[ahasver]

Does anybody else find these links to the Music store annoying? In version 7 you were able to turn them off but now they seem to on by default. That is so irritating for me. Am I the only one???

[rab777hp]

In iTunes 7, there was a preference to disable the links to the iTunes Store -- these are the small arrows that appear when you select a song in your library. In iTunes 8, however, that preference is gone. A bit of digging in the iTunes' binary found the solution, thankfully.

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
Relaunch iTunes, and voila, no more arrows! To reverse this behavior, you can repeat the above command (quit iTunes first), but replace FALSE with TRUE. (Or, if you prefer, you can completely delete the added preference with defaults delete com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links).

[mdawson]

How do you dig through the iTunes? binary?

[rab777hp]

wasnt me who did this, i got it from macosxhints.com.

What you do is you look at the binary for the app then you look for what is actually in the app, and what isnt. I think. it's all very confusing. This is how all the debug menus got discovered.

[mdawson]

Thanks. I will look into it.