[stongey]

Most people want the visualizer to become a screensaver, but I want to go the other way...

Anybody know if it can be done?


stongey

[wataru]

Probably not, since the point of a visualizer is that it responds to the music. Screensavers don't do that.

If you want the screen saver to play while you listen to music, just activate the screensaver normally.

[Taloston Man]

If you go poking through the Quartz Composer app that tags along with Tiger's dev-tools, you'll find a way to make sound [or keyboard input, or MIDI, or mouse coordinates] the numerical controller on a certain graphical transformation/controller.

Given that some of the tutorials that come with QC are 10.4 screensavers themselves [RSS Display, Colour Field, etc.], it probably wouldn't be much work to rig something up that looked and felt very similar to the screensaver it was based on, but with a more reactionary audio-input component.

As to getting THAT into iTunes, I'm absolutely stumped.