seems good. You could port over some AVS effects even ;). See: http://acko.net/design/avs