iTunes 10 Now Available to Download

[jasone6]

COLORS!

I hate the lack of colors in iTunes 10, so I did a little ThemePark rsrc hacking and put the colored icons from 9.2 back into 10. It's not perfect, but I didn't want to waste too much time on it, and it looks alright on my computer for the icons that I use regularly.

Download (zip, 11.1mb)

Instructions included.

Enjoy, and feel free to let me know if you see an icon that should be fixed—I didn't check that they all look normal.

- Small size only.
- Some may be broken.
- No guarantees.

Kudos to you, my friend. Solid work

 

[KnightWRX]

Apart from the icon yes it is looking much sleeker. Anyone got any alternative icons they're using to replace the iTunes one?

Apart from the icons and vertical buttons, the look hasn't changed much. There's a new view option that is a little snazzy, but I wouldn't use it day to day, way too much scrolling for my taste.

 

[greywizard]

Oh wow, I didn't even notice. What a bizarre move, they look ugly there.

This is probably Apple's way of getting its users' feedback on design related matters, just like they did with the Safari tabs. I'm sure they'll revert to the standard placement of the buttons in the forthcoming release in November.

/first post from long time (5 years +) lurker on MR

 

[IGNITION]

Halp please! I can't get the iTunes icons to revert back to being verticle

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=10976111#post10976111

 

[MorphingDragon]

There's a new view option that is a little snazzy, but I wouldn't use it day to day, way too much scrolling for my taste.

You mean Album List View?

That was in iTunes ages ago, then they removed it for some reason.

 

[nelmat]

Apart from the icons and vertical buttons, the look hasn't changed much. There's a new view option that is a little snazzy, but I wouldn't use it day to day, way too much scrolling for my taste.

Seriously? You don't think a complete change of colour scheme (to greyscale), new icons across the entire UI, the losing of the window menu bar, different line spacing and font sizes and the loss of column dividers in views results in a look that "hasn't changed much"?!

 

[nelmat]

This is probably Apple's way of getting its users' feedback on design related matters, just like they did with the Safari tabs. I'm sure they'll revert to the standard placement of the buttons in the forthcoming release in November.

/first post from long time (5 years +) lurker on MR

What november release? Did I miss something?

 

[nelmat]

Does anyone know how to remove Ping from the sidebar, short of disabling the iTunes Store? I'll never use it and I hate looking at it.

iTunes 10 is a big step down. Time to check out Songbird or Rhythmbox.

There's more functionality - how is this a step down?

 

[nelmat]

so wait ping doesn't track what you play?, or even use it to build a profile of what you like eg: last.fm, I thought steve said it would. I don't want to go through every artist/album I like in the iTunes store and click like, once the novelty wears off I'm not sure how much I will be bothered to use it now

Could you imagine the screams from the privacy brigade - iTunes is tracking my movements!

 

[MorphingDragon]

Seriously? You don't think a complete change of colour scheme (to greyscale), new icons across the entire UI, the losing of the window menu bar, different line spacing and font sizes and the loss of column dividers in views results in a look that "hasn't changed much"?!

It still has that iTunes feel and layout, just with a different theme.

 

[*LTD*]

Ok, I see Ping now. It's just an item in the "Store" list in the sidebar, between "iTunes Store" and "Purchased." It takes up no space. No problem. If I want it, it's there.

 

[tod]

I'm always amazed how some people just love to complain.... honestly I don't know why anyone would be too upset over the new update? Most of the new stuff you can turn off and have what you had before. It seems faster, and who cares about an icon... it's an icon for goodness sake.

It will be interesting to see if Ping catches on.

Why does there have to be a social network wrapped around everything? Credit card purchases, text messages, now music. What difference does it make what my friends are listening to?

Besides, my friends all like different music than I do. The results in Ping would be weird. Isn't it amazing that statistical, group-based analysis can't always predict individual human behavior?

The only ping on my Mac is gonna be the unix command.

 

[nelmat]

Why do I have to put my full name/details for the public to see to set up Ping? Screw Ping if that's the case.

You don't, use a nickname or something. And check the option to have to check which people can follow you...

 

[ten-oak-druid]

Now just give us a used section in the store in case you buy a movie, tv show or song and decide to sell it.

 

[JohnyIve]

so wait ping doesn't track what you play?, or even use it to build a profile of what you like eg: last.fm, I thought steve said it would. I don't want to go through every artist/album I like in the iTunes store and click like, once the novelty wears off I'm not sure how much I will be bothered to use it now

One of the many verbal slip ups Jobs made in the keynote.

Ping, a social network for music. What he meant to say was .. Ping, a social network for the iTunes Music Store. Only tracks purchases.

 

[besler3035]

Album List View

For those complaining about the album artwork not showing up for albums that have less than 5 songs, there is an easy fix for this:

View > Always Show Artwork

 

[KnightWRX]

Seriously? You don't think a complete change of colour scheme (to greyscale), new icons across the entire UI, the losing of the window menu bar, different line spacing and font sizes and the loss of column dividers in views results in a look that "hasn't changed much"?!

I don't even notice stuff like that. I'm a guy. I have a 16 color palette to begin with. There's only one shade of red.



New icons included the new "color scheme". The look hasn't changed much at all. Version 8 to Version 9 was more noticeable with the black background changing to white.

I'm always amazed how some people just love to complain.... honestly I don't know why anyone would be too upset over the new update? Most of the new stuff you can turn off

Really ? How do I remove the Ping option from the sidebar then ? Seriously, tell me because I really can't find the option and want to remove it.

 

[besler3035]

One of the many verbal slip ups Jobs made in the keynote.

Ping, a social network for music. What he meant to say was .. Ping, a social network for the iTunes Music Store. Only tracks purchases.

According to Ping, it displays the music you like, rate, review or purchase. So no, you don't have to purchase in order to get songs displayed.

 

[macintoshtoffy]

I hate the lack of colors in iTunes 10, so I did a little ThemePark rsrc hacking and put the colored icons from 9.2 back into 10. It's not perfect, but I didn't want to waste too much time on it, and it looks alright on my computer for the icons that I use regularly.

I love the lack of colours; colours to me are like the idiots who make websites with a bright white background. Some of us have hangovers, and many cases it is almost permanent - I don't want to see bright icons giving me migraines because someone wishes to release their creative juice on the world. Give me greys, lots of greys and shades of them. Nice and relaxing - so that I can look at them for 8+ hours and not want to tear my eye balls out.

 

[MorphingDragon]

I love the lack of colours; colours to me are like the idiots who make websites with a bright white background. Some of us have hangovers, and many cases it is almost permanent - I don't want to see bright icons giving me migraines because someone wishes to release their creative juice on the world. Give me greys, lots of greys and shades of them. Nice and relaxing - so that I can look at them for 8+ hours and not want to tear my eye balls out.

Colour has the most impact when it is used to accent or contrast anyway.

 

[ten-oak-druid]

Could you imagine the screams from the privacy brigade - iTunes is tracking my movements!

It already is and I don't like it.

 

[nelmat]

I disagree strongly. Apple should only pay attention to the low-powered masses when designing software? That's ridiculous. You don't design, manufacture, and market your flagship machine only to have it rendered useless by your software team because you don't sell that many. You REWARD your best customers with a better product and better performance they paid for and expect. You DON'T penalize them.

And no, the speed of CD import bottleneck is not on the CD drive speed, it is on iTunes... which is EXTREMELY slow in processing the files after each track is imported. In fact, the CD drive is WAITING on the computer to finish processing before going on to the next track. As for the number of people importing CDs, first you say Apple only supports the masses, now you say Apple only supports the trends that aren't dropping. Well, guess what... until iTunes music downloads are available in Apple Lossless, those of us who care about quality will continue to buy and rip CDs, and not purchase from the iTunes Store.

To sum up, Apple should RESPECT and REWARD its customers who spend TOP DOLLAR on its FLAGSHIP PRODUCTS by upscaling their performance accordingly. In this example, that means the ones who rip CDs in Apple Lossless on multi-core machines and manage hundreds of thousands of tracks.

The point is this has to be backwards compatible as much as possible, it needs to be optimised for the larger market place, not just the top end. Your machine has the power for this to run faster/smoother than on a mac mini, but at the same time it needs to work effectively on less powerful hardware.

You don't really have a point as streamlining the code (which has obviously happened here given the smaller footprint and faster launch/response times) benefits users at all levels. So it's not like you're being "left out" somehow.

 

[MorphingDragon]

I disagree strongly. Apple should only pay attention to the low-powered masses when designing software? That's ridiculous. You don't design, manufacture, and market your flagship machine only to have it rendered useless by your software team because you don't sell that many. You REWARD your best customers with a better product and better performance they paid for and expect. You DON'T penalize them.

And no, the speed of CD import bottleneck is not on the CD drive speed, it is on iTunes... which is EXTREMELY slow in processing the files after each track is imported. In fact, the CD drive is WAITING on the computer to finish processing before going on to the next track. As for the number of people importing CDs, first you say Apple only supports the masses, now you say Apple only supports the trends that aren't dropping. Well, guess what... until iTunes music downloads are available in Apple Lossless, those of us who care about quality will continue to buy and rip CDs, and not purchase from the iTunes Store.

To sum up, Apple should RESPECT and REWARD its customers who spend TOP DOLLAR on its FLAGSHIP PRODUCTS by upscaling their performance accordingly. In this example, that means the ones who rip CDs in Apple Lossless on multi-core machines and manage hundreds of thousands of tracks.

IF you truly cared anyway you would use a ripper with a better conversion engine than iTunes anyway.

 

[CraigGB]

Could you imagine the screams from the privacy brigade - iTunes is tracking my movements!

it could be opt in, personally I would have wanted that feature, anyone who didn't could just not enable it, thats what i was expecting a big part of ping to be

One of the many verbal slip ups Jobs made in the keynote.

maybe its a hint of whats to come

 

[manu chao]

Can someone tell me if it is possible to make a statistical count of the highest played songs within my iTunes in a certain period of time? (For example, my top 20 played songs this week) Can I do it by setting up rules through Smart Playlist?

without deleting my overall playcount every single week, of course.

That is what last.fm is for. I really would have preferred if iTunes had provided better hooks into things like last.fm or Pandora instead of trying to do their own thing. Naturally, last.fm is a competitor to the iTMS, but that might be exactly the point, I don't like Apple so blatantly killing competitors.

I have been a dyed-in-the-wool Apple user for almost two decades, I really like last.fm but Ping is just one step too far (the Genius side-bar recommendations were a similar thing but easy to switch off and were not such a direct attempt at replacing things like last.fm).

Of course, in a sense, Ping is just like the Genius sidebar combined with some user control (you can select the people to follow, it is not completely based on algorithms). Things like concerts and upcoming releases are nice (but need no social aspect), but usually rarely work worldwide.

The Genius mixes provide some real utility, Apple trying to build a competitor to MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, I have my doubts about.