Using Third Party Visualizer

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Using Third Party Visualizer

I just downloaded some new visualizers from the mac downloads page and installed them in the itunes plugin folder, restarted my comp and all that but now i don't know how to turn them on. I tried using the ? in the visualizer but no go. How do I turn them on?

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Mar 26, 2006 8:41 PM

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Answer 1

macmenno

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Mar 26, 2006 10:26 PM in response to Sam Macmillan

Usually they show up in the Visualizer menu in the menubar.
If you select that menu, you can choose which visualizer should be active.

Hope this helps.

M

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Answer 2

Apr 13, 2006 12:02 PM in response to macmenno

All that shows up in my visualizer menu is small, medium, large or full screen. Nothing else??

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Answer 3

macmenno

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Apr 13, 2006 12:10 PM in response to Sam Macmillan

Did you give the plugin folder the correct name?
It should be exactly as here: iTunes Plug-ins
Which visualizers did you download. Can you provide a link?

M

17' iMac fp 800 MHz 768 MB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.6) Several ext. HD (backup and data)

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Answer 4

Tom Graves

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Apr 14, 2006 4:20 PM in response to Sam Macmillan

Also, besides checking that you put the visulaizers in the "iTunes Plug-ins" folder in the "iTunes" folder in the "Library" folder on Finder's Home Page, did you uncompress them? Visualizers should have a "bundle" extension and, unless they have been given a customized one, they should have a lego-cube icon with musical notes on one face and an atom on another. Some visualizers have their own folders an which case the whole folder needs to be put into the "iTunes Plug-ins" folder.

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Answer 5

Apr 18, 2006 5:09 PM in response to macmenno

I have two in the iTunes plug-ins folder in the library folder. I have Fountain music and ultragroovalicious. Both of them were downloaded from the apple website, still can't tell why I can't see them.

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Answer 6

macmenno

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Apr 19, 2006 1:10 AM in response to Sam Macmillan

The 'Fountain Music' installer reports an error on my system and does not install.
After copying the 'Fountain Music.bundle' file to the plug-ins folder it worked.
The same is true for the 'Ultragroovalicious.bundle' file.

Both visualizers appear in the 'Visualizer' menu of iTunes and work.

Check the correct location(s):
To be accessable for all users, put them in ./Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins.
For a single user: ./Users/YourUsername/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins

M

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