I'm looking for a program that will visualize anything that goes through my audio-output (in this case it's Spotify) and display it on the screen. Does this exist?
I'm running Ubuntu.
4 Answers
Try using projectM.
Either the packages is already in your sources or you can compile the source code from sourceforge.
There are packages for pulseaudio and JACK. ProjectM is able to directly use the audio output or your OS.
1cava is a fun one. It's a console application, so it's fairly lightweight. You can also run it in an ssh session from a different computer on the network.
This page [archived] has many different visualizers.
4found Synaesthesia to be both beautiful and easy to use, it also works well with pulseaudio through the command
padsp synaesthesia linewebsite:
it is available in ubuntu repositories
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