This reminds me of the early Winamp 5 days, circa 2005-2008.
Music visualizers seem to be a forgotten art today.
Music visualizers seem to be a forgotten art today.
Most people listening to digital music do it through streaming, so the local media player isn't getting much attention anymore. For artists, it's cheaper to put something out that has a minimal, looping, branded animation than a full music video, especially now that video editing is so commonplace these days. There are also software options that will generate these videos with just a few clicks (which, unsurprisingly, resemble their media player ancestors)
Along with this, though, a lot of artists are also livestreaming "concerts" from their rooms on platforms like YouTube, Discord, and reddit. The landscape is changing, but in some interesting ways
For me, I still rock my CDs and Soulseek collection from time to time on Windows Media Player which still supports the visualizers from the early 2000s. They are even still served on Microsoft.com
Was always comparatively disappointed with subsequent music visualisation like MilkDrop and Geiss on Winamp to be honest - they always seemed to be just doing their own thing without as much reference to the music, and of course without the interactivity you were just watching rather than playing (or consuming rather than creating).
I do agree that screensavers aren't as pervasive as in the 2000s, but its not dead like winamp visualizers , or are they ?
My Apple TV box has a screensaver called Aerial that downloads new videos daily. Some of them are incredible.
https://www.jukelab.com/s/dkhpmnq
And I use milkdrop for live visuals at the club