People really are creatures of habit. The greyscale sidebar icons put more focus on the content. The vertical (not horizontal) window controls are a more efficient use of space as they allow for the other controls to be pushed further to the top edge of the window. Personally I’m hoping Apple pushes out these design improvements consistently across the OS.

“Loathe — absolutely loathe — the new iTunes 10 look? The grayscale sidebar icons? The hypocritically wonky horizontal windows controls? That ghastly new CD-less icon?”

You guys, should really get a life. You have to have no problems to bother yourselves with such an absurd. I’m beginning to really dislike Apple fanboys and understand why people laugh at them…although i love and use their products.

mhm… tried to install it but i don’t see any change, not even after restart… any suggestions?

The user “Me” said: “You have to have no problems to bother yourselves with such an absurd. I’m beginning to really dislike Apple fanboys and understand why people laugh at them…”

Ok ok ok …. so people who *support* everything Apple does without question are “fanboys”, and now people who *complain* that they *don’t like* the tiniest things Apple does are, er, also “fanboys”.

Wow, so if you like the new look, you’re a fanboy. If you hate it, you’re a fanboy too.

Awesome.

I think we’ve all learned a lot today.

The only thing I hate, aside from Ping, is the stupid “traffic light” layout of the close/minimize/maximize buttons.

Don’t have a massive issue with the icons. Hate, really hate the traffic light layout, simply because it’s inconsistent. If they change it right across the OS, then so be it. But for now, it should fit with everything else.

I’ve also patched my system so I can still use “Apple N” to make a new folder.
Stuck in my ways? Me?

If you’re on a Mac and wish to roll back to iTunes 9, here’s how.

First thing’s first. You’ll need to track down a Mac version of 9.2.1. Apple has (from what I could tell) stripped it from the site, and many searches just turned up links to Apple’s site. While this is sill available, get it here – http://tinyurl.com/33pnveb

Now, trash the cursed icon from your dock, and then delete the program itself from ‘Applications’. No worries, nothing important is saved in the app.

If you have the space, you’re going to want to do a backup of your music files before anything else. Go into ‘(your hard drive)/Users/Music/’ and you’ll see an ‘iTunes’ folder. This has everything important in it. Go ahead and duplicate it either to a CD backup, or just duplicate it somewhere else on your hard drive. In the event something goes wrong, You can always put the duplicate back in place and re-download iTunes 10.

Now, go into the iTunes folder (the original, not your backup!) and trash these 3 files-

- iTunes Library
- iTunes Library Extensions
- iTunes Library Genius

Leave everything as-is.

Now, install iTunes 9. When finished, put a copy of the icon back on your dock and click it. After clearing the legal agreement, you’ll be greeted with what appears to be a blank slate — no tunes, no video. This is NORMAL. The files we trashed are the glue of what ties the application to your files — files that were updated to only work with 10. What we need to do now is to rebuild those files back into the iTunes folder.

But before we do anything with the folder, we need to make some quick adjustments in iTunes 9 to ensure everything goes smoothly. This is KEY. Pull down ‘Preferences/ Advanced’ and turn OFF the following-

- Keep iTunes media folder organized
- Copy files to iTunes media folder when adding to library

Click OK.

Take the iTunes folder that we tracked down before, and drag the whole thing directly into the open white window area of iTunes. Immediately it will start processing your music, linked artwork, iPhone/Touch apps, etc. If at ANY time it asks if you want to replace item X with a new item X, click NO. It may ask you this a few dozen times. Just always click NO.

And there you go. After 5 to 10 minutes, your iTunes will be fully restored to 9.2.1. Enjoy!

Future tip – Watch out for Apple updates from now on, or you may inadvertently upgrade to 10 one day and have to repeat the process of rollback.

thanks paul!!!!!!! you saved my dayyyyyy!!!! back to itunes 9.2.1! yeaaaaa

Is it possible to actually revert back to 9.0 or 9.02?