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Make your MacBook Pro Keyboard Lights Dance to Music!

October 15th, 2009 - Fun, Mac OS X, iTunes

macbook keyboard lights

Have you ever wanted to make your MacBook or MacBook Pro’s keyboard lights dance to the music you are listening to? Has the thought never crossed your mind? Well me neither, but once I saw someone using this iTunes plugin on their MacBook Pro I was instantly hooked on the novelty. iSpazz is the name of the iTunes Visualizer Plugin and it works exactly as advertised, the keyboard lights will flash in sync to the music you’re listening to! It also has a feature to allow the screen’s backlight to flash too, but that just about sent me into a seizure like a bad Japanese cartoon so I’ll opt just for the keyboard lights. File this one under the ‘cool useless eye candy’ category!

Download the iSpazz iTunes plugin and drop it in ~/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins/ and from there you can select it as a visualizer option within iTunes.

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Comments: 17

Comment from DogsRULE
Time: October 15, 2009, 12:06 pm

my lights are dancing this is awesome it’s like a PARTY IN MY MAC

Comment from cs
Time: October 15, 2009, 7:49 pm

Honestly, I’m lost. I’ve downloaded the plugin and added it to the whole library thing, but it’s not an option in my visualizer. =S

Comment from j
Time: October 15, 2009, 9:40 pm

@cs, did you unzip it first? you need to move the .bundle file that is within the zip file into your plugins directory

Comment from gilly
Time: October 16, 2009, 12:05 am

BTW – didn’t think it would work, but you wrote ‘MacBook’ so I thought it didn’t hurt to check. Not working on mine. The option in the pulldown is there, but nothing happens on select. Methinks there is no backlight on MacBook’s only MacBook Pro’s.

Comment from tech4eleven
Time: October 19, 2009, 6:55 pm

ya pretty much useless. but rather cool that it CAN be done.

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Time: October 20, 2009, 1:54 am

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Comment from killme
Time: October 28, 2009, 5:20 pm

i have a macbook alluminum and it works perfect for both screen and keyboard. so it DOES WORK for mb & mbp

Comment from Alex
Time: December 8, 2009, 12:22 pm

Im brand new on a mac so how do you get to ~/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins/ in snow leopard?

Comment from Chromeo
Time: December 8, 2009, 1:42 pm

Alex, ~/Library is just the Library directory in your home folder, the ~ is just a way to say your home directory, which is the default Finder window in Mac

Comment from Anne Nonymouse
Time: December 9, 2009, 9:46 am

It works on a G4 PowerBook, too.
PowerPC chips ro0l!

Comment from Christian
Time: January 24, 2010, 3:06 pm

Is there anyway to have just a regular visulizer play along with the dancing keyboard???

Comment from xotelo
Time: March 9, 2010, 11:34 am

i got a mac book pro 13 ” aluminum unibody, and well IT DOES NOT work.

i tried droping it but it does no work.
any ideas?

any aditional configurations on keyboard settings?

is there any acces to some kindof menu of this plug in?where can i access it?

Comment from xotelo
Time: March 9, 2010, 11:38 am

i found that it only desactivates my keyboard lights when shutting itunes down.

please some help this thing seems so cool to just give up on installing it

thanx!

Comment from xotelo
Time: March 9, 2010, 12:20 pm

in fact a just found that maybe this thing already shut down or messed up my keyboard

NOW IT DOES NOT ILUMINATE AT ALL!

any help please.

Comment from dilbert
Time: March 9, 2010, 12:35 pm

you can reset your smc if your keyboard lights stop working and it resets the functionality

it sounds like you just turned them off though, go to the keyboard control panel

Comment from xotelo
Time: March 9, 2010, 4:10 pm

great , i restore it thnx so much.
so, any MBP 13″ user with the same problem?

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