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Addictive iTunes 8 Built-In Visualizer

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I've been too careless to overlook this new addictive iTunes 8 visualizer. I don't know what it's called, but I know how addictive it is for me.

Here is the video of iTunes 8 visualizer that's depicted from Beowulf soundtrack: Hero Comes Home.

Lucky for Windows users, I think iTunes 8 can be installed on Windows. So what you're waiting for, quickly Download iTunes 8 and Install it.

There are several keystrokes you will want to know related to iTunes 8 Visualizer:

  1. Commant-T: Toggle Visualization Mode
  2. Command-F: Full Screen Mode
  3. While inside visualizer mode:
    1. ?: Toggle Help Screen
    2. M: Change Visualizer Mode
    3. I: Display Track Info
    4. C: Cycle Through Available Visualizer Mode (ON/OFF)
    5. F: Freeze Visualizer
    6. N: Show/Hide Nebula Gas
    7. L: Lock Down the Camera Movement
  4. Escape: Exit Full Screen Mode

Categories: Applications, Audio, Video
Tags: iTunes, Visualizer

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7 Comments

K

and also some one say P is palette mode.. but never know what is it

MrQuocHung

it changes the color of the "ball" and its "tails" :)

Wendy

I really love the Freeze Visualizer effect, it makes the visualizer remains only the rotating camera and the sparkling balls. Kind of a Matrix effect, though not really similar..

JCS

I would LOVE to be able to apply a PHOTO to the black balls for a very cool slideshow and music effect!!!!

Do you know if this is possible?

Is there a function to insert a graphic object/photo inside the black balls?

PLEASE E-MAIL ME ASAP IF YOU OR ANYONE ELSE HAS INFO REGARDING THIS ASPECT, SINCE IT WOULD OPEN A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES!!!

~TIA!!!

JCS

I would LOVE to be able to apply a PHOTO to the black balls for a very cool slideshow and music effect!!!!

Do you know if this is possible?

Is there a function to insert a graphic object/photo inside the black balls?

PLEASE E-MAIL ME ASAP IF YOU OR ANYONE ELSE HAS INFO REGARDING THIS ASPECT, SINCE IT WOULD OPEN A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES!!!

~TIA!!!

Burton

This is almost certainly done with Processing, www.processing.org . There are some very similar projects done by Flight404 so that's what I'm going off of. His stuff is looks eerily close and I'd be surprised if he didn't make this vizualizer.

John Harrison

Burton,

Flight404 did in fact develop Magnetosphere and Apple bought it and made it the iTunes visualizer.  He's done a lot of work in Processing but the iTunes stuff is C++.

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