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

Thanks so much for the people that posted the workarounds! I hate the little arrows and never browse by genre, so this is a great little tip. I feel whole again, haha.
 
xJulianx said:
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.
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parkds said:
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.
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Well it works for people who buy music off iTunes and/or rip their own CDs.

And quite frankly, Apple only cares about the first section of people and their experience.
 
alphaod said:
Well it works for people who buy music off iTunes and/or rip their own CDs.

And quite frankly, Apple only cares about the first section of people and their experience.
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Ripping CDs does not always give you the correct label. You may think something else is a more appropriate label, and don't want to spend all your time reorganizing your library because apple took out a feature in their update. Furthermore, some people dislike the idea of labeling/genres, and the genre bar just gets in their way now.

I don't see why you have to defend apple for leaving this feature out.

Sorry if I'm being a jerk to you, your comment just upset me because I interpreted it as you acting like you were better than everyone else and that their was no other possible opinion besides your own.
 
Thank you for this! I was shocked when I found I couldn't get rid of the genre column any more. I've never used it and never will.

Thanks again!
 
How to get rid of store stuff

Does anyone know how I can get rid of the whole iTunes store section in the left sidebar?
I put the command to remove the store links in Terminal, but the crap on the left is still there.
Thanks for the command, Jigo!
That genre thing was gonna drive me nuts.
 
slurmomatic said:
Did anyone find out how to do this in windows yet?
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Credit for this solution goes to Rodalpho Carmichael, who posted this on the apple discussion boards

To remove the genre column on windows:

1) Shutdown iTunes

2) Backup your prefs file

C:\Users\(youruser)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunesPrefs.xml
(if youre on xp, the file is in
C:\Documents and Settings\(yourusername)\Application data\Apple Computer\iTunes)

3) Edit the file in a real text editor that understands UNIX linefeeds (notepad++, ultraedit, vi, etc) and paste the following lines below the <dict> line under <key>User Preferences</key>:

<key>show-genre-when-browsing</key>
<data>
AA==
</data>

4) Start iTunes and you should be set.

To turn off the annoying store arrow links, paste in this:

<key>show-store-arrow-links</key>
<data>
AA==
</data>

I agree, it's very annoying when options are removed.



Now people were reporting this working for them but i cant find any program personally that opens up the xml file correctly, i tried notepad, notepad ++, ultraedit, wordpad, and dreamweaver with no luck.
 
To be honest, I'm not that pushed about the genre remove option -although it is nice to know, but those silly store suggestions are, to be frank, quite annoying. Having accepted the update (a bit precipitately, I'll admit), I have now actually disabled genius for the moment. Anyway, I'm not sure I understand (a polite way of saying I don't understand) the instructions given in an earlier post about how to remove them; at the risk of sounding awfully stupid, what does one do - and what/where - are/is terminal? An exceptionally grateful poster awaits a response.
Thanks and cheers
 
Why not just activate genius and click on the arrow button in the bottom right corner to hide the store suggestions?
 
Scepticalscribe said:
To be honest, I'm not that pushed about the genre remove option -although it is nice to know, but those silly store suggestions are, to be frank, quite annoying. Having accepted the update (a bit precipitately, I'll admit), I have now actually disabled genius for the moment. Anyway, I'm not sure I understand (a polite way of saying I don't understand) the instructions given in an earlier post about how to remove them; at the risk of sounding awfully stupid, what does one do - and what/where - are/is terminal? An exceptionally grateful poster awaits a response.
Thanks and cheers
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now im not really one to answer this cuz i dont own a mac but terminal i believe is basically a command prompt, and i believe its in the applications under utilities
 
dukebound85 said:
your point? i knew that and would figure the same thing would work....
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I wasn't saying anything about searching. I was referring to the fact that a solution that works for an older version of software won't necessarily work on later versions, since upgrades sometimes change functionality. I was suggesting that is why the year-old solution might not work on current versions.
 
GGJstudios said:
I wasn't saying anything about searching. I was referring to the fact that a solution that works for an older version of software won't necessarily work on later versions, since upgrades sometimes change functionality. I was suggesting that is why the year-old solution might not work on current versions.
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gotcha. sorry for the misinterpretation
 
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