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This year I bought a set of Twinkly lights for the Christmas tree. Each bulb can be programmed to any color, and the app has bunches of pre-programmed effects to choose from, or you can create your own. I haven't even put any ornaments on the tree yet, and it's already so beautiful!!!
I also installed the latest version of the Foobar2000 music player on my laptop, with the projectM visualizer component, which "reimplements the esteemed Winamp Milkdrop by Geiss". I then connected the laptop via HDMI cable to the big TV, to play the visualizations on the TV. I turned on the whatchamacallit box, to play the TV sound through the external speakers.
It is awesomely beautiful.
Some of the Twinkly effects in the app have a music icon to let the Christmas tree lights flash in rhythm to music/sound picked up by the phone's microphone. But that's only working for me so far in preview mode... I'm very new to this.
Let me see if I can take a video and if Youtube will let me post it in spite of the music in the background.
...
Here we go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDImT75xwg
New "Twinkly" brand lights on Christmas tree (without yet having been "mapped" in the app), and foobar2000 music player with projectM visualizer on computer and TV.
The background music on this video is "Violet Shrine" by Dan O'Connor (DanoSongs.com) (I removed the actual music that was being played by foobar2000 due to copyright).
I also installed the latest version of the Foobar2000 music player on my laptop, with the projectM visualizer component, which "reimplements the esteemed Winamp Milkdrop by Geiss". I then connected the laptop via HDMI cable to the big TV, to play the visualizations on the TV. I turned on the whatchamacallit box, to play the TV sound through the external speakers.
It is awesomely beautiful.
Some of the Twinkly effects in the app have a music icon to let the Christmas tree lights flash in rhythm to music/sound picked up by the phone's microphone. But that's only working for me so far in preview mode... I'm very new to this.
Let me see if I can take a video and if Youtube will let me post it in spite of the music in the background.
...
Here we go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDImT75xwg
New "Twinkly" brand lights on Christmas tree (without yet having been "mapped" in the app), and foobar2000 music player with projectM visualizer on computer and TV.
The background music on this video is "Violet Shrine" by Dan O'Connor (DanoSongs.com) (I removed the actual music that was being played by foobar2000 due to copyright).