Drop-down Arrows in iTunes 10

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Drop-down Arrows in iTunes 10

Good morning. I took the step this morning of downgrading iTunes 11 to iTunes 10.7 on my MacBook Air. Everything seems to be back to normal except for one item. When I highlight a song, I have these small drop-down arrows that, when clicked, link to the iTunes store. It says "Show in iTunes Store." I've been trying to remove these arrows using tips that have been posted before. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of these arrows? I want to get everything back as it was last week before I made the mistake of installing iTunes 11. I want to get this done on my MacBook Air before I tackle my iTunes library at home. It has 3.8TB in its library. Thank you.

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Dec 3, 2012 7:17 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 3, 2012 7:27 AM in response to Gregory Shadley

Not sure how, but I noticed this feature when I was browsing TV Shows in 10.7 after downgrading. Everything else is working so I'm not too bothered by it. It's almost as if some feature remained after removing 11.

As it's not interferring with anything, I'm just glad there is no corruption in my 2TB library - all artwork is back as it should be (it wasn't in 11), seems like media files play on Mac and ATV and home sharing is back to its intermittent self ( this was why I upgraded to 11 in the hope it was fixed - it wasn't so I downgraded ).

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Answer 2

joepke

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Dec 3, 2012 7:44 AM in response to Gregory Shadley

Also downgraded to iTunes 10.7 and noticed that these drop-down arrows re-appeared. I got rid of these by first disabling Ping in the Parental preference pane and then running the following command in Terminal.app:

defaults write com.apple.itunes hide-ping-dropdown -boolean true

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Answer 3

Dec 3, 2012 7:59 AM in response to joepke

Thanks Joe. I may leave them as they don't cause me any problems, but good to know.

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Answer 4

Dec 3, 2012 8:05 AM in response to joepke

Thanks Joe. This solved the problem.

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