‘My god, its full of stars…’
- Daves final words in 2001

I LOVE the visualization aspects of iTunes. As I mentioned awhile ago here on my blog the Whitecap plugin for iTunes was pretty amazing. Now I am mentioning the Magnetosphere plugin as my new favorite. Its by far THE coolest piece of iTunes kit you can get. Dont take my word for it though, download it and run it yourself…

Magnetosphere was born of some experiments in Processing that Barbarian Robert Hodgin (of Flight404 fame) was conducting on his experimental blog. We got a lot of positive feedback from the visualization style, and a lot of requests to “use this in our project.” Too many, actually, for us to handle, so we figured we’d get the thing into a form that anyone could use. Basically, we made Magnetosphere by making a Processing application, and then porting it line by line to C++ so we could use the iTunes visualizer SDK to develop an iTunes plug-in for the Mac and PC.

Magnetosphere iTunes Visualizer