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New iTunes Visualizers in Leopard
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Do these play in full resolution in Full Screen mode? That's been bugging the crap out of me for so long... A lot of the time I just wanna set the MacBook going through my TV/stereo with a nice visualizer going, but no, it looks terrible due to the resolution in full screen...
Off-Topic: Topic Ratings
I like the ratings. Sometimes when I glance over a news item, I think, "Oh that's good/terrible." Then I see the rating as the opposite (or split) and decide to read the topic, which I otherwise wouldn't, just to see why some people are voting the opposite from me.
Of course you sometimes have to ignore a few votes for it to make sense, and generally there has to be a large enough sample for it to make sense (If there's only 3 ratings, and it's 2:1, it doesn't really mean anything).
One reason I can think of for not liking more visualizers is the idea that, "This is what they've been working on? Can't they devote resources elsewhere?"
Anyway, if you don't find ratings useful, can't you just ignore them?
I like the ratings. Sometimes when I glance over a news item, I think, "Oh that's good/terrible." Then I see the rating as the opposite (or split) and decide to read the topic, which I otherwise wouldn't, just to see why some people are voting the opposite from me.
Of course you sometimes have to ignore a few votes for it to make sense, and generally there has to be a large enough sample for it to make sense (If there's only 3 ratings, and it's 2:1, it doesn't really mean anything).
One reason I can think of for not liking more visualizers is the idea that, "This is what they've been working on? Can't they devote resources elsewhere?"
Anyway, if you don't find ratings useful, can't you just ignore them?
My predictions based off previous announcements and release dates for OS X:
Apple will announce on Thursday, October 11 that Leopard will be available on Friday, October 26.
Apple will announce on Thursday, October 11 that Leopard will be available on Friday, October 26.
Look to October 31st...you won't be disappointed
The default desktop picture will be a jack-o-lantern.
I have to say, I do not understand the point behind visualizers. When I listen to music I'm doing something away from the computer or being (somewhat) productive on the computer; not staring at some image going cross-eyed. I guess I'm getting too old.
For someone who stares at iTunes visualizers for hours for - ahem - God knows what reason, this is fantastic news. To hell with Time Machine, it's all about Jelly.
Fishes,
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Fishes,
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Ok, visualizations are pretty cool. However, that is not what I want to see in the next version of iTunes. I want to see the full screen cover flow functionality really expanded. I really don't understand why the full screen cover flow doesn't allow you to click on the album art, flip it over, and find your song. To me, that is a no-brainer. Hopefully, that will happen for iTunes. If that did happen, I don't think I would use the regular library for listening to music again. Similiarly, on the iPod, I don't use the old iPod menus. I use cover flow to browse and listen to my music...It is really the only way.
Nice... But since it doesn't appear to bring me closer to running 3rd party business apps on my iPhone, I can live without it.
So why are people voting negative on this?
Just another example of how worthless the ratings are on this site, might as well just get rid of them, they're completely meaningless.
Look, I'm a huge Mac fan. Have been since I switched long, long ago. One area I have always felt iTunes lacking is in it's included visualizer. In my opinion, nothing will EVER come close to MilkDrop for WinAmp. While it's nice for Apple to include more visualizers in iTunes, I don't see anything positive about them. The look to me to be generally boring and in no way an actual improvement. And, like I said before, NOTHING can do better than MilkDrop. This is all my opinion though and we all know what they say about opinions
I remember last year when they demoed some features of Leopard one of them is better text to voice, more natural sounding, etc. Is that still in? They haven't mentioned it since.
I haven't seen it in any seeds, I was actually wondering this the other day.
Y'know, for a really long time you've been able to add extra itunes visualizer plug ins. Some of them are even cooler than the built in iTunes visualizers!
The reason for October
So could this be the real reson why Leopard's release date was pushed back to October?? All the developers were on acid watching Jelly (which is a little too obvious of a drug reference)
;-)
So could this be the real reson why Leopard's release date was pushed back to October?? All the developers were on acid watching Jelly (which is a little too obvious of a drug reference)
;-)
So why are people voting negative on this?
Because they want Apple to work on Mac Pro's instead of Visualizers?
Because they want Apple to work on Mac Pro's instead of Visualizers?
Yeah, I guess there are plenty of idiots that think things like that - if they only would stop work on silly things like visualizers, the hardware and software would all be SO much better. 'cause there's just one team at apple that works on everything.
With Microsoft it's completely reversed, their Mac market share is so low compared to their PC market share, they don't want to put all the effort into developing Mac software. Look what happened in the case of Media Player, as soon as someone made something that did the same thing, MS dropped Media Player and officially supported Flip4Mac.
I still fail to see any reason Apple should make Mac-Only features in iTunes, they have enough Mac-Only stuff with iLife.
Secret features
I believe that there's still hope that Leopard is going to release with some features that no one's seen outside of the software labs at Apple. Some might scoff because "how could Apple just release stuff that's not been beta tested?" They just could... bug fix 'em later.
I believe that there's still hope that Leopard is going to release with some features that no one's seen outside of the software labs at Apple. Some might scoff because "how could Apple just release stuff that's not been beta tested?" They just could... bug fix 'em later.
I don't think so, maybe a new scrollbar here and a checkbox there, but thats all...
Yup. They play in full screen mode. The first one, lathe, looks like it responds primarily to the bass in the song like a subwoofer and seems to take place ina doomed like room. The last one, stix, is pretty cool, especially as it reflects off a mirrored floor like coverflow.
Side note, when I hit the F key while the visualizer is on, a very small number in the far bottom left hand corner appears, and changes rapidly between 29-31. Don't know what that is. Any thoughts?