5 players visual effects to the rhythm of the music: spectrum, bars

Visual effects that move to the beat of the music. This can be an interesting extra to add to a music or dance session. There are Android apps that offer this feature. There are music players that integrate this functionality, as well as independent apps, rich in possibilities, that even allow you to bring these animations or visual effects from the cell phone to a big screen. They are responsible for visualizing the audio spectrum, using multiple geometric figures such as bars, auroras and other types of abstract figures.

Player with integrated visual effects

AudioVision Music Player

It offers 5 visual effects, including the popular animated vertical bars effect. You can customize the appearance of each effect, as well as the wallpaper within the player. The effect display can work even if music is playing from another application. It can be configured to be viewed in full screen.

Unfortunately there are no more settings available. It is a relatively simple application but with a nice design.

Music Visualizer (APK)

Another music player that offers up to 11 effects, including various spectra with different geometric shapes and an animation of bars. This application is more configurable. You can choose a specific animation or let the 11 animations change automatically and randomly. You can adjust the transition time of the effects, their textures, background, position, etc. You can also modify the appearance of each of the effects. Offers full screen mode.

You can take advantage of the integrated music player to play content, or configure the app to listen to the audio from another player or from the device’s microphone.

Avee Player

Music player with 9 spectrum and bar type animations. They are relatively simple animations, whose appearance can be varied a bit. In Spectrum display mode, you can configure the frequencies, the appearance of the lines, modify the background color, etc. The display can be put in full screen.

There is another free music player with spectrum and bar effects called Anytime Visualizer, but unfortunately this application crashed or stopped unexpectedly during testing. Neutron Music Player is an advanced audio player that hardly features a bar-style spectrum display.

Music viewers

These types of applications do not allow you to play music, but they can show the spectrum of the audio that sounds on the cell phone or in the environment, capturing the audio through the mobile microphone. The advantage of these applications is that they are specialists in the subject and offer many more elaborate functionalities and animations.

ProjectM Music Visualizer

When music is playing on the cell phone or in the environment, open this application to see the musical spectrum. ProjectM offers up to 40 free animations, very good, some with a mesmerizing touch. They can be changed manually with gestures or activate the random automatic change. It has advanced controls that allow you to adjust the texture of the animations, meshes, FPS, duration of the effects and transitions.

An excellent feature of ProjectM is that it supports Chromecast, so the spectrum image can easily be brought to a TV. This can be an interesting extra during a party. In the case of the other apps that do not support Chromecast, you would have to clone the cell phone screen on the television.

Like other similar apps, ProjectM captures the audio that reaches the microphone of the Android cell phone.

The free version of ProjectM displays advertisements while viewing the animations. To remove these annoying ads and get another 250 additional animations you can buy the PRO version for $ 2.99.

Audio Glow Music Visualizer

Although this application does not allow you to play music directly, it does allow you to control the used player from there. You can change the music or pause play. You can even use gestures for these actions.

Its disadvantage is that it only offers two free spectra (Bars and “Retro Geometric”) and two paid ($ 1.99). As for customization, it allows you to adjust the song information text as well as change the effect colors and save them as a theme.

Wallpaper or animated wallpaper
Audio Glow offers the possibility of configuring the spectrum as a wallpaper on the home screen, although this requires an extra app that costs $ 1.49. If you want a free wallpaper of this type, Music Visualizer Live Wallpaper (N7 Mobile Sp. Z oo) is an option. React with the music in the background. Unfortunately, this background has only worked well in the first test and then the animation has not responded.

Spectrum analyzers

There are more professional tools that not only show an animation based on the sound, but also allow to analyze the frequencies. Apps like Advanced Spectrum Analyzer PRO from Vuche Labs (link) or Spectrum Analizer (Raspberry Wood) are two apps on the Play Store that do this job.

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