Resonic Audio Player, the easiest way to analyse your tunes

[88h88]

I found this mere moments ago and wow is it ever good. Previously you'd have to go into Audacity or another program to find out where the bass content of your tracks lies and it'd only let you analyse 15 seconds at a time. Resonic is a stunningly well produced program that's a mere 3MB in size and is a fully functional player and analyser.

I downloaded it, installed it, pointed it at a folder of tracks, pressed play on a track and instantly I see waveforms in real time. If you click the waveform button next to the volume it'll scroll through different types, 3rd one shows the frequency content and levels. It's so quick. As the track's playing it'll whomp out the lows and by hovering your mouse cursor it'll tell you where the content sits. Killer Mike's Big Beast for example (produced by El-P) has content sitting at 27hz on the low end. Damn.

http://resonic.at/ Free, tiny, fast. No reason for you not to try it.

[LelandCrooks]

Got it. Good find.

[Doug Hart]

Sweet !!!

[ejh2854]

Sweet !!!

Absolutely- what a cool utility!

I'm j-u-s-t about finished with a T39 for my under-the-deck music system, and still had a lingering doubt whether a T30 might have been a better choice... now, my mind is at ease

[88h88]

As it's still a work in progress you can badger the developers for useful features in future releases. Is there anything that could be done better? I like how clean and simple it is personally.

[Radian]

Is there anything that could be done better?

dB FS scale on the y-axis would be the cherry on the top.

[88h88]

I've suggested it so we'll see.

[88h88]

Right the above suggestion will be on the 'pro' version, the free one will be kept minimal.

There's also been an update!

Alpha 655

Released February 20, 2013

New features
Waveform peak resolution doubled. Hit the Rescan button to see the difference if files are already cached, or use 'Menu | Advanced | Clear waveform cache'.
New favorite folders feature (bookmarks). To bookmark a folder right-click it and select Bookmark from the context menu. The folder will from now on appear under Bookmarks in the folder browser, once refreshed with CTRL+F5. Missing or offline folders (e.g. on external drives) will appear grayed.
New alternative waveform feature. See Menu | Visualization and check the option to activate a different version of the waveform. This feature might change in future versions.
Introducing a brand-new visualization type, Events, that might be of special interest to demo sceners and mod heads: It visualizes music events in module music (i.e. mod, xm, it, etc.) either by track, or by pitch (see Menu | Visualization). Play any of the supported music files, then either press F12, or use the menu, to change the visualization type to Events.
Playback progress in analyzer views (suggested: M. Lapierre)
New Stay on top option (see Menu | Interface), especially useful when files frequently need to be dragged and dropped onto Resonic from Windows Explorer, or from other applications (suggested: L. Castillo)
New Minimize to tray option (see Menu | Interface)
New shortcut: ALT+M minimizes to tray and shows icon in notification area
New shortcut: CTRL+ALT+I toggles the information bar

Improvements
Cleaner, more focused interface
Played area is not shaded for files shorter than a second, which makes it visually less annoying for looped samples and one-shots
Slightly improved waveform painting / CPU usage
Much faster folder switching in many cases, especially with folders containing certain archive files, e.g. .zip (reported: Andreasvb)
Files can now be right-clicked (context menu) without auto-playing them
Folders can now be right-clicked (context menu) without auto-expanding them
Menu button text replaced with a generic menu symbol
Flat visualization button
Taskbar playback progress bar is now also shown when Resonic is not active, in addition to being shown when it is minimized or invisible
Various theme color and graphics adjustments

Corrections
Fixed certain visualization elements looking badly interpolated
Fixed taskbar progress bar sometimes showing wrong values when playback is paused
Fixed menu options not following playback mode (reported: Andreasvb)
Fixed slow application startup in a certain case
Fixed error message not being shown for unsupported files
Fixed hover line painting on top of play time in waveform view
Fixed several smaller stability issues
Fixed Clear waveform cache, now also displays size in megabytes
Hopefully fixed some window activation issues that occured when using only a single instance of Resonic

Remarks
Playback mode Shuffle renamed to Random, which better describes what Resonic is doing in this mode at the moment: randomize playback, not shuffle. Expect proper track shuffling in a future release.

[biggerrigger]

Thanks for the update info. From the looks of it I will be building a pair of T60's soon just so I can feel the low end in a handful of songs that I have in my collection.

[88h88]

I'm mere hours off finishing my first T60. This weekend should be when it gets tested...

[biggerrigger]

Cant wait to see the results of your T60 build. I did a lot more sampling last night and found that I have quite a lot of sub 30hz music in my collection. So I broke the bad news to the war department that there will be 4 new T60's born soon
She did not understand why I NEEDED 4 new subs so I played a favorite track of hers and showed her on the screen the content that was there but not playing through the T39's. Her response was "wow that's a lot" and got the green light on the new build.
Long story short is this is a great program that will get you new subs if it is properly deployed

[Tom Smit]