iTunes for Windows Plugin
3 years, 9 months ago I love iTunes. It is by far and away the best music management application in the public domain, and I feel that it’s look and feel are second to none. However, when porting it to Windows, Apple decided to make a few alterations to the GUI. I’m not sure why that was - maybe it was to make it easier for Windows users to get to grips with, maybe it was to encourage them to buy a Mac for the full effect.
Either way, I found a plugin for iTunes this morning which can change various different aspects of the program. It can fix the titlebar, skin it(!), change the font, move buttons around and much more. I’m amazed by it’s functionality and features, and best of all - you can download it for free!
Hopefully, we’ll start to see people beginning to develop more and more skins for it and really see it’s popularity grow. I’d certainly recommend downloading it, and you should read the full feature list while you wait.
Here are a few shots of my skinned iTunes application in action:
Itunes, Apple, Ipod
March 6th, 2005 at 11:38 am
this plugin really looks great. i’m just about to install it, and i can only second the opinion for more plugins for itunes, as a diehard user of it.
March 6th, 2005 at 6:32 pm
Thanks for the heads up on this, looks really good.
March 6th, 2005 at 6:48 pm
Hey Cyro - I love your website. You’re a remarkably similar guy to myself
Any chance of an RSS feed for your blog though?
March 7th, 2005 at 8:05 pm
Cheers for this - very funky, tho it will be much better when I just replace my PC with a Mac Mini - but at least I have an iBook
March 7th, 2005 at 8:37 pm
At least you have an iBook?
Lol - You don’t know how lucky you are
March 8th, 2005 at 10:14 am
Having had my iBook for over two years, I sure know how lucky I am!
March 8th, 2005 at 5:11 pm
I can’t wait to be part of the Mac user base - I’m coming to join you Marko!
March 9th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
What I’d like iTunes to do before I’d consider switching back to it:
1) Have a setting that would prevent iTunes from ever deleting a file
2) Have iTunes scan my music directory in less than a minute (like winamps music library) rather than 20 minutes
3) Have iTunes understand that I would like to manage my own files, and that it should be able to cope with me moving them around outside of iTunes
4) Stop using 50 mb of ram on stuff like iPod helper programs when I don’t have an iPod.
March 9th, 2005 at 1:47 pm
Although iTunes always asks me whether I want to delete a file when I remove it from my library, and I can tick “remember in future” I think…
March 15th, 2005 at 12:20 am
Apologies, I’ve been meaning to reply to this for ages.
Due to constraints on my server I use Blogger to blog, who don’t provide a RSS feed, though I’ve been meaning to set one up for ages.
Blogger provides an XML site feed (http://cyro.cs-territories.com/blog/atom.xml) which I curiously haven’t linked to from anywhere, must have been a bit too liberal in deleting something.
March 15th, 2005 at 6:51 am
Cheers - I’ve stuck it in my RSS sidebar
November 11th, 2005 at 4:59 pm
The thing that’s great about Apple is that they port all bugs and weird logic to the Windows versions also. Seems they have fixed a few of those in iTunes 6, although they still exist on Mac. Oh boy, I dunno what to believe in now.