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Hearing music alone isn't enough; Hearing music and seeing the amazing visualizer are most satisfying. Not only we can throw our stress away but we can also kick off our boredom.
Apart from latest iTunes 8 Visualizer, there are still many others interesting iTunes visualizer that can be plugged in easily to enhance your iTunes. To run your iTunes visualizer, you can use keystrokes Command-T and keystrokes Command-F to toggle full screen mode.
Let's see some funtastic iTunes visualizers.
Fountain Music
iTunes Visualizer that visualizes a fountain of water with various color schemes and shapes to be selected. You can toggle the Help Menu by pressing key H.
To install Fountain Music, find Fountain Music.bundle inside its installation package and drop it into Home → Library → iTunes → iTunes Plug-ins.
Cubism
iTunes visualizer that shows the sound level with colored cubes: Bass on the left and Treble on the right. The simplicity of the display is appealing to eyes.
To install Cubism, you need to drop the Cubism icon into Home → Library → Compositions.
Circles
Simple iTunes visualizer that visualize your songs with several simple yet colorful circles.
To install Circles, you need to drop the Circles Quartz Composition icon into Home → Library → Compositions.
DiscoBrick
Collection of cool visualizers and effects for your iTunes. You can use N to change from one to another mode.
WhiteCap
Sleek and customizable music visualizer that gives you dynamic backgrounds and colors. Shown on the preview is one of the settings I tried to make; Possibly not the best out of the box.
To install WhiteCap, find WhiteCap for iTunes.bundle inside its installation package and drop it into Home → Library → iTunes → iTunes Plug-ins.
Magnetosphere
It's a really wonderful iTunes Visualizer. This visualizer is even comparable to the latest visualizer provided by iTunes 8.
To install Magnetosphere, find Magnetosphere.bundle inside its installation package and drop it into Home → Library → iTunes → iTunes Plug-ins.
Note: Magnetosphere had been bought over by Apple and the enhanced version of Magnetosphere is what you can see now on the latest iTunes 8 Visualizer. However, some people are still keeping the original version of Magnetosphere.
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30 Comments
Melebius
Isn’t Magnetosphere previous version of iTunes 8 visualizer? I’ve read that Magnetosphere was turned into new official iTunes visualizer.
Guillom
Sure, iTunes 8 visualizer was built from Magnetosphere. Apple bought it, and made it look even better and smoother. By the way, I think Cubism is too… cubic ! It doesn't look good enough. And the others are like…unfocused ! I'm keeping Itunes' default visualizer. ;) Thanks for sharing anyway !
Capripot
Yes, for me, the old Magnetospher visualizer is very much fun and pretty than the new iTunes 8 visualizer. I hate the very big black spheres appears sometimes on the new. But tastes and colors ....
David Chu
Is there good visualizer for displaying lyrics? The one I found is cover page, I think. It displays lyrics with 3 different visualizer settings. The only thing is that it does not have any settings for the lyrics text or scroll if too long.
John Harrison
If you're looking for a visualizer that is very reactive to your music check out Manifesto. I'm a bit biased, as I wrote it, but I think it is hypnotic.
flik
how do you use these visualizers?
Andre
I checked out Manifesto... Its beta 0.25 and its comparable if not better than the one listed above.
dutchsoul
Anyone know if any of these visualizers are available for Windows XP? or am I invading mac world, ahaha.
Carlos Ramirez\
Does anyone know how to install these on a windows computer? If these aren't for windows, does anyone where I could find similar ones that would work on windows? Please.
manbearpig
i could tell you where there available for windows, but then again, im not gay
AeroCyn
i was wondering if i could get these for a real mans OS like.... oh lets say WINDOWS
DOnald Gripper
WHITECAP IS AWESOME! subism is prety cool too discobrick is aweful, too blurry all in all, nice visualizers how do i uninstall discobrick??
Oliver
Is anybody else having problems with the Fountain Music Visualizer to Full Screen?
Casey
What is that supposed to mean?
Joan
Are there any visualizers for iTunes that utilize nature picts like the desktop designs?
Peabody
Aerocyn! A real man's OS? Like perhaps MICROSLOTH? Isn't windows for the uneducated masses who have no creative bone in their bodies? Or perhaps merely number crunchers? Like all our Wall Street criminals? Hey, to each his own I guess!
cole pokemon
LOL
M shadows
C'mon guys, who cares if one has microsoft and the other doesn't, microsoft is the de facto standard so it is more popular and more sucessful but the others are better for more experienced people, the user interface for microsoft is well knows and easily navigated so both sides have arguments to say there better than each other. But to be honest you shouldn't care about arguing, you should be happy with what you have.
windowdresser
Try THE REV http://relentlessenergy.com/films/view/the-relentless-visualiser Think it's only for Vista and Leopard but it's beautiful
ausmactec
Read the read-me files that come in the disk images.
kimi
I have no idea how to actually put the visualizer into itunes. i know it says itunes/itunes plug ins folder or whatever but i don't have them. and itunes help said to create them.. but i have no idea how to do that either. please help.
Phil E. Drifter
I came here lookin' for a particular one (although I think cubism probably far outdoes it) but I had one on my other machine which was just equilizers for both left and right channels, stacked, so the left channel was stacked on the left half of the window with treble at the top and the right on the right. I'll give cubism a try but i'm a PBG4 so I don't want to kill my processor with grafx I'd just like to see the eq while i game in another window.
Phil E. Drifter
I've NEVER heard of a 'compositions' folder, and mounting the cubism.dmg crashed my computer (thanks) and i've loaded the module into both 'Compositions' in Library AND in the iTunes Plug-In folder in ~/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-Ins and it doesn't work.
Marianne
Hi. There is a brand new visualizer for Mac: Morphyre! It is free to download and quite different from other Mac Visualizers with thousands of completely different scenes. We've just released it so we would love to know what people make of it and to hear any suggestions for improvements. Visit www.morphyre.com to download it and comment on our forum.
Marianne
Hi - Morphyre works on Windows as well as Mac, on iTunes & Windows Media Player - you can download it free and it has thousands of scenes with 3D shapes and beat recognition capability.
kevkern
Is there visualizer that can pull images from your library and add effects?
Tony
Okay so I just recently formatted my entire system... I had iTunes installed (about 2 years ago) prior to formatting, however I had NEVER updated it when Apple asked me to. I never did so for the simple fact that I liked it just how it was. So yesterday I downloaded iTunes 9 only to find that they had changed their visualizer... No surprise, but I would like to know how I could maybe get the visualizer I had before back. It's hard to describe the appearance of it but it was a constantly changing visualizer with at least 200 different effects that were just mixed and matched together randomly and it was pretty good at synchronizing with the music. I'm not sure what edition of iTunes it was but I think it was 8. I am a Windows Vista user, if anyone can help please contact me. Tony Black mrblackattack90@yahoo.com
Tony
Ahahaha! AND nevermind :P It was very simple. Please don't reply to my last post.
The Apple Vine
Honestly hadn't even thought about adding new visualizers to iTunes until I saw this post. Thanks for the tip!
Yugo
Hey, the Circles link is broken. Use http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27643/circles instead.
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