How to kill that Ping drop-down in iTunes 10

Apple recently updated iTunes to version 10.0.1 which, among other things, added drop-down access to Ping, Apple's social network for iTunes customers, into your library. Some of you like Ping more than others, and there are those in the latter group who are completely disinterested.

The Mac Observer explains how you can eliminate that drop-down menu from iTunes 10 entirely. The procedure is simple. First, quit iTunes, launch Terminal and enter the following:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes hide-ping-dropdown -bool TRUE

Finally, quit Terminal and re-launch iTunes. Presto! The drop-down is gone. The Mac Observer also describes how to restore the menu as well as how to re-orient the control buttons in the upper left-hand corner to a horizontal, rather than vertical, position. Hop over to find out how.

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doug

Because it's not easy to ignore, and iTunes is a part of my daily life. Ping is useless, and the cleaner the interface the better.

September 30 2010 at 9:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bkittysd

BSG- favorite show!
If you haven't seen Bear's live shows you are frakking missing out!
Nicely done using this capture!

September 30 2010 at 6:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dieri Castrejon

Does anyone know how to remove the arrow links on the Playlists section on the left of iTunes?

September 30 2010 at 4:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jmy4

It is an option that you can choose if you use the "secrets" control panel.

September 30 2010 at 4:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

hebegeebee

Vocab tip for the writer of the post (and the TUAW editors): "disinterested" means "detached" or "objective" -- not "uninterested"...

September 30 2010 at 2:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

TIm

For the people that may have friends still using Windows ;-)

"C:Program FilesiTunesiTunes.exe" /setPrefInt hide-ping-dropdown 1
"C:Program FilesiTunesiTunes.exe" /setPrefInt show-store-link-arrows 1
"C:Program FilesiTunesiTunes.exe" /setPrefInt invertStoreLinks 1
"C:Program FilesiTunesiTunes.exe" /setPrefInt disablePingSidebar 1

By the way that also adds the old store link arrows again but makes them look up things in your music lib.
Which would be

defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-link-arrows 1
defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks 1

for the mac folks I believe.

T.

September 30 2010 at 2:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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hebegeebee

Vocab tip for the writer of the post (and the TUAW editors): "disinterested" means "objective," not "uninterested"...

September 30 2010 at 2:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Cougar

It means both. From OS X's dictionary:

1 not influenced by considerations of personal advantage : a banker is under an obligation to give disinterested advice.
2 having or feeling no interest in something : her father was so disinterested in her progress that he only visited the school once.

September 30 2010 at 3:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John.B

:applause:

September 30 2010 at 2:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

clive

Any info on how to delete the "ping" icon in the side-bar menu? (under "Store")

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Martin Schmidler

Battlestar Galactica FTW. Best show ever.

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