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Shuggy
Avid Contributor I
Oct 8, 2005 7:51 PM UTC

Visualisations

I used to use itunes linked to my vaio media centre to play my music while showing visualistions to my loewe LCD big screen- It was really effective for parties. Now I have a far superior audio system in sonos and the gold standard performance and versatility has blown my friends away. However I would dearly love to use visualisations again. It would only require a software upgrade to the desk top controller to allow this and you would greatly increase the modality of sonos in a multi media sense- and make me happy- plus it should only cost cents in reality. Mull it over.
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      Malcolm - Sonos
      Sonos Employee
      Nov 19, 2005 12:15 AM UTC
      I imagine you could connect the line-out of a ZP to a computer's sound card and have visualizations generated from that (which you could even connect to a TV I'd imagine). Not sure what program you'd use - Winamp might do this, come to think of it.
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      buzz
      Grand Maestro
      Nov 19, 2005 1:20 AM UTC
      It seems that the color organ is still alive and well.

      Use your favorite search engine and look for "color organ".

      I found new and old articles, DIY plans and kits.

      There were a few software approaches.

      One such approach is:
      http://www.lathingstodo.com/colororgan.htm

      however, if the program works as well as the website, I'd advise caution.
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      Malcolm - Sonos
      Sonos Employee
      Nov 19, 2005 6:40 PM UTC
      I imagine you could connect the line-out of a ZP to a computer's sound card and have visualizations generated from that (which you could even connect to a TV I'd imagine). Not sure what program you'd use - Winamp might do this, come to think of it.

      I tested this out and it actually works pretty well. I used a 2xRCA -> 3.5mm cable to connect the Line-Out on a ZP to the Line-In on my computer, and I installed the latest Winamp version (Lite) with "Jaspers Line-In Plugin." Here's what I did software-wise:

      In the Volume Control properties, Mute Line-In.

      Click Options, Properties, select Recording, hit OK and then Select Line-In (not Microphone).

      Open Winamp, CTRL+P for Preferences, and under Plugins > Input, and make sure the "Line-in Plugin v1.80" is there (if not, you'll need to re-install Jasper's plugin. Close out of the preferences window.

      In Winamp still, press CTRL+L, and enter line:// as a URL. As long as you're playing music from Sonos, you should now hear audio from your PC speakers, and pressing CTRL+SHIFT+K should get you to the default visualisation. There's many more visualisation plugins out there, but I'll leave that up to you.

      Hope that helps someone!
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      ShuggyAuthor
      Avid Contributor I
      Nov 28, 2005 9:19 PM UTC
      Brilliant- thats next weekends fun ask sorted
      Thanks
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      Roger and Out
      Contributor I
      Sep 8, 2016 2:56 AM UTC
      Common Sonos - Get with it!
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