Enjoy the latest iTunes 8 visualiser...

Jonny Evans
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September 05, 2008
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 Is this the face of the new visualiser inside iTunes 8?

Enjoy the clip, more after the break...

Magnetosphere revisited (audio by Tosca) from flight404 on Vimeo.

So - rumours emerging from the excellent Create Digital Music website suggest that the new visualiser inside of iTunes 8 may be based on the Magnetosphere visualiser until recently made available as an iTunes plug-in.

As reported by video producer and designer Allan White, Magnetosphere has recently been sold to a third party, and the nature of the visualiser closely matches the description of the feature given by Digg founder Kevin Rose earlier this week.

"[Robert] Hodgins built a wonderful iTunes visualizer called Magnetosphere a while back - which mysteriously disappeared from his site a few months back. I wrote him, and he said that it had been sold to a third party. There’s strong evidence that this third party is in fact Apple, and that it may ship with iTunes 8, which could be shown as soon as next week at an iPod Event," White reports.

Via: TUAW

 

Comments (6)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 05, 2008 - 5:51am

AppleTV needs a visualiser too !

Bozoka (not verified) | September 05, 2008 - 6:36am

This is the feature I always switch off in WM Player.
I do not feel it realistic enough to sit and "watch" my music...

Kev Orng (not verified) | September 05, 2008 - 6:59am

The only time I need a visualiser is when the music is background for something else, say, a social gathering.

But the iPod touch in a speaker doc does that job now.

So here's a new addition to my september 9 wish list: iTunes visualizations on the iPod Touch. Oh yeah, and for you iPhone guys too, I guess. :p

Helius (not verified) | September 05, 2008 - 7:01am

Ages ago Apple used a wickedly cool visualiser for an ad. It took the covers of your entire iTunes library and dynamically built skyscrapers and (eventually) a city out of them. Looked amazing. Talk was of it being in Leopard, but the OS release came and went, and no visualiser. Apparently it relied heavily on core graphics and was done to show what that technology could do - Anyone know what happened and if it ever sneaked out somehow?

H

Durango (not verified) | September 05, 2008 - 8:17am

I believe you're referring to movingpicture3D

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icons_screensavers/movingphotos3d....

Heather&Tony (not verified) | September 18, 2008 - 9:33am

Anthony and Heather love this feature. And maybe it's because they're two designers that sit in cubes all day dreaming of other places they'd rather be.

Such as:
the ocean
a rave
dreaming in bed
the final frontier