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Pressing F and L (not at the same time) gives you an idea of how these two settings are related. This locks the visuals to more or less the same position on the screen. If you press E while in this mode, the clouds are enhanced. This adds iridescent clouds to the display. N toggles nebula mode (though some modes don’t display nebulae).

This is a lot better for ambient music, which, as I mentioned above, dances too much with the default settings. This doesn’t freeze the display entirely, but it greatly reduces the movement, telling the visualizer to rotate but not dance around the display. If you see a visual you like, press F to freeze it so you can take a screenshot. If you find a mode and palette you like, press C to keep that combination. This is on by default, and this tells the visualizer to change mode and palette at random.

I displays track info at the bottom left of the screen this is what you see in the first screenshot above, showing the track name, album, artist, and artwork.

P changes the palette, or the color scheme of the visualizer.

M changes the mode, which is the overall set of shapes that the visualizer uses.

The visualizer displays keyboard shortcuts for its settings when you press the ? key. Here are the options for the iTunes visualizer. But you can change the visualizer’s settings too. By default, it uses a random setting that cycles through a number of presets. Try with different songs and see how the visualizer changes. But read on to learn how you can change that.)

(To be fair, I find it a bit too busy for ambient music, where the lights should be more relaxing. You’ll see that percussive songs lead to a lot of effects, but the visualizer also adapts to mellow music to provide a constantly changing palette of colors and shapes. The more changes there are in the music, the livelier the visualizer will be. Select this if you’re playing music from a playlist that contains music videos, and you want iTunes to play the videos when it gets to them, rather than use the visualizer. If you choose View > Visualizer, you’ll see that you can choose from several different plug-ins. If that’s all the visualizer did, it would be pretty cool, but it gets a lot better.