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Revert iTunes 7 to the previous green icon set System
The novelty of the blue iTunes 7 logo wore off pretty quickly for me. I've got too many blue apps as it is, and I don't like all my media files being the same colour. Reverting to an older version of iTunes was obviously not an option, so I decided to revert just the icons instead. Here's how you do this:
  1. Download iTunes 6.0.5. Leave the downloaded package alone for now.
  2. Control-click your copy of iTunes 7 (probably in your Applications folder), and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Open the folder Contents -> Resources. Leave this window open.
  3. Use Pacifist ($20 shareware) to open up the installer you downloaded, and navigate to Contents of iTunes.mpkg -> Contents of iTunesX.pkg -> Applications -> iTunes.app -> Contents/Resources.
  4. Select all the icon files (.icns) in this folder, and drag them from Pacifist to the Finder window you left open. Confirm the replacement.
  5. Log out and back in again.
Normally, I'd tell you to back up iTunes before messing about with its contents. However, it's just an application and if you can download iTunes 6, you can download iTunes 7 again.

[robg adds: I'd also recommend quitting iTunes before changing its package contents...]
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Revert iTunes 7 to the previous green icon set
Authored by: Anonymous on Oct 02, '06 08:17:30AM
Far easier to just use Aqua4iTunes or AguaT.

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Revert iTunes 7 to the previous green icon set
Authored by: Mr. H on Oct 02, '06 02:08:08PM

Um, no. This hint is about changing iTunes 7 icons. The things you listed are about changing iTunes 7 UI widgets back to aqua.



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Revert iTunes 7 to the previous green icon set
Authored by: FrankPtown on Oct 02, '06 11:20:47AM

There is a really nice black icon at iconfactory. I think it's just called Black iTunes.



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Revert iTunes 7 to the previous green icon set
Authored by: alfrank on Oct 02, '06 11:56:24AM

It's even easier this way:

Take an iTunes 6 Installer package, right-click on it, select "show package contents", open the "Contents" folder, drag the file "Archive.pax.gz" to your Finder desktop, double-click it and it will be unpacked in two steps. In the newly created folder "Archive" you'll find an "Applications" folder an in that there's "iTunes". Select it, get Info on it, click the icon in the info window, press Apple-c to copy it, locate iTunes 7 in your applications folder, select it, get Info on it, click the icon in the info window, press Apple-v to paste the green icon. That's it. The new icon will show in the dock the next time you start iTunes after restarting the dock (logout an back in or "killall Dock" in the Terminal).



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Revert iTunes 7 to the previous green icon set
Authored by: Mr. H on Oct 02, '06 01:27:54PM

You have all mis-understood this hint.

With the installation of iTunes 7, all files that are associated with iTunes 7 (e.g. aac files) have blue-themed icons, rather than the previous green ones.

Following this hint will not only revert the iTunes icon to one with a green music note, but it will also revert all files associated with iTunes to having green-themed icons.

Unfortunately, if you update iTunes 7, the icons will revert to blue, so you'll have to follow this hint each time iTunes is updated.



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Revert iTunes 7 to the previous green icon set
Authored by: starwxrwx on Oct 06, '06 12:18:13AM

No need for Pacificst (ie no need to part with $$$) - just either use the "Go to Folder..." menu in the Finder (since the hint gives the folder names) or just use the Terminal (it's not that scary to learn ls and cd)



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