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Is Magnetosphere Now an iTunes 8 Visualizer?

Anything made by Ryan Geiss.

To be technical: XP SP2 1.4GHZ "Centrino" Chipset, Nvidia Go FX5200 (64MB) and 768MB ram.

My point is - seriously - the visualizers for OSX are years behind, IMO. I've yet to see anything for OSX that compares to what I had when I switched ~3-4 years ago.

Get a feeling I'm gonna experiencing some love over this one...

This is just a tiny, tiny fraction of what it does... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9ZCZTobuMw
 
blakespot said:
I'd like you to show me a WinAmp visualizer that's better than Magnetosphere.



blakespot
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Milkdrop anything.

Big-TDI-Guy said:
Anything made by Ryan Geiss.

To be technical: XP SP2 1.4GHZ "Centrino" Chipset, Nvidia Go FX5200 (64MB) and 768MB ram.

My point is - seriously - the visualizers for OSX are years behind, IMO. I've yet to see anything for OSX that compares to what I had when I switched ~3-4 years ago.

Get a feeling I'm gonna experiencing some love over this one...

This is just a tiny, tiny fraction of what it does... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9ZCZTobuMw
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I got better visualization performance 8 years ago on Windows 98 then I do today on my MacBook in iTunes. :(
 
There better be a update for AppleTV on September 9th for this and hopefully a apple remote app update to go on my iPhone so I can select my rented HD movies to watch and be able to use the remote application to rent HD movies.
 
Magnetosphere Website:

'Thanks for looking for Magnetosphere, our first iTunes visualizer product. We’ve had a ton of interest in it, and we’ve got some exciting plans, but it’s gonna take us a couple months to make it all happen. In the meantime we’ve temporarily taken down the Magnetosphere installers. But don’t fret! Keep an eye out here for more info, or contact us to stay in touch with the Barbarian Group about further software endeavors."
 
How about fixing the POS iPhone 3G before spending your time making worthless screen noise for your jukebox.

I think iTunes will survive without these features. But the iPhone 3G has got to be the most embarrassing steaming heap Apple has ever released...

How about a fix!! :mad:
 
e-coli said:
How about fixing the POS iPhone 3G before spending your time making worthless screen noise for your jukebox.

I think iTunes will survive without these features. But the iPhone 3G has got to be the most embarrassing steaming heap Apple has ever released...

How about a fix!! :mad:
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Mine works great, even MM is great now for me. :p
 
e-coli said:
How about fixing the POS iPhone 3G before spending your time making worthless screen noise for your jukebox.

I think iTunes will survive without these features. But the iPhone 3G has got to be the most embarrassing steaming heap Apple has ever released...

How about a fix!! :mad:
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Um, how about those are still selling for $800+ on eBay. How about that? How a freakin' bout that...
 
Big-TDI-Guy said:
Anything made by Ryan Geiss.

To be technical: XP SP2 1.4GHZ "Centrino" Chipset, Nvidia Go FX5200 (64MB) and 768MB ram.

My point is - seriously - the visualizers for OSX are years behind, IMO. I've yet to see anything for OSX that compares to what I had when I switched ~3-4 years ago.

Get a feeling I'm gonna experiencing some love over this one...

This is just a tiny, tiny fraction of what it does... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9ZCZTobuMw
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Magnetosphere seems much superior to this, IMHO.



blakespot
 
blakespot said:
I'd like you to show me a WinAmp visualizer that's better than Magnetosphere.
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Right, I URGE you to download WinAmp and try the MilkDrop visualiser for yourself. Run it on BootCamp so you can get full graphics acceleration.

http://www.winamp.com/

Go get it. Make sure you use the MilkDrop visualiser. Magnosphere is just one thing repeated. MilkDrop has so many random variations I could watch it for hours and hours and never see the same thing twice.
 
Big-TDI-Guy said:
Anything made by Ryan Geiss.

...

Get a feeling I'm gonna experiencing some love over this one...

This is just a tiny, tiny fraction of what it does... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9ZCZTobuMw
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Yes, we've spent many nights with fancy cigarettes and funny looking vases looking at Geiss's stuff, but it never really synced up to the music. None of them ever have seemed to sync up to the music. Magnetowhater does, somewhat, even in it's early days. Geiss's use of videofeedback makes superb visualizers, but none of them are quite as nice looking as this one.

e-coli said:
How about fixing the POS iPhone 3G before spending your time making worthless screen noise for your jukebox.

I think iTunes will survive without these features. But the iPhone 3G has got to be the most embarrassing steaming heap Apple has ever released...
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..aren't you overreacting somewhat? What exactly is wrong with your iPhone that you have to call it a steaming heap? I guess because it dropped a call for you once, or some of the third party apps crash on launch? Jeez, man, take it back and go away. If you're unsatisfied, we don't care.

Anyways, you were probably thinking of MobileMe.
 
What are visualizers good for?

Greetings! I'm the author of the original post, and thought I'd comment.

uva25 said:
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.
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That's a fair question - they are mostly useless. However, I do a lot of event, worship, and VJ events as a video & event producer - they're perfect for that. What I'm trying to figure out right now is how to pipe live audio (from an instrument or person) into the visualizer like this one (perhaps with Quartz Composer), and then have lyrics appear over that in an app like ProPresenter (a first class app). That's what really started me thinking about the possibilities for live events.

VJs have been doing this kind of stuff for ages; it's only now that it's becoming more mainstream. So, while it's not a huge deal for everyone, this is one of the first that I've seen that's truly beautiful.
 
davidangel said:
Um, how about those are still selling for $800+ on eBay. How about that? How a freakin' bout that...
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Well that's absurd, IMO. And I wasn't disappointed with mine at first, until it started hard crashing all the time, failing to dial calls, and taking 10-15 minutes to sync (not music, just data). Who has 10-15 minutes to just wait around for a phone to sync?

And the 3G connection is dodgy at best (and I live in the middle of NYC). I took mine to the Apple store the other day, where it got ONE bar, and then switched to "No Service" then to Edge...IN THE APPLE STORE, and they told me everything I just described was "normal." And they recommended "shutting off 3G until you need to use the data connection." WTH?!
 
Pretty Cool

This will be pretty sweet! I like it! I agree that they should put this on Apple TV even though the album artwork is awesome too. I would definitely rather watch this for a minute and thirty seconds as oppose to that extremely stupid and pointless Microsoft commercial!!
 
Milkdrop != Magnetosphere

Kilamite said:
Right, I URGE you to download WinAmp and try the MilkDrop visualiser for yourself. Go get it. Make sure you use the MilkDrop visualiser. Magnosphere is just one thing repeated.
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That isn't accurate. There's several different types of visualization available (cycle by hitting 'm'), and there's other settings like number of particles and intensity.

I've captured the output of several setting combos and used that in other compositions and animations. It looks really fresh - this visualizer really breaks new ground.

Again, great if you need it for events or parties.
 
Eidorian said:
How many hours have you spent with the iTunes visualizer? I would but I really hate now my fans hit 6200 RPM every time as it attempts to hit 30 fps.
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I just got a new MacBook and even watching a freaking Flash video for about a minute on msnbc my fan goes full blast. I am beginning to think I have a bad MacBook!
 
Good times

I remember in college being really high and/or drunk in this girl's dorm sitting there watching the iTunes visualizer for what felt like hours, totally tripped out. :D
 
riversky said:
I just got a new MacBook and even watching a freaking Flash video for about a minute on msnbc my fan goes full blast. I am beginning to think I have a bad MacBook!
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That's because flash sucks. It's way too processor intensive.
 
dal20402 said:
...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...
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You don't know much about the history of Apple, do you?
 
OK... OK... that's cool.


I just hope that the focus of iTunes 8 isn't visualizers.
 
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