New MiniStore in iTunes 6.0.2

Anyone found a way to change the "Show" tag to enable display in the TV Shows folder? I've been waiting forever to move videos to TV Shows, and now can't even use it!

I completely agree with Apteryx, I spent a couple minutes going through the preferences trying to figure out how to turn it off and I *work* in Mac IT support. Inexperienced users will just leave it there. No thanks Apple! It took up screen real-estate for nothing more than advertising. Thanks to tuaw.com for telling me how to turn it off!

Took me a couple of minutes to realise how to hide it. It's not a feature I'm remotely interested in, and I had time to get seriously annoyed with it - once I found out how to do it, though, there was no problem removing it. As long as it doesn't appear again every time I restart it, it's ok.

But it makes me wonder how less experienced users are going to realise they can hide it, especially since there was nothing in iTunes Help about the feature (not in the localized version to Swedish, anyway).

I just checked the menus and selected 'Hide Ministore' - fairly straightforward really.

iChat seems to do a potentially similarly evil thing (see http://logicalextremes.blogspot.com/2006/01/apple-itunesichat-spyware.html).

#2: Thanks!
I could not figure out how to get rid of that useless Music Store pane at the bottom.

Bad UI decision, indeed.

I tried closing the ministore by clicking the icon below and it only created multiple images of the ministore while it closed. I closed itunes, reopened it and used the shortcut to close it listed in the menu (I forget what it was Im using that OTHER OS at work right now. Anyway that time my song lists were gone, all that was there was an empty box, not even the horizontal rows where track names were listed and not even while playing any album I selected. I quit out of itunes re-opened it and now it works fine. Anyone else have any issues?

I'm concerned that iTunes is getting "bloated." Seems that there are also no improvements on the podcasting feature.

Lewis: That's exactly what they're doing, there's simply no way to show you items related to what you're listening to without telling them what you're listening to.

If you don't want Apple knowing what you're listening to then hide the MiniStore in the view preferences. I've confirmed with Little Snitch that no data is sent when it's closed.

Then again, if you didn't want Apple knowing what you're listening to, you wouldn't be using the iTMS at all, would you?

well there goes the reason for buying airfoil from Rouge Ameoba... they just updated airfoil to do what iTunes now does allowing streaming to multiple speakers... silly airfoil