BeatDrop Music Visualizer

Music visualizers may be a bit of a thing of the past nowadays, but they can still make for a great way to liven up your listening sessions. Though they mainly came in the form of plug-ins back in the day, developers have come up with standalone applications that can work with just about any music player. Simply play your tunes, and the visualizer will respond accordingly.

BeatDrop Music Visualizer is a standalone implementation of a former Winamp plug-in. As it stands now, the program should cooperate with any audio source: so long as there's sound, the visualizer is more than ready to join the fun.

No matter whether the audio is streamed through a service, played through YouTube, or enjoyed offline, the program should be able to accompany you on your listening sessions with minimal effort from your part. There isn't anything else to getting started other than simply launching the program, then playing your music of choice.

With the program recognizing audio from any source, it should be noted that notification sounds, for instance, will also trigger it. As an example, the visualizer updates even when it detects the volume change beep. That shouldn't be a problem for most users, however.

The app features lots of generative art presets, and it will slowly cycle through each of them while it is on. You can always skip a certain preset and jump to the next, and there's also the option to load a specific preset, trigger a random mash-up, as well as randomize shaders.

If you're a little more adventurous, you can consider giving preset editing a try. Pressing the M hotkey will open the Preset Editing menu, which will enable you to edit all sorts of configurations of the current preset. The program does well to explain the options, so you'll know which parameters control the zoom curvature, the inward/outward motions, and so on.

If your music listening sessions have been lacking in some way or another, then consider giving BeatDrop Music Visualizer a chance to make things a little more exciting.