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I am just curious why anyone is interested in visualizers? What are they used for? Do people sit in a room listening to music with a visualizer on their PC. I'm not trying to stir anything up but I honestly have never used them so maybe I'm missing something. Thanks.

I've never used the visualizers either, but that's because they never seemed to actually visualize the music. They always seem to just produce random pictures that never seem to jive with the music. This looks like it actually does.

I'd put it on if I had people over. Why not? Kinda fun to have on the screen while the music's going. I don't think people would sit there and stare at it, but it adds a certain something to the atmosphere during a party, etc.

To each his own 'an that.
 
I'm still not impressed - it is a good visualiser for a sequence, but it gets boring quickly.

I've said this a lot in all the iTunes Visualiser related threads that, nothing even comes close to the quality and trippyness (inhale a balloon of Nitrious Oxide!) of WinAmp's MilkDrop visualiser. It has so many variations, forms that literally take about an hour before it repeats itself in some other variation format.
 
I've never used the visualizers either, but that's because they never seemed to actually visualize the music. They always seem to just produce random pictures that never seem to jive with the music. This looks like it actually does.

I'd put it on if I had people over. Why not? Kinda fun to have on the screen while the music's going. I don't think people would sit there and stare at it, but it adds a certain something to the atmosphere during a party, etc.

To each his own 'an that.


I agree, it's cool to have on while having a party or just some friends over. It's just another thing going and working with atmosphere.
 
I don't get it - what's the big deal with one new visualizer? Not that it will change way you listen to music or anything else, it is just ... visualizing .. something ... i never use them anyway because you have to go to menus and whatever else, maybe they could bring back on/off button somewhere on iTunes interface
 
I don't get it - what's the big deal with one new visualizer? Not that it will change way you listen to music or anything else, it is just ... visualizing .. something ... i never use them anyway because you have to go to menus and whatever else, maybe they could bring back on/off button somewhere on iTunes interface
Cmd + T :p
 
I'm so glad they are doing this.

We need this FAR more than we need iTunes Server.

My family thanks you, Apple.:rolleyes:

You can already do this.

Just make an alias of the iTunes folder which stores your music, send the alias to another Mac, and replace the iTunes folder in your home -> Music directory, or where ever it is, with the alias. Make sure you have File Sharing turned on for the folder or drive with all the music and iTunes Library file. If you need to get around any permissions problems just stick the iTunes folder at the root directory of your drive, or better yet, throw it on it's own drive. Now, when iTunes starts up it'll mount the network drive or folder and you're good to go. Your own iTunes "Server."
 
I am just curious why anyone is interested in visualizers? What are they used for? Do people sit in a room listening to music with a visualizer on their PC. I'm not trying to stir anything up but I honestly have never used them so maybe I'm missing something. Thanks.

Ambiance during parties? I have hooked my MBP into my 56" tv during parties just to have somethng "cool" going on in the background. :)
 
Ambiance during parties? I have hooked my MBP into my 56" tv during parties just to have somethng "cool" going on in the background. :)

No kidding, or for eating drugs. Steve Jobs did drop acid once or twice in his lifetime.
 
Wow

Can't remember the last time MR featured an article with zero negatives (as of this posting).
Wacky.
Stat boys, can you confirm?

Maybe the trolls are wallowing in Seinfeldian bliss.
Maybe not.

Anyway, that's a nice looking plug. Wish I had known about it to grab it when it was available. I welcome it in iTunes 8... amongst other things.
 
Nice. Magnetosphere is the best iTunes visualizer by far. I noticed it going unavailable a few months ago.

My article on the visualizer.

See it running across three large screens on my Mac Pro.




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I hope so--it's my favorite visualizer and I hope he got some money for it. It responds instantly to the sound, unlike most visualizers.
 
Visualizers are fine, but they shouldn't be taking one picosecond of time that Apple could be using to solve actual problems, that people other than stoned hippies actually care about, with the iTunes ecosystem.

It's a joke that, after almost a decade, iTunes still has no way to gracefully and simply manage music located on multiple drives. :mad: My whole collection won't come even close to fitting on my MBP drive, but I do want substantial parts of it with me on the road.

As features on features have been added, iTunes takes up hundreds of megabytes of RAM and has become very slow to launch. With my collection of about 17,000 items, it also gets unresponsive every now and then.

The App Store, especially the updater, is not stable.

There should be a reasonable way of managing classical tracks, for which the "artist -> album -> song" paradigm almost never makes sense.

iPod syncing should be a systemwide service. It makes no sense whatsoever to sync contacts or calendars in iTunes. For that matter, video should also be in a separate app.

All of this matters 25,000 times more than an idiotic visualizer. Come on, Apple.
 
If anyone else was wondering, the Magnetosphere (Hi-res QT version) song is Miss You by Trentemøller.

Can be found on Amazon's MP3 site or iTunes.
 
Bleh.

I'm not sure how many of you have used Winamp in the past, and of that group - how many actually knew how to set up all the free plugins that were available for it.

But this thing is a total yawn, if my pos Dell 1.4ghz laptop can render circles around this via Milkdrop (Winamp) - WTF is up with OSX? I expected orders of magnitude more than what we have.
:(
 
I'm not sure how many of you have used Winamp in the past, and of that group - how many actually knew how to set up all the free plugins that were available for it.

But this thing is a total yawn, if my pos Dell 1.4ghz laptop can render circles around this via Milkdrop (Winamp) - WTF is up with OSX? I expected orders of magnitude more than what we have.
:(
Imagine a 400 MHz K6-2 with a GeForce 2 running circles around iTunes with WinAmp visualizers. :rolleyes:
 
I'm not sure how many of you have used Winamp in the past, and of that group - how many actually knew how to set up all the free plugins that were available for it.

But this thing is a total yawn, if my pos Dell 1.4ghz laptop can render circles around this via Milkdrop (Winamp) - WTF is up with OSX? I expected orders of magnitude more than what we have.
:(

I'd like you to show me a WinAmp visualizer that's better than Magnetosphere.



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