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iPod How do i get rid of the 'Genre' column when i'm in list view?
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that just gets rid of it on the columns. i'm talking about the menus above it. ideas?
Oh. Has that not always been there?
Was it an option once?
I've always had it displaying
i didn't have it about an hour ago then i upgraded to 8.0 and it's there! Don't need it and could do with getting rid off.
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
8
-Kevin
Here are the 2 screenshots:
7.7.1
8
-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 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.
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
http://blech.vox.com/library/post/switch-off-the-itunes-8-genre-browser.html
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?
Any idea what we need to put in to take the links to the music store out?
browse view, not list view.
we want to turn the genre section off, which is possible in terminal.
we want to turn the genre section off, which is possible in terminal.
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 
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