How-To: Use Life With PlayStation as a Music Visualizer

If you use your PlayStation 3 as a music player, chances are you know just how cool the Planet Earth visualizer is. As your music plays, the TV shows incredible images of the Earth as seen from space. But while it looks cool, it doesn’t hold a candle to Life With PlayStation. This service–which features a live image of a spinning globe via satellite photography–provides all kinds of information about the weather and local news, in addition to looking all kinds of cool. But what you may not know is that you can ditch the standard visualizer and use Life With PlayStation when you want to listen to your favorite music. It’s a great conversation piece and is oddly mesmerizing. So how do you do it? Read on for our detailed steps. (Note: this how-to requires that your PS3 is connected to the internet.)

1. Go into Life With PlayStation, which is located in your Cross Media Bar (XMB). Scroll over to the 7th category–called Network–and select the bottom option, which will be Life With PlayStation and its little moon icon.

2. Once it loads up, hit the triangle button to get into the menu. From there, you go into the Music category and choose Select Track. From their you can access the musical library on your PS3 hard drive.

3. Now you can listen to music while the world turns, but it won’t last forever. Life With PlayStation features a screensaver that kicks in after a certain amount of time stopping the experience. To stop this, go back to the main menu by hitting the circle button, and go into the Configuration section. From there you can toggle the screensaver on and off, allowing you to use Life With PlayStation as an eye-catching music visualizer.

Now that wasn’t so hard! If you want to get the most of this feature, we suggest setting up a number of playlists so that you don’t have to constantly change the song to your liking. It makes things much easier, and allows you to sit back and relax.

Do you have any PlayStation related questions? Anything you can’t quite figure out on your PS3? Let us know in the comments or via email, and we’ll tackle it in the next edition of How-To.