An optional spectrum view to make music easier to follow by sight
First of all, thank you for FxSound. I’ve been using it for years, both for listening to music and for conference calls.
For music, I enjoy a full, balanced sound with rich bass. For calls, I use different settings to make voices clearer and reduce the low-frequency resonances of my laptop, allowing me to turn up the volume more comfortably.
One feature I’ve always wanted to explore further is the animated spectrum display—the bars, rather than the EQ controls. Looking at the version I worked on, its 100 bars are animated from 10 frequency bands. The result is visually fluid, but I wanted a display that would reveal more of the musical detail.
My goal is to make musical events easier to follow by sight: attacks, sustained notes, tremolo and stereo differences. I’d love to be able to follow more of what I hear directly in the movement of the bars.
I’ve now implemented an optional alternative view in my local build. It uses finer frequency analysis, emphasizes local spectral contrasts, and adjusts the movement of the bars to make attacks and sustained sounds easier to distinguish. The audio itself is unchanged, and the existing visualizer remains available.
I’m pleased with the result and would be happy to share it for possible integration. I know reviewing contributions takes time, so I’d aim to provide a focused change, a clear explanation and reproducible tests.
While I am at it I’m also open to address other needs such as clipping lights that I noticed from the features demands page.
Would a short before-and-after demo video be a useful starting point? If there’s interest, I’d be happy to prepare a GitHub pull request following the project’s preferred approach.
