Besides a good music sound system, the indispensable equipment at parties and in dancing venues includes at least one screen where people can visualize animations that enhance their music experience.
Aeon is an add-on that integrates with your default music player, and produces interesting animations to accompany the music you are playing. These animations are colorful and can be customized according to your preferences. For example, you can set the size and duration of the track title text, the speed at which the graphics change, as well as prevent the screen to sleep, among other things. Please note that some of these features are disabled in the trial version.
You can choose among several different categories with exotic names and looks, such as Astral Bridge, Alien Telephone, and more. You can also assign your favorite animations to shortcut buttons to have them readily available.
The main disadvantage I found is that many music players have their own built-in animations. Also, many of these players are free or are bundled with different operating systems, such as Windows Media Player. Nevertheless, if you are a DJ or like to play music at parties just for fun, you may like the program.
v3.0 [Aug 1, 2012]
- Added 16 all-new Scene and enhancements to many others!
- New 'Themes' and 'Categories' concept, allowing you to select and group which Scenes and ColorMaps you like most.
- Multi-display systems now run multiple Aeon instances properly.
- Many GUI enhancements and all-new UI icons.
- Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center overhaul, fixing various issues for both x86 and x64.
- Aeon now detects Windows Media Player overlays and offsets its UI elements accordingly.
- Higher quality GUI text rendering under Windows.
- Internal overhaul of Scene management and drawing handling, offering greater customization for content creation.
- Fixed install/registry issues associated with J. River Media Center.
- Added 64-bit support for the Screen Saver and Standalone on Windows.
- No longer using CGDisplayCapture() on OS X to capture the full screen display device, allowing context menu support and improved interoperability with other apps.
- Fixes and enhancements to the Screen Saver, including Theme selection.
- Stability enhancements to the V-Bar.
- Improved support for RealPlayer 15.
- Major improvements to Winamp idle mode detection and frame rate control.
- Added workaround for OS 10.5 pkg install deficiency, fixing installation of multiple SoundSpectrum products.
- Fixed cases where the Aeon uninstaller wasn't removing all the files it should have.
