Hi,

So i think it was 3 days ago it stopped working suddenly for no apparent reason. No rainmeter update, no skin update, no windows update just stopped working on output, i can still get it to display when using input (microphone), but it doesn't respond to output at all. I've checked and performed the troubleshooting to no avail. Any tips/anyone experiencing similar issuses? Thanks in advance.

There's no changes to my audio device, i've tried the example audio skin, and this is my audio device:
Windows Default Output Device:

Device Name: Speakers (Bose USB Audio)
Device ID: {bb4d3add-57b2-4272-855f-ba0f52bf0550}
Device Format: 48000Hz PCM 32b 6ch
Device Status: 1

Device List:

{0392f711-a83f-461c-811b-038803293e46} NVIDIA Output (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)
{64eee524-639d-4f4b-bb3d-4af32e4f40a4} Højttalere (Steam Streaming Microphone)
{7400caa1-315b-45d7-802d-a2a075c84390} NVIDIA Output (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)
{95885542-4613-471f-94bc-c1fd7c4b3ebb} NVIDIA Output (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)
{bb4d3add-57b2-4272-855f-ba0f52bf0550} Højttalere (Bose USB Audio)
{e1de0ad2-b1c9-4aca-9723-5e730cd0a610} Hovedtelefoner (Realtek High Definition Audio)
{e7c6f3ab-46e8-40d3-a4a3-7769394be650} Højttalere (Steam Streaming Speakers)
{f994b144-88a2-42e3-be24-5014c8ce7a15} NVIDIA Output (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)

Windows 10 64-bit, usb audio device
Rainmeter 4.2.0 r3111 64-bit (jul 8 2018)
No error logs
Version 3.8.2 (2 nov 2018) - Just updated to see if it fixed my issue, which it didn't had a 2-year old version before i think.
Settings: (I tried tweaking these trying to fix the issues, so if there's something wrong in the settings it might not be the real issue, but please let me know)

As mentioned it works when i switch to Input (meaning microphone), but i don't want to see my breath, i want to see my music.

When you pause any kind of sound or music, the bars get stuck at whatever level they were and don't disappear/decay as you would expect.

FoC refuses to start up, It tosses up a "The skin does not contain any meters and will be deactivated" error when i try, and any attempts at changing settings either don't do anything or immediately reset to -0 or -1, even when i change the resource files.

I have the most recent version of Foc (Fountain of Colors, Jan 15th), and the only problem I have is when changing the working playback device from Windows. Reversing back to the original playback device, or refreshing Foc makes it work again but, is cumbersome to repetitively refresh every time manually.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Plug in a set of headphones or another audio peripheral.
2. Play some audio (E.g Spotify)
3. Switch playback devices by clicking on the speaker on the bottom right of the screen and selecting the headphones (or another device).

The audio would play on the other device but the visualizer will either freeze in frame or be blank. By selecting the original device using the same steps returns the Foc to normal.

Entire visualizer randomly flickers between opaque and invisible, regardless of "fountain effects" setting. This is paired with a requirement for an unusually high sensitivity (55 decibels) required to see any effect at all.

Here is a video of the issue

Hello, I recently got a new headset, the Logitech G633, and the equalizer does not work at all. When playing music or not playing music, all that shows up is this:

This is definitely not representing the music or sound whatsoever. It just happens as soon as I change the input to the G633 headset in the FoC settings. Do you have a fix? Thank you.

can someone help fixing this issue, this skin is half working, any ideas ?

Hello Alatsombath,

I came accross a lot of bugs with the new interface and a lot of the fonctionality didn't worked for me but it might be just me who didn't understood the new features in the new option window.

First I'm trying to do a 8 times 420 bars equalizer with evrything settings in "real time", there is juste the decay rate as "very fast" as I prefer it like this.
It work until I restart raimeter, It instant freeze at the start without display any dots indicating the presence of the bars..
It might be too much for him to handle but I got a pretty good computer and when it work it never use more than 12% of my CPU
"Old Project Unstable"

=============== PC CONFIG =============
Asus X470 Mini ITX Strix
Ryzen 1700X overclocked at 4.2 Ghz
28 GB of RAM
Gtx 970 (a bit old for my 4k screen but I still rocks) (and I think Rainmeter isn't GPU dependent)
M.2 Samsung 970 Pro 512 GB

I came accross a bug who was very interesting but didn't capture it as it tried to figure out if it was a feature but It disapeared..

My equalizer was at an angle but the lines were going straight up it was a good feature.
Is it future project ?

"Actual Desktop Stable"

As always
I love what you are doing
#PersonalBestRainmeterSkinApproval ;)

https://streamable.com/9ey4m

OS: Windows 10 Pro
Rainmeter Version: Latest (4.3 Beta Release - 3279)

Visualizer downloaded from DeviantArt

Used to be able to create as many bars as desired, there is no longer the ability to have enough bars to fill a 1440p ultrawide.

I've tried modifying the code a bit and was able to get this to work in older versions, but the new ones seem to do things a bit differently.

I am willing to help achieve this!
Thanks

Hi,

i installed version 4.0a17 and when i listen to music and change the output source the fontain stops. in the general settings it is set correctly, it just needs a reload it seems.

When i manually hit the UPDATE button on rainmeter it works again, also when i hit in the settings the output source to DEFAULT

also tested version i think it was 3.8.4, were i could remove the idle bars, is this setting somewhere hidden now?

Everytime I try to load up rainmeter with any version of FoC the skin will either not show up or will completely crash the program, resulting in me having to uninstall it. If I could get information from the debug panel I would but I straight up cannot access it when the thing makes it crash.

Hello! I just want to start by saying that this is probably the best visualizer on Rainmeter. However, when I went to try and set the minimum height, the visualizer would stop moving. As you can see here:

The visualizer is moving. But, when I set the minimum height to any number:

It just stops moving. Is there any way I can fix this? Thank you.

Every time I try to change this setting to 0 or anything else, it keeps going to 180 for some reason! This is also happening with the "invert audio spectrum" option, but it's not as important to me.

If the overlap is at 100 and I press the down arrow and it goes to 99.99, Rainmeter crashes. After restarting rainmeter, it still wont respond. The only way to make it run again, is to delete the FoC folder and reinstall it.

Btw I have a few suggestions to improve the aesthetics of the skin. Inc case youre interested, where should I send them to?

I have tried upgrading to versions of this add-on to v3.8.4 (15 Jan 2019) and v4.0a3 (March 13, 2020), but neither of them work for me.

It seems the only version that works for me is v3.6.21 (02 Nov 2018).

This could be an issue caused by RainMeter updating as well; I'm uncertain.

For some reason, even though other skins can recognize where and how much sound is coming from. This skin cannot for some reason. I have tried to get it to work, only getting it to work twice and then quickly dissappear. I have a Steelseries Arctis Pro with GameDac that runs my sound right now. Would that potentially ahve something to do with it?

Edit (03/11/20): Found out that this only happens specifically for when the GameDac Splits the audio sources between "Game" Audio and "Chat" Audio. Chat Audio FoC Recognizes, while Game Audio it does not.

Edit 2 (03/12/20): Other skins that exist outside of using AudioLevelBeta are able to detect GameDac Game and function.

Hello,
Fountain of Colors is a great visualizer skin. I liked it very much. If you allow, I would like to share this skin under the category of Rainmeter Visualizer Skins on my rainmeter skins website https://rainmeterbase.com

For some strange reason the options menu doesn't appear at all, it just closes immediately. Running Rainmeter version 4.3 beta

Hello there,
i took the time to set up the IndividualBarColors.inc with a 100 Bar color palette, it took quite a long time.
Now my problem is: why can't i seem to get it to work? Why aren't the cpolors of the bars individual? Is it even
supposed to do that or is it just for some mathematical things that the lua script needs?
Pls help :/

PS.: I did try looking it up online, but found only one guy that tried to do the same, but without success.

when i was just listening to music, i noticed an extra bar on the right that was a ghost bar but with no solid bar, and i also noticed a solid bar on the left with no ghost bar, idk how to combine em, help

When I set to "Wallpaper", and I've saw an error log like this:

Exception calling "FromFile" with "1" argument(s): "C:\Users\ (User Name) \AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallpaper"
At line:1 char:35
+ $image = [Drawing.Image]::FromFile <<<< (-join($env:APPDATA,'\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallpaper'))
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException
 
You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
At line:1 char:12
+ $image.Save <<<< ($ms, $image.RawForm (Fountain of Colors\Fountain of Colors.ini)

Also, an error for scripting file issue:

Script: ColorChanger:107: attempt to perform arithmetic on field '?' (a string value)

102 function HorizontalInterpolation()
103   for i = hLowerLimit, hUpperLimit do
104     local c, hPosNorm = 1, hPosNorm[i]
105 	for b = 1, 8, 2 do
106       for a = 1, 3 do
107 	    colorIdx[i][c][a] = (hColorIdx[b][a] * (1 - hPosNorm) + hColorIdx[b+1][a] * hPosNorm)
108 	  end
109 	  c = c + 1
110 	end
111   end
112 end

By the way, I use Windows 7, Rainmeter v4.3.0.3298 (Latest).

When trying to load the script i get the following error in the protocol:
"Script: ColorChanger.lua:107: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)"

I'm not sure if this was removed or what but I can't find the option to change the visualizer from Output to Input anymore

Tried with rainmeter 4.2 Final and 4.3 beta, both don't load the gui. Instead options looks like this:
Options Image - Credit tetraslash Nov 3, 2018

Is this a user error or compatibility issue with rainmeter version?

I'm new to this version of FoC and everything but the Wallpaper color option is working. What should I do?

Hey alatsombath
first of all, this is more a collaboraion request then an issue and i didnt know how to contact you outside of github 😄
ive created a modified version of your skin that has the ability to be circular:

Normally this feature is worth a whole new skin BUT i archieved this effect with less than 30 lines of code. So it would make no sense to write a whole new skin that supports all the features that your awesome skin already supports. So, if your interested in collaborating with me to implement this feature, is there any way i can contact you outside of github? I would prefer discord because of the image and file sharing and ease of use 😃 . So if your interested feel free to contact me on discord, my username is SnGmng#3955.
And here are some more screenshots of things that can be archieved with this feature:

I am still able to use the slider to change the value, but it does not give exact values and only moves in incriments of 2. Also, left clicking on the value allows me to edit it but when I hit enter it reverts back to the original

Hello,
I was following a tutorial on how to make your desktop cleaner,
and they used FoC for music. But when I installed it with Rainmeter, it says loaded, but it doesn't show up on my desktop at all, not even over other windows.

Please help,
GMatrixGames

I recently built a new PC and wanted to customize it using Rainmeter as I have 2 monitors. For some reason, FoC crashes Rainmeter when I load it or doesn't even appear on screen. Also, everything in the settings window changes its value to -1 if I click on it.

I find this really strange because it worked on my old laptop where I ran two instances of FoC on it at the same time, but now, on my beef boy of a desktop, it isn't working at all. Any fixes?

Fountain of Colors crashes Rainmeter without outputting any errors to the log.

OS: Windows 10 Home

Graphics Card: Gigabyte GTX 1060 3GB

Rainmeter version: 4.2 beta r3111

i think most people would like their bars to not be hidden under the taskbar, and to just materialize into existance when audio starts playing...

Hello
I found a bug with the invert button since the new graphical option UI.
if i push this button it works like it is supposed to but there is a side effect..
One of the last line of the equalizer on the bass spectrum don't move like one who isn't inverted.
Here are the screenshoots


Since 2015 i use your equalizer it is by far the best i have came across.
Hope my bad english didn't burn your eyes..

Hey guys so hopefully someone knows the answer to this. I am brand new to this program and have been following some tutorials on how to set stuff up. I ran into an issue with FoC, I have loaded it but im not seeing it pop up. I have ran older versions and same problem. I have other skins and they are working so im not sure what the deal is. Thoughts?

Hey i recently update my fountain of colors from 3.5.5 and was wondering why loudness equalization was removed / changed to Clip offset, which i cant find either.

3.5.8 (13 Nov 2016)

• Add new setting: Clip offset (ClipOffset = 0.844 dB)
• Increase precision by narrowing the range of displayed values
• (Enabled by default and replaces LoudnessEqualization)
  Increasing sensitivity doesn't give the same effect

And the options window used to look way better but now it looks like windows xp. Why is that?

I don't really know any better place to ask this since I can't dm on twitter.

I'm unsure if this has been discussed yet but on any version of FoC sadly the opactiy setting doesn't apply when using a "Single" color.

Is this intentional?