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- Flawless, on 10/26/2007, -14/+176I know the UI from iTunes 7 is different from that of version 6, you idiot. That's not I'm talking about. Look at the left hand column. The background is blue instead of grey.
- aplardi, on 10/12/2007, -13/+117I had to click show comment just to be able to burry that. It was worth it.
- Stecchino, on 10/12/2007, -4/+94@ Cander: Ditching the smug attitude would be a good move, especially because you just made yourself silly.
@Flawless Good catch. The greyish-blue sidebar looks good although it's positively bizarre that the technical writers for apple.com/support used a modified iTunes for their screenshot. - spectre_25gt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+55Another vote for the darker blue. Definitely has a nice touch to it.
- paulwilde, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46Then quit using Lynx.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -17/+59The one they released is a beta.
- DoctorDuckey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+40possibly a late beta/wrote the article at that time? Either way, that looks good
- Buschaga, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34No kidding.... I'm looking forward to iTunes 7.0.1...
iTunes 7 gave me the first kernel panic I've ever had in Mac OS X and I've been using OS X since 10.1. I'm sure Apple will iron it all out, though. - Blizaine, on 10/12/2007, -5/+34iTunes runs perfect on both my 24" iMac, Core 2 Duo Dell laptop, and 800Mhz G4 iMac. Also, the UI is the best it has been.
- daborg, on 10/12/2007, -12/+38-190 diggs (and counting), wow... Cander has been seriously pwned.
- samadam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28Again, another person who isn't paying attention.
Its the color of the sidebar, not the main area. - Agret, on 10/12/2007, -15/+40@sarnesjo the new itunes skin is better, if you don't like it go back to itunes 5
- evelian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25I must be the only person in the world who likes the new iTunes look. At first I didn't, but I've come to realize I've gotten pretty sick of they super-shine blue and graphite. A more laid back look that emphasizes the program and not the scroll bars is kind of nice.
I hope they go with this general idea for Leopard, though the colors themselves could use some tweaking. - rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Download UNO and give your apps the same set of skins.
- indiekiduk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27yep the blue looks better. The default ui is a bit drab. Do you think a res editor would let us make it look like that?
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25"I really get the feeling Apple purposely makes iTunes slower on PC"
Sorry but you're wrong about that. As it was pointed out, it's not a good thing anyway for Apple to have slow software on the PC side.
The reason iTunes is not as fast on Windows is the same reason why the Mac version is Carbon and still uses resource forks.
What most people don't know is that since a long time ago Quicktime for Windows includes a good part of the Mac OS Carbon APIs. iTunes for windows has a good part of its code base shared with the Mac version and can call Carbon APIs when needed.
That made porting iTunes to Windows 100x easier for Apple. Quicktime for Windows essentially act as a Carbon compatibility layer for iTunes. Though nothing is really emulated, this layer creates overhead and thus, makes the Windows version run slower...
Will Apple ever make iTunes a Cocoa app on the Mac and a native app on the Windows side? Keeping both version synchronized and making sure they look and behave the same would be very much harder for Apple.
Maybe we'll see a Cocoa iTunes at the same time as Cocoa for Windows? (a.k.a. Yellow Box for Windows) - dontbejack, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21Holy *****, that's quite odd. I'm going to snag that image before Apple gets rid of it.
- sarnesjo, on 10/26/2007, -54/+70@Cander: The point is the sidebar. It is dark (as opposed to greyish light) blue on that screenshot. Either way, the new iTunes UI makes me want to vomit in my shoes.
- kodek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18"it encourages the millions of iPod users to switch I think."
Doubt it. If I had to use Apple's software to use my iPod, and it ran like *****, it'd make me think that all their software is like that, which is not the case. - FluffyArmada, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14There's always that 1/1000000 chance that he's using links2. :)
- shawnanigans, on 10/12/2007, -12/+25@mrASSMAN - iTunes works brilliantly on my MacBook, and runs like absolute ***** on my PC, which should be at least twice as fast. I really get the feeling Apple purposely makes iTunes slower on PC, (maybe not an effort to make it slower but not spending much time debugging and optimizing) it encourages the millions of iPod users to switch I think. Maybe it's a conspiracy theory but it runs so fast on the MacBook and so terribly slow on the PC.
I can't even get video to run more than 10fps, which is ***** ridiculous. - Bamborzled, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14@Agret
iTunes 5 introduced the new skin. iTunes 6 built up on it. - treblig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I like the dark blue... has a nice contrasting feel to it...
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I just found the PICT resource for the source list background color.
It is PICT ID 336 and it's found inside the iTunes.rsrc inside the iTunes app package.
The pict is a 600x64 bitmap (created in Photoshop) with a plain light blue color fill.
I successfully replaced this pict with a darker blue gradient bitmap of the same size. The PICT is scaled up in the background area of the source list, and will be rescaled live while you resize the source list.
Presumably, a bigger picture with anything you want could be used, though it may slow down the resizing process if it's too big.
I didn't find yet how to change the source font color to white though... - DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11A res editor? Like ResEdit? What do you think this is... Mac OS 9?
I'm joking... You do need a good old res editor to edit the iTunes interface (at least on the Mac).
Unlike most OS X apps that store the interface as .nib and .tiff files inside the bundle, most of the iTunes interface is still contained in a .rsrc file, which is a resource fork inside a data fork. You need a tool to convert it to a real resource fork that can be edited by ResEdit.
Resourcerer is supposed to open these .rsrc files directly, but I never got this to work.
The color background value is probably easily editable. - Sujay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10They've replaced the image on the site. I've found the previous image on Google cache:
http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/51/609841158166650/www.info.apple.com/images/kbase/60984/60984_5.jpg
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:WkFEpX2lSIgJ:docs.info.apple.com/article.html%3Fartnum%3D60984+http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html%3Fartnum%3D60984&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=safari - Bamborzled, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12"I'm using firefox."
Then stop blocking the images. - FunkOnCrack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I assume you're using ad-block and that its blocking akamai.net which is usually linked to ads.
- Bamborzled, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I like the UI too. Sleek and professional. The colours do need tweaking.
I do hope this is the new Leopard look. - Blizaine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8We all upgraded at work and the first thing everyone was talking about was how much the UI was improved.
- kodek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"I'm using firefox.
See: http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/2875/applefailsam9.jpg"
It's probably the ***** skin.
...joking :-) - myheaditches, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12One thing I noticed about iTunes 7 is that it has severe amneisa. If I pause playing and change what I'm looking at in iTunes, It'll forget what track I am on, very annoying when you're listening to an album.
- razei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It's the iPod manager for iTunes 7, but that's not the point. Look at the sidebar.
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I've had no problems on any of my work or home machines, and I haven't witnessed any problems. I wonder if some of you are running some things on your machines that might be causing the problems you're attributing to iTunes. There is some software out there (namely, things that work at a low level, like interface enhancements and whatnot) that can cause weird behavior when Apple updates its software. Make sure you've disabled third-party stuff before judging iTunes too harshly. Thus far, for me, all the machines I've used it on have run it stunningly well--but none of those have any unusual third-party stuff installed either. I consider 7.0 to be one of the best upgrades I've seen of iTunes in a long time (and I've been using it since before it was called iTunes.)
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -9/+16"The one they released is a beta."
+infinite diggs. iTunes 7 might as well be in alpha stage. The quality of the player seriously took several steps back.
"iTunes 7 gave me the first kernel panic I've ever had in Mac OS X and I've been using OS X since 10.1. I'm sure Apple will iron it all out, though."
Wow, I knew it was horrible in Windows, but I didn't realize the Mac version was ***** to hell as well. Shame on Apple. - unfinity, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12@ mrASSMAN
"iTunes 7 is the absolute worst version update in the history of the media player."
I guess you don't remember the update of iTunes that deleted peoples hard drives, then... - HauntedMac, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12I like the darker blue too.
- Hintzer22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7blue background, white text...
i like - digga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The icon means: Eject the iPod that's connected.
- frascellyboy273, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5someone please let me know if the new itunes makes you unable to change over the itunes music files to unprotected using myfairtunes...does it?
- QuackQuack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5amarok's good on Linux, but why in the world would you use it on a Mac?
- bdk9246, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7if that image disappears very quickly, thers a chance its a leak of the new leopard GUI if apple wants to try spring that on people to compete with the new Vista look
- Xabora, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5We are using iTunes 7.0.0.70 iirc.
- zang74, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It should be noted that the sidebar icons are slightly different as well. The "music" icon is green, and the "iTunes Store" icon is different. As well, the "Apply" and "Cancel" buttons are missing from the iPod settings. Meaning, more than likely an early beta. Though, I do prefer the dark blue. The "sea of light blue/grey" is getting old for me.
- NoahK, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Haha Cander. You're such a tool.
- perre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@charge: you get the tabs by plugging in an iPod, then a "DEVICES" menu appears in the sidebar at left. Below that will be listed your iPods by name. Click on your iPod's name, and the tabs appear. This is one of the updates to the software. Instead of settings for your iPod occurring in the preferences/options, they can be modified once you click on the iPod's name.
Devices menu item also appeared when I ripped a CD. Otherwise, it disappears. - danceparty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5woah nice! I like the blue bar better. that is odd that they would have that on their support page. good catch. they should release that in the next update.
I guess I'm lucky. I run itunes 7 on XP and have had no problems at all (knock on wood). I really like the gap removing, seamless playback as I listen to a lot of dj mixes. I couldn't stand the gap before. And the movie store seems cool though I haven't bought any movies yet. - elbonito665, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5i like it. apple should add a preference to change the sidebar colors in itunes.
- DM01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I actually like the new UI, but i'd rather have that dark background.
- fusioned, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4amarok on mac = nice...but itunes 7 is cool enough for me to not use amarok anymore.
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