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Modify the iTunes 4.5 link arrows' behavior
Authored by: danbolling on Apr 29, '04 08:13:30PM

Great hint!

Isn't anyone going to ask (to me) the obvious? Is there a way to do this in Windows? I have a PC at work with iTunes so I'd like to get that "fixed" too. Anyone know how? Thanks!

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Dan Bolling
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Modify the iTunes 4.5 link arrows' behavior
Authored by: robg on Apr 29, '04 10:22:10PM

I'm guessing the solution will require RegEdit or some other registry editing tool :)

-rob.



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Modify the iTunes 4.5 link arrows' behavior
Authored by: danbolling on Apr 29, '04 10:56:40PM

Yeah, I was thinking that, but I couldn't find any preferences in the registry. Doesn't anyone know where these are kept? And can they be editted? If I could at least get to them, I probably could take some guesses as to how this option would need to be added.

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Dan Bolling (danb4@bollingfamily.com)



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Modify the iTunes 4.5 link arrows' behavior
Authored by: lstewart on Apr 30, '04 11:00:07AM

Well, I don't know how to actually change the preferences on iTunes for Windows yet, but I did find where they are stored. They're not in the registry.

It looks like user preferences are stored in a ".pref" file at this location:

C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunes.pref

("Machine preferences", whatever those are, are stored in a different file:
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunes.pref)

These .pref files are just plain text files, similar to Windows INI files, but the problem is they contain only one section, with a single "setting":

[User Preferences]
Preferences:129=0200000007900000032000... etc. for 183 KBytes on my machine.

Someone would need to decode the stream of hex digits (should be elementary) and then see what format this chunk of "preferences" are actually in. There certainly are a lot of zeros, so I'm suspecting it's some binary data structure that contains the preferences... so it may not be very easy to modify directly. Oh well.



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Modify the iTunes 4.5 link arrows' behavior
Authored by: MacMuse26 on Apr 30, '04 11:20:32AM

For PC iTunes, ctrl-shift-click little gray arrow takes you to your matching library entries instead of the Music Store.



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Modify the iTunes 4.5 link arrows' behavior
Authored by: nomaded on May 03, '04 01:03:26AM

It's actually just shift.

Shift-click on those arrows in iTunes for Windows.

Now, I'd definitely love to see a way to make it just click.



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