Adding visualizations to music?

**fender_dude07** · 06-13-11, 11:40 AM

so i put a new touchscreen n my truck and i was wondering if there is a decent program i could use to add visualizations to some of my music so it would work in my truck? i tried using windows movie maker but it seems to take away from the sound quality.

**dex71** · 06-14-11, 06:25 AM

Originally Posted by fender_dude07

so i put a new touchscreen n my truck and i was wondering if there is a decent program i could use to add visualizations to some of my music so it would work in my truck? i tried using windows movie maker but it seems to take away from the sound quality.

I think it's in the options in itunes.

**Phyrelight** · 06-14-11, 10:40 AM

can you give some more details about the touchscreen? what OS is it running? Model, brand? Link to a spec sheet on it. Without knowing what device you are using I can't even begin to look up options for you. Is it linux? windows os of some kind? Android?

**Kanati** · 06-14-11, 11:21 AM

winamp's an obvious choice...

**Guyver** · 06-14-11, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by Kanati8869

winamp's an obvious choice...

Milkdrop is what Winamp uses:
MilkDrop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MilkDrop | Download MilkDrop software for free at SourceForge.net

**fender_dude07** · 06-17-11, 12:49 PM

let me rephrase... sorry for the confusion. the touch screen is a radio receiver with a monitor that comes out. cd, dvd, usb, aux... that type of thing... its not a computer with an OS.
what im wanting to do is take my music, find some visualizations to download and somehow put them together and convert it to mp4 so it will play music + visualization.

basically, taking a mp3 adding a video (visualization) and converting it to mp4 without loss in sound quality

**Phyrelight** · 06-17-11, 01:42 PM

gotcha, I was confused lol

**WileECyte** · 06-17-11, 02:03 PM

Any way you slice it you'll have a loss in sound quality. MP3 is a lossy compression algorithm. MP4 is a lossy compression algorithm. If you take an MP3, decode to WAV, the compressed information is not magically restored. If you then re-encode with the visualization into MP4, you're going to lose more fidelity.