About Music VU Visualizer Widgets
Music VU gives you beautiful and dynamic level, wave, and spectrum displays for your music, right on your home screen. Works with any music player on your phone or tablet (with Android-imposed limitations on some devices,...
Music VU gives you beautiful and dynamic level, wave, and spectrum displays for your music, right on your home screen. Works with any music player on your phone or tablet (with Android-imposed limitations on some devices, see below). You can place a variety of meter and visualizer widgets anywhere on your home screen. Change colors, mix them up, resize/enlarge, or use more than one side-by-side for greater impact. Turn on microphone audio in settings to visualize your voice or music playing in the room.
All segmented meters feature classic digital styling and a high-resolution first meter segment. In addition, specialty spectrum analyzer and waveform displays give you unique ways to visualize your music. Premium spectrum and waveform displays are free for a 7 day trial period (level meters are always free).
To find the visualizer widgets long-press an empty part of your home screen, choose Widgets and look for “Music VU”. On some devices open your apps list “Widgets” section to find widgets. To make widgets big: long-press, release, then resize in both directions.
Note: This is an advanced widget app which uses special techniques to update quickly. Due to limitations in the way Android widgets work you should have a fairly fast phone or tablet for good performance. You may still notice irregular or slow updates. Avoid using more than 5 visualizer widgets at the same time unless your device can handle it. To minimize CPU and battery usage Music VU is not active unless your screen is on and music is playing or microphone is enabled and picking up sounds.
Note: There are problems with some newer phones which break visualizers, including Music VU. A different music player may work, try Phonograph or YouTube Music, or connect a Bluetooth speaker/headset. If needed you can enable the microphone in settings. If you have any problems, for example your combination of Android device and music player doesn't work, please email support at
[email protected]. We'll try to help resolve your problem.
Microphone Permission: All Android visualizers need microphone permission to work (see https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/audiofx/Visualizer). Our app does not store or transmit any audio.
For more information including descriptions of each meter/visualizer and app preferences see the Music VU help page: http://georgielabs.net/MusicVUHelp.html
User Feedback
Please rate the app and submit comments on Google Play to let us know what you think of Music VU. If you have a question or bug report send email to
[email protected] (include your phone model, music player, and Android version).
Music VU Integration Info for Developers
Music VU shows accurate stereo levels when used with supported music players like the SoundWire audio streaming app. If you’re an Android music app developer and would like to have your app send stereo meter data to Music VU please email
[email protected] for implementation details and example code.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Music VU Visualizer Widgets since it was posted on our website on 2014-06-13 06:24:29.
The latest version is and it was updated on 2024-04-22 12:36:14. See below the changes in each version.
Music VU Visualizer Widgets version
Updated At: 2021-11-01
Changes: Updates for Android 12.
Made tape deck level meter able to resize smaller.
Music VU Visualizer Widgets version
Updated At: 2021-06-04
Changes: -Fixed problem of meters reading too high on some Android 11+ devices. New more flexible 'level scaling' setting replaces 'Enable volume scaling' checkbox. If meters read too high/low or meter behaviour changes after an OS or app update then try adjusting the new 'level scaling' setting.
-Logic cleanups and minor bug fixes.
**Note: After updating remove and re-add all widgets if needed.
Music VU Visualizer Widgets version
Updated At: 2021-04-11
Changes: 3.1.1
-Fixes to handle Google's new strict permissions on Android 11 & 12. You may occasionally need to touch a widget to activate permissions.
-Increased microphone on time limit from 2 to 3 hours.
**Note: After updating remove and re-add all widgets if needed.
Music VU Visualizer Widgets version
Updated At: 2020-06-16
Changes: 3.1
-Updates to work properly on Android 11.
-Improved permissions handling.
-Bug fixes.
**Note: After updating remove and re-add all widgets if needed.
Music VU Visualizer Widgets version
Updated At: 2018-11-03
Changes: 3.0.2
-New microphone audio visualization capability for Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) and later, enable it in settings (touch a widget to open settings).
-Fixed D8 dexer error to work properly on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) and earlier.
**Note: After updating remove and re-add widgets if needed
3.0
-Updates to work properly on Android 9.0 (Pie).
-Improved SoundWire integration
Due to Android restrictions widgets may appear slightly smaller than version 2.x, however you can resize them as needed.
Music VU Visualizer Widgets version
Updated At: 2016-11-30
Changes: 2.1
-Made widgets able to resize smaller than default size (if larger than 1x1, note may need to remove & re-add existing widgets to resize).
-Added more options for widget touch (click) action: Open settings, toggle meters on/off, do nothing. See settings.
2.0
-Two great new meters! Classic tape-deck VU meter (thanks to Lars M.) and linear waveform chart showing peak and average levels.
**Note: After updating remove and re-add widgets if needed
Music VU Visualizer Widgets version
Updated At: 2016-05-16
Changes: 2.0,-Two great new meters! Classic tape-deck VU meter (thanks to Lars M.) and linear waveform chart showing peak and average levels.,-New simulated stereo option, uses real data to simulate stereo when only mono visualizer data available.,-Improved meter/visualizer responsiveness and smoothness, esp. when several meters are in use.,-Efficiency improvements.,**Note: After updating remove and re-add widgets if needed
Music VU Visualizer Widgets version 1.3
Updated At: 2013-06-26
Changes: Several fixes and updates
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