The new iTunes icon looks cheap and out of place in Snow Leopards dock. I have replace the icon right away with the old iTunes 9.

Fugly. The previous wasn't manna from heaven or anything but wow does this seem like something from the mid-90's and poorly executed at that. It's something even Microsoft should be embarrassed by. Sorry Apple, I love ya' but this looks about as good as the new iPhone software works.

F-

I find Steve's explanation not very convincing.. What about that remaining musical note then? iTunes clearly offers more ten music alone. My suggestion for the next iTunes logo: a combination of ear and eye?!!

I think the new logo is very nice! People seem to be afraid of change..

I like the new icon

It's just an icon, I already get used to it. However the last one really was connected with iTunes. The new one seems for me like some GNU/Linux music player.

uglieeee

I totally agree with your point, ever since I first got an Ipod, the symbol is what i've searched for every time I wanted to open my Itunes but I guess we'll eventually get used to this one...

I feel like I've seen that icon somewhere before in the Internet. I really don't like it; it breaks the iTunes family branch.

i changed it.... using candybar.

Candy bar wasn't fully needed, you can 'Get Info' the app and paste whatever icon you want. I pasted the green tune logo back.

New one is s****

ugly icon, end of story

It sucks, changing it asap back to the old one

I really dislike the new iTunes logo. As well as the new greyscale itunes... I liked the colors it used to have.

And yes I subscribed to Ping, but that doesn't mean I've used it or done anything with it... I'm interested to see what sort of new socializing it will offer....

Personally i think it still stands out, and the reasoning behind the change is quite logical. If hardly anyone uses CD's anymore why have a CD in the icon? and all those who say they HATE some of the changes in the iTunes UI are just pretentious sook's, "They changed the where the traffic light buttons are OHNO!" i mean seriously who cares? it looks nice.

hate it

the new icon is horrible. also take a look at the tray icon. that's really rubbish. lately Apple does mistake after mistake

didn't like it... :(

It would be more appropriate to have an icon which is along the same lines/theme as iLife applications

hate it

I think I can use the paint to draw this logo, which means ugly

As I am one of the folks whose comment was quoted in the article "what evolutions should iTunes need", I feel I need to give my opinion.

I said since iTunes is about well... tunes, it needed to be split into several applications to go back to the roots.

It seems Apple chose another strategy, making it even more global in terms of media. And 'im ok with it.

Therefore, the ditch of the CD image was normal, but then why keeping the keys ? And we have been used to more detailed icons. I'm thinking about the Time Machine icon, highly detailed.

We have the chance to have a huge resolution on our machines, and i think it'd have been great to use it.

This simple glossy icon resembles what we could find on vista.

Yet, i prefer it to the previous one, just doesn't go as far as i'd have expected.

The old logo got lost in the dock. This is a case of function over form.

I just think all of the other icons look old and out of place now.

Atleast its new!!
Got bored of the previous one and I like it!!

This might sound weird, but it's too round... There are very few round icons on the dock and I think it looks a little out of place. I'm sure I'll get used to it though!

As I said when I first saw it - it looks like something Microsoft barfed up, and seem sub-standard compared to the regular level of their work. I guess you can't be good at everything after all!

Brutal Ugly! Have liked every iTunes update since jumping to Mac back in 2006 but the new icon and UI is terrible looking. It's starting to look like real player or something as equally disappointing

The new icon looks like something you would find along with a freeware media player from cnet. Horrible.

Completely agree - it doesn't fit in with the Mac palette. To me, it seems to have a Microsoft aesthetic.

Unfortunately, it does seem to match the "style" of the equally ugly QuickTime icon - I'm afraid this is the look of things to come . . .

I think the new itunes icon looks like it's going backward in technology - not forward. It looks like something that was from 15 updates ago.. in the 90's. Ugh

I can't seem to get used to it! This icon looks like something I've seen in the cheesy clip art of Microsoft Word!

I get lost looking for iTunes now :(

It looks totally generic, like it has been bought on iStock. I hate it (a passionate graphic designer)

Just say no. I also replaced mine with the previous logo.

FUGLY. UNMAC. WINDOZE-LIKE. Fire the design team. If I want an ugly operating system I'll use windoze or maybe android or....

The new iTunes logo is terrible--especially on a Mac, where you can see it in the Dock all the time. It doesn't look like iTunes--it looks like some kind of generic RealPlayer equivalent. I also changed it back to the older icon.

I really can't believe what the fuss is al about. In my opinion there are other things in iTunes 10 that look far more out of place than the new icon.

In my opinion there's nothing wrong with the new icon. On my Dock the icon of iTunes sits next to the icons of Dashboard and Safari. The new icon fits better next to these icons than the old one, because the new icon is perfectly round. It's a circle with of the same shape as the icons of Dashboard and Safari. So, in my opinion this new icon fits better on my Dock than the old one.

Ditching the CD actually is an obvious decision, although I'm an old-fashioned person who still uses discs. I hate digital distribution and never download music, movies or games. I only buy stuff on a CD or DVD. I've never played a downloaded song in iTunes and I've never played a downloaded movie in QuickTime, but I use iTunes, QuickTime and DVD-Player to play CD's, Video-CD's and DVD's (yes I even sometimes use those old-fashioned Video-CD's).

I'm old-fashioned, so I still use discs, but I know most people never put a CD or DVD into their Macs. Digital distribution is taking over the world (sadly), so why should there be a disc in the icon of iTunes? Almost nobody uses them anymore. iTunes is almost exclusively used to play downloaded music. In my opinion changing the icon was a good decision.

In my opinion there are other things to care about in iTunes 10. What happened to the consistency of the application itself?

Why are the window controls (close, minimize and maximize) on top of each other, instead of next to each other? Every application has the window controls next to each other, so iTunes should also do this. Every application should have the same look and feel. An application shouldn't try to reinvent the wheel.

Why does the volume control in iTunes 10 look different than the volume control of Mac OS X itself (the one in the menu bar, to the left of the clock)? Both should use the same colors, to create a consistent look and feel.

Who cares?
Gosh, it's ONLY a friggin ICON, an I C O N!!!
That said, i like the new logo, cause it looks fresh. Not that I dislike the old one, but it was time for a change.

I like it! I never liked the old logo, and have been using it since it was green!

I wouldn't mind a changed logo without a CD in it, and I agree with the motivation behind getting rid of the CD, but I think the actual new logo does not fit with other mac logos very well. Most of the built-in apps, and indeed most apps built for Mac use logos that take advantage of transparency to be an interesting shape. The only exceptions are web browsers, most of which seem to use a circle (Safari, Firefox, Chrome).

So, to me, the new iTunes logo makes it look like a web browser, and there is really no reason I can think of why the notes should be trapped in a blue circle -- it looks way to much like the Safari icon. I'd much prefer to see the notes on their own (making them more prominent than with the old disc-and-notes logo) rather than less (they are now smaller to fit inside the circle).

Basically, I hate the new logo not because it is new, but because I like to be able to see at-a-glance (by shape) what the icons are. The old iTunes logo let me do that, but the new one does not, and I can't think of a good explanation for it, unless they are eventually planning to merge Safari and iTunes into one application (perhaps not the most ridiculous idea, but extremely unlikely).

It looks...off, to say the least. No offence but I'm 16 years old and I could do better than that! You don't change something iconic - pardon the pun - and Apple of all people should know this, considering their also iconic logo, which hasn't changed drastically. I think that it is indeed UGLY.

Totally agree with F- looks like a mid 90s design and gives apple a low end style. Looks like something that would fit with Vista ! Don't understand how this got passed the art director...

anyway, here's a better alternative : http://danwiersema.com/blog/2010/09/05/itunes-10-replacement-icons/

Haha this seems really superficial but that new icon is FUGLY. Im changing it as soon as the download finishes.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2566091

Looks like something microsoft would have designed

If any one has the latest placebo album they should open a picture of the album cover and raise the new itunes logo out of there dock at the same time...wait a second?

-RP

Dull, Boring, uninspired.... I really dislike the new itunes logo

I have to say, I'm surprised that this one got past the drawing room...
It's so early noughties, it looks like it was designed by microsoft. Like it was made on a tea-break.

But Jobs, arrogant as always, will defend it to the death because he doesn't admit anything....
What a pity; could this mark a turning point for a company that displayed such good taste in such areas in the past.....!

!?!

looking at it alongside the other icons in my doc... its lame! looks "undesigned", brutal, flat, cheap. what has happened here? Apple is normally the pillar of design. seems like it is maybe the time to switch away from a cd icon, but this? no way. I'm gonna change mine back to the old or to something else, anything else.

The new itunes icon is just lame at first i thought some thing had happened to my computer then i figured out that it was a new icon and the new lay out sucks i liked the old one better the text looks generic and crappy to me and the check boxes next to all the songs look like some thing my 1st grade teacher would have stamped on my home work and the over all itunes layout i think lacks color when i accessed the preferences menu i actually was happy it still was the same i just wish i could say that for the rest of itunes im actually thinking of backdating to one of the old versions of itunes i have

the new iTunes icon is pathetic, I am also pissed off with the fact that I was not given a choice to keep the old logo when I downloaded iTunes 10. I hope Apple does not become the next microsoft...

looks like a pc's icon!!

It looks like a microsoft office clip art picture. Everytime i look at it, im reminded of school.

hate this icon...loved the old

absolutely doesn't keep in with the other icons on dock...I'm running leopard. Looks brash, flip, corporate ..ie false and rather crass. Apple is moving too fast and is now feeling remote as we are all now just people /(numbers) to buy their products.......I'm not a number.
Adrian

It's ugly and looks like a 10 year old designed it.

i hate the new icon... true i am generally annoyed with change but it jut looks like some cheap mp3 app thing... not apple-y enough!

I don't like the new icon. It doesn't fit Apple's image like the old one did. I hope there's a way to get the old one back.

The new itunes logo is less dimensional and simply unattractive.

I think it was long overdue for a change, but the new one seems a little overboard with the shiny glowing effect. It's like every option available in Photoshop was just slapped on.

It's not exactly impossible to tolerate, and it is a slight step up from the old icon, but is it any good? No way. If you're going to redesign something, why not just go all the way and make it look amazing?

Sad to say but in the aesthetics department, Microsoft might just be starting to gain the edge over Apple, and PC hardware manufacturers like Samsung are finally beginning to take the premium hardware market seriously, so unless Apple stops getting complacent it's going to lose some serious ground soon.

My money goes where the quality is at, so there's no emotional investment in either company, but it is pretty interesting to watch.

Very ugly, looks like a Microsoft logo from the 80's