AudioLevelBeta

This is an improved beta version of the AudioLevel rainmeter plugin.

Added features

Here's a list of improved/addded features of AudioLevelBeta compared to the original AudioLevel version: (Optimizations and fixes are not listed)

Silence detection

The plugin will have almost no CPU/GPU usage if it detects silence.

Dynamic Volume Adjustment

Same music visualization result for low- and high-volume music. No need anymore to adjust the sensitivity all the time! To enable, put DynamicVolume=1

Update Rate Limiter

You can now limit the update rate (Recommended) as rainmeter can crash on the default unlimited framerate if multiple skins are loaded.

• UpdatesPerSecond=60: This will for example update the measures and meters 60 times per second. You can set this to any number under 240. (recommended)
• UpdatesPerSecond=0: This will disable the updating.
• UpdatesPerSecond=-1: Unlimited: The plugin updates as fast as possible. (default) (the highest CPU/GPU usage)
• UpdatesPerSecond=-2: This will disable the updating and the capture thread (legacy AudioLevel behavior). This is the fastest setting of all but the visualization will not look good most of the time.

Put the update bang for your measures and meters in OnUpdateAction, for example OnUpdateAction=[!UpdateMeasureGroup Audio][!UpdateMeterGroup Bars]

Wave and WaveBand Types

You can now set the AudioLevel parent measure type to Wave or WaveBand. The difference between Wave and WaveBand is that Wave outputs the raw wave without scaling or smoothing. I almost always recommend WaveBand.

Wave

Use the WaveSize option to set the WaveSize (similar to FFTSize), recommended values are: 512 to 8192, but you can go higher no problem. Use WaveIdx on the child measures to assign them a number between 0 and WaveSize. (Just like FFTIdx)

WaveBand

Use the WaveSize option to set the WaveSize (similar to FFTSize), recommended values are: 512 to 8192, but you can go higher no problem. Use the Bands option to specify on how much bands the wave should be scaled (for example 50), independent from WaveSize. Jou can now use the Smoothing option. Use BandIdx on the child measures to assign them a number from 0 to Bands.

Smoothing options

Measures of type Band or WaveBand can utilize this smoothing feature. Use the Smoothing option to specify the amount of negibour values to build the average. For example 3 or 5.

Contributers

• SnGmng
• alatsombath
• dgrace