iTunes 10 sports a significant color scheme shift–the once colorful icons in the left-hand toolbar are now what some users describe as a dull gray. The author of drien.com has developed a hack that returns the colorful icons from iTunes 9.2 to the iTunes 10 interface.
Installing the patch requires the following process:
- Quit iTunes 10
- Download this package
- Go to the Applications folder and control-click or right-click iTunes and select “Show Package Contents”
- Navigate to /Contents/Resources/ and copy the file iTunes.rsrc to a safe location.
- Copy the iTunes.rsrc file from the package you downloaded and paste it into the same /Contents/Resources/ folder, replacing the old file.
If anything goes wrong, you can replace the old iTunes.rsrc file or download and reinstall iTunes 10.
September 3, 2010 at 8:41 AM
What an ugly iTunes logo, as if it were designed by a geek, likely one from Microsoft…no aesthetic value at all, no zing.
September 3, 2010 at 11:01 AM
Yeah this hack works!! Thanks for restoring colour to iTunes!
September 3, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Went crazy wondering why it worked for my wife’s account but not mine. Then I figured out that it only seems to work if you have your source list text set to small, rather than large. I prefer the large text, but color small is better than 2-bit large.
September 3, 2010 at 12:49 PM
I can confirm and concur with DJR12. I also prefer the larger text. Perhaps in Hack 2.0? How could Apple make so crass a move as to eliminate color on the Source Icons? Color _IS_ information and many of us both need and use it. It’s not just a decoration, else why would Apple still include Label colors?
September 3, 2010 at 4:31 PM
It’s little things like this that make being a Nerd worth it. Thanks for the small but impactful hack (there seems to be some confusion about whether impactful is a word).
September 3, 2010 at 8:00 PM
I’d love to find a fix like this that works with large source text.
September 3, 2010 at 8:42 PM
where is the application folder located?
September 4, 2010 at 2:58 AM
The download works and the colour has been restored to my itunes (so much better!!)
But whenever i open itunes up the following message comes up:
Do you want the application “iTunes.app” to accept incoming network connections?
Is anyone else having this problem and is there anyway to stop this message openeing every time as it does get slightly annoying!
September 6, 2010 at 6:21 AM
The package cannot be downloaded because the bandwith limit has been exceeded. Is there an alternate site?
September 6, 2010 at 7:47 AM
Can someone mirror the download? Bandwidth constantly exceeded…
Ta!!
October 25, 2010 at 3:20 PM
where is the application folder located?