Can't get Mac screensaver to react to music

[AudioChamp]

I'd like to use G-force as my screensaver, and have it react to the music playing in iTunes.

But I can't get G-force to react to music in screensaver, standalone, or v-bar mode!

When I utilize the toolbar to modify the visualizer running in iTunes, it shows up with the input source as iTunes. But when I use the toolbar to try and modify the standalone (or screensaver, for that matter), iTunes does not show up as an available input source.

I tried changing the text in the preference file for the screensaver audio input source to -1 (the one designated for iTunes in the iTunes preferences file) but it didn't work.

This seems like something that should have been easy for the programmers to deal with, but apparently, after spending $30 on this, I am still finding that I must have in-depth knowledge of computer hardware, which I find ridiculous.

Can anyone please help me?!

[juxtiphi]

I could be wrong but I' am pretty sure the screen saver doesnt react to music yet. It doesnt do it on my machine I know that.

I do believe that others in the past have mentioned this idea but so far its not been implemented .

[AudioChamp]

You've got to be kidding me!

Isn't that like, blatantly INCOMPLETE as far as programming goes? Wouldn't that take about 5 minutes to fix? I mean, seriously! The program itself is awesome, but there is no reason that it shouldn't work as a screensaver.

In fact, that almost sounds like a "bait and switch" to me! When I think of G-Force, I consider it a music visualization tool. The advertising said that I could use said tool as a screensaver. Who the heck would want to watch a non-responsive music visualizer?

Get your act together, SoundSpectrum! This is ridiculous! You're literally making me regret this purchase.

[juxtiphi]

come on! do you really use the screen saver over the stand alone or plugin for what ever player you use?!

GF is a music visualizer that happens to come with a screen saver not the other way around.


I think the reason the screen saver doesnt react to music is because once you hit the mouse the screen saver shuts off, so any time you feel like a change in the playlist you'd need to restart the SS.

so why not just use the satandalone as far as I am concerned its just as easy to set up a playlist hit the SA exe and its good for as long as I choose without worring about moving my mouse and stopping GF if I need to go into my comp.

and please there is no bait and switch here if you want your money back open a support ticket with soundspectrum and they will refund your money pronto http://www.soundspectrum.com/support/contact.html

[dgarcia42]

come on! do you really use the screen saver over the stand alone or plugin for what ever player you use?!

I think the reason the screen saver doesnt react to music is because once you hit the mouse the screen saver shuts off, so any time you feel like a change in the playlist you'd need to restart the SS.

so why not just use the satandalone as far as I am concerned its just as easy to set up a playlist hit the SA exe and its good for as long as I choose without worring about moving my mouse and stopping GF if I need to go into my comp.

For the record, you can change the playlist without shutting off the screen saver - iPhone based remote software is great for that. (Also - G-Force standalone seems to not respond to what's getting piped through my laptop's output - so using SA isn't "good enough" either, in this case)

Also - your suggestions don't help my setup (which is probably not used by many other people), which is I use G-Force as my -desktop- image on my workstation - this is done by running a screen saver module in the background, combine that with keeping most of my windows at some level of transparency, and it's a really nice setup. It'd be even nicer if the desktop was actually responding to the music that I'm listening to while working.

[dgarcia42]

Also - the way that I got this working is I use Airfoil by rogue amoeba for distributing music amongst machines/speakers in my house. This includes a virtual output device called "sound flower" so, I figure up Airfoil, set it to intercept all system audio, and then tell G-Force to use the Soundflower, 2ch audio output and that works beautifully.

Now I have G-Force peeking at me underneath the code that i'm working on :)