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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: 11

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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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???

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October 15th, 2009