There used to be a setting in Advanced preferences where you would tick "Display Visualiser Full Screen" so that whenever you started the visualiser it would automatically go full screen. Although Apple Help files still refer to this preference, in both my iMacs's iTunes it is absent.
Any ideas where it is these days?
Many thanks for any pointers
Cheers
Chris
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7), Loads of iMacs/PowerBooks, MBPs/iPods and iPhones
1- How do you know iTunes 11 is next week.
2- Based on your reply I tried a few things: Started playing a song/View/Show Visualizer/View/Enter Full Screen
I was then able to go back and forth to the Visualizer and stay in Full Screen. And, I was able to quit iTunes/reopen and get directly back to full screen Visualizer by simply selecting View/Show Visualizer
I'm sure it will be changed with the new iTunes 11 (next week)
but for iTunes 10.7 you can setup the visualizer for full screen by
this pref is also for the visualizer, but only setable while playing a video (it's a bug)
after setting it you can now play your music and starting the visualizer by choosing
MenuBar->View->Show Visualizer or [cmd]+T for Mac will result in a Fullscreen Visualizer on an own space while you can switch back to the iTunes Space choosing another track and go back to the Visualier Space
That Preference has been gone for a while. Now you have to go iTunes Menu Bar/View/Show Visualizer. Even with that, it may not open in full screen and you additionally have to go back to View/Enter Full Screen. What use to be simple is no longer. 😐
Thanks guys - at last a response (from all the places I've been asking about this for months on end), much appreciated. I really do despair about Apple at the moment. The fact that they are removing features from OS and apps that can serve no logical purpose whatsoever defeats me. Why remove this feature?
What are the engineers smoking?
Crazy, mad lunacy.
Anyway, thank you both again for your time and effort.
Cheers
Apparently :/
Aint that a biatch .. I think they're afraid of it being too complicated and scaring people off, but if you lay anything out neatly enough you can pull it off ... (sigh) but whatever, we'll live
In iTunes 11, Cmd T will go to either full screen visualiser or windowed visualiser depending on how it was last set.
To toggle between the two modes, you need to change from one to the other while the visualiser is on using the Ctrl Cmd F shortcut. Once the visualiser has been set to windowed or full screen then it will remain at that setting using Cmd T.
(note the effect is the same if the menu commands are used instead)
For completeness I will also ad that as long as you use the Cmd T shortcut to enter and exit full screen visualiser mode, then it will exit to normal iTunes song listings directly from the full screen visualiser and back to the full screen visualiser from the song listings mode.
However if you use the esc key to exit the full screen visualiser then it will exit from full screen visualiser to windowed visualiser you will then have to press Cmd T to return to the song listing window. But now because you exited using the escape key the windowed mode is now the default and pressing Cmd T will go back to visualiser window mode.
Therefore do not use the escape key to exit the full screen visualiser mode as you do other programs. If you do it by mistake then you have to use the Ctrl Cmd F to go back to full screen mode.
Once you understand how it works then it works well but until you figure out what is happening it can be a bit confusing.
This is for iTunes 11.02
It is possible that Apple decide to put the full screen or windowed visualiser mode back into the preferences. The advantage of having it set as a preference is that the escape key can be used to exit without it resetting the preference. This is a better way of doing it because using the escape key to exit full screen mode is the default action for every other app so it's natural to do this.
So annoyingly you have to break the habit in iTunes otherwise you have to keep resetting it. I think this is an unforseen error on Apple's part and it is likely to be fixed by either putting it back into the preferences OR escaping from full screen visualiser directly to the song listings as it would do with Cmd T, in a future update.
Actually, now to Enter / Exit Full Screen its:
Command (Control) + Shift + F
Telling people it's just Command + F is confusing and wrong because 11 requires you hit Shift as well. Swear no one on here posted the right thing lol.
Hey,
To clear up any confusion on what the correct answer, here's a little trick that will forever allow you to know what the Commands are:
Click on the Help menu in Itunes. That's H-E-L-P. Are you following so far? Ok.. no you're in System Preferences... Open Itunes... Alright... No, it's the blue circle Icon with the music note Inside. Alright now at the top of the screen you will see different menu options labeled "File", "Edit", Etc..... No, not the playback control, right underneath that. Alright now see the Help section, alright scroll over what says Help, one more time that's H-E-L-P (HELP), and click on "KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS". Hope this helps
Cheers!
Disco Bob - you ROCK! answered my question on how to get iTunes 11 to toggle from full screen to just the window - cause sometimes we don't want the whole dang screen looking psychedelic - hear that apple? Don't dumb stuff down for the masses. Keep the back door open!
the_Fränk wrote:
I'm sure it will be changed with the new iTunes 11 (next week)
AH, the Apple Event next week 🙂
Like I thought: iTunes 11 changed the Visualizer as fullscreen only.
(or does anyone get it into the iTunes window again, like you can do with videos)
@DISCO_BOB Thanks guy -- you crushed this thread..
many thanks for that accurate answer!
Visualiser full screen preference - where?
