butterchurn vs eXtace

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butterchurn		eXtace
	Project
60	Mentions	2
1,491	Stars	7
-	Growth	-
0.6	Activity	10.0
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	about 6 years ago
JavaScript	Language	C
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

butterchurn

Posts with mentions or reviews of butterchurn. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-28.

Show HN: SlideSynth
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Feb 2024

Yes, the visuals are from the same tradition as old winamp plugins: https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn
Who has never done this?
1 project | /r/MemeVideos | 14 Jun 2023
Butterchurn Sound Visualizer
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 May 2023
Visualizer Tool for Deaf People
2 projects | /r/CommercialAV | 28 Apr 2023
Winamp
7 projects | /r/pics | 2 Apr 2023

Butterchurn Visualizer
Possibility of embedding ButterChurn visualizer?
1 project | /r/neocities | 29 Mar 2023

yes, it is possible. there’s instructions on their github.
Made it completely portable, it’s gonna make gigging super fun
4 projects | /r/raspberry_pi | 25 Mar 2023
It's really weird that we were mesmerized by watching music with visualizers in Winamp, iTunes, etc. in the 2000s, but they're not really a big thing now that we have 4k displays and the computing power to create really stunning visualizers.
1 project | /r/highdeas | 14 Feb 2023

You can run Milkdrop 2 in a browser via this website.
Generic and fun video for stage projection?
1 project | /r/livesound | 1 Feb 2023

I use this: https://butterchurnviz.com/
Music visualisation + stable diffusion + lots of animation parameter tweaking (method in comments)
4 projects | /r/StableDiffusion | 8 Nov 2022

The input video was screen recorded from https://butterchurnviz.com/, using preset "martin - witchcraft reloaded".

eXtace

Posts with mentions or reviews of eXtace. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-07.

Pirates are Broadcasting Troll Faces on Russian Military Radio
4 projects | /r/HamRadio | 7 Mar 2022

A slightly different concept but to "hide" data in other files (images/audio) is steganography or this cool opensource tool called steghide http://steghide.sourceforge.net/ Interestingly if you do it with audio files, tools like my eXtace (extace.sourceforge.net) (a realtime FFT visualizer for sound) will show it quite clearly in the frequency domain whereas it'll be pretty much invisible in the time domain.
ProjectM – The most advanced open-source music visualizer
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Oct 2021

just to throw out a blast from the past: https://github.com/djandruczyk/eXtace

What are some alternatives?

When comparing butterchurn and eXtace you can also consider the following projects:

projectm - projectM - Cross-platform Music Visualization Library. Open-source and Milkdrop-compatible.

spectrum_painter - Converting images to IQ streams that make images appear in waterfall plots.

kaleidosync - A WebGL Spotify visualizer made with Vue, D3, and Three.js.

webamp - Winamp 2 reimplemented for the browser

drop - A LÖVE visualizer and music player

nulloy - Music player with a waveform progress bar

projectm - projectM - cross-platform music visualization. Open-source and Milkdrop-compatible

Guayadeque - Guayadeque is a music management program designed for all music enthusiasts. It is Full Featured Linux media player that can easily manage large collections and uses the Gstreamer media framework.

webaudio-examples - Code examples that accompany the MDN Web Docs pages relating to Web Audio.

breakbeet - A silly music visualizer that sizes a 3D model according to the volume of the input audio.

Olaf - Olaf: Overly Lightweight Acoustic Fingerprinting is a portable acoustic fingerprinting system.