I wish to implement a audio visualizer widget (similar to what Winamp has) in WPF. How would I approach this problem?
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I wish to implement a audio visualizer widget (similar to what Winamp has) in WPF. How would I approach this problem?
These two articles may be of use to you:
http://dotnetaddict.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/3dhittesting.htm
http://dotnetaddict.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/datavisualizationwpf.htm
They’re two articles in a series of 3D visualization using WPF. They’re a bit targeted on intro WPF usage. Here are a few more:
http://blog.wpfwonderland.com/2009/01/30/data-visualization-toolkit-for-silverlight-descry/
Beats per minute from real-time audio input
In general, you’ll want to do a bit of realtime analysis on the audio stream. Beat detection is an easy one – provide some sort of pulsing action that lines up with the beat, intensity increasing with volume, and so on.
Here’s another fantastic article:
http://knol.google.com/k/music-visualization-techniques#
And another similar question from StackOverflow:
Creating music visualizer