In my previous post I mentioned how you could hold the Option key while pressing on one of those store arrow links in iTunes to stay within your local library.  I have stumbled across the following preference to switch this functionality so that you don’t have to hold the Option key.  First quit iTunes, then enter the following command in the terminal.

To reverse the way the iTunes store links work so that when you click on one you stay within your local library:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool TRUE

Now within iTunes when you click on any store arrow link you will stay within your own local library.  If you want to go out to the iTunes store you can hold Option when clicking on any of the links.

To return the store arrow links back to their original functionality, you can run the same command replacing TRUE with FALSE.

For Mac OS X users who have upgraded to the new iTunes 8, you may have noticed that the preference to disable the arrow links next to songs, artists and albums when browsing in list view that take you to the iTunes store has been removed.  Again, exactly why Apple chose to do this is beyond me, but thankfully the preference can still be set by issuing a simple terminal command.

First quit iTunes, then type the following commands into a Terminal window.

To DISABLE the store link arrows in iTunes 8:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE

To ENABLE the store link arrows in iTunes 8:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool TRUE

As a side note, many don’t know that if you hold the Option key while clicking on those arrows, you are not taken to the iTunes store, but instead taken to that option in your own local library.  Very handy if you want to quickly see all the songs by an artist.

For Mac OS X users who have upgraded to the new iTunes 8, you may have noticed that the preference to disable the Genre column in the iTunes browser has been removed.  Why Apple chose to do this is beyond me (maybe it slipped past the developers), but thankfully the preference can still be set by issuing a simple terminal command.

First quit iTunes, then type the following commands into a Terminal window.

To turn the Genre column OFF in iTunes 8:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-genre-when-browsing -bool FALSE

To turn the Genre column ON in iTunes 8:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-genre-when-browsing -bool TRUE