Please help with latest update of iTunes (6.0) before I stab out my eyes.

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So, someone please tell me that there is a way to turn off the omni-present iTunes music shop that is suddenly at the bottom of my iTunes window...

If this is impossible, please direct me to a (mac) alternative.

Jerks.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 12 January 2006 02:24 (twenty years ago)

Click on the library tab and you'll see 4 buttons on the LOWER RIGHT side of the screen. Click the second one.

― Jena (JenaP), Thursday, 12 January 2006 02:28 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, they've done this sort of silliness before, but at least they make it fairly easy to turn off the features that no one wants.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 12 January 2006 02:30 (twenty years ago)

Actually it's 5 buttons, but it's still the second button therem the one with the tiny triangle. What an annoying way to try to get people to visit your store!

― Jena (JenaP), Thursday, 12 January 2006 02:32 (twenty years ago)

Thank you ever so much.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 12 January 2006 02:37 (twenty years ago)

is 6.0.1 the latest version? if so, nothing new for me to download. hurrah!

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 02:47 (twenty years ago)

I have 6.0.2 and I'm running 10.3. Speaking of, how can I get my hands on a 10.4 disc? I asked a friend of mine who just bought a Powerbook, but it came pre-installed and thus without a CD. What are my optionsm besides the obvious one?

― Jena (JenaP), Thursday, 12 January 2006 02:55 (twenty years ago)

I just bought my copy of 10.4 for

― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 12 January 2006 03:04 (twenty years ago)

The fuckers are watching you when you have that little store open in iTunes.

― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 12 January 2006 03:07 (twenty years ago)

Some of these behaviors remind me of Microsoft -- the way Quicktime tries to connect to online film advertising when you load it without asking it to play a specific file, for instance.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 12 January 2006 03:10 (twenty years ago)

(whoops, for got the less than sign was html for a sec)

I just bought my copy of 10.4 for less than $70 at my school's bookstore. Despite no longer being a student, they didn't seem to care. Not much over 10.3, except for Spotlight, Dashboard, and Crappier version of Mail. But a permissions repair now takes about 15 seconds where it used to take 2-3 mins on 10.3.9.

― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 12 January 2006 03:22 (twenty years ago)

ok, got 6.0.2, had the ministore hidden within seconds.

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 03:41 (twenty years ago)

Yea, its in the the fucking edit menu also.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:01 (twenty years ago)

people stabbing out their eyes before even looking at the fucking edit menu

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:06 (twenty years ago)

i mean, do you just stare at the screen or do you actually try to poke around a little?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:07 (twenty years ago)

the only question i have is why itunes can report back and not bring me back some artwork

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah. Stupid me. Somehow, I would have guessed it was in the Preferences menu. Or I would be able to collapse it by grabbing the upper boundry and dragging it away. Or that I would have some sort of available close dialog box. If I were only a l33t poweruser, I would have looked under the edit menu. Shucks and golly.

In related news, if you need iTunes artwork, you might give this a try:

http://www.sprote.com/clutter/

It's tiny, works automatically, and contains alternate searches for when it's wrong.

(BTW, the copy to itunes option is under the file menu. Feh.)

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:22 (twenty years ago)

but aren't you are adding FILEs to itunes?

thx for the program

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:24 (twenty years ago)

bah, i thought that program would add artwork to album id3 tags.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:25 (twenty years ago)

Then try here (Fetch Art)- takes forever, but worked. I switched to Clutter after running this, because the applescript kept hanging my computer, and Clutter was quicker for one-off things/an album at a time. Might be a newer version though - not sure.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19933

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:31 (twenty years ago)

clutter DOES add artwork, you just have to hit shift-apple-k and it adds to the entire album. very cool.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:33 (twenty years ago)

You see, internet? We can start with anger, and still find ourselves a common ground, a seperate peace. For the children!

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)

is there an xp equiv of that?

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:41 (twenty years ago)

Here's the first one I found, but I can't really test it...

http://www.yvg.com/itunesartimporter.shtml#download

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:44 (twenty years ago)

on second thought, i can't be bothered. if i have an overwhelming desire to see the artwork, i'll just grab it from amazon myself.

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:49 (twenty years ago)

(which is what i've been doing)

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:49 (twenty years ago)

The fuckers are watching you when you have that little store open in iTunes.

Cory Doctorow in massive overreaction shocker. I hate DRM, spyware, adware etc. as much as the next online freedom fighter but christ, that fucker needs a good kick up the arse. I stopped contributing to the EFF thanks to his clueless ranting. Way to devalue the prized bOINGbOING brand, you knob.

Momus: have you considered Linux?

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:51 (twenty years ago)

No.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 12 January 2006 05:11 (twenty years ago)

You should. It'll run quite handily on an iBook and it is total Freedom Land. I love OS X, but Linux is definitely the way to go if you are annoyed by popup nagware.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 12 January 2006 05:26 (twenty years ago)

Whoa. Tell me somebody who's written a driver for the wireless card in an ibook quick, and I might still go linux. Seriously.

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 12 January 2006 06:10 (twenty years ago)

Momus is too stupid to use Linux.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 12 January 2006 07:39 (twenty years ago)

It's like I always say, computers think stupid, and if you use computers enough they will make you stupid, too.
-- Tracer Hand (tracerhan...), January 11th, 2006.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 12 January 2006 08:46 (twenty years ago)

"Computer says no" is snappier.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 January 2006 09:03 (twenty years ago)

Spyware story refuted

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 12 January 2006 11:22 (twenty years ago)

Is anyone else getting graphical glitches with 6.0.2? The screen is not redrawn half the time...

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 12 January 2006 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Is there any reason to update to iTunes 6 if one has no interest in buying videos?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:01 (twenty years ago)

i refuse to use software update - it tells apple way too much information about my mac

DO YOU SEE

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, they've done this sort of silliness before, but at least they make it fairly easy to turn off the features that no one wants.

It took me about five seconds to figure out how to switch it off.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:35 (twenty years ago)

DO YOU SEE

yeah, and I could also lay awake at night and worry about cookies or other info-collecting schemes that I participate in. I could worry about my neighbor taking pictures of me in my house from the street (totally legal.) I could worry about credit card companies tracking my purchases and sharing it with merchants (which they do.)

But the reason the iTunes thing pissed people off is because some of us would like to hold Steve Jobs above that kind of underhanded bullshit. You know what Software Update does or could possibly do; when iTunes does that without any hint of doing so, it voids trust in Apple.

― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:00 (twenty years ago)

alba, don't think so. other than to keep up to date as well, I guess, which is why I updated.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:24 (twenty years ago)

This is all shit that people point at Microsoft for doing and FREAK THE FUCK OUT.

OH MY GOD WHY WON'T THE PAPERCLIP GO AWAY?!?!?!? learn to right-click, etc.

Cory Doctorow is right about DRM. I'm going to assume though that the iTunes spybot is for watching to see how prevalent DVD-Jon's m4p->m4a techniques are becoming. Though this does all remind me of that BMW commercial where yuppie jackass is blasting "Wheels on the bus go round and round" when they call in to schedule his oil change.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 January 2006 16:21 (twenty years ago)

I hate Boingboingers btw.

Tombot, Apple has said that they do not retain the information. Additionally:

Michael did some protocol analysis of the information that the MiniStore sends to Apple and discovered that every time he clicked a new song, iTunes transmits the song title and artist, as well as his personal, six-digit iTunes identifier. This raises the question: if Apple discards the personally identifying information after receiving the current song, why does it need your personal iTunes account identifier at all?

So there's no way of them tracking the use of de-DRM stuff like Hymn.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH SPECULATIVE HYPERBOLE (ex machina), Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

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