Comments on: Removing ‘Genre’ and Store Links from iTunes 8 in Windows & Mac

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:03:08 +0000

Thank you so much for this. It works likes a charm. I use Vista and the first set of instructions is the ticket.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:54:49 +0000

It worked with Notepad but not wordpad. The detailed instructions helped.

By: Frederik

Frederik — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:35:16 +0000

I use and like the genres column! The trick is you have to define your own genres, using a prefix. Eg. [C] String Quartets (meaning Classical music, String Quartets) or [P] Folk (meaning Popular music, Folk). If you add a new CD, you notice it very easily and can change it to your own genres.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:42:22 +0000

hi-

thanks so much for the fix, but it didn’t work for me! i’ve tried this fix before, and it totally worked, but itunes went wonky recently and replaced the arrows.

so i went to do the fix again, and now the file is just reading garbage – thousands of capital As and then a tiny bit of code at the end.

is apple getting smarter? as in, did they engineer it so i can’t read the code in the file anymore. i know i’m looking at the right file, and i’ve accessed it many different ways as well.

anybody have any thoughts on this? thanks in advance for your help!

By: ALEX

ALEX — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:49:23 +0000

Has anyone stumbled on an encoded iTunesPrefs.xml file? I’m running Vista and I installed iTunes 8 today. I tried to change the iTunesPrefs.xml file to take the links off but, it’s encoded using UTF-8.

By: ALEX

ALEX — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:35:54 +0000

Umm… Has anyone stumbled on an encoded iTunesPrefs.xml file? I’m running Vista and I installed iTunes 8 today. I went to change the iTunesPrefs.xml file to take the links off but, it’s encoded using UTF-8.

By: k33bz

k33bz — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:58:36 +0000

Thanks! The genre thing was soo annoying and i never use it, and then with the iTunes 8 upgrade it just appeared again but i couldn’t turn it off. Thanks so much for this fix

By: Etienne

Etienne — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:27:48 +0000

Fantastique ! Génial ! This hint works great on Windows. Many thanks !

By: Mehmet

Mehmet — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:52:02 +0000

Awesome tip, thanks! Finally got rid of those annoying little arrows. I don’t understand why apple would remove the option to get rid of those arrows.

By: Guillermo Soria

Guillermo Soria — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:51:36 +0000

Wow!!!… Excellent solution… I don’t know why Apple remove the option to view or not the “Genre” column in the browser…

Apple suppose goes beyond of think better… mmm…