Monday, September 15, 2008

How to disable iTunes store arrow links in iTunes 8

In iTunes 7, there was a preference to disable the links to the iTunes Store, those small arrows that appear when you select a song in your library. In iTunes 8 that preference has been removed and those little arrows are everywhere.

However, there is a solution to make them go away.

To disable the iTunes Store link arrows, first quit iTunes. Then open Terminal, and run the following command:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE
When you relaunch iTunes there will no more arrows! To turn the arrows back on again, simply enter the above command but replace FALSE with TRUE.

Now go enjoy your iTunes 8 without the constant nagging of the iTunes store!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks Allen!
Viewing your post on an iPhone and it appears to cut off a bit of your code after the word "arrow."
Should it read:

... show-store-arrow-false

Thanks again for the helpful post. Those arrows were driving me insane.

Allen Klosowski said...

Thanks for the comment. I fixed the font so that you can see the whole thing now. Glad it helped you!

Anonymous said...

Thanx for the txt fix.
Got it.