Remove Genre From List View In iTunes 8.0

Posted on 2008 12 12 by Jason Job

I personally don’t use genre to browse my music collection. I find it too difficult to pin a label on a lot of music these days; I would just end up stringing adjectives. iTunes 8.0 defaults to showing genre in the list view and does not allow you to change this from within the app itself. Here is a quick fix for this:

Open Terminal and type:

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

Then close and reopen iTunes and voila, genre is gone form the list view.

To put genres back, type:

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

Your iTunes browser will now look like this:

iTunes with browse by genre removed

iTunes with browse by genre removed

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About Jason Job

I am a technologist, music producer and an obsessive student of the Internet. I create sound, write code and make things with electronics and microcontrollers. I work as a software developer and consultant and am currently focused primarily on mobile applications for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
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