SoundCloud Visualizer

Why visualize your SoundCloud music?

SoundCloud is where you find the stuff that isn't on other platforms — unreleased tracks, multi-hour DJ sets, remixes, bootlegs, bedroom productions. It's the platform where artists experiment, and that experimental energy deserves more than SoundCloud's default waveform.

Visualizing a 2-hour DJ set with vizz.fm is a different kind of listening experience. You can see the transitions between tracks, feel the buildups, and watch the energy shift across the mix. For shorter tracks, it's a way to discover how music looks — genre by genre, artist by artist.

How to connect SoundCloud to vizz.fm

Browsers don't have access to what other apps are playing — each app's audio stays isolated. The fix is a virtual audio device: a small piece of software that routes your system audio into the browser. It's a one-time setup that takes a few minutes.

1. Play something on SoundCloud

   Open SoundCloud and start playing anything. The audio just needs to be running.

2. Set up a virtual audio device

   This is the one-time setup step. Follow our system audio capture guide for step-by-step instructions for macOS (BlackHole or Loopback) and Windows (VoiceMeeter or VB-Audio Virtual Cable).

3. Open vizz.fm and select Microphone

   In the audio source picker, choose Microphone. Your browser will ask which device to use — pick your virtual audio device. The visualizer will immediately start reacting to your SoundCloud audio.

Platform notes

SoundCloud runs in the browser, so you'll have it open alongside vizz.fm. Route your system audio through a virtual audio device and both tabs work simultaneously — SoundCloud plays the music, vizz.fm visualizes it.

If you're using the SoundCloud desktop app, the same system audio approach works. The virtual audio device captures all audio output regardless of which app is producing it.

On mobile?

Virtual audio devices aren't available on phones, but the microphone works as a quick alternative. Play SoundCloud on a nearby speaker, open vizz.fm, and select Microphone. It won't be as clean as routing audio directly, but in a quiet room it works better than you'd expect.

What can you do with it?

Once SoundCloud is connected, you have full control over how your music looks. vizz.fm includes dozens of WebGL visualizers — particle systems, waveforms, shaders, 3D meshes — all reacting to your audio in real time. Every visualizer has its own set of controls for colors, speed, intensity, and geometry.

You can also layer on effects like kaleidoscope, bloom, and CRT scanlines. Save your favorite combinations as presets and switch between them mid-song. If you want to go deeper, you can tie any slider to a specific frequency range — bass drives particle size, treble drives rotation, whatever combination feels right.