Hi i have the following graphic 
Which i want to animate to the music. I would like them to animate like traditional volume bars but have each one animate at separate levels. I have tried using wiggle expression on the positison but it didn't give the desired effect. Does anyone know how to achieve this?
I would build one of the "stacks" as a comp. On the first frame of the comp, I'd have the first layer in the stack, and on each progressive frame I'd add the next layer. Then in my main comp, I would put the music track, and use something like Sound Keys from Trapcode or generate keyframes from the audio using a technique like this: https://www.surfacedstudio.com/blog/vfx-vlog/after-effects-audio-to-keyframes/2
Once you have the audio keyframes, then you could use an expression to display a specific frame of your comp based on how loud the sound is on that frame.
once you've got that working, then I would think about applying this to more than one stack, and thinking about how to apply different behaviours to different stacks, either based on different EQ settings or maybe on a time delay, so the audio appears to ripple across the stack.
I guess, you want volume bars as in equalizers? Each bar in equalizer is a part of spectrum. You must calculate this this data.
I don't know After Effects good enough, so I don't know way to calculate part spectral part of sound. Maybe some plugins? If I can had such task, I can write some tiny app which will analyze sound and print data.
Plugin or external application must write data as keyframes in positions/scales of bars. You can copy-paste key frames and generate your own in text format.
When you have keyframes, just copy it to bar layout (or make this object as parent of bar-layer). Like you can do with tracking markers.
As workaround: you can draw traditional spectrum on picture, then place some motion trackers on it and track bars positions. Then you can transfer data to your custom-made bars. This is not perfect and some time consume, but it will works.
