Spotify Visualizer

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How to visualize your Spotify music

Spotify removed their built-in visualizer years ago. Now every playlist, album, and podcast is just album art and a progress bar. If you remember the old Spotify visualizer (or Winamp, or iTunes!), you know what's missing.

vizz.fm brings that visual dimension back. Connect your Spotify audio and watch your music come to life with particle systems, waveforms, 3D meshes, and custom shaders, all reacting in real time. It's great for house parties, focus sessions, DJ prep, or just letting an album breathe.

How to connect Spotify to vizz.fm

In Chrome, Edge, or Brave, you can capture your computer's audio with a few clicks using screen sharing, no extra software needed. The visualizer gets a direct, full-quality feed of whatever Spotify is playing.

1. Play something on Spotify

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

2. Open vizz.fm and select System audio

   In the audio source picker, choose System audio. Your browser opens its “Choose what to share” dialog.

3. Share with audio turned on

   Pick the Spotify window (or your entire screen), turn on “Also share system audio” at the bottom of the dialog, and click Share. The visualizer starts reacting immediately. Our screen sharing guide walks through it with screenshots.

Prefer a virtual audio device, or using a different browser? Follow our system audio capture guide to route audio with an application like BlackHole, Loopback, or VoiceMeeter, then select the device as your Microphone input. It's a one-time setup that takes a few minutes and works in every browser.

Platform notes

Spotify works as both a desktop app and a web player. Both are compatible with the virtual audio device approach. The desktop app is recommended since the web player runs in the same browser as vizz.fm and can occasionally compete for audio resources.

If you're using Spotify Connect to play on a different device (like a smart speaker), the audio won't pass through your computer. You'll need to play directly from the Spotify app on the same machine running vizz.fm.

On mobile?

Virtual audio devices aren't available on phones, but the microphone works as a quick alternative. Play Spotify 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 Spotify 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.