GROOVE MUSIC ALBUM ART WINDOWS

Other features that Rafael spotted include: The introduction of a new equalizer to Groove will allow users to customize playback to suit their preferences, and their audio hardware. Both sets are based on the Media Foundation Transform APIs, so it's likely that more visualization types will be added later. There are multiple variations for the Ribbons and Dots visualizations, with a range of animation styles and color palettes. Sometimes along the way, the dots stop and show off by combining to form a representation of the current songвЂ™s album art and other graphics. The second visualization style, shown in the image above, is Dots:Дots, or Dottopia internally, fills the screen with particles that fly around a central but moving point, all while changing colors and performing choreographed moves. And while the entire ribbon plane distorts, shifts, and floats around, the camera does its job at alternating between shots. creates paper-like ribbons, one for each frequency band, that stream in an implied wind synchronously with your music. Rafael says that there are currently two visualization types.

GROOVE MUSIC ALBUM ART WINDOWS

Instead, Groove's visualizations will be closer in style to those that featured in Windows Media Player, with animations that react to the music being played. Zune's 'Now Playing' view (above) showed album art overlaid with text animations that included biographical data about the artists, along with a few statistics, such as how many times a song or album had been played. Sadly, there's no sign that Microsoft is planning to resurrect the much-liked visualization that featured in its long-gone Zune media player: Some of Zune's 'Now Playing' animations | Captured from video via MentalMinds The new visualizations may well be the most eagerly anticipated of the new features.

Now, after tinkering under Groove's hood, Rafael Rivera from has managed to activate some of those features in the app, and shared details of what he found. In May, JT Kimbell, Senior Program Manager for Microsoft's Groove team, revealed to The TDL Show that the company was working on new visualizations, an equalizer, and other features for its music app.

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