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Analog VU Meter Visualisation

By: oops

foo_vis_vumeter is modern reimplementation of the analog VU meter component by DRON. It renders using DirectX 12.

Features

Supports VUEditor-generated ".bin" files.
- Can be BZ2-compressed, LZMA-compressed, Gzip-compressed, Zstandard-compressed, LZ4-compressed or uncompressed.
- Can use needles or lamps (LEDs), or both.
- Can contain a single panel for left and right channels or separate left and right panels.
Supports AIMP analog ".zip" skins.
- Must be ZIP-compressed and contain a "skin.ini" alongside corresponding PNG images.
- Can contain a single panel for left and right channels or separate left and right panels.
Supports AIMP LED ".zip" skins.
- Must be ZIP-compressed and contain a "settings.ini" alongside corresponding PNG images.
- Can contain a single panel for left and right channels.
Includes many fine-tuning options and modes.
Implements controls through the mouse context menu.
Compatible with the Default User Interface (Default UI) and the Columns User Interface (Columns UI).
Tested on foobar2000 v2.24.6 (x86 32-bit and x86 64-bit) and Microsoft Windows 11 (Build 26100).
Requires Windows 10 or later due to DirectX 12.
- Falls back to the WARP software rasterizer if no DirectX 12-compatible adapter found.

Installation

Install the component using the "foo_vis_vumeter.fb2k-component" file that can be downloaded from this page.
Download and extract panels/skins into this component's folder of foobar2000. This should be "<foobar2000 profile folder>\vumeter".
- A large number of these can be downloaded from tom2tec's "The Audio File" Gallery.
- Create custom panels using DRON's VUEditor.
- Another collection of skins collected and curated by Artem (AIMP main developer).
- LED skins gallery and creation tool by xrEngine.
- Some newly developed panels have been posted to the foo_vis_vumeter thread in the HydrogenAudio Forum.

Fix move to 0,0 on PSS resize [bug]
Fix blank window by forcing visibility on window creation [bug]
Prevent repeated loading of already failed panel [bug]
Prevent duplicate settings save on exit [optimize]
Update mouse tooltip text format [change]
Add horizontal mouse wheel support [feature]
Prepend an eighth note and a black right-pointing pointer to mark menu items with nested selections [change]
Fix instance ID assignment [developer]
Move file I/O utility functions into their own file [developer]
Update Columns UI SDK to 8.0.0 [developer]
Update DirectXTK12 to 2025.7.10.1 [developer]
Update Detours to 9764ceb [developer]
Update LZMA to 25.00 [developer]
Update UnRAR to 7.1.8 [developer]

Supported processor architectures: x86 32-bit, x86 64-bit, ARM64, ARM64EC.

Works with foobar2000 v2.0 and newer