Comments on: iTunes Icon for Ad Hoc Distributions

By: willow

willow — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:40:31 +0000

Thanks for all this guys, really usefull, especially with the naming thing.

Cheers

By: Kalyan Raju

Kalyan Raju — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:35:49 +0000

By using this i am able to change the Image. How can i change the tag “Unknown Genre”.
Thanks in advance.

By: Kelso

Kelso — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:10:12 +0000

Paul has it right. I didn’t know, however, that you could remove the extension in the “Get Info” window. I’ve been using the Terminal to rename mine.

By: Paul Walker

Paul Walker — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:26:38 +0000

Actually, I think the #2 gotcha is simpler still. Renaming a file inline in the Finder, and removing its extension, just raises the “hide extension” flag on the file, leaving the extension intact but invisible – if you get info (cmd+i) on the file, you can see this happening. And, if you rename the file within the get Info window, this doesn’t occur.

By: Mark A. Donohoe

Mark A. Donohoe — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:16:57 +0000

Actually, as per your points 2 and 3, while I’m guessing, I bet I know what’s going on. You can rename it anywhere you want. Problem is if you’ve added the file with an extension, that file is marked in the metadata as a graphic file (use ‘Get Info’ to see what I mean.) Simply renaming the file and removing the extension does not change this. Continuing this thought, if you add a file that doesn’t have an extension, it does not get marked as a graphic file. (I believe I read somewhere that PNGs and such get some sort of compression at build time so when it’s not marked as a graphic, it leaves the file alone and thus it works.)

I found this out when I was trying to add a zip file to our bundle. Kept crashing Xcode. Found out that when you add a zip, not only does it think it’s a framework, it also adds it to the ‘linking’ stage, not the copying stage, but what caused XCode to crash was that it was set to be indexed. By saying not to index it and moving it from the link to the copy stage as well as marking it as an archive, not a framework, voila! It worked! (That’s also why I’m guessing it’s identified wrong in the ‘get info’ dialog for your graphic.)

By: Chris Gibbs

Chris Gibbs — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:06:58 +0000

Thanks for the tips!

As for caveat #2, you can probably get around it by renaming the file from the command line, rather than from Finder. For example if your file is in your home directory, simply open Terminal and type the following:

$ mv orig_image_name.png new_image_name

By: Steve Workman

Steve Workman — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:34:26 +0000

There’s another caveat too. If you’re using the iPhone Config Utility on OS 2, 2.1 and 2.2 iPhones or iPod touches for In-house Enterprise applications, it’ll throw an error if you try to give it iTunesArtwork.

I’ve raised a bug about this and Apple asked me to upgrade to 3.0 – I have since told them they’ve missed the point