With iTunes 8 Apple removed the ability to disable the store arrow links and the genre column through the preferences. I guess Apple are trying to keep the preference panel as easy as possible as well as use any given opportunity to direct users to the Store.
To disable the genre panel, open the terminal, enter this command:
defaults write com.apple.itunes show-genre-when-browsing -bool FALSE
and press enter.
To disable the the store arrow, open the terminal, enter this command:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE
and press enter.
You will need to restart iTunes if you had it running.
Repeat the above steps and replace the FALSE to TRUE to enable them again.
A while back Willow bought me the USB MixTape Stick from suckuk. It’s a small cardboard box that looks like an old cassette tape, and inside it it’s a 64MB USB memory stick. Having been a mix-tape-creator in my young days, I love this crossover from old to new formats. The “new way” does eliminate some of the beauty and craft required in making a good mix-tape but, never the less, it’s at least a physical object to hand over to someone.
Anyway, as the title implies, I would love if this little USB device could pop-up and be managed through iTunes. I have given Google quite a few queries but can’t seem to find an answer. Maybe it’s not possible…
The closest I’ve got is trying to fool iTunes into believing that the removable device is a compact disc by create a file named ‘ContentsDB.xml’ and place it on the device. I could live with that — a ‘read only’ device. But unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work anymore.
Does anyone have any ideas?