Like OS X itself , iTunes has a good number of hidden options that affect how the computer programme works and what choice are uncommitted to you — some of them letting you revert to the behavior and appearance of older version of iTunes . And as with those hidden type O X preferences , accessing iTunes ’s private feature of speech involve you to either track down down peculiar scale mastery that you melt down in Terminal or use a third - company utility that presents the place setting in an light - to - role port .
Though many utilities permit you change these setting , most thresh about them into a window with dozens — or even hundreds — of other secret setting that have nothing to do with iTunes . And not all of those tweaking utilities let in the latest iTunes option . A few years back , Icovered Change Hidden iTunes Preferences 1.0 , a tool from Doug Adams , the schoolmaster of iTunes AppleScripting . Doug recentlyupdated Change Hidden iTunes Preferences to adaptation 3.0 , and the latest version include several feature of speech not uncommitted in 2009 . ( It also remove a couple scene that no longer operate in the current version of iTunes . )
duple - click the Change Hidden iTunes Preferences app — or , if you utilise other iTunes scripts , put it in iTunes ’s Scripts brochure ( ~/Library / iTunes / Scripts ) and pick out it from iTunes ’s script menu — and you get a unmarried window listing all of the utility ’s option . You just quit iTunes , tick the box next to each pick you require to enable , click Apply , and then relaunch iTunes .
Here ’s a nimble description of each setting :
Show “ Library ” play list : Restores to iTunes ’s sidebar the main Library token , which includes everything in your iTunes library in a exclusive view . ( The Library detail was hit in iTunes 8 in favor of disjoined items for each type of mass medium . )
change thought determine is global : iTunes unremarkably maintains separate vista configurations ( list , grid , Cover Flow , tower ) for each library category and playlist . With this option enable , changes you make to any item or playlist ’s view setting are give toallcategories and playlists .
give up half - lead in ratings : iTunes has long had the capability to let you rate track in half - adept increment , but the feature has always been disabled by default option . This option lets you enable it .
enshroud “ Ping ” button : If , like many of us here atMacworld , you are n’t a rooter of Apple ’s badly - fatten , euphony - focused , societal - media military service , this selection have you hide the Ping button next to cartroad .
Show arrow links : If you choose to hide Ping , you get the choice to or else show an arrow next to each track ’s name , album , and artist . With this option enable , come home an arrow look at you to that data track , album , or artist in — depend on the setting you choose for Clicking Arrow — your own library or the iTunes Store . ( These arrow debut in iTunes 9 , if I call back correctly , but were depreciate in favour of Ping buttons in iTunes 10 . )
cargo complete Store trailer before playing : Restores an option , removed a few years back , to load the entire iTunes Store preview of an point before beginning playback .
Create playlists for purchased song collections : With this choice enabled , purchase an record album or other collection of track from the iTunes Store mechanically creates a new play list for that grouping of caterpillar track . With this pick disabled , the caterpillar tread are merely added to your library .
Play songs while import or converting : Restores another previously removed option , this one to take on Song dynasty while importing them from a CD .
make file names with runway bit : This option was available prior to iTunes 8 , but when the Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized scene debut , iTunes defaulted to always adding each track ’s cartroad number to its file name when ripping or organizing . If you ’d choose that your filename did n’t admit runway numbers , disable this stage setting .
Grid View Search resultant shift to List View : When you perform a search while browsing a category or play list in grid vista , this countersink determine whether the search results are expose in list view or control grid prospect .
alternative - come home zoom button for Mini Player : There was a short time , from iTunes 9.0 to 9.0.1 , when you had toOption+click the iTunes windowpane ’s trivial green soar button ( alternatively of simply click that button ) to toggle the Mini Player purview . If you were one of the people who preferred the Option - paint requirement , this setting is for you .
Disable “ elastic ” scroll behavior : One of the iOS - inspired changes of Lion ( OS X 10.7 ) is an elastic - like bouncing effect when you hit the top or bottom of a window while scrolling rapidly . This setting lets you deactivate the effect in iTunes .
As with Change Hidden iTunes Preferences v1.0 , if you ever want to delete all trace of a mount from your iTunes predilection file , the programme ’s file menu offers Delete Checked and Delete All command . Doug ’s documentation explicate that you might need to do this “ if a next version of iTunes balks at these setting or you decide that mess with the iTunes preferences file is a bad thing . ”
Doug provides Change Hidden iTunes Preferences for free , but if you find it utile , he asks for a donation to support future development . convert Hidden iTunes Preferences ask iTunes 9.0 or afterward and OS X 10.6 or later . ( If you ’re using an honest-to-god version of iTunes or OS X , older edition of the utility are available for download at thesame URL . )
