iTunes Plugins: where?

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zozo
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
While if you select iMovie and Get Info, you have a selection of Plugins you can disable or enable, as well as disable all the useless languages.



Supposedly if you do that with iTunes you have the same option. Yet, I dont get that option. Any suggestions?



BTW, there used to be an option to force 'high quality' iTunes effects. Where the hell did that go?

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  • Reply 1 of 11
    overhopeoverhope Posts: 1,123member
    Have you installed any plugins for iTunes? Once you have some in there, the Visuals menu expands to show all the sets you have, but you can only run one at a time (going on my old 9.2.2 installation with iTunes 2, but it might be different in X with iTunes 3). I've never bothered putting any on with X because most of the ones I've seen are rubbish.



    As for the second question, are you talking about the "Faster but rougher display" tickbox in the Visuals Options dialogue? Untick it and tick "Use OpenGL" (if you have a QE capable graphics card) for the best show.
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  • Reply 2 of 11
    zozo Posts: 3,117member
    [quote]Originally posted by Overhope:

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    As for the second question, are you talking about the "Faster but rougher display" tickbox in the Visuals Options dialogue? Untick it and tick "Use OpenGL" (if you have a QE capable graphics card) for the best show.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Nope, havent installed any plugins... maybe thats why



    thanks



    Regarding the "Fastr but rougher" there is no option anywhere... Is it possible that iTunes 3 doesnt have it anymore? I tried to look for it on both an iBook with 8MB VRAM and a G4 with 32.
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  • Reply 3 of 11
    overhopeoverhope Posts: 1,123member
    Hmm, it is on mine (3.0.1), in the little dialogue that pops up when you hit the Options flowery thing that appears in the top right when visuals are active.
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  • Reply 4 of 11
    baumanbauman Posts: 1,248member
    OK, now here's a question for you. Can you change the visuals to just a constant black screen? The reason I ask is because I have a PM 8500 as an iTunes jukebox connected to my TV as the monitor, and it'd be cool to see the song information on the bottom of the TV as it plays it, but the visual effects are so jerky, it's painful to look at. <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />
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  • Reply 5 of 11
    zozo Posts: 3,117member
    GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG



    duh...



    obviously seeing that I have the effects at Full Screen I never saw there was an option button.



    Thats kinda retarded methinks. Grrrrrr
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  • Reply 6 of 11
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    [quote]Originally posted by ZO:

    <strong>GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG



    duh...



    obviously seeing that I have the effects at Full Screen I never saw there was an option button.



    Thats kinda retarded methinks. Grrrrrr</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I agree. I was looking for that option just yesterday and the only way to get to it was to play the effects not at fullscreen. Pretty stupid placement...
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  • Reply 7 of 11
    mightymomightymo Posts: 30member
    If you have a look at <a href="http://www.appleblunders.com"; target="_blank">http://www.appleblunders.com</a>; (click on iTunes on the left column) they list other annoyances.



    By the way, does iTunes support the OGG format?
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  • Reply 8 of 11
    overhopeoverhope Posts: 1,123member
    Ah, ZO, glad you found it!



    bauman, try the <a href="http://www.trinfinitysoftware.com/easyview.shtml"; target="_blank">Easyview plugin</a>. It zaps the swirly stuff and just displays text on a black background: you can choose what details to display, fonts, colours and whether or not make a mess of your screen with dancing text-trails. I haven't tried the X version personally, but the OS 9 one was pig-ugly. Did the job though.



    MightyMo, no, and I should think it unlikely since Apple has its eggs in the AAC basket...
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  • Reply 9 of 11
    baumanbauman Posts: 1,248member
    Thanks Overhope. That should do exactly what I want.



    And [bMightyMo[/b], I do believe that iTunes will play all the music formats that Quicktime will, so if you get the OGG plug in for Quicktime it will work. However, it won't do anything else with it (encode, decode, burn, etc).
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  • Reply 10 of 11
    inactionmaninactionman Posts: 618member
    Yup, iTunes does support OGG playback. Everything I rip is now .ogg files. The files also work fine with iTunes visualizer and also support tags. No such luck with mp4.
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  • Reply 11 of 11
    overhopeoverhope Posts: 1,123member
    I do beg pardon, I was under the impression ogg wouldn't play. You learn something every day...



    The audio component of MP4 is AAC: MP4 itself is a muxed video/audio format, so iTunes is as likely to play that as it is an MPEG movie...
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