New iTunes Visualizers in Leopard

[bennyboi]

This is front page worthy? huh. The only things I'm excited about are the new iChat features.

 

[3282872]

They should make it possible that you can use video/visualizer in the same full screen.

So while having the visualizer mode on, if iTunes has a video as next song it will just show the video.

And the ability to choose the visualizer yourself (or enable disable them)

You can. In Leopard iTunes 7.4.2 (4) you can use the visualizer in full screen and chose which visualizer you want to use (in this case, there are three to chose from).

 

[Stang68]

awesome, now i can pop in some ecstasy, blast some techno, turn the lights down, and rave to my new leopard visualizers! RAVE!!

 

[Stridder44]

awesome, now i can pop in some ecstasy, blast some techno, turn the lights down, and rave to my new leopard visualizers! RAVE!!

Last time I did this someone died.

 

[bj3949]

Solid

I am a developer for Apple and I can tell you that the latest build of 9A599 is solid as hell.

Only issue I noticed was a PhotoBooth graphic error and I'm not a perfectly happy with the way Fans and Grids work. Needs improvement by staying away from boring Finder as much as possible.

Nice job Apple.

 

[willybNL]

You can. In Leopard iTunes 7.4.2 (4) you can use the visualizer in full screen and chose which visualizer you want to use (in this case, there are three to chose from).

So that is 1 thing: choice! Nice.

But still missing the automatic switch to full-screen video then. It's just irritating you have to exit visualizer, click again on the audio+video and press fullscreen... and do that for every movie.

 

[MyMac8MyPC]

Come on Apple! At least give us a date to look forward to!

...the week of October 14th... ...(cue theme from Jeopardy, and someone asking the preverbal 'how do you know that')

 

[Orng]

Is it just me or does anyone else not use vizualisations? i can't stand them! what exactly is the point for them? You listen to music either while you're doing something on your computer or away from your computer... so why stare at a screen of junk?

M

For the most part, I agree. I've always liked the visualizers but never get to use 'em because I'm trying to type.

That being said, when I've turned from typing to looking stuff up in books or working on paper notes, or I've been required to roll over to the ol' Win2000 box to crash test a Flash animation, or I'm cleaning up my office, ahh, then I will use visualizers... when I remember to turn it on, at least.

I've also been at parties where the host has hauled his G4 down to the living room, turned on party shuffle and fired up the visualizer for ambience, that always seems to get a good response. I tried that with dinner music once (more or less a shuffle mix of jazz, soul and classical) when the in-laws were over (My wife comes from a family that can't eat without jazz, soul or classical playing in the BG). They liked the music, more or less ignored the visualizer, though my brother in law thought it was kinda cool.

So yeah, it has some applications, like hanging art on your wall. Some people care and some people don't, but at least it gives Macrumors something to write about on a sunday.

 

[Chromako]

Whee! I've been waiting for new visualizers for... too long.

 

[morespce54]

Oh!
So that's the super-secret-new features Steve was talking about...

 

[amacisbetter]

Haha

Look to October 31st...you won't be disappointed

Sounds like a good day to look forward to!

 

[agentkow]

Do these not work on a PowerPC machine like mine, did they not make it to the final shipping version of Leopard, or am I an idiot and cannot find them anywhere...

 

[MyMac8MyPC]

...should be under the view menu.

 

[agentkow]

Nevermind, it was the third option: I had removed them as a plug-in along with some other ones I had installed in Tiger that I thought were now slowing iTunes down.

It was labelled weirdly as "Quartz Composer Visualizer.bundle" so I didn't recognize it...