projectM - The most advanced open-source music visualizer

projectM is an open-source project that reimplements the esteemed Winamp Milkdrop by Geiss in a more modern, cross-platform reusable library.

Its purpose in life is to read in audio input and produce mesmerizing visuals, detecting tempo, and rendering advanced equations into a limitless array of user-contributed visualizations.

Available For

• Mac OS X iTunes (plugin)
• Android
• iOS
• ALSA, Qt, xmms, winamp, jack, pulseaudio

Presets

The preset files define the visualizations via pixel shaders and Milkdrop-style equations and parameters. Included with projectM are the bltc201, Milkdrop 1 and 2, projectM, tryptonaut and yin collections. You can grab all of the presets here.

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Screenshots

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Building From Source

Mac OS X

• Prebuilt iTunes plugin installer
• OSX Build instructions

Linux

• sudo apt-get install cmake-curses-gui libsdl2-dev libglew-dev libftgl-dev libsdl2-dev

Building From Source

Requires cmake.

cmake .
make
make install

Help

Report issues on GitHub

Configure With cmake

If you wish to configure build options run:
ccmake .
This will present you with a simple console-based interface of options for projectM.
Review the options and change what you think is necessary. Press 'g' to generate the make files and exit.