version 24.3

[hvianna]

📢 audioMotion is now an online web app that can play music and video directly from your device! No download necessary.

What's new

Added:

• Support for the File System Access API, allowing the web app to read files from your local device (depends on browser support);
• Video playback - suggested by @JesusGod-Pope666-Info;
• Bark, Mel and linear frequency scales (**) - suggested by @TF3RDL (here) and @hsnam95 (here);
• Frequency weighting filters (**);
• New dual-channel layouts: horizontal (side-by-side channels) and combined (overlaid channels) - suggested by @TF3RDL;
• Allow selecting different gradients for each channel, when using a dual-channel layout;
• New bar coloring modes: by level (bar amplitude) and by index (bar position);
• Press 0 (zero) to quickly randomize analyzer settings;
• ANSI switch to use IEC/ANSI preferred frequencies for octave bands - suggested by @jonathan-annett;
• LINEAR switch to use linear amplitude values, instead of decibels (**);
• NOTES switch to display musical note labels in the X-axis scale;
• ROUND switch to render analyzer bars wih rounded corners on top;
• Config options to customize the backgrounds folder and how many individual media files appear in the Background options;
• Config option to limit the maximum frame-rate;
• Config option to adjust on-screen display font size - suggested by @kimycai;
• Config option to auto-hide the media panel, expanding the analyzer area;
• Config options to remember the contents of the play queue and the last used folder between sessions;
• Enabled some server-side configuration options via config.json file - see Self-hosting audioMotion;

** Special thanks to @TF3RDL for the code snippets which helped immensely in the implementation of these features!

Changed & improved:

• User preset funcionality now provides 9 slots for saving your favorite analyzer configurations;
• Prism and Rainbow gradients have been updated with softer colors (the old versions can be enabled in the Config panel);
• Random Mode has been renamed to Randomize and it's now possible to remove the Analyzer Mode from the randomized settings;
• AUTO gradient functionality has been changed to Gradients option under Settings affected by Randomize;
• PEAKS now work for Line and Area graph analyzer modes in Radial view;
• STEREO switch has been replaced by the Channel Layout setting;
• Peaks hold and decay times are now more consistent on varying frame rates;
• Improved frequency scale labeling (label font size slightly reduced in fullscreen);
• Play queue size limit increased to 2000 files;
• Smoothing setting has been moved to General settings;
• Added more options to the minimum and maximum values in the Frequency range;
• New default settings: 20Hz - 20kHz frequency range, FFT smoothing set to 0.7, Scale-Y off and info displayed at both the start and end of the song;
• New fonts for the user interface and internal console;
• New custom UI controls to replace standard range inputs and radio buttons;
• If you are self-hosting audioMotion, it can now run from any subdirectory (no need to use a virtual host or custom port);
• Updated documentation;

Fixed:

• Reflex not working on PIP mode on some circumstances;
• Some special characters in file/directory names preventing files from being loaded.

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Release: https://github.com/hvianna/audioMotion.js/releases/tag/v24.3

[JesusGod-Pope666-Info]

I certainly still do not like the font letters used.

And I have some issues with the scrollbar and the app doing sort of weird things - I guess it is this autohide thing which I am not sure I like.... Like a scroll bar is really not that big you know....

A side thought, if you ever have time, a mobile version would be nice as well of the player but would be a project in itself I guess.

[hvianna]

Yea, mobile is a big challenge with so many stuff on screen.
You can disable the auto-hide in the Config panel, but the scrollbar issue is unintentional. Maybe it's a browser-specific issue. I'll have to look into that.

[JesusGod-Pope666-Info]

I guess you can only add 2000 songs.... I guess it is enough, but.... Okay. Just doing some testing and all and had a bunch of files and wanted to see what happened. I guess you would usually not add 2000 songs.

[JesusGod-Pope666-Info]

Maybe some grey or sorta little different color for the file list, shifting from the two colors, for easier seeing discerning the files in the list, don't need to be much difference I think might..... Maybe not... I just thought about it.

[JesusGod-Pope666-Info]

Ahhh I guess I will be able to config some of the things when the new feature comes about, the scrollbar, will most likely be one thing I turn off :P

[hvianna]

There shouldn't be a scrollbar.. can you post a screenshot of that?
Which browser are you using and what's your screen resolution?

[JesusGod-Pope666-Info]

Kinda need a scrollbar for my low resolution computer. :) I am not on something hugely modern, well a Crapbar. 1280720.
Like I do my videos usually at a maximum of 1280720 anyhow, less space and less processing or graphic power for other users that does not have the newest of the newest.

[JesusGod-Pope666-Info]

Kinda hard to just take an image and see.... As it is kinda of a flow video thing in action.
I think it is with all browsers, and probably able to reproduce it with a lower resolution where the player don't exactly fit.
Although even if it does not fit exactly do my screen I usually get around it with the scrollbar that now disappears in the new version and then comes up doing some weird stuff.

[hvianna]

@JesusGod-Pope666-Info Understood. I'll fix it asap.

[JesusGod-Pope666-Info]

might be nice to be able to choose a folder even if it is loading.... As if I rename a folder and it loads, it just stalls..... I guess a reset of the cache of the browser might work. But I can't push the loading button and point out another folder which actually exist.

[hvianna]

I'll try to improve that! ✍️