Comments on: What do you think about the new visualizer in iTunes 8?

By: Jamil Soni Neto

Jamil Soni Neto — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:46:41 +0000

Apple people were masters when they wrote the new visualizer. The reason that the ball doesn’t die away when the song is paused, is that the new one is more subtle and delicate than the old one. It now has it’s own life, you see. If you cannot comprehend this, you didn’t yet catch the real magic of this single-piece visualiser.

By: ruindpzzle

ruindpzzle — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:29:38 +0000

I would LOVE to have visualization on the iphone/touch. Although, I wish it was a little more like the 360’s visualization, I can totally veg out to that one.

By: Diem

Diem — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:50:02 +0000

I have had magentosphere for a while, so it’s not new to me, but it is pretty. That said I almost never use it, instead I use g-force. In fact, I even pay for the subscription it’s so good.

I have yet to see the same thing twice.

By: MB

MB — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:08:21 +0000

Jobs did this to bring back his LSD days in the 60’s and 70’s when he looked at an apple and it turned into a computer.

By: Shawn K

Shawn K — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:08:04 +0000

The new visualizer is stunning, but I have to agree with Ron, it isn’t synced up with the music as well as it should be. I also miss some of the configurability that the classic visualizer offered (http://www.thattalldude.com/main/2008/09/quick-thoughts.html).

By: Peter Ha

Peter Ha — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:59:46 +0000

I noticed that too, which is a bummer but it sort-of-kind-of hits certain beats.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:31:09 +0000

Looks great but doesn’t really follow the music at all. You can pause the song and it keeps doing its own thing.

The earlier version at least kept up visually with the music.
When you paused it essentially died down.

This new one just keeps going along song playing or not.

By: dave

dave — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:45:35 +0000

it’s great! the best part is that, unlike most other visualizations, this one uses almost NO cpu at all. On my MacBook Pro (2.4GHz C2D, 4GB Ram), CPU usage doesn’t go up at all from just normal itunes window with music playing.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:24:40 +0000

Yeah, it’s cool, I like it. But it’s still got nothing on Electric Sheep.

By: gi joe

gi joe — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:28:38 +0000

yeah, i really like it

By: dwalk51

dwalk51 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:30:27 +0000

I freakin love it. I had one of the beta’s of magnetosphere before, and I really must say that the new one looks incredibly better. Way more polished and smooth. Maybe my favorite part of iTunes 8.

By: Rogbog4299

Rogbog4299 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:34:23 +0000

They say it is based on off the ‘processing’ open source programming language! Wow! That taking it to a new direction!

By: Geek

Geek — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:32:50 +0000

Nice addition to the already a better application….

By: mclovin

mclovin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:05:50 +0000

oops forgot to finish my sentence.
* This stuff is based off the ‘processing’ open source programming language.

By: mclovin

mclovin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:04:45 +0000

I love it!
Check out the rest of the work of Robert Hodgin. This stuff is based off the ‘processing’

http://www.flight404.com/blog/
http://processing.org/