How to Control the iTunes 8 visualizer

If you haven’t played around with the new iTunes 8 visualizer it’s well worth taking a few minutes to play with. It’s been updated, and has some interesting new effects. You can hit Command - T to display the visualizer, and Command-F to make it full screen.

Once you have it running, you can also bring up a list of available functions to help you play around with it. They are as follows:

? - Toggle help screen

M - Change mode
As far as I can tell there are 8 or 9 different patterns.

P - Change palette
Changes the colours used.

I - Display track info
Displays information about the current song.

C - Toggle auto-cycle (on by default)
Turns on or off automatically cycling through modes and colours.

F - Toggle freeze mode
Freezes the visualizer while the camera continues to pan around.

N - Toggle nebula mode
Turns on or off the clouds in the background.

L - Toggle camera lock
Holds the camera still while the visualizer continues.