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10.5: New iTunes visualizer tricks Apps
iTunes in Leopard came with three new visualizers: Lathe, Jelly, and Stix. iTunes won't let you do anything with them though, as it grays out the Options menu! So here are some of the key commands I've found to do different things with them:

All visualizers:
  • F: display small FPS counter in bottom corner
  • I: display album info
Lathe: Doesn't seem to have anything special.

Jelly:
  • M: Brings up the name of the current "Jelly."
  • Up/Down arrows: Cycle through the seven different jellies.
Stix:
  • Up/Down arrows: Cycle between having a single stick, or having two.
[robg adds: The three new visualizers are not nearly as feature-laden as the default iTunes visualize, and none of the keys that work there (ie H and ? for help) seem to do anything in the three new ones.]
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10.5: New iTunes visualizer tricks
Authored by: Superboy on Nov 09, '07 04:40:26PM

Actually with Stix, the down arrow speeds up the stick, whereas the up arrow cycles between one or two stix.

There are more things you can do with Jelly:
Pressing the M key appears to lock the current Jelly
The 1 key makes the center of the Jelly move away from you, 2 key makes it move toward you.

8,9 and 0 make parts of the Jelly glow.



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10.5: New iTunes visualizer tricks
Authored by: dan8750 on Dec 04, '08 03:56:37PM

Do you find these out yourself ? Pretty cool if you do.. just press random keys and see what happens? or is it from a 3rd party source ha.



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10.5: New iTunes visualizer tricks
Authored by: Mac Berry on Nov 09, '07 05:42:42PM

Wow, Jelly is stunning! I didn't even know those were there.

I know some people dislike the translucent menu's (I love them), but there's something really quite beautiful about seeing jelly or stix showing through the visualiser sub menu! I could watch it for hours in a darkened room!!

Mark



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10.5: New iTunes visualizer tricks
Authored by: Mac Berry on Nov 09, '07 05:51:14PM

Blimey, press and hold 8,9, AND 0 in jelly, and you can nearly blind yourself!



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10.5: New iTunes visualizer tricks
Authored by: resglowing on Jun 05, '08 12:52:49PM

If you hold down either the one or the 2 key jelly gyrates either in out out



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10.5: New iTunes visualizer tricks
Authored by: neffs on Nov 10, '07 12:35:11PM

The new visualizers are actually Quartz Composer Compositions. You can find them in /System/Library/Compositions/.
It should be possible to create one yourself and put it in /Library/Compostions/.



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