iLightShow For Mac

iLightShow (formerly LightShow) creates a connection between the Spotify music streaming service and your  Philips Hue light bulbs and synchronizes the light with the current track to create a suitable atmosphere.

Right off the bat, the iLightShow application prompts you to pair the Philips Hue light bulbs with the app and even presents a graphic depicting the Phillips Hue Bridge pairing button you need to press.

Naturally, you must also have the Spotify desktop client application up and running on your Mac. In the top area of the iLightShow main window you get to see the Spotify status, and right below you can make sure that the music and the light are synchronized or just disable the function for a certain bulb.

In the iLightShow main window, you get to see the list of connected Philips Hue light bulbs and see if they are currently controlled by the application or not. The utility comes with a straightforward setup panel where you get to change the light’s brightness and intensity via simple slider bars.

At the same time, you can let the iLightShow app to select the colors that are to be used while syncing with the music or manually select the ones you would like. Note that each color comes with a slider bar so you can determine the predominant color.

To sum up, iLightShow relies on the Spotify track analysis to synchronize the light propagated by your Philips Hue light bulbs with the music currently playing in the Spotify desktop application.

The iLightShow utility proves to be quite intuitive to setup and delivers control over the light’s intensity, brightness, and color. You get to manually select the Philips Hue light bulbs that are to be affected and stop or resume the playback without any restrictions.