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    Surprising things you can do on your Mac

    Jun 29, 2021 6 minutes

    See your music

    1 In the Music app (or iTunes on older macOS versions), you can display a psychedelic light show which reacts to the music as it plays. Press

    +T to start and the

    +/ key to display the keyboard controls: M changes display mode, A and S add and subtract bits to or from the light show and I shows or hides the track info. If you want to keep it old-school, select Window > Visualiser Settings > Classic Visualiser and you can see the visualiser from the original iTunes. It’s the same menu option to go back to the modern visualiser, but this time just choose Visualiser.

    Want to see it on your smart TV? If it has AirPlay you can mirror your Mac display and see the light show on the big screen.

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