| Add colored icons to Audio CD Tracks
 Ben Lukens sent in this great tip, along with the great looking icon. This edit removes one of the last commonly seen black and white Mac icons - the dreaded audio track!
Ben noticed that the audio tracks on his favorite music CD's had type and creator information. aucd is the creator code for the AppleCD Audio Player.
He correctly surmised that a new bundle setting in the CD Player would assign a new icon to replace the old black and white one.
 First, we need to place the new icon into the AppleCD Audio Player. Download the new icon and open it in ResEdit.
Open a copy of the AppleCD Audio Player in ResEdit.
Select all the icon family resources in the new download and copy them to the clipboard. Switch to the AppleCD Audio Player window and paste in from the clipboard.
If you are prompted about identical ID numbers, select Yes to replace existing icons. The AppleCD Audio Player now has the new icon, we just need to assign it to a bundle bit.
 In the AppleCD Audio Player, find the BNDL resources and open them with a double-click.
 From the Resource menu, select Create New File Type.
Double-click on the empty icon box, and from the popup window, select your new icon (probably ID 130).
Under Type, enter trak. When finished, you window should look like the one below.
 When you're finished, save your work and quit ResEdit.
Restart and rebuild the desktop by holding the Command-Option keys until prompted.
Then pop in a music CD and admire your new icons!
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