Apple Music Visualizer

Why visualize your Apple Music music?

Remember the iTunes visualizer? Apple killed it. Apple Music has some of the best audio quality options available — lossless, hi-res lossless, Dolby Atmos — but the visual experience is minimal. Album art and a waveform scrubber. That's it.

vizz.fm picks up where iTunes left off. All that high-fidelity audio translates into richer, more detailed frequency data, which means more expressive visualizations. If you're paying for lossless quality, you should be able to see the difference too.

How to connect Apple Music to vizz.fm

Browsers don't have access to what other apps are playing — each app's audio stays isolated. The fix is a virtual audio device: a small piece of software that routes your system audio into the browser. It's a one-time setup that takes a few minutes.

1. Play something on Apple Music

   Open Apple Music and start playing anything. The audio just needs to be running.

2. Set up a virtual audio device

   This is the one-time setup step. Follow our system audio capture guide for step-by-step instructions for macOS (BlackHole or Loopback) and Windows (VoiceMeeter or VB-Audio Virtual Cable).

3. Open vizz.fm and select Microphone

   In the audio source picker, choose Microphone. Your browser will ask which device to use — pick your virtual audio device. The visualizer will immediately start reacting to your Apple Music audio.

Platform notes

On macOS, you're using the Music app. On Windows, Apple Music has a dedicated app, or you can use the web player at music.apple.com. All routes work with the virtual audio device approach.

If you're playing lossless or hi-res lossless content, make sure your virtual audio device supports the sample rate. BlackHole and Loopback both handle this without issues.

On mobile?

Virtual audio devices aren't available on phones, but the microphone works as a quick alternative. Play Apple Music on a nearby speaker, open vizz.fm, and select Microphone. It won't be as clean as routing audio directly, but in a quiet room it works better than you'd expect.

What can you do with it?

Once Apple Music is connected, you have full control over how your music looks. vizz.fm includes dozens of WebGL visualizers — particle systems, waveforms, shaders, 3D meshes — all reacting to your audio in real time. Every visualizer has its own set of controls for colors, speed, intensity, and geometry.

You can also layer on effects like kaleidoscope, bloom, and CRT scanlines. Save your favorite combinations as presets and switch between them mid-song. If you want to go deeper, you can tie any slider to a specific frequency range — bass drives particle size, treble drives rotation, whatever combination feels right.