Visualisations
While music plays, the Now Playing stage shows a moving visualisation. Luna has eight, modelled on the ones Windows Media Player shipped with.
Switch visualisation
Go to Now Playing, then use any of these:
- Click the stage to move to the next one.
- Click the small arrows at the bottom centre of the stage to go forward or back. The current name shows between them.
- Open Now Playing Options and pick one by name. The current one has a dot.
- In the menu bar, open View > Visualizations.
Luna remembers your choice.
The eight visualisations
| Name | What you see |
|---|---|
| Ambience | Flowing plasma that never repeats |
| Alchemy | Ribbons winding around each other |
| Plenty | A drifting particle flow field |
| Bars | The classic spectrum |
| Ocean Mist | Mirrored bars with a drifting swell |
| Scope | An oscilloscope trace of the waveform |
| Battery | Spikes radiating from the centre |
| Fire Storm | A burning spectrum |
Ambience, Alchemy and Plenty are the flowing kind: each frame is drawn over a faded copy of the last, which gives them their smeared, liquid look.
Good to know
The visualisations are animation, not an analysis of the sound. They move while music plays but do not follow the beat. Linux offers no simple way for an app to listen to its own output, so Luna generates the motion itself, as many players of that era did.
When a video plays, the stage shows the video instead, and the visualisation arrows are hidden.