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An application I wrote to disable the annoying iTunes Store Links (or arrows) in iTunes 8.

Note to PPC users: My Tunes is currently only INTEL compatible.

Update: I’ve been told that iTunes 8 also comes with a Genre Browser that you can’t disable – while I haven’t had that problem I have updated My Tunes to include this fix as well.

On a completely unrelated note to my photography work I’ve decided to give a little something back to the tech community.

Apple released iTunes 8 today and with it they removed the option to disable the annoying little arrows that take you to the iTunes store.

I’ve always hated them so I looked for a way of disabling them that wasn’t in the iTunes preference panel.

I’ve packaged the script needed to disable the annoying arrows or Links to iTunes Store as Apple calls them into an app which you can download below so you don’t have to dig around in Terminal (the white text, black background stuff)

Downloaded a total of 2381 times

Big note by the way: Only works on Macs – PCs, well, I guess there’s a setting in the Registry or something. I don’t own a PC so someone else will have to step in there.

COMMENTS / 18 COMMENTS

[...] MyTunes 1.0 lässt die Links zum iTunes Store in iTunes 8.0 verschwinden – ähnlich wie der iTunes Store Link [...]

Notizen vom 10. September 2008 » MACNOTES.DE added this comment on Sep 10 08 at 2:47 pm

[...] command-line but has required a significant amount of futzing around to do (significantly more than disabling the store link arrows in iTunes). Now I’m done with this I promise I’ll get back to taking [...]

Lawrence Dudley Photography » Blog Archive » iPlayer Downloader for Mac Beta added this comment on Sep 12 08 at 2:16 am

You know what would make this perfect? Adding the ability to remove the genre browser too…

“defaults write com.apple.itunes show-genre-when-browsing -bool FALSE”

Cem added this comment on Sep 10 08 at 8:59 am

I have updated My Tunes – it now removes the genre browser as well Thanks for the hint Cem!

Lawrence Dudley added this comment on Sep 10 08 at 5:37 pm

What about the “create file names with track number”? I hate the 01, 02 ect in my filenames. iTunes now adds them to any imported file and/or converted selection. What a pain.

Jeremy added this comment on Sep 10 08 at 5:48 pm

I’ll look into it – give me a few hours

Lawrence Dudley added this comment on Sep 10 08 at 6:02 pm

It’s not working for me, and I wish it would! PPC OS 10.4.11. I raniTunes Link Removerwith iTunes off. After I started iTunes, I click a song and the arrows appear.
Thanks.

Dortmunder added this comment on Sep 10 08 at 6:18 pm

Dortmunder – can you try and run it with iTunes open? I haven’t tested on PPC at all so this might be an issue although it really shouldn’t be.

I have sent you a file to try and run instead, if this appears to be a widespread problem I will make it publically available.

Lawrence Dudley added this comment on Sep 10 08 at 6:26 pm

It’s working on my intel macbook, but nog on my G3 B&W (incompatible cpu-subtype).

Here is the crash log:

Host Name: G3BW500
Date/Time: 2008-09-10 19:30:25.843 +0200
OS Version: 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
Report Version: 4

Command: iTunes Link Remover
Path: /Volumes/iTunes Link Remover/iTunes Link Remover.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes Link Remover
Parent: WindowServer [85]

Version: 1.0 (160)

PID: 2545
Thread: Unknown

Link (dyld) error:

incompatible cpu-subtype

Wallytax added this comment on Sep 10 08 at 6:36 pm

Can someone with a PPC mac get in touch with me please so I can compile another version? It’s an Automator-based application so I can’t cross-compile from XCode.

My email address is iam@lawrencedudley.co.uk or catch me on msn at lawrencedudley@gmail.com

Lawrence Dudley added this comment on Sep 10 08 at 6:43 pm

cheers man. much appreciated!

pk added this comment on Sep 10 08 at 11:03 pm

Thank you! I have had enough Terminal trouble (all due to my own poor typing) to prefer to stay out of it when I can. You may have prevented total meltdown.

Jayce added this comment on Sep 11 08 at 1:03 am

No worries I’ve gotten a lot of hints, tips and help out of the tech community and it’s a good feeling to be able to give something back.

If you have any problems with this app at all I want to hear from you and fix it

Lawrence Dudley added this comment on Sep 11 08 at 2:28 am