Show HN: Music Video Dispenser

Awesome... any plans to let others contribute ambient/other effects? If you allow monetization, you could take a cut as well per sale.

Long term, as others have asked, would like to see a "timeline effects" editor. Given an audio clip, allow for the insertion/removal/overlay of effects at various time points. Make the export/import of these "timeline effects" possible via some format. Once rendered, it is no longer needed, but the timeline definition file would be nice to have for sharing during the creation phase, and for subsequent regeneration.

It looks like a start to a remake of the visualization plugin for Winamp, Milkdrop2. Apparently opensource now.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/milkdrop2/

There's many many presets/scripts made for it.

http://ghostco.de/milkdrop_pack/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdL_JSsY6qo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoshHRG1Qbk

I see someone started to port it to the web: https://github.com/gattis/milkshake (though it did not work for me in chrome.)

Edit: here's one that works, you can edit the presets:

https://butterchurnviz.com/

This has potential, IMO.

I'm mostly a music tech teacher and sometime music producer, and a very basic programmer (of the use some modules with a lot of stackoverflow reading!), and I just produced a few python scripts to make some stock videos for my tracks that have been released; there were about 80 or so, so I knocked up a script to take the CSV output from the distribution company and tie that up with the image from the release to make a video background, and then another script to set ffmpeg to make a video with that static image, then uploaded all of them to YouTube. I would have liked to make them more interesting by using some of ffmpeg's visualisation abilities in there, but I didn't want to spend too much time on it given the amount of plays they are likely to get (rounding over all of them... zero, although they've streamed and sold reasonably well given the zero promotion we've done).

Reason for doing all that is that the distribution company does something similar, but only 5 minutes of the track (most are 7 minutes plus). I'd think there would be some market in finding distribution companies (mine is Labelworx) and being able to produce interesting, automated videos?

<pedantry mode on> HN: It's not a graphic equaliser, it's a spectrum analyser in the demo video </pedantry off>

Allowing multiple backgrounds, and rotating the background at different points by reacting to the music would be a nice touch - I kept waiting for the background to change.

This looks freaking awesome! It would be super cool if you could link this up with one of the many HQ royalty free photography websites like Unsplash[0].

[0] https://unsplash.com/

I'm confused about what makes this special. Is it just an image behind an equalizer graphic?

Great idea. Could really use some more ambient effects.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if Soundcloud copied this and added it as a pro feature.

Sweet project. The equalizer is going to make it seem a little repetitive, but I'm sure you've got other equalizers planned.

A lyrics-based music video generator would be a cool thing to tackle, although that'd require timestamping.

THANK YOU! I needed something like this badly. I created my own static image videos using Adobe Premier but it took way too long. Kudos!!!

Market this towards music producers. Mainly those who compose instrumentals. Hip-Hop, Dubstep, EDM, etc...

Really nice web service. Already started pushing it on some of my friends that are making music, and they love it. More effects would be very much appreciated :)

This is really weird, I began working on a similar project recently, although I tried to implement all of the audio processing and rendering client-side using canvas and ffmpeg.js. Kept running into memory issues though. Using a MediaRecorder was going to be my next step.

One suggestion: on the export screen, you provide two options. I would add some text that clarifies what quality basic and full HD are (or how else these two options differ).

This is great, I've been making music for fun and have been looking for an easy way to make Youtube videos for them because I want to release them under Creative Commons later. My only option was doing it via a video editing software (which I find cumbersome).

Thank you, this helps me save a lot of time.

Adding a few demos would be great (esp since its not supported on firefox)

I don't know if I'd call the output of that a music "video". I was expecting something that perhaps splices together video segments from youtube in tempo with the music.

Waiting for the EXPORTING screen box for ages & decided to terminate.

2ndly yeah what so great of having an image with equalizer bar moving..

Did i miss anything ?!

Awesome! great work.

I'm a programmer, but - I've always wondered how does one go about making/generating such videos?

Only watched the demo... thought that the ARRL's Podcast had started playing! Same song!

I tried to do this with a song of mine. Every time it got to 100% the page crashed out.

I was expecting a kiosk machine, kind of disappointed, but its still a cool project.

Neat!