Remove the Music Store from iTunes 5's Sources list

Sep 12, '05 09:40:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Apparently under iTunes 5, there is no way to disable the Music Store entry from within iTunes' Preferences section -- in iTunes 4.9, you could uncheck a "SHow iTunes Music Store" box, and the store would vanish. So here's a workaround for version 5. In a Terminal window, enter the following for the same effect:

  defaults write com.apple.iTunes disableMusicStore -bool YES
Make sure iTunes isn't running when you run the above command. Restart iTunes, and the store will be gone from the Sources panel.

[robg updates: As noted by many commenters below, this function was simply moved to Parental Controls -- where Apple also added the ability to remove the Podcasts entry as well. So this hint as it stands now is redundant; sorry I missed the move of this feature to the new panel, but I literally hadn't even looked at Parental Controls (our two year old isn't doing a lot of music browsing yet). Thanks for the corrections in the comments...]

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