vue-audio-visual

Vue HTML5 audio visualization components

• Overview
• Get started
  • Install
  • Use plugin
  • Use component
  • Composable functions
• API details
  • Common props
  • Common events
  • AvLine props
  • AvBars props
  • AvCircle props
  • AvWaveform props
  • AvMedia props
• Issues
• License

UPDATE NOTES

[!WARNING] Plugin current version is compatibale only with Vue v3. For Vue2 use plugin version 2.5.1. See install chapter for details.

Overview

An audio spectrum visualizer plugin for VueJS framework. It is built with HTML5 Web Audio API and compatible with all browsers that support HTML5 audio API. It provides several Vue components that allows to draw light and nice visualization for "audio" HTML elements.

[!NOTE] Visit DEMO page for working examples.

Usage examples:

Component AvLine. Vue template name <av-line>

<av-line :line-width="2" line-color="lime" src="https://github.com/staskobzar/vue-audio-visual/raw/master/static/music.mp3"></av-line>

This will create following element:

Component AvBars. Vue template name <av-bars>

<av-bars
  caps-color="#FFF"
  :bar-color="['#f00', '#ff0', '#0f0']"
  canv-fill-color="#000"
  :caps-height="2"
  src="https://github.com/staskobzar/vue-audio-visual/raw/master/static/bach.mp3"
></av-bars>

This will create following element:

Component AvCircle. Vue template name <av-circle>

<av-circle
  :outline-width="0"
  :progress-width="5"
  :outline-meter-space="5"
  :playtime="true"
  playtime-font="18px Monaco"
  src="https://github.com/staskobzar/vue-audio-visual/raw/master/static/bach.mp3"
></av-circle>

This will create following element:

Component AvWaveform. Vue template name <av-waveform>

<av-waveform src="https://github.com/staskobzar/vue-audio-visual/raw/master/static/bar.mp3"></av-waveform>

This will create following waveform element:

Component will pre-load audio content and generate clickable waveform.

Component AvMedia. Vue component <AvMedia>

<AvMedia :media="mediaObject" type="vbar"></AvMedia>

This will create following media element:

There are more media types. See details below.

:gear: Get started

Install

Install using npm

npm install --save vue-audio-visual

for Vue 2 install version 2.5.1

npm i -S vue-audio-visual@2.5.1

Use plugin

Install plugin in main.js:

import { createApp } from "vue";
import App from "./App.vue";
import { AVPlugin } from "vue-audio-visual";

const app = createApp(App);
app.use(AVPlugin);

app.mount("#app");

Then anywhere is your app you can use it like this:

<av-bars src="https://github.com/staskobzar/vue-audio-visual/raw/master/static/bach.mp3" bar-color="#CCC"> </av-bars>

Use component

Single component can be imported and used

<script setup lang="ts">
import { AVWaveform } from 'vue-audio-visual'
</script>

<template>
  <AVWaveform src="http://foo.com/music.ogg" />
</template>

Composable functions

Plugin provides composable "use" functions for each plugin component. Actually, each component uses composable function inside. See, for example, line component.

Composable functions use audio and canvas element refs. It is handy when you need full access to audio or canvas elements. In the same time it is easy to use:

<script setup lang="ts">
import { ref } from 'vue'
import { useAVBars } from 'vue-audio-visual'

const player = ref(null)
const canvas = ref(null)
const mySource = "./symphony.mp3"

// composable function useAVBars
useAVBars(player, canvas, { src: mySource, canvHeight: 40, canvWidth: 200, barColor: 'lime' })
</script>

<template>
  <div>
    <audio ref="player" :src="https://github.com/staskobzar/vue-audio-visual/raw/master/mySource" controls />
    <canvas ref="canvas" />
  </div>
</template>

:gear: API

There are several components that comes with plugin. Here is the list of available plugins:

There are props that are common for all components and special props for each component. All props for components' names follow vue specs when using wiht composable functions. Meaning when prop's name is "foo-bar" then in composable function parameter it is expected to be "fooBar".

Common props

AVLine props

Composable function:

function useAVLine<T extends object>(
  player: Ref<HTMLAudioElement | null>,
  canvas: Ref<HTMLCanvasElement | null>,
  props: T,
);

AVBars props

Name	Type	Default	Description
canv-width	Number	300	Canvas element width. Default 300. Example: :canv-width="600"
canv-height	Number	80	Canvas element height. Default 80. Example: :canv-height="120"
bar-width	Number	5	Width of bars in pixels. Example: :bar-width="12"
bar-space	Number	1	Space between bars. Example: :bar-space="1.6"
bar-color	String, Array	#0A0AFF	Bar fill color. Can be string RGB color or canvas gradients array. Examples: bar-color="#00AAFF" :bar-color="['#FFF', 'rgb(0,255,127)', 'green']"
caps-height	Number	0	Create caps on bars with given height in pixels. When zero no caps created. Example: :caps-height="2"
caps-drop-speed	Number	0.9	Caps drop down animation speed. The higher nubmer the faster caps are going down. Example: :caps-drop-speed="0.5"
caps-color	String	#A0A0FF	Caps rectangles RGB color. Example: caps-color="lime"
brick-height	Number	0	Draw bar as bricks when height is set and not zero. Example: :brick-height="6"
brick-space	Number	1	Space between bricks. Example: :brick-space="2"
symmetric	Boolean	false	Draw bars symmetric to canvas vertical center. Example: :symmetric="true"
fft-size	Number	1024	Represents the window size in samples that is used when performing a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to get frequency domain data. Must be power of 2 between 25 and 215. Example: :fft-size="2048"

Composable function

function useAVBars<T extends object>(
  player: Ref<HTMLAudioElement | null>,
  canvas: Ref<HTMLCanvasElement | null>,
  props: T,
);

AVCircle props

Composable function

function useAVCircle<T extends object>(
  player: Ref<HTMLAudioElement | null>,
  canvas: Ref<HTMLCanvasElement | null>,
  props: T,
);

AVWaveform props

Composable function is using useFetch from @vueuse/core package. useAVWaveform last argument is options for "createFetch" function from "useFetch" module.

export function useAVWaveform<T extends object>(
  player: Ref<HTMLAudioElement | null>,
  canvas: Ref<HTMLCanvasElement | null>,
  props: T,
  fetchOpts: CreateFetchOptions = {},
);

AVMedia props

Component expects MediaStream object. You can get it directly from navigator.mediaDevices or from @vueuse/core library function useUserMedia. Live example can be found in App.vue.

<script setup lang="ts">
import { AVMedia } from 'vue-audio-visual'
import { useUserMedia } from '@vueuse/core'
...
const { stream } = useUserMedia()
...
</script>

<template>
...
<AVMedia :media="stream" type="circle" />
...
</template>

Composable function:

function useAVMedia<T extends object>(
  canvas: Ref<HTMLCanvasElement | null>,
  props: T,
);

License

MIT Copyright (c) 2018-present, Stas Kobzar