Apple Releases iTunes 10.0.1 With Ping Sidebar and Bug Fixes

[manu chao]

He means the Ping icon under "store." You can get rid of the ping sidebar completely via the terminal.

You can get rid of the Ping icon in the sidebar by editing the iTunes.rsrc file with ThemePark (version 3). You should be able to get rid of the word Ping in the sidebar by editing the file Localizable.strings, except that for some reason this does not work for me.

EDIT: It now works:

 

[Stridder44]

This Ping thing is very gimmicky. If I wanted online social networking I'd get on Facebook.

 

[nsshah85]

Good job, Apple.

LOL. Thank you. That made my day!

 

[NT1440]

This Ping thing is very gimmicky. If I wanted online social networking I'd get on Facebook.

So don't use it.

Problem solved.

 

[DakotaGuy]

This Ping thing is very gimmicky. If I wanted online social networking I'd get on Facebook.

I already maintain a Facebook account. That is enough. If Ping had full Facebook integration I might be interested, but as it is now I am not going to try to maintain two social networks.

 

[arn]

keep posts on topic. if you think your post was inappropriately deleted, send an email, post in site feedback. don't respond here. don't respond to this post.

arn

 

[Manderby]

"Fixes a problem that affects the performance of some third-party visualizers"
Ah, they noticed, very good. Unfortunately, performance hasn't improved much in my case. Bad luck, I will wait till the next update.

iTunes still plays music. Good. Everything else: Whatever. I would be happy with Verison 1.0.

Thanks for the tip to hide the store using Parental controls. Finally it's gone!

 

[HLdan]

He could slam you because your reasoning was so preposterous. As for the reason? It was most likely an attempt to emphasize content. A mistake, IMO, because now icons are not as easy to identify and all look the same. Luckily, it's an easy fix with iTunes 109.

I am not a fan of Ping and have done all I can to limit its visibility, but I am not going to gripe over the few icons and menu items that remain (although I have sent Apple feedback). A social network relies on people using it to be useful, so it is understandable Apple wanted to make it more visible.

I don't need your confirmation on what my reasoning is, in fact I never asked for anyone's confirmation. Why don't find something constructive to do instead of blatantly insulting people genius.

 

[KnightWRX]

I don't need your confirmation on what my reasoning is, in fact I never asked for anyone's confirmation. Why don't find something constructive to do instead of blatantly insulting people genius.

Irony, thy name is HLdan.

And you asked for confirmation when you posted on a public forum. If you wanted your reasoning to stay private, you would not have used a social venue... Kinda like this Ping thing.

 

[HLdan]

I am slamming you about something that made absolutely no sense on a technical basis, while being a technical argument. Color of a bitmap does not affect performance, and to suggest so shows a great lack of technical aptitude.

And to answer your question : Only Apple knows why they removed the colors. No one but Apple staff sat on that meeting, and I doubt Apple staff will ever explain why.



And I think being "in your face" shows a great lack of respect and as caused me to walk out of stores. I think you should check out big surfaces nowadays or even car dealers. A lot have moved from pressure selling to a more casual attitude of letting the customer feel at home.



I have never said nor pretended that. Giving users the option of seeing or not seeing Ping pleases everyone. Those who want it, have it, those who don't, well don't.

I don't see how an option to remove something causes problems. Oh right, options are confusing and should be banned in favor of letting Apple dictate our entire experience right ?



And then I have to redo my entire music collection/playlists in some other software, not to mention it makes it hard to sync my iPhone. Or maybe I should get rid of that also ? And get rid of the Mac while I'm at it ? Now it's you who seems rather egotistical...

You're assuming that everybody that comes here is a computer genius, not everybody is a computing nerd that signs on here. So friggin' what if I said the colors were removed to keep the bloat down. I never claimed that to be thee reason, it was just my observation. You jumped on me today over something that stupid so you must be bored and are looking for drama. Did I claim to be a coding master here? NO. Since you're equally clueless as to what the reasons are then keep your arrogance to yourself.

It's still ridiculous for you to expect Apple to give you the option to fully remove Ping from iTunes. Just ridiculous.
No one is dictating anything to you, just don't use it. Stop trippin'.

Well I guess Ping isn't as much of a bother to you as you're spewing today since it's too much trouble to leave iTunes beacuse you have to "redo" your music collection.

 

[mastermix]

My iTunes DAAP share on my FreeNAS server works properly again...

 

[DakotaGuy]

You're assuming that everybody that comes here is a computer genius, not everybody is a computing nerd that signs on here. So friggin' what if I said the colors were removed to keep the bloat down. I never claimed that to be thee reason, it was just my observation. You jumped on me today over something that stupid so you must be bored and are looking for drama. Did I claim to be a coding master here? NO. Since you're equally clueless as to what the reasons are then keep your arrogance to yourself.

It's still ridiculous for you to expect Apple to give you the option to fully remove Ping from iTunes. Just ridiculous.
No one is dictating anything to you, just don't use it. Stop trippin'.

Well I guess Ping isn't as much of a bother to you as you're spewing today since it's too much trouble to leave iTunes beacuse you have to "redo" your music collection.

Okay guys... lets just settle down a bit. Your theory about color icons versus grayscale icons having any effect on performance is probably the craziest thing I have heard in awhile, but you know what... We all say things that don't make sense sometimes. I know I have and then when I think about it... I'm like... well yeah... that sounded stupid. Anyhow don't worry about it man. The thing about message boards is that once a new thread is started the last one is forgotten.

Steve Jobs wrote me back. The reason they were changed is to focus on content. The thing that I don't understand however is if they want to place the focus on "your content" then I don't see how littering sidebars and drop down menus with Ping is helping. It seems like they are adding more bloat... not less.

Without Facebook integration I just don't see Ping ever really taking off. I know they are trying hard by throwing it in front of us, but in the end people will only maintain so many social networks. They might sign up, but will they keep using? That remains to be seen.

 

[iEvolution]

PING? forget it. What happened to privacy anyway? I don't like displaying my name EVERYWHERE for people to see. When it said it would change all my reviews to my name I canceled.

This social media crap is getting ridiculous, what happened to privacy? .

 

[dead goon]

Can someone please make an iTunes alternative already?!?!

One that is light, has an editable playlist, and also plays .ogg and .flac with last.fm support


I would but I can't

 

[Stridder44]

Oh my God someone please help me get rid of this stupid "Ping" button next to every song that is either selected or playing now. Hell, I've never even used or clicked on the Ping button under iTunes Store.

Please, let us disable Ping altogether. It's one thing if it's only in the iTunes store, but when it's in our library too? Damnit. I'm really starting to hate iTunes, or at least what it's becoming.

So don't use it.

Problem solved.

Yeah, I'd love to just ignore it, but it's all over iTunes now. Problem not solved, smart ass.

 

[jaw04005]

They removed the color icons in iTunes 10 so that it would be like the iPad’s iPod.app. It’s as simple as that. We already know they consider the iPad’s iPod.app to be iTunes on the iPad. Jobs even mentioned that it was written in Cocoa unlike iTunes on the Mac.

The problem is the grayscale icons work on the iPad because the iPad’s iPod.app focuses specifically on audio (music/podcasts/audiobooks) and you’re not going to have as many playlists and other content types (Books, Radio, TV Shows, Movies, Ringtones, etc) as you would on iTunes. Other content types are played back within their own unique application like iBooks or the Videos.app.

iTunes on the desktop is a different beast.

You have your library with music, movies, tv shows, podcasts, iTunes U, books, apps, ringtones and radio, the iTunes Store with Ping, purchased (“Purchased”, “Purchased on Apple TV”, “Purchased on iPad” and “Purchased on iPhone”) and downloads, your synced devices (four in my case — Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and iPod nano), the Genius feature with Genius Mixes and individual Genius playlists, iTunes/home sharing and two different types of playlists.

There’s too much going on there not to have some sort of color differentiation. The lack of color icons even hinders iTunes sharing since you can’t tell the difference between just a “shared” iTunes library and a “home sharing” iTunes library that allows you copy iTunes content between computers.

To top it off, they changed the “stoplight” orientation so that it doesn’t conform to OS X’s own UI guidelines and grayscaled the application preference pane icons so it looks like a window that’s in the background.

Now, they’ve put Ping links everywhere and removed the Genius bar and iTunes Store links. It’s getting silly. It’s almost like they’re just trying to screw with users at this point.

iTunes 10 is a just a mess. It’s time to split some of this stuff up.

 

[DakotaGuy]

Oh my God someone please help me get rid of this stupid "Ping" button next to every song that is either selected or playing now. Hell, I've never even used or clicked on the Ping button under iTunes Store.

See shoving it down your throat is already working. You will get so tired always seeing that button finally you will say... "I give up trying to ignore it Steve and I will sign up for your service."

I am now feeling better about ignoring the update and staying with iTunes 10.0. Maybe the whole thing will backfire on them and changes will be made when the next update is released.

They removed the color icons in iTunes 10 so that it would be like the iPad’s iPod.app. It’s as simple as that. We already know they consider the iPad’s iPod.app to be iTunes on the iPad. Jobs even mentioned that it was written in Cocoa unlike iTunes on the Mac.

The problem is the grayscale icons work on the iPad because the iPad’s iPod.app focuses specifically on audio (music/podcasts/audiobooks) and you’re not going to have as many playlists and other content types (Books, Radio, TV Shows, Movies, Ringtones, etc) as you would on iTunes. Other content types are played back within their own unique application like iBooks or the Videos.app.

iTunes on the desktop is a different beast.

You have your library with music, movies, tv shows, podcasts, iTunes U, books, apps, ringtones and radio, the iTunes Store with Ping, purchased (“Purchased”, “Purchased on Apple TV”, “Purchased on iPad” and “Purchased on iPhone”) and downloads, your synced devices (four in my case — Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and iPod nano), the Genius feature with Genius Mixes and individual Genius playlists, iTunes/home sharing and two different types of playlists.

There’s too much going on there not to have some sort of color differentiation. The lack of color icons even hinders iTunes sharing since you can’t tell the difference between just a “shared” iTunes library and a “home sharing” iTunes library that allows you copy iTunes content between computers.

To top it off, they changed the “stop light” orientation so that it doesn’t conform to OS X’s own UI guidelines and grayscaled the application preference pane icons so it looks like a window that’s in the background.

Now, they’ve put Ping links everywhere and removed the Genius bar and iTunes Store links. It’s getting silly. It’s almost like they’re just trying to screw with users at this point.

iTunes 10 is a just a mess.

+1

I agree 100% with everything you have said.

 

[Stridder44]

Well good news, I found out how to disable the buttons. Source article is here.


How to disable Ping drop-down menu next to songs

1. Open Terminal (search in Spotlight or go to your Applications folder)

2. Copy and paste the following, and press enter:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes hide-ping-dropdown -bool TRUE

3. Restart iTunes, and the Ping drop-down in your library will be gone!

The Ping button is entirely gone. I am so happy right now. Alternatively, to undo this, just reenter the code above in terminal, and change TRUE to FALSE.

 

[Cougarcat]

Oh my God someone please help me get rid of this stupid "Ping" button next to every song that is either selected or playing now.

As was posted earlier, type in terminal:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes hide-ping-dropdown 1

 

[utazdevl]

iPod mini? You're kidding, right? It was Apple's best-selling iPod before iPod nano was introduced--it was actually widely considered a risky move to discontinue it.

OK, fair enough, the Mini wasn't so much a failure, but a product that was unceremoniously dropped and then never spoken of again. Could easily replace that phrase in the statement with "Video on the Nano" or "Buying Custom ringtones in iTunes".

 

[Cougarcat]

Can someone please make an iTunes alternative already?!?!

One that is light, has an editable playlist, and also plays .ogg and .flac with last.fm support


I would but I can't

I haven't used it myself, but look into Songbird. It has all those features.
Of course, the problem with any iTunes alternative is that it won't be able to sync with iOS devices, making it useless (for me.)

OK, fair enough, the Mini wasn't so much a failure, but a product that was unceremoniously dropped and then never spoken of again. Could easily replace that phrase in the statement with "Video on the Nano" or "Buying Custom ringtones in iTunes".

It wasn't "unceremoniously dropped," it just evolved into the Nano. When they "dropped" it Steve mentioned that it was the most popular iPod to date, as RMO points out.

 

[NicoleRichie]

skipping this update...

 

[pooryou]

I think I will skip this update for now too.

Surprised to see so many people liked the Genius sidebar, but hey to each their own. I found it useless but don't want a Ping one either.

Too bad they still haven't fixed serious longstanding bugs, such as sound quality on the computer side becoming crappy when sending audio over AirTunes (er AirPlay...yeah right), and the fact that sometimes iTunes stops outputting sound when going to the next track in a playlist if the previous song was very short and AirTunes is in use. These problems have been there since at least version 9.

 

[rgarjr]

Well good news, I found out how to disable the buttons. Source article is here.


How to disable Ping drop-down menu next to songs

1. Open Terminal (search in Spotlight or go to your Applications folder)

2. Copy and paste the following, and press enter:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes hide-ping-dropdown -bool TRUE

3. Restart iTunes, and the Ping drop-down in your library will be gone!

The Ping button is entirely gone. I am so happy right now. Alternatively, to undo this, just reenter the code above in terminal, and change TRUE to FALSE.

Well that's cool and all but how about in Windows?

 

[Imola Ghost]

I haven't used it myself, but look into Songbird. It has all those features.
Of course, the problem with any iTunes alternative is that it won't be able to sync with iOS devices, making it useless (for me.)



It wasn't "unceremoniously dropped," it just evolved into the Nano. When they "dropped" it Steve mentioned that it was the most popular iPod to date, as RMO points out.

Songbird is very laggy, even more so than iTunes. I installed it to try and make some .m3u files but it didn't work out either. I think it has potential but not right now.