It's next to no effort just to change the icon back anyway in Mac OS? Or don't you want to do that?

last edited by Jayman at 16:52:32 03/Sep/10

http://rocketdock.com/addons/search/itunes/popular?p=6

Just use an icon from there, I've got the original cd itunes icon on my windows rocketdock.

I agree the new icon does look kind of bland, it looks like one of those icons you see in a freebie app made by some dude in his spare time. Maybe instead of a boring circle they should have put an ipod clickwheel there or something.

Obviously wasn't someone from Apple, it doesn't have an 'i' in front of it.

maybe they called it iPng but the people behind the png graphics format cried.

out of curiosity I got bored & opened photoshop, a couple of layers, a gradient fill and a lighting effect later and I pretty much had their icon. How much time did they spend on it? 5 minutes? Jeez.

last edited by Whoop at 18:35:31 03/Sep/10

You can get the original icon from the post 3dee made last page too if anyone want's it. For anyone who doesn't know how:

"Get info" on itunes.app in you applications folder, drag the image 3dee linked last page from your browser to the top icon in your "get info" window (should see a green + on your pointer when it's worked). If you ever want the original back, "get info" again, select the icon at the top and press delete.

PS. You'll need to restart the dock or drag out the old iTunes from the dock and re-add it to see the change.

last edited by Jayman at 18:07:15 03/Sep/10

i quite like iTunes and use it for my music. couldn't give a flying f*** about the icon.
the only thing that really s***s me is the massive MB for updates all the time. wtf is the go with that?

My guess is they don't just release an update, they release the full thing.

then why call it an update....misleading!

Well it is an update, it's just not delivered as a patch (Apple never does it this way).

another reason to hate on apple ;)

I guess I'm used to it. Pain in the ass on ADSL1. (just got cable ^_^).

Another reason to hate on apple is that with the new version whenever itunes opens an mp4 that only contains audio it opens up another f***ing window with nothing but black, looks like the quick time player window. Now I've gotta go rename all my audio only mp4 files to m4a. IDIOTS.

Also don't ask me why I have audio only files with mp4 extensions because the answer is: I'm lazy.

The new icon is clearly better than the old one.

I like the new icon and I'd like to say that I can't believe that people are complaining over such an insigificant thing but people are stupid.

looks like a 50s jukebox

Oh, I'm open to change, but I think Apple hasn't changed it for the better, they've gone and ignored their own much-touted Human Interface Guidelines which specifically describe why these are an abomination. Here's the one for icons.

The icon is bad, but it has nothing on the disgusting thing they did with the minimise/maximise/close buttons, that just goes against every point in the HIG. The vertical alignment is just plain f***ing wrong, hell, we've gone off at undergrad designers for doing the same s***.

You can make it usable again by doing this in terminal (osx at least):
"defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1"

For the icon, some fixed versions here:

http://dribbble.com/system/users/784/screenshots/51763/shot_1283474697.png?1283474697
http://dribbble.com/shots/51763-iTunes-10-Round-Version?list=index

http://dribbble.com/system/users/1474/screenshots/51446/shot_1283416296.png?1283416296
http://dribbble.com/shots/51446-iTunes-10-Replacement-Icon?list=index

http://dribbble.com/system/users/2706/screenshots/52099/shot_1283551702.png?1283551702
http://dribbble.com/shots/52099-iTunes-10?list=index

That last one looks like a smiley face that has just been goatsed, or 2girls1cupped.

where the hell is this ping I keep hearing so much about? my itunes has no ping. Is it a mac only feature? (haven't updated my mac itunes yet)

ok never mind, looks like you have to click on 'itunes store' before it appears.

last edited by Whoop at 02:51:23 05/Sep/10

f*** ping. I'll continue using last.fm.


I was a winamp fan for years and years, then when I started using macs & ipods more and more I eventually moved to iTunes.

BUT the one thing that s***s me to no end is not being able to quickly queue up songs without having to create a playlist. I used to love scrolling down my entire list of songs in winamp and just hitting Q to enqueue a song, but iTunes wants you to create some bulls*** on the go playlist, or something similar, it's balls.

isn't the on the go playlist pretty much the same thing though? winamp would just auto save your playlist to a temp one where itunes isn't that automated.

Why do people whinge about how big a download is?

I mean, it's not like it's any extra work for the downloader, you still just click a button - is it just that it may take a few moments longer?

I can understand if people complaining if it meant extra work, say mowing 70 acres instead of 20 acres but downloading 70mb instead of 20!?!

BTW iTunes is where it's at.

The beauty of iTunes is that you don't have to create playlists on the go - just use the Genius feature!

Ping looks/feels a lot like Facebook, but a mate found this interesting article:

According to sources familiar with Facebook’s platform, the social networking giant essentially denied Apple’s Ping access to application programming interfaces that would allow it to search for an iTunes user’s friends on Facebook who also had signed up for Ping.

Taken from here: http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100902/facebook-blocked-api-access-to-ping-after-failure-to-strike-agreement-so-apple-removed-feature-after-launch/

The beauty of iTunes is that you don't have to create playlists on the go - just use the Genius feature!

Tell me more. I have never clicked genius because I dunno I am wary of it for some reason and I hate making playlists.

Tell me more. I have never clicked genius because I dunno I am wary of it for some reason and I hate making playlists.

Well the first time you turn it on you'll have to wait a while for iTunes to get all of your personal music data and send it off to the Apple labs ;) BUT, it works quite well - well enough at least to stop me f***ing around with making playlists. You pick a song that you want to be the basis for a playlist, and then hit the genius button and it'll magically pick a whole bunch of songs that match your original song.

See now that wouldn't work on me for 2 main reasons and probably a lot of little ones. One is that I don't think I want apple knowing what I listen to, although I'm quite sure even without genius they still know (it's not paranoia, I just have awful taste in music) and the other is that my current playlist is a variety of stuff from all different genres so I doubt having a base song of say this would get itunes to also include this, both of which really are in my playlist right now.

I've never used that genius option either, maybe I'll give it a go....

Genius is all automated. It's basically a bunch of heuristics etc based on a global database of music listening tastes from users of Genius. And it's anonymous anyway.

I actually now use Genius exclusively when I'm listening to music on my iPhone. I just scroll across to whatever mix I want and listen. Guaranteed way of hearing a range of songs.