How to write a web-based music visualizer?

Question

I\'m trying to find the best approach to build a music visualizer to run in a browser over the web. Unity is an option, but I\'ll need to build a custom audio import/analysi

Answer 1

By WebGL being "not ready", I'm assuming that you're referring to the penetration (it's only supported in WebKit and Firefox at the moment).

Other than that, equalisers are definitely possible using HTML5 audio and WebGL. A guy called David Humphrey has blogged about making different music visualisers using WebGL and was able to create some really impressive ones. Here's some videos of the visualisations (click to watch):