May 22
Finally I’ve discovered iTunes. Yeah OK I’ve been living under a rock.
Most importantly since I’ve ditched my TV I’ve discovered visualisers. These are the programs (plugins to iTunes) that create pretty screen patterns that move in time to the music. Lights out, big screen, wow pretty!
For the record I currently really like the standard visualisers that come with RythmBox on Ubuntu, but G-Streamer for iTunes isn’t too bad. G-Streamer is programmable so you can adjust the colours and patterns in real time. You can even script it so your favourite mix has it’s own patterns.
RythmBox on Ubuntu just looks cooler, more dynamic, prettier… not sure why. (I rip the CD with iTunes, then I boot to Ubuntu and play the tunes with RythmBox on the NTFS drive. You need to install additional codecs to play the iTunes AAC files but it’s easy.)
That said, it seems like I don’t know nearly enough about the in built iTunes visualisers. Ah well, more to learn.