iTunes and its visualizer

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iTunes and its visualizer

I some times will stream music and put the visualizer on full screen. I figure it acts like a screen saver that way for a time while I do something else. But my real screen saver keeps kicking in after so many minutes. Is there any way, other than disabling screen saver, to get it to allow the visualizer to continue until I decide to turn it off? I have iTunes 10, now.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Sep 2, 2010 10:58 AM

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Skeo

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Sep 3, 2010 4:30 AM in response to Macit2me

This is new in iTunes 10. It's annoying me too. Having visualiser set full screen used to disable the screensaver the same way dvd player or quicktime would when you watch a video. Now it doesn't.

iTunes 10 is turning out to be a big old bag of fail. Seriously.

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Answer 2

Sep 3, 2010 8:56 AM in response to Skeo

+1

There are a lot of things I don't like about 10. +A lot.+ But, I know that I will become used to them the same way that I finally, last week, became used to the goshawful blue note icon instead of the green.

This I don't get. I don't see what this adds in terms of functionality. It seems broken.

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darcar

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Sep 19, 2010 2:21 PM in response to Macit2me

Well I'm glad it's not just me. I've been fooling around with my settings trying to fix this because, like you, I put itunes on with visualizer to listen to music while I'm doing other things. Mine cuts out after about 20 minutes no matter what I set my preferences to. I only hope that the next version of itunes puts unlimited listening via visualizer back to the way it was. And soon because it's really annoying the way it is. Perhaps if enough people post here, itunes will get the message.

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lancia

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Sep 19, 2010 3:23 PM in response to Macit2me

Here is an easy fix.

Apple/System Preferences/Desktop&Screensavers/Screensaver/Hotcorners
Select the upper right corner to be "disable screensaver"

So you just have to park your pointer in the upper right corner and hit Command T

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lancia

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Sep 19, 2010 3:26 PM in response to darcar

"Perhaps if enough people post here, itunes will get the message."

Nope, you will want to go to "Provide iTunes Feedback" in the iTunes menu.

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darcar

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Sep 21, 2010 10:38 PM in response to Macit2me

Hi Lancia,

I tried your fix with high hopes. Followed your directions exactly. Even tried restarting the system after it didn't work the first time. Unfortunately, all it's done is disable that feature I had that allowed you to minimize all screens open on the desktop so you could find other applications quickly. Clearly I'm doing something wrong. Any other ideas? Do you know how to get the screen minimizer feature back?

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darcar

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Sep 21, 2010 11:04 PM in response to Macit2me

o.k. I fixed the application minimizer on my own. Maybe this is progress.

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lancia

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Sep 21, 2010 11:16 PM in response to darcar

Perhaps I wasnt clear on the second part.

You would be in iTunes. You select a song and click on play then park the pointer in the upper right corner(this is the hotcorner for "disable screensaver"). Then press Command T, this brings up the visualizer full screen.

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Bullzie

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Nov 21, 2010 9:47 AM in response to lancia

While I understand what lancia is saying, I would really like it if they would just put it back so it automatically disabled the screensaver...or at least a setting to let you change it back.

Andrew

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dknightd

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Nov 21, 2010 9:54 AM in response to darcar

you could choose a different corner. one that does not currently do anything special. I use lower right

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Answer 11

Aug 3, 2011 10:02 AM in response to lancia

Once again after the installation and test of the 10.4 version, I sent the same feedback to Apple as with any release of iTunes since v10.0...

Since iTunes 10.0 there's no way to let the iTunes visualiser running while the music is playing.

After the iddle time set in System Preferences, the MacOS X screensaver firts, then the screen extinction will occur.

The only way to by-pass this bug is to use an additional software such as Cafeine that will prevent the Mac from launching the screensaver nor the screen extinction.

(the hint of the screen corner to disable Screensaver isn't enough as eventhough the screensaver won't go into action, the screen extinction will occur)

It's a pity that such a slight bug isn't fixed and remains since so many versions of iTunes 10!!!

(test done with MacOS X 10.6.8)

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Answer 12

Oct 11, 2011 1:28 PM in response to Remy Leroy

iTunes 10.5 is available.... with STILL the same bug!!!

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Answer 13

Oct 30, 2011 1:07 AM in response to dknightd

At last, the 10.5 version of iTunes fixed this issue!

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