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Don’t Like iTunes New Gray Look? Easily Add The Color Back (and move the Widgets Too!)

September 3, 2010 by in Random with 9 Comments

The thing I love about MacOS X is how with the Terminal you can pretty much customize anything. A string here, a boolean there. Well with a tiny bit of typing you can bring back that punch of color to the dreary iTunes 10.

First download the iTunes color resources

Make sure you Quit iTunes

Then, right click and “Show Package Contents” on iTunes to show ‘Contents’ folder. Back up and replace your /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunes.rsrc with the included file.

When you open iTunes it will now have the color icons.

A bonus tip, if you want the normal stoplight buttons back, Close your iTunes, open Terminal and paste in this “defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1″, hit enter. The next time you open iTunes the widgets will back back in their “normal” place.


  • http://lisacerilli.nfshost.com Lisa

    Thank god. Oh man, I had to think about what I was clicking on with the new icons while before it was easy because of the colours. THANK YOU.

  • Jazmine

    Oh god, thank you so much. The grayed out thing was really awful to look at.

  • jeff

    You rock!! Thanks a lot!

  • xonegon

    Thanks, this helped so much :-)

  • homeden

    Ahhhh, I feel better now! What was Apple thinking? Guess they weren’t. Certainly appreciate your figuring it out.

  • Shaun Opp

    Thanks for the fix! The pref’s icons are still b/w.

  • Dave

    That’s fine and dandy, but is there a way to restore some lost functionality? My wife and I rip audiobooks to listen to on our ipods. Since the track information for audiobooks is unlikely to be in the online database, we have to enter it all by hand. I would normally enter just the first disk’s info, and rip it. Then, I would enter just the information for the remaining disks without ripping until I had them all entered. Once all of the data was entered, I would put in a disk and press import. A few minutes later I would eject it, insert the next, and press import, ad discum toto. It was quicker than entering the data and importing each one separately. In iTunes 10, the entered info is not saved once I eject the disk if I hadn’t ripped it. :( Any ideas?

    Also, on Win7, after each disk is finished ripping, iTunes appears to completely hang for about 2 minutes, no disk or network activity, while it says “Importing whatever”. iTunes 9 did the same thing. Anyone else have that problem too?

  • Carl

    Wow… Thanks!!! What a relif… The new checkbox in the lists are there though (can live with that).

    But the best “bonus” with your fix … the ugly and annoying ping button is gone. That one was sitting exactly where I always doubleclick.

    Couldn’t they have made a pref setting for that one. (Show annoying ping button: [yes/no]).

    Anyway – Thanks again!!!

  • Sana

    Seriously, thank you SO MUCH:)

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