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Remove default iTunes genres
Authored by: osxpounder on Feb 05, '07 12:19:39PM

Alas, it ain't so simple. I looked at this file, and a few others in the same folder, but still I don't see any files which store a few of the genres I created over the years, genres I now can't seem to get rid of, like "Baroque - Realized Electronically" or "1059" [I can't recall why I made a genre called that].

Using Spotlight to search the contents [presumably, it's searching contentws] of that folder turns up nothing with "baroque" or "1059" in it, so I must assume those genres are stored elsewhere.



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Spotlight does not search everything
Authored by: hamarkus on Feb 05, '07 02:57:01PM

Spotlight does not search a number of directories (or should I say it only searches a number of directories). In particular, it generaly does not look at system files or directories and almost certainly not within .app packages.

There have been instructions at to how force Spotlight to look at stuff it would normally not look at but even after following them I had the strong impression that Spotlight would not search my system files (maybe it cannot be done, or the instruction were incomplete, or I did not apply them correctly, or subsequent updates broke things again).

What I had used was an app named Spotlightindexer.app, which right now even refuses to start (it predates my Intel machine, which could be the reason).

If you can figure out how to use grep on multiple files (or better whole directories), you should be able to find your genres.



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Spotlight does not search everything
Authored by: osxpounder on Feb 07, '07 09:23:42AM

Sure, I could make a research project out of finding out why Spotlight doesn't find the file .... or one of you who already found the file could just tell me where you found it. :)

BTW, I saw the tip about changing the genre "1059" in iTunes. Sure, we can do that .... but if we want to remove more than one or two genres, not reassign them, it gets cumbersome with the iTunes interface. Considered versus editing a text file, I'd rather edit the text file.



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Remove default iTunes genres
Authored by: Labbrain on Feb 05, '07 09:49:34PM

Can't you get rid of your own custom genres by selecting all the songs that are set to a particular genre and then changing all their genres to something else?

In other words, if no songs are classified as 1059, then doesn't 1059 go away all by itself automatically?



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Remove default iTunes genres
Authored by: d.j.l. on Mar 21, '07 03:20:44PM

No, changing all the tracks of a genre to a different genre doesn't delete the genre. I (also) made a apple script to tame my genres, put the genre pull down is just as bad as ever. For example , I still have a genre called
"Downtempo Lounge Spy" , (perhaps from a radio channel), and I can prove it by making a smart playlist that matches that genre, which is empty.
I tried the hint, and it didn't help my list at all, in the process of putting the copy of the file I made back, I noticed the file time stamp was back in '05 and thats its root:admin; so any added genres must be in some other file.



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Remove default iTunes genres
Authored by: msadesign on Mar 25, '07 08:21:54AM

I tried looking for the 'hidden genres' by first using SpotlightIndexer. But guess what? no luck.

So, I figure that the genres are hidden someplace; the original hint that started this thread, suggesting commenting them out, just does not work.

Michael



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