Turning off Genres and Store Arrows in iTunes 8

I don’t understand them. I used to categorise music into two genre-busing classifications: “bad” and “good”. However, after getting jiggy with some “bad” stuff, I’ve shifted the categorisations 90° to “interesting” and “boring”. I like the interesting stuff.

The new iTunes 8 eliminates the preference item for turning off that spooty genre browser. Luckily, Mr Paul Milson found the hidden preference item to turn it off again:

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

Copy and paste that into the Terminal, restart iTunes, and all will be well.

You can also turn off those iTunes Store arrow links with:

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

All will be well again.

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2 responses to Turning off Genres and Store Arrows in iTunes 8:

  1. mister.dymund said on 11th September, 2008 at 00:30

    Now, why would you want to be rid of those incredibly informative little genre icons? Blingy little hip-hop, snowy holidays (like there are no holidays other than Christmas)?

    I would be extremely happy for you passing this along, and not able to wait to apply this myself. But. The icon my library uses for the Other and Unknown genres is Ben Folds’ Live in Perth album.

    And that’s too funny to want to turn off just yet.