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Is Magnetosphere Now an iTunes 8 Visualizer?
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It's all a bit Atari ST.
My Amiga beats it hands down.
As for iTunes...give me 'Watch folders'!
Hey now, I still have my Atari ST and TT030
Anybody given Eyephedrine a look? That's a pretty good visualiser for iTunes on the Mac. Its got about 75 different visuals:
http://eyephedrine.en.softonic.com/mac/images
"Eyephedrine is an OpenGL 3D visualization plug in for iTunes which renders your preferred music with 75+ different visualizations where real 3D entities react to spectrum and waveform values using advanced OpenGL techniques like multiple layers blending, realtime cube mapping, reflections, motion blur and light bloom. Eyephedrine can also handle Cover Arts and any picture folder you want, not only to show these pictures in Track Info Area but also, with the exclusive texture replacement (optional but recommended!), to create infinite combinations of colors."
http://eyephedrine.en.softonic.com/mac/images
"Eyephedrine is an OpenGL 3D visualization plug in for iTunes which renders your preferred music with 75+ different visualizations where real 3D entities react to spectrum and waveform values using advanced OpenGL techniques like multiple layers blending, realtime cube mapping, reflections, motion blur and light bloom. Eyephedrine can also handle Cover Arts and any picture folder you want, not only to show these pictures in Track Info Area but also, with the exclusive texture replacement (optional but recommended!), to create infinite combinations of colors."
That looks a really good visualiser! Pity it is payware, and the download link is broken too. But if it was free, I'd definitely check it out.
Since the link is broken from the actual developers website, would be a nice surprise if this too was part of iTunes 8.
How I use visualizers...
So many people are asking, "Who uses these anyway!?" So I thought I would pipe in and answer that questions.
I DO! Why and how? I have parties at my house and have a large living room (can sit 20-30 people), in my living room I have a projector set-up on my vaulted ceiling. This allows me to have an 10' 16:9 screen on the wall where the bar is and is viewable by most of the living room and seating. So I use the visualizers while my itunes is playing the music of the night to my guest and makes for a GREAT conversation piece, is entertaining and beats having TV/Movie on! I also dim the lights have have the projector on the higher lumens output, earlier in the evening, so it also provides nice mode lighting and later in the evening I'll change the lumens and color schemes.
So I REALLY hope that iTunes 8 has one VERY important feature for visualizers... HD output, 1080p! This would make for even better experience.
Oh and Yes, having some of those "trippy" visualizers on while F*****g does make for a interesting experience.
So many people are asking, "Who uses these anyway!?" So I thought I would pipe in and answer that questions.
I DO! Why and how? I have parties at my house and have a large living room (can sit 20-30 people), in my living room I have a projector set-up on my vaulted ceiling. This allows me to have an 10' 16:9 screen on the wall where the bar is and is viewable by most of the living room and seating. So I use the visualizers while my itunes is playing the music of the night to my guest and makes for a GREAT conversation piece, is entertaining and beats having TV/Movie on! I also dim the lights have have the projector on the higher lumens output, earlier in the evening, so it also provides nice mode lighting and later in the evening I'll change the lumens and color schemes.
So I REALLY hope that iTunes 8 has one VERY important feature for visualizers... HD output, 1080p! This would make for even better experience.
Oh and Yes, having some of those "trippy" visualizers on while F*****g does make for a interesting experience.
this will be cool if it comes true. remember when coverflow was adopted into iTunes? small developer creates a cool visual app as a hobby and Apple adapts it into their own; course it wound up being used in the Finder too.
it would also be good for iTunes to integrate it natively, from what i can tell the plugin is running at 640x480 on my 23" ACD.
it would also be good for iTunes to integrate it natively, from what i can tell the plugin is running at 640x480 on my 23" ACD.
All of my guest love it but so does...
Yes it is, and all of my new guest end up talking about it for the next week or more. But whom really likes it is my Cat, Max! He gets on the shelves that boarder the screen and tries to catch things on the screen... evenings that end early, he looks directly at me and then the screen and then back at me with the look of, "Hey! Put that back on... I was enjoying this! " His expressions are really amazing!
I have taught him to play catch, fetch, hide-n-get and the stare game. His the best! And for those whom would like to know the breed, his Tonkinese.
That sounds amazing!
Yes it is, and all of my new guest end up talking about it for the next week or more.
But whom really likes it is my Cat, Max! He gets on the shelves that boarder the screen and tries to catch things on the screen... evenings that end early, he looks directly at me and then the screen and then back at me with the look of, "Hey! Put that back on... I was enjoying this! " His expressions are really amazing! I have taught him to play catch, fetch, hide-n-get and the stare game. His the best! And for those whom would like to know the breed, his Tonkinese.
Would Be an Awesome New Intro Video!
I'm not sure if anyone else has already posted this (too lazy to read all posts), but that looks like it would make an awesome first boot / intro video to a future version of OS X to me.
I'm not sure if anyone else has already posted this (too lazy to read all posts
), but that looks like it would make an awesome first boot / intro video to a future version of OS X to me.hopefully apple took that and then added the apple finshed product-look to it, all nice and purdy and smooth, and it will be perfect! but ill have to see, i dont think this will be as cool as current ITMV
List of visualizers...
Hi All,
Here is a list of visualizers, not all are updated and some are simply gone, either way, enjoy!
http://itunes.pluginsworld.com/index.php?directory=apple&software=itunes&category=28
Hi All,
Here is a list of visualizers, not all are updated and some are simply gone, either way, enjoy!
http://itunes.pluginsworld.com/index.php?directory=apple&software=itunes&category=28
It's called "Suzuki" by Tosca, from the Album "Suzuki", I can also recommend the album J.A.C. by the same artist.
The advice of someone who's clearly never done it
It all sounds fine in theory, but I tried this, and while iTunes doesn't notice the alias, it locks the library upon opening... so basically, if you run iTunes on one machine at a time, it works, but two at once will deny the second instance. Not much of a server, then
Regardless of that... why don't you just use the Shared Library feature? Have your library on one computer, and all the others access that. They can't add any music or change any ratings/tags, but they can listen to whatever they want from it.
Do you know how these things work? You set it up as an external monitor to either clone the image, or have a dual setup. Then you set the projector to the main screen (drag the menu bar on the display options screen) and bam. iTunes no longer needs a seperate HD output.
this is so sweet! I've been using this since yesterday now, and it's great. No big deal on cpu and fans on my mbp either. It would be sweet for apple to integrate it but it's not a big deal so you can just download it now. If you want a link to it pm me.