'Any Spotify music visualizer recommended? Just watching the album cover appear on the screen, it's not cool! Surprise me please!'
A music visualizer can generate animated images based on the rhythm and beat of the song, so you won't feel bored.
I am re-entering this as a Idea since my old post has become very very old, and i believe it deserves some more attention. I have read old posts on Spotify needing a visualizer, but i think it may be needing said again. Spotify Needs a visualizer.preferably with milkdrop in it since now it is open sourced Milkdrop. For being a company servicing many many countries and millions of people. Spotiamp is for spotify premium subscribers only. So maybe you tried milkdrop for winamp in the past and loved it but want to enjoy the milkdrop visualization with your spotify music. Recently spotiamp has been released (more info at spotiamp.com) which is a winamp style spotify player.
In the old days, in the desktop version of Spotify you can search 'spotify:app:visualizer' and get the Spotify built-in music visualizer. Somehow now this feature is removed for good.
So, alternatively, you need a 3-party Spotify music visualizer! Don't know which one to choose? This article lists the top 9 visualizers for Spotify.
Part 1. Online Music Visualizers for Spotify
Firstly, I would like to introduce online sites that can work as Spotify visualizer.
They are super easy to use. You just need to visit the website and then log into your Spotify account. Then when you're playing music in your Spotify, the visualizers will begin showing you animated pictures.
I hope you can have fun with them while listening to music. Now let's check!
#1 Kaleidosync.herokuapp
Kaleidosync.herokuapp is an HTML5 music visualizer for Spotify. As its name kaleidosync, it defaults to a kaleidoscope animation, but you can adjust various functions such as zoom, brightness, side, and even RGB to shape your own shape you want.
#2 Wavesync
The second is Wavesync, a visualizer for Spotify with a relatively single function. When playing Spotify music, it will be accompanied by a variety of wave ripples. If you don't like fancy animations, then this is suitable for you.
#3 Tessellator Spotify audio visualizer
The last one is the Tessellator Spotify audio visualizer, which supports 3D interactive music and has motion pictures of different shapes, such as pyramids, cubes, mesh structures, wave textures, etc.
For the online music visualizer Spotify, the functions are similar. It mainly depends on whether the user's visual experience is good. Or just follow your favorite animated picture to choose the Spotify visualizer.
Part 2. Popular Third-party Spotify Music Visualizer (Assistant Software)
To enjoy visualization along with these softwares, it's necessary to download Spotify playlists and songs to computer first so that you can play the songs and tracks.
#4 Synesthesia
What makes it a wonderful music visualizer for Spotify? I would say its 40+ built-in scenes and high-quality visual effects (both videos and audios). Moreover, Synesthesia comes with a pre-installed orientation that makes it quite easy to use.
#5 PotPlayer
PotPlayer music player visualizer produces real-time visual effects according to the tempo and decibel of the music being played. Its unique algorithm can absolutely entertain you with visual effects of various styles, such as Floating ball, WMP visualization, and Slideshow, etc.
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Only thing is, you can only use it on a computer (Windows and Mac) but not on a smartphone.
#6 AIMP
AIMP visualization is compatible with Windows, Android, and iOS devices. That's very nice. Plus, 3 options for visualizing Spotify music are available: CoR's Aorta 1.1, analog instrument night, and analog instrumentation classics.
Simply download, install, and activate AIMP visualization, then select your preferred mode.
#7 iTunes
If you're using a MacBook, give iTunes a chance to show you what it has got. iTunes has built-in visualization features. Just press Command-T while playing music.
#8 Windows Media Player
It's known as the default player for the Windows computer. Also, it also has built-in visualizations as well.
Click the icon button ('Switch to Now Playing') in the lower right corner > Click 'Play' to play music > Right-click on any blank area on Windows media player and select 'Visualization' from the pop-up list
After that, it would show you a lot of available visualization effects.
#9 VLC Player
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You can get VLC Player installed on both Windows and Mac. And by default, it gives you 6 available visualizations, including Spectrometer, Scope, Spectrum, Vu Meter, Goom, and ProjectM.
While you play an audio file, right-click on it and select Audio > Visualizations.
Bonus Tip. Download Spotify Tracks and Add to Music Visualizer
It is well known that Spotify music is protected by DRM and the downloaded format of Spotify music is Ogg Vorbis. To play the songs with media plays and visualization tools, you need to convert Spotify songs' format and remove DRM protection.
To do so, you can use DRmare Spotify Ripper. Check out the following steps!
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Step 1. Download and install DRmare Spotify Music Converter on the computer, then run it. And Spotify program will be launched automatically, too. Now drag the Spotify song or playlist you want to download directly to DRmare or copy the tracking link to DRmare's download box.
Step 2. After adding the songs to DRmare, you will need to check and confirm it. If everything is OK, click the '+' button to add the selected song.
Step 3. Click the Convert button and wait a few minutes. Once done, you can play the songs offline with a Spotify visualizer!
The Bottom Line
I know it is cool to listen to music with a Spotify visualizer. The amazing animated images go up and down along with the song. So, this post lists the best 9 Spotify music visualizers. And I hope you can find one that can satisfy you.
In case you are using an awesome music visualizer, but this post doesn't mention it at all, write your words in the comment section below. Thank you very much and I hope you have a good day.
Spotiamp is for spotify premium subscribers only.
So maybe you tried milkdrop for winamp in the past and loved it but want to enjoy the milkdrop visualization with your spotify music. Recently spotiamp has been released (more info at spotiamp.com) which is a winamp style spotify player. Configuring milkdrop to work on spotify is slightly more complicated than it should be. To simplify things we have preconfigured it for you in a zipped up folder. Follow these instructions to get it working.
Be advised spotiamp is still a little buggy, click on eject button to select playlists.
1. Download the zip file from http://www.computerrepairtech.com/spotiamp_0.2_md.zip
2. Extract the zip file to the location of your choice.
3. Run Spotiamp.exe from the location you extracted the files to.
4. You should be prompted for your spotify login info. Login.
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5. Once logged in go ahead and start playing some music then click here on the hard to see “V”
6. Click “Start / Stop plug-in”
7. You should see a window that looks like this, you can resize it by dragging the bottom left corner:
8. To activate desktop mode the coolest feature of milkdrop right click the window then click desktop mode.
9. Take a look at your desktop wallpaper now. To stop the wallpaper milkdrop just click on it then hit ESC. Pushing F1 will bring up help options. Once you close the milkdrop you may have to relaunch spotiamp to get it working again its a little buggy.