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Is that a way to completely remove Ping from iTunes 10?

hello;

so far in the less than 30 minutes I had iTunes 10 installed I do not like it.
It would have been simple to put a preference in to disable Ping.

I have removed iTunes 10 and reinstalled iTunes 9.2.1. I need to rebuild the
iTunes Library because iTunes 10 updated it and iTunes 9.2.1 is unable to
read it.

I do not like having Ping shoved down my throat whether I want it or not.
I do not like social networking sites and Ping is no exception. The only ping
I want on my computers is the unix command 'ping' used to diagnose network
issues and problems.

terry

13 in and 17 inch macbook pro, 64GB iPad, 32GB and 64GB iPod Touch, 32GB ipod-1stgen, 16GB-ipod nano, Mac OS X (10.6.4), 3 appletv, 3 - 24" imac, 1 - 27" iMac, 1TB & 2TB time capsule, 7 airport express

Posted on Sep 1, 2010 9:26 PM

66 replies

Oct 1, 2010 8:05 PM in response to artisticforge

Apple:

What a great PR tactic: **** off all the people who opted out of PING by placing an annoying button in their face every time a song plays just to remind them how wonderful the feature they OPTED OUT actually is. What a great idea!

NOT

Oct 1, 2010 8:22 PM in response to Saul123

I did dig before posting but didn't see a resource (granted I fried an egg on my forehead before I got far enough in my Google search).

I really appreciate your post, Saul123. Thank you for showing us to the light. Everyone, go to the light, lol. Thank heaven I can get rid of this crap.

Message was edited by: Alien Implant

Oct 2, 2010 3:53 AM in response to Blue Garden

That's a great idea. I only then have to turn on the store when I have a look for any new podcasts etc.
My beef was that a lot of my music I could not post about because it was not in the iTunes store. I don't blame apple for trying to increase sales by this, but allowing people to post about music that is not in the store could have been used as market research to find out other popular songs and albums that they could include in the store at a future date. And I was a bit peed-off when I turned ping off, but still had that ping drop-down next to all of my songs. And would you believe that it also appeared next to the radio stations as well!

You have saved me downgrading, as apart from the way ping is at the moment, I actually like iTunes 10.

Apr 27, 2012 3:34 PM in response to artisticforge

I've been unable to find the "iTunes.pkg" file. I looked in the Receipts folder & search/spotlight. iTunesX.pkg (v 9.2.1) doesn't show up in search/spotlight either, but I "have" this file. Maybe mine is named something else. I have a file named "iTunesAccess.pkg" (version 9.2.1) in Receipts folder. Is this it?

• Can I still downgrade without locating this file?

• Also, can I use my old library if I change the name (I think I read that somewhere). Thanks for any advice.

Chris CA

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Apr 27, 2012 5:04 PM in response to NEW B USER

NEW B USER wrote:

Instead of jumping on an 18 month old thread, you should start your own thread and post what you want and are trying to do.

No idea what this post is about.

Apr 27, 2012 8:33 PM in response to Chris CA

Sure. Thank you. I replied to artisticforge, thinking he'd know the answer. Don't know how this all works yet. Thank you for your guidance. I do appreciated it.

Is that a way to completely remove Ping from iTunes 10?