Advanced Visualization Studio

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Advanced Visualization Studio
Basic data

developer Zero soft
Current  version 2.82
(July 28, 2006)
operating system Windows
programming language C.
category Media player
License zlib-libpng license
German speaking Yes
Winamp.com

Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS) (also WVS, Winamp Visualization Studio ) is a plug-in for Winamp for the visualization of music, developed by Justin Frankel . A modular system enables you to easily create your own visualizations, so-called presets . The AVS plug-in can in turn be expanded with so-called AVS plug-in effects (APE), i.e. additional effects.

AVS has been available under an open source license since May 2005 .

Although Nullsoft and Frankel have been going their separate ways since January 2004, the latter released a new version in August 2010 under the name "Cockos Happy AVS". Since October 2013 there has also been a visualizer implemented in JavaScript and WebGL that plays AVS presets directly in the web browser .

At the end of November 2013, AOL announced that it would discontinue Winamp on December 20, 2013 and no longer offer it for download from this date. This would also affect all the plugins on the Winamp website, which is probably the largest source for AVS presets, but the closure was averted by the takeover of Winamp by Radionomy .

See also : visual jockey

Groups and artists

Similar to the demo scene , there are artists who publish presets organized in groups. The first association of this kind came together under the name AVSociety , which comprised the main actors of the first generation of AVS artists. With the increasing complexity through new AVS versions, new artists were added, at the same time the AVSociety broke up . The next generation united in the VISBOT group , which still exists today. Another group was Finnish-Flash , an association of young artists from Finland. The best-known AVS artists include the independent Frank Nagel ( El-Vis ) and Steven Wittens ( UnConeD ), the latter also programmed and published numerous additional effects (APE).

With the increasing popularity of audio players like iTunes or Windows Media Player , both the attention and popularity of AVS presets have decreased.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cockos Happy AVS announcement in the Winamp Forum, August 7, 2007
  2. ↑ Webvs . Retrieved January 29, 2014. Webv's project on GitHub
  3. ↑ Heise Online: Winamp media player is at the end. November 21, 2013, accessed November 21, 2013 .
  4. ^ Heise Online: Officially: AOL sells Winamp media player to Radionomy. January 14, 2014, accessed January 14, 2014 .