What Music Player has Good Visualizations
 

Which music player has the best visualisations for Slackware? Its not for me, but to keep my cat entertained while I am out.

your cat watches the screen?

yes. if I am watching a movie, the cat watches it sometimes.

Try the ProjectM visualization plugin in my VLC package, it will totally psyche out your cat.

Eric

Any music player with projectM plugin. Clementine works for me. But there should be plugins for adacious and xmms as well.
http://projectm.sourceforge.net/shots.html

edit: Oh, I forgot the vlc package of the gentleman above me :-).

michijo,

you can try alternatively the Electricsheep screensaver, then you will have a cat on psychedelics ;)

thanks for that. it works good!

I'm running XFCE on Slack64 14 and it appeared that Electricsheep was "phoning home" so I disabled it months ago.

Is it true that this screensaver communicates with its server during operation? If so, then I'm mentioning this as a public service announcement for those that may not know. If not, then I stand corrected.

From it's website:

That's the beauty of it. :)

Memory Problems?
 

... as the old memory cells become more active ....

It may be that I didn't like the extra processes being created by Electricsheep and not any external communications issues.

Sorry about my fuzzy memory. Perhaps someone knowledgeable can respond regarding the characteristics of this screensaver.

EDIT: Thanks solarfields for the response above.

The animations constantly evolve. Hence the communication between computers.

Every "sheep" of the Electric Sheep screensaver is a mpg video. These videos are downloaded from the master server (the "phoning home").
When it runs, the screensaver computes individual frames (the algorithm is that of a fractal flame) of a new "sheep" and uploads finished frames to the master server. Frames are joined there into a new mpg movie and made available for download.

Eric

I have never had that sheep screensaver work right....ever.

PLEASE do tests to see which visualization your cat likes best, videotape the tests, and put them on Youtube.

I thought dogs (and cats) saw only in black and white. Surely that would affect the visualisation required. And what type of music does your cat prefer ?