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      CommentAuthorchicken
    • CommentTimeSep 10th 2008
     
    The 'genre' column is back and unhideable.
    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.)
    - macosxhints.com

    Is it possible to remove iTunes links (arrows) on this one ?
    If you'd like to disable the iTunes Store link arrows, quit iTunes, open Terminal, and run this command: defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE
    - macosxhints.com
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    Thank you! the genre column and arrows both make me a crazy person
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      CommentAuthorchicken
    • CommentTimeSep 10th 2008
     
    i can't live without the genre column. better than having all those gay playlists on the left
    • CommentAuthorJusMe
    • CommentTimeSep 10th 2008
     
    But - the new bug:

    iTunes 8 requests info on an inserted CD from the GraceNote database. If info is found, great.

    But if there's no information there, iTunes freezes and then simply quits. Happened twice on me now.
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      CommentAuthorchicken
    • CommentTimeSep 10th 2008
     
    I can't remember the last time I used iTunes to import/play CDs :)
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      CommentAuthorflak
    • CommentTimeSep 10th 2008
     
    Max is a good workaround in the meantime. :)

    (I use it permanently instead of iTunes, myself)
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      CommentAuthorelliott-20
    • CommentTimeSep 10th 2008
     
    Arrgh kill the genre column, kill it, kill it!

    Damn I've been getting rid of dat column since iTunes beta (probably)

    I love Apple but when they leave things out that have been in previous incarnations it is really fecking annoying. Bluetooth SMS function in address book anyone?

    Anyway, still no crashes or freezes (yet).
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      CommentAuthorchicken
    • CommentTimeSep 11th 2008
     
    elliott-20 said...Arrgh kill the genre column, kill it, kill it!
    Why? =(

    The Genre colum is sexy :)
      itunes_genre.jpg
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      CommentAuthorMcKs
    • CommentTimeSep 11th 2008
     
    True, I just wish people could agree on the name of a genre. I have 118 different genres in iTunes since I'm to fazy to fix all the trip-hop,/trip hop, rocknroll/rock & roll etc. crap.
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      CommentAuthorchicken
    • CommentTimeSep 11th 2008
     
    McKs said...True, I just wish people could agree on the name of a genre. I have 118 different genres in iTunes since I'm to fazy to fix all the trip-hop,/trip hop, rocknroll/rock & roll etc. crap.
    I spent a couple of hours getting my 100+ genres down to 18 :/ But now it's a piece of piss.
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    see thats my problem with it too, i have 215...one of them is 'animated phat lazy beats'...seriously???
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      CommentAuthorflak
    • CommentTimeSep 11th 2008
     
    This script helped me tame the genres, though I still disabled the column
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      CommentAuthorwebsnap
    • CommentTimeSep 11th 2008
     
    Um, I just control-clicked the column in iTunes. It gave me a list of all the possible columns available in list view and I deselected "Genres". No Terminal involved. Am I missing something?
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      CommentAuthorflak
    • CommentTimeSep 11th 2008
     
    In browse mode, websnap? Did you click the main music library section, then Show Browser in the View menu?
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      CommentAuthorwebsnap
    • CommentTimeSep 11th 2008
     
    ah, no... that's what I was missing. I've never used browse mode since v.6. Just Coverflow and now grid.

    ignore me, carry on...
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    adds websnap to the list
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      CommentAuthorQ
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2008 edited
     
    ermm... what happened to the settings under Advanced where you could select the conversion type and/or quality?
    Did it go somewhere else or no more options to change when converting to mp3?


    ++++++++++++++++++++


    update: nevermind..seems it got moved to the General prefs.
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    adds Q to The List
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      CommentAuthorchicken
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2008 edited
     
    adds Q to The List for not using Max to ripd CDs
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    adds chicken to The List for adding people to The List!
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      CommentAuthorQ
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2008
     
    the shitlist ;)

    read my lips... 192 kbps is more than enough for basic computer playback :tongue:
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      CommentAuthorchicken
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2008
     
    but i don't just listen to my MP3s on my Mac or iPod. I hook up to my HiFi too... and yes... I could just whack in the CD... but I'm a cazy lunt.
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      CommentAuthorchicken
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2008 edited
     
    oh and btw: "Genius" is teh Shit
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      CommentAuthorchicken
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008 edited
     
    I'm really liking Genius. A lot. The play lists it generates make me see just what I've forgotten I actually have on my HDD :)
      itunes_genius.png
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      CommentAuthorDMCrimson
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008
     
    puuh, I have yet to install this but... seriously - who tags every single piece they got? All I care for is artist, album, track name, track number and year, prolly add disck-number too if it's multi-disk album... I don't give a damn about genre or composer, or album art for that matter. Genre? Why to box up everything, damnit!
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      CommentAuthorDMCrimson
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008 edited
     
    oh, and I'm not using MAx to rip - I'm using LAME! :D Compiled from sources, run in terminal :P
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      CommentAuthorchicken
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008 edited
     
    DMCrimson said...puuh, I have yet to install this but... seriously - who tags every single piece they got? All I care for is artist, album, track name, track number and year, prolly add disck-number too if it's multi-disk album...
    Sometimes I'm in the mood for a certain genre and not an artist or a certain year. So the genre column is handy for me.

    Genre, artist, album, track name, track number,art, year, and disk-number are the only tags which my MP3s have. The other tags are just too much for me.
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      CommentAuthorMcKs
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008 edited
     
    as with album art, and thus coverflow/grid view, genius also won't work for those of us with a "server" Mac sharing an iTunes library that other Macs connect to (a headless mini in my case)
    This is really beginning to get annoying. I don't want my music on my laptop, as then the house is without music when I take it with me. But using iTunes' built in method of sharing music across a household disables most of the new featues :(
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      CommentAuthorflak
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008
     
    McKs - I'm using iTunes over a network, too. I've got a folder of music sitting on a hard drive inside a Power Mac. Turn AFP on, mount the HD on your desktop, then point iTunes to the music folder as if it were a locally-connected FireWire drive.

    Listening, streaming, burning, and everything else should work fine. Well, for one computer - but still.

    I've got a separate music library for the laptop, of just music I want to take with me when I travel.

    (I'm oversimplifying, but I can walk you through setup if I glossed over important bits :) )
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      CommentAuthorDMCrimson
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008
     
    Genius is full of sh*t, it just wont let me past account verification, but just sits in there, doing nothing. I've entered billing info correctly, pressing done yields nothing, pressing "go back" the same and so does "cancel" It just sits there, doing absolutely nothing at all. What a piece of crap.
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      CommentAuthorMcKs
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008
     
    flak, thx. That's how I used to do it before iTunes had built-in sharing. The rendez-vous thing is more convenient when you have multiple Macs using the same music. And since it's a feature apple put in, I'd kinda expect it to play nice with the rest of iTunes' features.
    Maybe I should go back to the afp method though.
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      CommentAuthorflak
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008
     
    No prob, McKs. If you find a better way, please let me know! :)

    Anyone know if the Update Genius option in the Store menu does a quick incremental update, or if it does the whole thing all over again?
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      CommentAuthorDMCrimson
    • CommentTimeSep 14th 2008
     
    Hmm, got it working after all... Alas, Genius is more speak than do. Hehe, what you'd expect when having 10k tracks on library, and only some 5% is available in store?
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      CommentAuthormichael
    • CommentTimeSep 14th 2008
     
    i'm not sure whether i'm liking genius or not. it does bring up long forgotten stuff tho
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      CommentAuthorchicken
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008
     
    Not bad... Genius got a whole lot smarter over the weekend and has improved the selection it offers you.
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      CommentAuthorchris
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008 edited
     
    websnap said...Um, I just control-clicked the column in iTunes. It gave me a list of all the possible columns available in list view and I deselected "Genres". No Terminal involved. Am I missing something?

    that's where i was just then - i'm glad someone else got listed before i opened my trap :D
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      CommentAuthorVe.
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008
     
    I have (as you all prolly do) thousands of songs in my iTunes Library. I never get around to playing most of 'em again. The GENIUS PLAYLIST is GREAT! You put in ONE SONG and hit the genius button and it finds 25 (you can make it more) songs IT thinks GOES with that one. I did it 3 times and tried not to look too hard at what was selected and loaded all three genius playlists into the iPod and my walks in the city were full of happy surprises (because I had put each song IN THERE because I loved it in the first place)
    :-D Just my humble opinion!
    Cool!
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      CommentAuthorchicken
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008
     
    I would use Genius to create iPod play lists too if only the iPod could cross fade songs.
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      CommentAuthorVe.
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008 edited
     
    Ooooo chicken...I forgot (in my glee) to add...yep...it cut a WHO song dead off before it started the next one... (a little jarring...most songs I couldn't tell)


    oh well :-(
    Nothing is perfect!
    :wink:
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      CommentAuthornicko
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008
     
    was it my generation by any chance?
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      CommentAuthorVe.
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008
     
    ARE YOU IN MY HEAD????!!!!!(said with awe)

    BTW there is a LOT of David Bowie in my Genius playlists! :wink::wink::happy::happy:
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      CommentAuthornicko
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008
     
    I was just wondering, because it might be to do with the pause in "why don't you all ..... f-f-fade away" line :smile:
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      CommentAuthorVe.
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008
     
    nicko said...I was just wondering, because it might be to do with the pause in "why don't you all ..... f-f-fade away" line :smile:


    Ahh. I see. (LIKED IT BETTER WHEN SHE THOUGHT YOU WERE A MIND READER BUT LOVES YA' ANYWAY):happy:
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      CommentAuthornicko
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008
     
    :happy:
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      CommentAuthorVe.
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008
     
    :happy:
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      CommentAuthorchicken
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008 edited
     
    not being able to delete your own posts is homosexual
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      CommentAuthorchicken
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008 edited
     
    edit
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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008
     
    chicken said...not being able to delete your own posts is homosexual


    so... this is a good thing, yes?
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      CommentAuthorblueshead
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008
     
    Mr. Sulu might have something to say about this..
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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008
     
    didn't he and his beloved look ecstatic?

    of course, most all new brides or grooms do. :)

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