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Who doesn't like iTunes 8?

So far I do NOT like iTunes 8. It looks like a lot of useless add-ons to me that I will never use.

But the one thing I REALLY can't stand......There is no option in the preferences window to turn off the genre list in the browser. Now I have a big useless section of window that is getting in the way. I wish I could downgrade for this reason alone.
 
iTurbo said:
So far I do NOT like iTunes 8. It looks like a lot of useless add-ons to me that I will never use.

But the one thing I REALLY can't stand......There is no option in the preferences window to turn off the genre list in the browser. Now I have a big useless section of window that is getting in the way. I wish I could downgrade for this reason alone.
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If you search the forums, you'll find answers:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/6201174/

Also, if you had read my earlier post in this thread, you'd find your answer:
ggjstudios said:
Did you see this post?
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Well, considering that it won't even startup (crashes due to seg fault before the itunes window is ever even initialized), it is pretty much a worthless pile of sh*t for me.

Is anyone else experiencing a failure when attempting to run iTunes 8.0?
 
A-G said:
i don't like iTunes 8. first of all when my phone is connected to my computer and lets say i'm on a certain play list and i click on my phone it takes forever for it to switch. second i can't get the itunes toolbar player to work. i wish i could downgrade.
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It doesn't work for me either. When it goes I minimize its supposed to go onto the toolbar. It does, but then clicking the buttons does nothing and in windows task manager iTunes doesn't even show up under active applications (its still running and playing music). The only way I've found to get iTunes back to normal is to double click on the desktop shortcut.
 
I just updated; I actually like the grid view. After all, we look at photos in iPhoto that way so visually it's quite natural to scan a pile of album covers in one shot.
 
I love the fact that movies now allow you to adjust the size as well as show watched vs. new (hopefully Apple TV hops on the bandwagon soon). However, while the Grid view is good in theory, it sucks in application, at least for me. It'd probably fine if all my shows were straight purchases from iTunes, but since some of mine are DVD rips and I include the special features, it throws the whole series out of whack (see attached). It seems to sort by series title by default, and then has a funky way of sorting that. Instead of doing it by season like the list and cover flow do, it does something else. Anyone else seen this? It seems to go by the date of the first item in the season, so if there's a special feature without a date in there, it puts it after a season which doesn't have a special feature at all and began with an episode with a date attached. Anyone else had this problem or propose a solution?
 

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Ehh while I think the genius thing is cool its really not that amazing or creative its really no more then that store feature "Listeners also bought". Also I absolutely hate the location of the genius sidebar and the fact that they got rid of the mini store I didn't really use the mini store much but I had it there because it looked so nice (yeah I know I make no sense) I really wish the genius sidebar was in the spot where the mini store was (the bottom) because at the side it just gets in the way of the song info and I prefer looking the vision of like 8 songs as apposed to loosing 1/4 of my songs info which I do look at all the time. And with regard to the new visualizer I absolutely hate the black balls that go around the screen there so boring and if i take a screen shot and use it as my background which I always do then I have to either have those black things that make my screen look broken or wait until I get a picture I like that doesn't have those black things. All in all they probably put in roughly a weeks work at most on these features (except for the visualizer) and I'm glad that the new itunes isn't the biggest part of the "Lets Rock" event.
 
The iTunes Store links just popped up for me too.
They showed up when I went to download the "Let's Rock" keynote.
Which basically means that the icons only show up if you've connected to the iTunes store.

EDIT: For people who don't use the iTunes store, the most easy way to disable the store links is to just go to the Preferences -> Parental -> Disable: iTunes Store
and BOOM, the icons vanish :p
 
I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I appreciate any help I can get. I don't know if this is something that has carried over from other versions of iTunes, because I've never encountered this before, but here it goes:

I clicked download on one of those free HD shows this evening, but the network at school that I'm on has been acting up for the last couple of days, so I hit the download button twice. These downloads are going to take awhile, so I tried to delete one of them. The problem is that every time that I try to remove this copy, the download page says that I still have one item to download. How do I get rid of this permanently?
 
Three Messages. One Theme.

I got 3 messages from the iTunes 8 demo.

1) They want us to buy a lot more music. The Genius feature. This will tell the record labels that Apple is going to help them make more money.

2) The App Store isn't restricted to borders like Music. 100 Million apps in 60 days. I believe that was another dig at the labels that "Hey, when you don't have all those restrictions, you can make even more money."

3) NBC you can charge more money for TV shows. Just put them in HD.

I feel like iTunes 8 is more for the content providers. I wanted something more.
 
ggjstudios said:
Those don't take me to the iTunes store. When I click the arrow by Genre, it filters the browse view to only that Genre. When I click the arrow by the Artist, it pulls up all the songs by that Artist. Nothing shows the iTunes store.
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There is a hidden preference to make those links do that (I decided to enable it rather than turning the links off), but it is not the default behavior. I had links turned off in iTunes 7, but installing 8 turned them back on, and they removed the GUI preference to turn them off. Luckily it's still possible, but what if future versions remove the preference altogether? I really hope not, but it's not a good sign when stuff like this happens, IMO.
 
Seems like a 7.x update. The new visualizer is messy, no way as cool as it looked in the videos demo's I saw the other day. I don't have a use for Genius, and I don't like grid view.

I thought the 8.0 was going to be a drastic change but maybe for my needs it wasn't. Of course I'll still use it but just hoped for something different.
 
Foxglove9 said:
Seems like a 7.x update. The new visualizer is messy, no way as cool as it looked in the videos demo's I saw the other day. I don't have a use for Genius, and I don't like grid view.

I thought the 8.0 was going to be a drastic change but maybe for my needs it wasn't. Of course I'll still use it but just hoped for something different.
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I hate everything! nothing can make me happy. Hmmph :mad:
 
yoshinatsu said:
I had the iTunes store link disabled on iTunes 7, and when I updated to 8 some hours ago, it doesn't appear. So it's ok for me.
One problem I have with iTunes 8 is that every time I quit an application, a white window in the size of iTunes (which IS iTunes) appears, and I have to click the iTunes on the dock, and then close it again to get rid of it.
Anyone else encountered that?
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I have the same problem, anytime a i quit an app and the itunes windows is closed i get a white window where the itunes window last was. really annoying.
 
I don't like how Genius sends info to apple.

Sure I guess it's the only way to make it work, since it's gotta access some saved playlists to link certain songs together... but who knows what else they're sending back to apple. :confused:
 
messedkid said:
I don't like how Genius sends info to apple.

Sure I guess it's the only way to make it work, since it's gotta access some saved playlists to link certain songs together... but who knows what else they're sending back to apple. :confused:
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well they already have your credit cards of file and all sorts of other info about you... I don't think it matters what they take.
 
apfhex said:
... I had links turned off in iTunes 7, but installing 8 turned them back on, and they removed the GUI preference to turn them off. Luckily it's still possible, but what if future versions remove the preference altogether? I really hope not, but it's not a good sign when stuff like this happens, IMO.
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What is the magic 'defaults write' incantation to turn the links off completely? Despite trying to sift through all the day's info, I've not yet found out how to do this.

EDIT: Thanks raztro! (see next post)
 
dukebound85 said:
no option to get rid of itunes store link and genre is making me mad
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If anyone else is wondering how to get rid of these links:

1. Quit iTunes.
2. Open Terminal.
3. Type defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE and hit enter.
4. Quit Terminal.
5. Open iTunes.

All gone!
 
Anyone else having the problem to get iTunes 8 to even launch??? It launches and browses my album art and crashes. So now I have no iTunes at all. Anyone?
 
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