The iTunes 7 Icon is Ugly

jesse / 13.Sep.2006

Actually it’s not too bad. But I think I like the iTunes 6 icon better. Unfortunately, Apple made it surprisingly challenging to find the old icon and perform the ol’ switch-a-roo. Here’s how I did it on OSX.

First, I had to find the image. Luckily, Wikipedia saved the day again. I mean, 128x128 transparent PNG? How can you get any better than that?

The only snafu is that OSX doesn’t really support transparent PNGs as icons. At least, it doesn’t seem to respect the alpha-channel transparency. What OSX really wants is a ICNS file. Luckily, I managed to find a nifty image to ICNS converter.

Voila! An iTunes 6 ICNS for your downloading enjoyment. (At least until I get the C&D from Apple legal.)

To perform the actual swap, first click the ICNS file and hit CMD-C (Copy). Next, find iTunes in your Applications folder, select the app and hit CMD-I (Get Info). Click on the icon in the top left of the info window. (It should get a little blue glow around it.) Hit CMD-V (Paste).

That should do it! The icon on your dock probably won’t change until you actually launch iTunes.

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1 Comment

You can also download this set of variations on the iTunes 6 icon: http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/details.php?id=762 It has a range of colors from reds to blues, but the scaling is more like iTunes 6. I think the biggest problem with the v.7 icon is the scaling, not the color.
Metrobilly metrobilly / 14.Sep.2006 at 10:20am

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