ITunes 8 visualizer

Besides all the discontent around iTunes 8's failure to 'connect' to remote speakers,
here's another curiosity.
This update now includes the 'visualizer' icon back on the main screen, placed second from the lower right corner.
It looks like a 'flower' shaped icon.
However it is greyed-out, meaning it does not function.
Back a few iTunes ago, you simply could click on it and get the groovy screen happening.
Now, you can still have it as long as you go to 'view' in the drop-down and manipulate it.
Is this oversight another part of the messed-up version of iTunes that has been released?

That is not the visualizer... that is the "Genius" button.
After you configure and turn on the iTune's Genius feature, you can select a song and then click on that button to see what the Genius recommends.

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