Post iTunes Upgrade Questions like why is the icon red and other troubles...

Le Artista wrote:

TOO appreciate the original question and responses!
This morning I opened up my updated iTunes on my laptop and was surprised to see the same issue!
A RED icon?? LOL..

Can someone tell me how to get an old blue icon ***with a clear background*** to appear in the dock? I know how to replace the icon, but even when I use a correctly sized PNG file with a clear background, in the dock it shows up on a white square.

Any ideas??

Tks

just showing their true communist colors

Thank you for the wonderful explanation about the missing sidebar and the benefits of the new design. I think so many of us were initially so frustrated with these changes that we haven't worked our way through to the benefits yet. At least that's been true in my case. Lastly, I must assume there's some sort of oriental influence in the change from blue to red with the iTunes icon. I can't think of any other reason, and since my husband loved red and used to live in Hong Kong that's what has me thinking this might be so. Who knows?! In that part of the world red is the color of fortune, but I still prefer the blue.

Ooo, a green icon. I like that idea very much, ha. I'm wondering who will be more upset by this change, men or women (as we're usually more into the color thing). Though my initial objection was the red makes me think something's wrong and draws my eye to it when I might prefer otherwise. But since we can change any icon we want and in old Windows machines I used to change them by the dozen for a more interesting desktop and because one could recognize symbols/icons faster than reading text...well, enough blah, blah. Just wanted to comment on the green movement. 😎

I couldn't agree more. Seems like Apple has gone crazy lately. I was forced to used PCs at work, bought a Mac for home use and have been so happy with Apple products since then. Until now. Updates should always be seamless and make sense. They don't anymore. Please, Apple, stop making "improvements" that screw everything up. I've loved Apple products because they've been user friendly; no so anymore.

UGLY HORRIBLE RED ICON. I hate the color red in general and this particular icon shade of red hurts my eyes and makes me thing something is wrong.

ITunes is my SANCTUARY, or WAS. This horrid "upgrade" has me seeing...RED. I gotta find another substitute icon, FAST. Apple What are you THINKING? UGH UGH UGH.

There is no quantitative value in drawing so much attention to this icon. The red icon does absolutely nothing and draws the eye like a black hole, because of it's intensity.

It's like a bad banner ad. What next, animated icons just to grab our attention? "But it would be so cool if it was a throbbing pulse."

"Oh we want it to look like iOS8". Yeah right because it's a great idea to be consistently lame?

Apple is falling down farther and farther on the single most important usability credo. As Steve Krug said "Don't Make Me Think"(great book). I'm already thinking WAY too much.

I cant stand this **** red icon, I can never find itunes and keep thinking its gone from my dock, I cant even get my brain to remember this **** thing is red after ten years of blue. IOS8 looks like a child designed it and half the time I find myself clicking words that aren't even links... thanks to these lazy graphic designers and there hideously boring flat look. Yosemite ***** and is slower than mavericks with a lot more glitches, I fear apple is going to continue down this dark path and eventually be just another brand. Im going back to mountain lion when apple still had class.

The problem, though, with choosing red and white is actually very simple: what else shows up as a red circle with white inside?

Answer: the notification bubble that appears on icons. The iTunes icon now resembles a notification icon, the very thing that Apple has conditioned users to read as "you need to look at this right now."

A sly move, maybe, but incredibly distracting if you're working on a project that requires your full concentration and it keeps catching your attention out of the corner of your eye. Yes, there are several ways to make the icon disappear (along with all the other icons that it appears with). Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose?

Also, most of the West (at least) is enculturated to perceive red signals as alarms and alerts. For example, stop lights and signs, status bars warning us that our batteries are about to die or that our antivirus protection somehow got shut off, and so on. We are conditioned to view a red signal as indicating "this is a serious problem" or, at least, "this is an issue that needs to be addressed." It's baffling why Apple would think that an enculturated message of "things are not good here" would be appropriate to pair up with one of its flagship products. (Then again, after using iTunes 12 for a month and then rolling back to a 6-month-old Time Machine backup because I hated it and Yosemite that much, it is an accurate symbol...)

there is a biological reason why people react negatively to red...it is the color blood turns when it is exposed to oxygen, as when our skin is injured and we need to attend to an open wound!

very very bad design decision!

Changing the icon with the get info technique fixes how it appears in the finder and the dock. But it still is red in dialog boxes etc.

annoying

I agree, the problem is not just that the color changed but that it changed to one that clashed hard against the colder color scheme of blue, also that the red makes it seam like its telling you that it has an error, If it changed in a more subtle way then we would have been fine with no complaints, but now its just blazing red in the middle of the more relaxed colors.

Also if this is a social experiment, so help me god, no one messes with my color scheming for the sake of science.

I suspect a significant reason for the color change, may have been because it had become quite easy to confuse the circular blue and white icon for iTunes, with the equally circular blue and white icon for the App Store, in the Dock.

To be honest I'm not sure which I dislike more, the confusion caused by the old icon, or the new red icon.. Apple should have gone with a green icon for one of them, in my opinion.

Hi,

You are a bit behind times. iTunes 12.2 icon is not red.

Jim

I was using 12.1 (which had a red icon..and crashed a lot) just checked out 12.2 and you are correct.. it now looks as though the icon color has run in the wash.. not sure that is an improvement, although the App does seem more stable.. and I'm sure there are plenty of other people, still using older versions of iTunes for a variety of reasons, who still have the red icon.. so with the greatest respect, try not using such a rude and condescending, attitude please, Jim.