iTunes Fail
I was all ready to hate on the new iTunes 8 for discontinuing the preferences to hide genre when browsing and hide those little arrow links to the Apple Store, but then I found that a helpful reader of this support topic provided a solution:
On a Mac, open Terminal.
defaults write com.apple.itunes show-genre-when-browsing -bool FALSE
defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE
This update to iTunes feels like it’s all about Apple flexing its commercial muscle without much clear benefit to consumers. Am I wrong? Is it time to start looking for an alternative to iTunes?
ALSO:
This update really encourages you to download art for your MP3s. I’m all in favor! But instead of using iTunes, you might try this free dashboard widget. It selects the art from Amazon, and is right about as often as iTunes is. The difference is that the art is encoded right into the MP3. iTunes, on the other hand, associates it with your library. Meaning that if you, er, share the MP3 with someone else, the Amazon art will transfer over but the iTunes art won’t.
cool. do you know of one that will get movie and tv show art?
i don’t think so. i just tried it and it didn’t seem to work. it’s not the best thing in the world for sure; it’s got other problems too like sometimes it wants to update more than just your album. but it’s a lot faster than using google image search or whatever else.