SoundCloud Data Visualization

by Andrew Sinclair

Description

This project displays some features of comments made on the website SoundCloud.com. On SoundCloud users can listen to and comment on music.

Features

• Displays album artwork and the waveform for a specified song data set.
• Moves along the song waveform in time with the song.
• Displays the profile pictures of the four comments nearest to the current time in the song.
• Lazy texture loading allows for large numbers of profile pictures to be rendered.
• Two shaders used: one for textured objects and one for non-textured objects.
• Displays representations of comment lengths in both characters and words normalized to the largest value the dataset for each.
• Included Python script generates new datasets to render based on songs hosted on SoundCloud.

Pictures

Sources

• SoundCloud.com API Documentation
• Simple OpenGL Image Library - Used to load all textures
• Open.gl - Texture Tutorial

Download

The project requires SOIL (Simple OpenGL Image Library) and only builds on Mac OSX.
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