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iTunes 10 Now Available to Download
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Fickle? I think the iTunes UI team are the fickle ones... they seem to have to fiddle with its design every few releases or so. We're all still trying to use the thing despite them messing about with it all the time(!), hardly fickle.
On a 13" screen, you have to be very judicious in your choice of what to show there if you want to avoid scrolling.
Exactly! Same issue with 700+ apps.. Where is the search bar?!
+1 This is a horrible omission. I don't really care about the icon or the change to "grayscale" icons, but this is a function that disappeared and something I used constantly. So much so that I'll be going back to 9.x
Exactly! Same issue with 700+ apps.. Where is the search bar?!
It now uses the search in the top right corner, stinks I know, but better than nothing.
Doesn't let you select iTunes 10 in them dropdowns. Typical.
On a side note, iTunes 10 is a lot snappier- so much so it now plays my music at 1.4x the speed. Really awesome!!!
**COLORS**
He everyone, with the help of our fellow MacRumors friend, OutThere,
I've made a quick little utility that makes it so you can switch iTunes 10 from the new style to one that is more colorful (like the old one) and you can switch it back if you like. The utility also allows you to switch scrollbars in the finder from aqua to itunes style, and a couple other changes.
keep in mind I make no claims of being a professional programmer, so this is rough at best but it does work.
All the best to everyone.
Click here to Download the iTunes and (snow) Leopard UI Fixer
He everyone, with the help of our fellow MacRumors friend, OutThere,
I've made a quick little utility that makes it so you can switch iTunes 10 from the new style to one that is more colorful (like the old one) and you can switch it back if you like. The utility also allows you to switch scrollbars in the finder from aqua to itunes style, and a couple other changes.
keep in mind I make no claims of being a professional programmer, so this is rough at best but it does work.
All the best to everyone.
Click here to Download the iTunes and (snow) Leopard UI Fixer
Overall, I agree with the sentiment of previous posts that the new design isn't anything to lose sleep over. Personally, I like a lot of the changes. I prefer the new grayscale sidebar icons, but I usually use the graphite appearance option and my wallpaper is the graphite version of Tiger's default. So maybe I like it just because it fits better with my personal preferences.
But yeah, that volume slider nubbin is ridiculously ugly. Is it a softball? The top of some gray gem? Why is it so big? Oh well.
Edit- I just noticed that iTunes no longer says "iTunes" at the top of the application window. This, combined with the sideways-oriented window controls freed up some small amount of window real estate to the library. I'm not saying it's worth it, just that it maybe logically answers the often-posted question, "why are the buttons sideways?"
But yeah, that volume slider nubbin is ridiculously ugly. Is it a softball? The top of some gray gem? Why is it so big? Oh well.
Edit- I just noticed that iTunes no longer says "iTunes" at the top of the application window. This, combined with the sideways-oriented window controls freed up some small amount of window real estate to the library. I'm not saying it's worth it, just that it maybe logically answers the often-posted question, "why are the buttons sideways?"
Not sure if this is new, but now you can play songs and videos directly from a connected iPhone, provided that it's authorized to the same iTunes account. The songs don't have to be present in your local library, and it doesn't matter whether "manually manage music" option is on or off. It correctly keeps track of play counts, bookmarks for podcasts and movies, etc.
So you can sync an iPhone with your main desktop, then plug it into laptop and play your media there without having to keep two identical iTunes libraries or using home sharing. Nice feature.
So you can sync an iPhone with your main desktop, then plug it into laptop and play your media there without having to keep two identical iTunes libraries or using home sharing. Nice feature.
It's for people that like to mess and social networking sites like twitter.
Which is also rather pointless
Just wanted to post a link in here. I've completed a significant amount of my mod
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=10977137
Oh & just so there's no confusion, it looks like OutThere & I had the same idea at the same time
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/10975137/.
I hope this mod helps someone
+100 internet points for you, thank you very much for the tweaks. I wonder if Apple really beta tested the new visual changes and actually got positive feedback on it?
Move the "stop lights"* back to horizontal:
Code:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1See if that doesn't solve your issue with the missing title at the top of the application window.
(* The close, minimize, and zoom buttons)
I've been playing around with iTunes 10 and the first thing you immediately notice is the massive change in font types--it takes some getting used to. But I do like the fact it works a tad smoother, and it detected and synced all my iPods with my problems.
Really? Look at the application iSync. What is that? A brushed metal icon. Same as that knob, minus the recycle style arrows.
Ping problems
I've created my Ping profile, and selected a few to follow, like Jack Johnson, Coldplay, etc. When I look at the feeds, it'll say things like, "Get a sneak peak at Jack's new video for...". But there is no way to view the video, or a photo for that matter. No photo thumbs show up, no video thumbs either. Does this require Snow Leopard? Am I missing something?
I've created my Ping profile, and selected a few to follow, like Jack Johnson, Coldplay, etc. When I look at the feeds, it'll say things like, "Get a sneak peak at Jack's new video for...". But there is no way to view the video, or a photo for that matter. No photo thumbs show up, no video thumbs either. Does this require Snow Leopard? Am I missing something?
I'm sure this has been posted before, but I'm not reading through 23 pages...here is the fix for the gray colors and button layout...just installed it and it works great.
http://erambert.me/Files/iTunes109.dmg
http://erambert.me/Files/iTunes109.dmg
Apple should go through and read the forums on their site and many Mac worship sites as a standard of procedure in their user testing.
It's supposed to resemble an old 70s Hi-Fi unit's switches and knobs. I'm guessing it's so big because Apple is playing with multi-touch on some prototype Mac. iTunes has always been their experimental UI testing ground.
Wow, just wow. LOL!
Really? Look at the application iSync. What is that? A brushed metal icon. Same as that knob, minus the recycle style arrows.
Pardon my out-of-sequence replies but iSync is basically there for legacy purposes. It don't believe it is still actively maintained. I will likely be gone in the next version of X.
People don't need it for syncing their Nokias etc. anymore? I know I used it a lot when I didn't have an iPhone.