iPod How do i get rid of the 'Genre' column when i'm in list view?

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jawad7 said:

that just gets rid of it on the columns. i'm talking about the menus above it. ideas?

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Oh. Has that not always been there?

Was it an option once?

I've always had it displaying

In the browser? I don't know and it's annoying me. There used to be an option in preferences but it seems to have been removed...

Same here, I used to have it turned off. It was in the General preferences but it's gone now in 8.0.

Here are the 2 screenshots:

7.7.1


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-Kevin

This is seriously stopping me from upgrading at the moment.

I have no use for seeing genres as half of my 8,000 library hasn't even got a genre set, and those that do have either wrong or genres that are uselessly vague.

I have the same problem. With almost 16,000 songs in iTunes, a genre filter is of little use. Between the number of files and the vagueness of genres for a lot of music, I have always turned off and avoided that bowser window. It would be a shame to not be able to turn off that needless clutter.

I'm not liking this. I never use Genres, now I'm forced to look at them all the time.



Edit: Found this defaults write com.apple.itunes show-genre-when-browsing -bool FALSE

Life is good again.

jigo said:

I'm not liking this. I never use Genres, now I'm forced to look at them all the time.



Edit: Found this defaults write com.apple.itunes show-genre-when-browsing -bool FALSE

Life is good again.

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Mmm, excellent. Works perfectly. Thanks

jawad7 said:

i don't understand what you mean - can you explain please.

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Enter this in terminal then restart iTunes.

defaults write com.apple.itunes show-genre-when-browsing -bool FALSE

Try this to remove the genre. I did it. Just copy and paste the command and close itunes and reopen and poof its gone.

http://blech.vox.com/library/post/switch-off-the-itunes-8-genre-browser.html

jigo said:

Edit: Found this defaults write com.apple.itunes show-genre-when-browsing -bool FALSE

Life is good again.

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Wonderful, thanks!

glad there is a thread about this here. Thanks for the fix.

Any idea what we need to put in to take the links to the music store out?

Sharewaredemon said:

glad there is a thread about this here. Thanks for the fix.

Any idea what we need to put in to take the links to the music store out?

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Certainly

defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE

jigo said:

Certainly

defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE

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I love you.

I must be missing something... can't you just 'control+click' it and then uncheck 'Genre'.

I'm REALLY hoping that I'm just misunderstanding...

browse view, not list view.

we want to turn the genre section off, which is possible in terminal.

anyway to do this on windows????

jigo said:

I'm not liking this. I never use Genres, now I'm forced to look at them all the time.



Edit: Found this defaults write com.apple.itunes show-genre-when-browsing -bool FALSE

Life is good again.

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Awesome thanks.

By the way, can someone explain, when someone runs one of these defaults write commands, what does it write to? The .plist file?

-Kevin

Yeah, if that entry doesn't exist it creates it, otherwise it is just a command line way of modifying what you see when viewing plist files with Property List Editor, which I don't have installed right now so very grateful for these fixes. Now I have turned off everything that iTunes 8 added, yay !

does anyone know where i can do this on a windows machine? Im dying here, the arrows and the genre list are so annoying.

I wish i could afford a mac