MP3 readahead

[Y2Js]

OK I've no idea if this is even possible but:
all visual plugins seem to react on what happens at a point in a song

what if they could react based on the trend of a song?
e.g. if a song went quiet bit, loud bit, quiet bit, loud bit
rather than the plugin just going nuts as soon as it goes loud, it could have read ahead into the MP3 by about maybe 10 or 20 seconds to see when the song was going to go into a loud bit.

If you can't get the info out of winamp v2 then maybe something that can be considered for winamp v3??

Js

[unchained]

IMHO, there's nothing to gain from predictive beat detection that you can't do in real time. To really impliment what you're talking about would more-or-less boil down to Fourier analysis, and it's just too computationally intensive, though the technology's slowly but surely getting there. Right now, a better option might be something that could analyse the entire file ahead of time, and save some sort of template, a "3D-MP3" format, if you will.

I've got a program in the works right now that does exactly that, and encodes the visualization "cues" directly into an MP3 stegono-graphically, but it's still somewhat in its infancy.

Have you looked at my newer presets on the preset forum? It's pretty amazing what you can do processing the signal in real-time, without attempting to do anything predictive.

[Y2Js]

I'm already pretty impressed by what it does!

I'll check out those presets though.
I'm trying to get my twinview thing to work at the mo. I can have it display itself on both monitors, but not select which monitor. I'll crack it soon though.

js