Aqua-Soft ForumsDear everyone,
do you guys know where i can find visual plug-in for QCD player that will mimic itunes' bar graphs on the top when a music is being played.
thanks so much.
sincerely,
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Qcd's Visual Plug-ins That Mimic Itunes' Bar Graph
I did a lot of searching around for such a visualization. The closest I found were 2 Sonique visualizations called Ken's MetreX 2 and the newer version 3. The version 2 could be user modified to almost recreate the Apple LCD viz but it was not quite right. MetreX 3 was much closer but again some features that were available in v2 were removed in v3.
I did start a conversation with the creator of this viz, but he had lost the notes and just couldn't remember how to set it up to look like the Apple viz.
However, the source code is available for this viz so it should be possible for someone to modify the code.
The MetreX visualizations are available over at the Sonique site and you will also need the Sonique-2-QCD plug-in to run the Soniique visualizations from within QCD.
I do hope that someone out there can modify this code.
Ya, that would be great if someone could do that. I am hoping for some official iTunes visualizations on pc. I dont know how they could be ported, but boy would that be nice! 
Spidey, I'm using v 2.0 now. Any way to make it black and white?
Duckie - Here is the MetreX v2 config info:
Configuration:
- All colors must be in ARGB hex color format (FFFFFFFF).
- All other settings must be integers.
- Sonique may crash with exaggerated values.
In vis.ini file in Sonique directory, you will find these entries under MetreX:
BackColor - Background (Skin) color.
BorderColor1 - Lightest border color farthestfrom the center for 3D effect.
BorderColor2 - Lighter border color nearest to the center for 3D effect.
BorderColor3 - Darker border color nearest to the center for 3D effect.
BorderColor4 - Darkest border color farthest from the center for 3D effect.
LedOnColor1 - Color of first group of LEDs when turned on.
LedOnColor2 - Color of second group of LEDs when turned on.
LedOnColor3 - Color of third group of LEDs when turned on.
LedOffColor1 - Color of first group of LEDs when turned off.
LedOffColor2 - Color of second group of LEDs when turned off.
LedOffColor3 - Color of third group of LEDs when turned off.
PointColor1 - Color of the upper and lower cross points.
PointColor2 - Color of the left and right cross points.
PointEnable - Set to 0 to disable/any other numbers to enable the cross point.
PointDelay - Delay of the cross point animation. The lower the number, the faster.
LedEnable - Set to 0 to disable/any other numbers to enable the LED meter.
LedMonitor - Band the LED meter will monitor.
LedStyle1 - Style of LED meter when turned off. 0=flat 1=embosed 2=engraved.
LedStyle2 - Style of LED meter when turned on. 0=flat 1=embosed 2=engraved.
LedDelay - Sets the refresh rate of the LEDs. The lower the numer, the faster.
BarEnable - Set to 0 to disable/any other numbers to enable the bargraph meter.
BarStyle - Style of the bargraph frame. 0=flat 1=embosed 2=engraved 3=separate.
BarSense - Sensitivity of the bargraph. The higher the number, the less sensitive.
BarFall - Fall rate of the bargraph. The lower the number, the lower fall rate.
BarSize - Size of the LEDs in the bargraph.
PeakEnable - Set to 0 to disable/any other numbers to enable peaks in the bargraph.
PeakFall - Peak fall rate. The lower the number, the lower fall rate.
LedSense1 - Sensitivity of LED1 in the LED meter.
LedSense2 - Sensitivity of LED1 in the LED meter.
LedSense3 - Sensitivity of LED1 in the LED meter.
LedSense4 - Sensitivity of LED1 in the LED meter.
LedSense5 - Sensitivity of LED1 in the LED meter.
BarMonitor1 - Band the first column of LEDs in the bargraph will monitor.
BarMonitor2 - Band the second column of LEDs in the bargraph will monitor.
BarMonitor3 - Band the third column of LEDs in the bargraph will monitor.
BarMonitor4 - Band the fourth column of LEDs in the bargraph will monitor.
BarMonitor5 - Band the fifth column of LEDs in the bargraph will monitor.
BarMonitor6 - Band the sixth column of LEDs in the bargraph will monitor.
BarMonitor7 - Band the seventh column of LEDs in the bargraph will monitor.
BarMonitor8 - Band the eight column of LEDs in the bargraph will monitor.
LedStyle - Style of the LEDs in the meter.
I found that you needed to install Sonique (1.96) if you don't already have it, then run the MetreX viz in Sonique once then quit Sonique. This sets up the MetreX ini information which you can then edit and use within QCD.
could you just up your vis.ini file, please ? somewhere.. .
cause i dunno, i really don't wanna have to install sonique just for a file.. .
These are the vis.ini settings you can insert at the end of the QCD vis.ini file:
[MetreX]
BackColor=FFDBE1C5
BorderColor1=FFDBE1C5
BorderColor2=FFDBE1C5
BorderColor3=FFDBE1C5
BorderColor4=FFDBE1C5
LedOnColor1=FF6A6F5E
LedOnColor2=FF6A6F5E
LedOnColor3=FF6A6F5E
LedOffColor1=FFD0D4BB
LedOffColor2=FFD0D4BB
LedOffColor3=FFD0D4BB
PointColor1=FFFF6666
PointColor2=FFFFFF00
PointEnable=0
PointDelay=2
LedEnable=0
LedMonitor=6
LedStyle1=1
LedStyle2=2
LedDelay=1
BarEnable=1
BarStyle=3
BarSense=30
BarFall=1
BarSize=4
PeakEnable=1
PeakFall=1
LedSense1=1
LedSense2=5
LedSense3=10
LedSense4=15
LedSense5=20
BarMonitor1=6
BarMonitor2=8
BarMonitor3=10
BarMonitor4=12
BarMonitor5=14
BarMonitor6=16
BarMonitor7=18
BarMonitor8=20
[MetreX 3.0]
BackColor=FFDBE1C5
LedOnColor1=FF6A6F5E
LedOnColor2=FF6A6F5E
LedOnColor3=FF6A6F5E
DrawDelay=0
SubModule=0
LedStyle1=0
LedStyle2=0
BarEnable=0
BarStyle=2
BarSense=0
BarSize=4
BarFallRate=3
EnablePeak=1
I have modified the MetreX3 settings to try to recreate the iTunes LCD viz.
You don't have to install Sonique, just save the Sonique viz files in some location and point Sonique-2-QCD to the same location.
Also try Smear by Mykel - that is pretty close to the way that Apple displays the track info. With a little modification this could also look pretty convincing.
the visual works fine when i have the itunes skin in the normal mode.. . but when i set the skin in compact visual mode the visual doesn't work.. .i just get a rectangle shape .. .
Correct. That is one of the changes that would be needed to make this visualization work convincingly in the iTunes LCD window.
So find someone who understands C and get them to make the mods to the C code that is available for both of these viz's.
This is as far as I got to with my search for an iTunes type viz for QCD.
These are the vis.ini settings you can insert at the end of the QCD vis.ini file:spidercrabx, i cant find the QCD vis.ini file. do you mean QCD.ini? there is no *.ini file either under metrex folder.
sincerely,
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Sorry, it is in plugins.ini which is in the QCD\Plugins directory. Vis.ini is a Sonique thing. The same information relevant to the viz appears in both.