ITunes Artwork as screen saver

Crashes.

Hi Kevin,
I believe that it has to be hacked in terminal
i do not know how to do this. Your system might be using too much processing power, thus the crash.
good luck with it.
Eme
maybe look around in the Unix area of Discussions.

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