Disable the Genre column in the iTunes 8 Browser

Sep 09, '08 02:25:00PM

Contributed by: robg

In iTunes 7, a preferences setting let you disable the Genre column when using the Browser pane -- so you'd see just Artist and Album. In iTunes 8, that preference is gone. Thankfully, for those who dislike seeing Genre, the ability to disable that column still exists. Quit iTunes, launch Terminal, and enter this command:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-genre-when-browsing -bool FALSE
Relaunch iTunes, open the browser, and you'll notice the Genre column has vanished. You can reverse this by quitting iTunes and repeating the above command, but with TRUE instead of FALSE. (You can also delete the pref if you wish; see the iTunes 8 store links hint for an example of how to do that.)

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