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New iTunes Visualizers in Leopard

milo said:
So why are people voting negative on this? :rolleyes:

Just another example of how worthless the ratings are on this site, might as well just get rid of them, they're completely meaningless.
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I agree. Or at least they should be limited to only appearing on rumors, not factual posts like this. Maybe they could even be limited to a certain post count before you can vote up or down?
 
Doesn't iTunes only have one visualizer right now? How do we switch to different ones in the prefs, and will it be possible for people to more easily write their own visualizer plugins, much like screensavers?

Also, where the heck are those Leopard screensavers that have been removed in recent builds?
 
HLdan said:
I hope it stays Mac exclusive. Maybe I'm the only one but I just would like for Apple to put some Mac only features in iTunes. Microsoft always makes dumbed down versions of their Windows software for the Mac.
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That's a HORRIBLE idea, especially when you consider that most of iTunes market share is on PCs (overall, obviously 100% of Macs come with iTunes). Be satisfied that iTunes is a really nice app on the Mac, it's pretty bad on PC.
 
badcrumble said:
Also, where the heck are those Leopard screensavers that have been removed in recent builds?
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Wouldn't be surprised if Apple had pulled them to keep too many photos and videos of them from floating around. Or even the Quartz Composer files from being released. We'll probably see them back on the gold master when our discs arrive sometime next month. (Gotta keep the optimism.)
 
I really like Jelly. And I use visualisers on my PC in WMP and WinAmp, but why has this feature taken so long to reach Apple?

Just bells and whistles. I think its cool. But not particularly exciting. And nothing to write home about.
 
Benjamindaines said:
That's a HORRIBLE idea, especially when you consider that most of iTunes market share is on PCs (overall, obviously 100% of Macs come with iTunes). Be satisfied that iTunes is a really nice app on the Mac, it's pretty bad on PC.
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I don't want to make this a Mac vs. PC thing but iTunes was Mac only from the beginning and it IS an Apple software program so it should have Mac exclusive features. That's how you increase Mac sales. What's Microsoft's excuse for the laughable crap they make on the Mac? They always make sure it's better on Windows.
 
HLdan said:
I don't want to make this a Mac vs. PC thing but iTunes was Mac only from the beginning and it IS an Apple software program so it should have Mac exclusive features. That's how you increase Mac sales. What's Microsoft's excuse for the laughable crap they make on the Mac? They always make sure it's better on Windows.
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Its a different game: Microsoft aren't really going after Mac users, trying to make them switch, but rather to deter Windows users from switching to the Mac...
 
Wow, this took a while to get out there. Makes sense tho... who wants to build up an iTunes library every few days when a new build is out.
 
Lepton said:
There's this cool app called Quartz Composer in the current developer tools. You can make amazing animations that play in QuickTime Player and as screen savers in the current OS. They can even sense inputs such as audio and react to them. You can find websites full of these compositions now. Wouldn't it be cool if such compositions could hook into iTunes somehow, someday? Just speculatin'
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Don't be shocked to see this happening in Leopard. In fact I'd suspect that the very visualizers we are talking about right now are build in QC making use of new QC modules brought on by the Leopard-only CoreAnimation that can combo with CoreVideo and CoreAudio to create even more reactive and fluid visualizers. I have built several visualizers in QC for use during live shows and never understood why Apple would use GForce for visualizing rather than their own design.
 
Benjamindaines said:
Perhaps, but they're not going to release a new Leopard-only version of iTunes. I'm saying I wonder if this is just a newer version of iTunes that the betas have that will later be released to Tiger as well or are these new visualizers going to only work with CoreAnimation (something only Leopard will have).
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Perhaps. But if the Leopard interface is as scalable and flexible as we all hope (I am not and ADC member and thus haven't played with it yet) than I'm assuming the iTunes would have to be Leopard specific.
 
I currently have 3 or 4 visualizers (free versions) that I use so I feel it's not a waste. I would love to see something like my old 'Groove Thing' which I still play with. I bet that program is over 10 years old :p It let you interact with certain shapes and sounds to create an 80's-like psycho/peter maxish landscape. Great fun for a few minutes but very very limited by todays standards. It was done by Big Top.
 
MrCrowbar said:
Wow, this took a while to get out there. Makes sense tho...
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Again, iTunes has had visualizer functionality for quite some time already - this is nothing truly new.

MrCrowbar said:
who wants to build up an iTunes library every few days when a new build is out.
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I 'm not sure I understand what you mean. :confused: Just because Apple releases a new version of iTunes does not mean you need to rebuild your library from scratch each time. If it did, I would be mighty ticked off being that I've been using the thing since iTunes 3 or so! :p ;) :D
 
HLdan said:
I hope it stays Mac exclusive. Maybe I'm the only one but I just would like for Apple to put some Mac only features in iTunes. Microsoft always makes dumbed down versions of their Windows software for the Mac.
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Perhaps, but the iTunes platform is a great means of introducing the Apple way of doing things to Windows users. Through iTunes, iPhone and Touch, and the iPod so many people are encountering Apple's style on a daily basis that is sure to make for some inroads towards a larger user base.
 
milo said:
So why are people voting negative on this? :rolleyes:

Just another example of how worthless the ratings are on this site, might as well just get rid of them, they're completely meaningless.
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I don't know why people are voting negative.

But I do know that I enjoy that we have a rating/feedback system. It is not something concrete that you could use as statistics or evidence for something, but its still a way to have some sort of community interaction. Plus, you can tell more about users reactions to stories before heading on into the forum discussion.

So why are people voting negative on the rating system?
 
hotdamn said:
You mean you never had a bath with the mac set up next to you running some chill album (I recommend Planet of Ice by Minus The Bear) with the visualizer on?

Yeah me neither, men don't take baths!
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Wow a Minus the Bear fan, off topic I know but Ice Monster has to be my favorite track from the new album..although Highly Refined Pirates is still my favorite album.

Anyway, visualizations, personally...never used them, but it's nice to see some new things for Leopard.
 
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