Analog VUmeter 0.9.2 review

Analog VUmeter is a visualization plugin for XMMS. If you like this plugin, then please send me feedback, comments, patches, etc

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Pekka Harjamaki

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Analog VUmeter is a visualization plugin for XMMS.

If you like this plugin, then please send me feedback, comments, patches, etc. Also what I need is artwork or skins, so mail me if you would like to help with that.

Idea for this plugin came from similar plugin for winamp called 'Homeboy analog VU meter', and ideas how to write plugin to xmms from MSA plugin.

At first I only wanted to make something, that would look like the real thing, but as time passed, I have tried to make it also behave like it actually did something useful.

So what you are actually seeing is dBFS value for sound, which means RMS value of soundlevel compared to reference ((2^16-1)/2). Values range from 0 dBFS (highest) to -91 dBFS (lowest).

Requirements:
Xmms (>= 1.2.9)
Gdk & Gtk (>= 1.2.10)
Gdk-pixbuf (>= 0.21)

Installation:

Global installation (root privileges required):

./configure
make
make install
mkdir /usr/share/xmms/VU_Meter_skins/
cp -R skins/* /usr/share/xmms/VU_Meter_skins/

Local installation:

./configure
make
mkdir -p ~/.xmms/VU_Meter_skins
cp -R skins/* ~/.xmms/VU_Meter_skins/
cp src/.libs/libvumeter.so ~/.xmms/Plugins/Visualization/

Note: if you have default skins from version 0.9.1 or earlier, please remove them, and use new skins from this package.

Note: Old skins might not behave like they used to, because calculation routine has changed quite a lot

What's New in This Release:
Worker routine now calculates dBFS values, and therefore skins also have new option, which defines minimum dBFS value (defaults to -91.0 dBFS)
Missing 'default'-skin no longer causes xmms to crash, but only disables plugin
If one of two titlebar images is missing, skin loader now uses the other one, for both states
Clipping "led" has been fully implemented