🎧 NowPlaying.WebSocket

Real-time Windows Now Playing data + Audio Visualizer JSON over WebSocket

NowPlaying.WebSocket is a lightweight Windows application that:

• Streams Now Playing media data
• Streams real-time Audio Visualizer data
• Exposes everything via local WebSocket (JSON)
• Works as a standalone desktop media controller

App Main ScreenShots

Settings UI

Flyout UI

🔥 Why this project exists

Most tools can show Now Playing.

Very few provide:

• Real-time Audio Visualizer data
• Clean JSON over WebSocket
• Easy integration for browser apps, overlays, or OBS

This app focuses on all of them together.

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⚡ Core Features

🎵 Real-Time Audio Visualizer (WebSocket)

The main feature.

The app streams live audio analysis data:

• Volume level
• Bass / Mid / Treble
• Frequency spectrum array

Perfect for:

• Audio visualizers
• Reactive UI
• OBS browser sources
• Web-based overlays
• Stream tools

📡 Endpoint: ws://localhost:27871

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🎧 Now Playing Data (Live JSON)

Real-time media information:

• Title
• Artist
• Album
• Playback state
• Timeline (position / duration)
• Album art URL

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🔊 Example: Audio Visualizer

{
  "Type": "audioVisualizer",
  "Volume": 35,
  "Bass": 59,
  "Mid": 43,
  "Treble": 40,
  "Spectrum": [50,36,42,40,41,38,37,42,38,41],
  "UpdatedAt": "21:18:20"
}

🎵 Example: Now Playing

{
  "Type": "nowPlaying",
  "Title": "Come Together - Remastered 2009",
  "Artist": "The Beatles",
  "Album": "Abbey Road (Remastered)",
  "Playback": "Playing",
  "IsPlaying": true,
  "PositionSec": 74,
  "DurationSec": 259,
  "PositionText": "1:14",
  "DurationText": "4:19",
  "AlbumArtUrl": "http://localhost:27871/album-art"
}

🖥️ Desktop App Features

Not just a WebSocket server a full Windows app.

🎮 Media Controls

• Play / Pause
• Next / Previous
• Mute / Unmute
• Volume control (slider + mouse wheel)

🧩 Smart UI & Tray

• Tray icon with quick access
• Click to open flyout panel
• Lightweight, always accessible

✨ Quality of Life

• Click Title / Artist / Album → copy to clipboard
• Always on top (optional)
• Run at startup
• Start minimized to tray
• Dark theme
• Hide tray icon

🔊 Audio Capture & Devices

• Automatic loopback capture
• Manual device selection:
  • Speakers
  • Headphones
  • Microphones (WASAPI)

🎚️ Visualizer Interval

Control update speed:

• Lower = smoother animation
• Higher = lower CPU usage

Useful for fine-tuning real-time visualizers.

🖼️ Album Art: http://localhost:27871/album-art

Use directly in:

• <img>
• Canvas apps
• Overlays

🌐 Built for Developers

Designed for:

• Frontend developers
• OBS users
• Stream tool creators
• Dashboard builders

🌐 Examples (Ready-to-Use HTML)

This repository includes ready-to-use HTML examples that connect to the WebSocket server and visualize real-time data.

👉 Just open them in your browser while the app is running.

🎵 Basic Now Playing

• Displays title, artist, album
• Shows playback state
• Timeline & progress bar
• Live JSON stream

📄 File: examples/basic-nowplaying.html

⚡ Advanced Audio Visualizer

• Adaptive bars
• Beat punch effect
• Radial visualizer
• Smoothing & gain control

📄 File: examples/advanced-plus-audio-visualizer.html

💡 Use Cases

• Audio Visualizer (web)
• OBS browser source
• Desktop widgets
• Music dashboards
• Stream overlays
• Web-based music UI

📦 Download

Latest version: https://github.com/mrgogo7/NowPlaying.WebSocket/releases/download/v6.4.30/NowPlaying.WebSocket_v6.4.30.0.exe

🔐 Privacy

• No personal data collected
• No media content sent externally
• Everything runs locally Optional: Anonymous usage analytics (can be disabled)

☕ Support

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⚠️ Notes

This repository contains compiled application only Source code is not included

📄 License

Free for personal use. Commercial use requires permission.