

The contents of the entire iTunes window are replaced by the swirling, colorful shapes of the Visualizer, shifting and reforming in response to the music. Fortunately, this is no more complex a task than clicking a button.Īs you're playing your music (or while it's stopped), click the Visualizer button in the lower-right corner of the iTunes window or choose Visualizer, Turn Visualizer On.

It's difficult to describe what the Visualizer doesit's easier just to see it demonstrated. See Add a Third-Party Visualizer for more information. G-Force has continued to develop independently and can be added to iTunes as a third-party visualizer. The Visualizer that is built into iTunes is based on G-Force by SoundSpectrum. Other visualizers, which act in different ways, can be obtained from third parties and added to iTunes. The Visualizer responds visually to the playing music by creating agitated wave shapes in many different, constantly changing forms. Visualizer A program within iTunes that displays colorful patterns in a window or the full screen. The Visualizer, a program within iTunes that shows colorful graphical shapes swimming across the screen that jerk and jiggle and dance in response to the music that's playing, gives your music a whole new dimension in which you can enjoy it. ITunes certainly didn't pioneer the idea of visualization, but it did help to mature it.
