foobar2000: Components Repository - Analog VU Meter Visualisation

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 v2.24.5 (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.

Skip render if window is minimized
Pause visualization loop on Default UI non-visibility
Mark hierarchical path of active panel in context menu by appending a double asterisk
Adjust tuning dialog text label locations
Remove stray suffixes for separate panel files in the skins menu
Fix libzip not loading symbolic links
Update Columns UI SDK to fe137f0 [developer]
Update libzip to 1.11.4 [developer]
Update UnRAR to 7.1.7 [developer]
Update WARP to 1.0.14.2 [developer]
Use double instead of triple ampersand to insert literal `&` in menu labels [developer]
Precompile all regular expressions [developer]
Make minor style updates [developer]
Update the WIC to Direct2D bitmap loader function [developer]
Refactor the standalone and RAR archive INI reader [developer]
Improve the RAR open archive function's robustness [developer]
Refactor the ZIP archive open function as well as its INI and PNG loaders [developer]
Refactor AIMP and LVU meter drawing and compositing functions [developer]
Refactor AIMP display angle and LVU width calculation functions [developer]
Update utility functions [developer]
Update VU Meter resource cleanup [developer]
Update bitmaps and bitmap functions [developer]
Update README [developer]

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

Works with foobar2000 v2.0 and newer