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Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS)

By: oops

Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS) is a music visualization plugin for Winamp. It was designed by Winamp creator Justin Frankel. It renders using DirectDraw.

Features
  • Supports ".avs" files.
  • Supports ".ape" files (x86 only).
  • Includes AVS Editor and configuration dialog.
  • Implements preset switching through the mouse context menu and keyboard shortcuts.
  • Compatible with the Default User Interface (Default UI) and the Columns User Interface (Columns UI).
  • Tested on foobar2000 v2.26.2 (x86 64-bit) and Microsoft Windows 11 (Build 26300).
  • Requires Windows 10 or later.
Installation
  • Install the component using the "foo_vis_avs.fb2k-component" file that can be downloaded from this page.
  • Place presets into this component's folder of foobar2000. This should be "<foobar2000 profile folder>\avs". They can be organized into subdirectories.
  • Also place APE files into this component's folder of foobar2000. Alternatively, "<foobar2000 profile folder>\avs\apes" is also supported.
  • More presets can be downloaded from visbot. Or create your own using the included AVS editor.
  • Source code included inside "foo_vis_avs.fb2k-component".

Current version: 0.0.14, released on 2026-10-30

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Change log:

  • Follow foobar2000 dark mode in the AVS editor [feature]
  • Match Normalise arithmetic to the APE [change]
  • Match Multi Filter rendering and configuration to the APE [change]
  • Match Texer particle rendering to the APE [change]
  • Match Color Map blending and animation to the APE [change]
  • Optimize common Convolution Filter kernels with SIMD [change]
  • Cache sampled rows when enlarging Texer II particles [change]
  • Prevent large Dynamic Movement offsets from collapsing the grid [bug]
  • Normalize formatting across AVS engine [developer]
  • Include the NS-EEL2 grammar in the AVS engine project [developer]
  • Discard unused files before importing presets [developer]

Supported systems: Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, Windows ARM.

Works with foobar2000 v2.0 and newer.

Works on Windows 10 and newer.

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