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Shuggy
Avid Contributor I
October 8, 2005

Visualisations

  • October 8, 2005
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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
      November 19, 2005
      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.
      buzz
      buzz
      Grand Maestro
      November 19, 2005
      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.
      Malcolm - Sonos
      Sonos Employee
      November 19, 2005
      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!
      ShuggyAuthor
      Avid Contributor I
      November 28, 2005
      Brilliant- thats next weekends fun ask sorted
      Thanks
      Roger and Out
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      September 8, 2016
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