Saturday August 14, 2004 iTunes Visualizer
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I'm not always the quickest to get plugged in to a new good thing.
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About three months ago I bought an iBook (which I love), and one of the applications I use the most on it is iTunes. Not for my own music collection or to buy new music from the Apple store, but to listen to some of the free Internet radio stations (one of my favorites being Radio Paradise, because the owner/DJ has such an eclectic taste in music, and you have no idea what he's going to play next).
Well anyway, I was browsing around the Apple store last night and saw that iTunes is also a free download for Windows as well as Mac. Awright! I still use a Windows box quite a bit at home, so it'll be nice to listen to my favorite radio stations as easily as I can on the iBook.
I wasn't disappointed. As this review mentions, this is a wonderful program. Playing around with the Windows XP version last night, I discovered the visualizer and got totally mesmorized by it. I spent about an hour trying it out with different types of music (and just chat shows) and watching how it visualized. It seems to do a very good job. Ambient music is obviously very different from hard rock, which in turn is very different from your favorite politicians gabbing on national public radio. I also found this page with further tips on how to configure the visualizer. More hidden features here.
So how exactly does it work? From googling around, I've been unable to find any great pointers to the actual theories and procedures behind what it does. If anybody has any leads, please let me know. Thanks.
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