# tsoding/musializer

Music Visualizer

Repository: https://github.com/tsoding/musializer
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/musializer
Language: C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-06-27T16:49:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 89, release rhythm 57, longevity 78
- inputs: {"age_days": 1101, "days_push": 67, "days_rel": 74, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: prerelease_only
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1463, forks 142 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:47.716796+00:00)

## What it is
Musializer is a desktop music visualizer written in C that renders real-time visualizations of audio files and can export them as high-quality videos via ffmpeg. It supports many audio formats including wav, ogg, mp3, flac, and tracker formats.

## Use cases
- visualize music in real time
- render music visualization videos
- create audio spectrum animations for uploads
- visualize chiptune and tracker module files
- make lyric-free music videos for a channel

## When to choose
- you want a lightweight native C visualizer you can hack on
- you need to render high-quality visualization videos locally
- you want to tinker with a self-contained project with a custom build system

## When to avoid
- you need a polished, production-ready tool
- you want a plugin for an existing DAW or media player
- you need Windows binaries beyond the alpha release or mobile support

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: experimental
- function: audio-processing, video-processing, graphics, gui
- domain: media, graphics
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: music-visualizer, video-rendering, c, hot-reloading, ffmpeg, audio, video, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- tsoding/musializer (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:47.716796+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:35:14.974871+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tsoding/musializer (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:47.716796+00:00, sha c90f4be6a65f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.