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projectM Music Visualizer – WinAMP Nostalgia

on 6/22/12 7:36 PM

Tested version: 3.31
Latest version: 3.31
Requires Android: from 2.3.3

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Summary

Does anyone remember the golden days of WinAMP, when it was the ultimate Windows music player, bar none? If so, you may recall spending a considerable amount of time creating visuals and searching for plugins in order to personalise your music experience to the max.

If you were once a fan and/or are feeling nostalgic for the WinAMP experience, check out projectM Music Visualizer, an app that provides visuals as live wallpapers. More details below.

Features & Use

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Test device: Samsung Galaxy S3
Android version: 4.0.4
Root: Yes
Mods: No

projectM Music Visualizer is a live wallpaper but unlike most others that I’ve tried out thus far. Especially because I had been on the prowl for a fun live wallpaper that wouldn’t cause my device to stop and sputter every few minutes.

First thing to report: there’s no need to make any changes to the settings, meaning you can basically designate it as your background image and Bob’s your uncle. In order to do so, simply open the projectM Music Visualizer app.

Hit the main menu in order to check out the settings. For example, you may make changes to the multi-touch mode, such as adding more interactive elements to visuals, or changing visuals.

A preset with 284 visuals is pre-installed, and you can download an additional 54 which are graphically more complex and thus will burn more battery life. The normal preset actually doesn’t kill the battery, and you will hardly even notice a difference if you’re running the app on a high end device.

There are also settings options for the visuals themselves, including changing the LWP in case you do experience any lagging on your device.
You may designate which audio input you wish to be used for visuals. There’s also a mic option, but I don’t recommend it as otherwise issues with voice search via Google / homescreen.

If that isn’t enough, just hit the big symbol at the top right for even more options (make changes to the visualizer playlist or settling for one). You can also rate or search for visuals.

Bottom line:

projectM Music Visualizer harbours a lot of LWP that won’t suck your battery dry or cause your device to lag. There are a lot of settings options for those who like to personalise, but no need to really do anything if you’re on the market for cool visuals but don’t want to fuss with configurations.
 

 

Screen & Controls

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Rating projectM Music Visualizer in this category is tricky. On the one hand, the graphics are great, but the configuration is not exactly intuitive. For now, it’s a three star rating but the app definitely has potential.

 

Speed & Stability

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I can’t complain in this department: projectM Music Visualizer is by no means an energy vampire and the visual and homescreen are fluid, even on older generation devices.

 

Price/Performance Ratio

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projectM Music Visualizer costs EUR 2.42 which is a bit steep but fair for what you’re getting. projectM Music Visualizer is a great app if you like that kind of design.

 

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Market Comments

A Google User, Jun 14, 2013
Visual Feast Really the ONLY visualizer.
A Google User, Jun 11, 2013
Nice Have a lot of fun zone'in out on the app and playing with it.
A Google User, Jun 6, 2013
Google job, only 1 problem Doesnt run smooth of my galaxy s4, when I unlock my phone it laggs a bit, my friends galaxy 3 runs it fine, I would think with a phone 2 times faster you would get better performance
A Google User, Jun 5, 2013
Awesome! Hi res presets look awesome on my s4.. this phone is a beast!! the s3 struggled to maintain 60 fps with a large texture size but the s4 runs it beautifully :)
A Google User, Jun 3, 2013
Love I am about to quit, my last blunt shall be 2 1/2 g of dope with project m tuned into Carlos Santana. Goodbye wonderful bud, unfortunately people are stupid and the medical field looks down on you.... Go rangers. This is by far the best best visualizer AND wallpaper I know of for android. Better than most lounge visualizers even. Thx for giving me something to look at all these years project m, maybe we shall reunite sometime down the road. Until then, puff puff pass and please be safe(:
A Google User, Jun 2, 2013
Winamp+Sonique= projectM Nuff said.
A Google User, Jun 1, 2013
Out of Date but still amazing
A Google User, Jun 1, 2013
Great visualization app Well worth the small price tag
A Google User, May 28, 2013
Worth it. I am a notorious penny pincher, but this was worth it. The constantly changing background for the phone and enticingly accurate representation of songs is excellent.
A Google User, May 24, 2013
Sick Sick app, I replaced electric sheep with this and it's so much better. The only thing is that the settings keep going back to default which is very annoying. I keep turning them way back up because this S4 can handle pretty high settings with ease.
A Google User, May 22, 2013
Seems to be abandoned, no updates in a year Looks great but has some dumb looking presets that should be pulled out. Also with the milkdrop 2 source code released we should be able to get way better effects.
A Google User, May 21, 2013
Wow Stars
A Google User, May 21, 2013
THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY! I LOVE the milk drop on winamp! Now this plus the SQ of my HTC one = mind blowing
A Google User, May 20, 2013
Love it. This is awesome. Time for an update though.
A Google User, May 17, 2013
Awesome!! I have milkdrop on my computer and for an android app this is very smooth and authentic to the original program that it is based off of.
A Google User, May 16, 2013
Beautiful Would like to see an option to show the name of the preset upon change. Other than that I am happy to see good ol' milkdrop made it to Android! Thanks devs!
A Google User, May 14, 2013
This is the best App I have purchased Great App works very well
A Google User, May 9, 2013
Effin love it!! By far best app to get if you love amazing visualizations from mic or audio. Hooks into current players' basic controls. Just amazing! Would have bought it even at $5!
A Google User, May 5, 2013
Most satisfying app. Period. I've looked for wallpapers all over and had many from live to 3d but non that kept my interest that long. But this I like very much.. since I love my music and this just emphasize more to it.. and there's many designs so that's a plus. Can't say much but excellent app.. great job.
A Google User, May 5, 2013
Needs some work I love visualizers but the UI in this need some work. The buttons should disappear when the screen isn't pressed in a while and it should be generally more modern. Also DNLA support would be great if it could be done.
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