High contrast mode in iTunes 10

Sep 07, '10 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

If you are struggling with the new low-contrast icons in iTunes 10, here is a hint to change the appearance.

In the terminal enter:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes high-contrast-mode-enable -bool TRUE

This will give a high-contrast side bar and listing pane. To undo this repeat the command but change the TRUE to FALSE. I haven't managed to get the color icons back yet though.

The preference AppleAquaColorVariant is next in the list after high-contrast-mode-enable and also does something, unfortunately every value I've tried so far prevents iTunes from launching. If you want to experiment, you can remove it to fix iTunes with:

defaults delete com.apple.iTunes AppleAquaColorVariant

[crarko adds: I tried this, and what it does is go from black on white to white on black. That certainly is higher contrast but I don't know how appealing that will be. I may try it for a while. If anyone has success with the AppleAquaColorVariant setting please submit a hint about it. That would seem to be a more desirable change.]

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