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Q: Changing the display language in iTunes 12

Apple tells us to change our WHOLE system language (mine is Japanese thank you very much) to English and then restarting iTunes. Yes, it works- iTunes then displays in English. FOR A SINGLE SESSION. Naturally, if you turn your system back to the language you want it in (back to Japanese in my case), when iTunes starts again it will be in Japanese again.

 

APPLE IS NOT ALLOWING YOU TO RUN ITUNES IN ONE LANGUAGE AND THE SYSTEM IN ANOTHER. Not anymore. They used to. There was a popup menu in iTunes allowing you to change the language just for that purpose.

 

I'm telling you folks, 15 years ago when I was in my 30's it was issues like these that kept us loyal to Apple and avoid Windows like the plague. Over the last decade Apple has gotten more and more Draconian, deciding it knows best for you and limiting your ability to customize more and more. Corporations, like banks, don't like transient people- they like similar eggs in the same basket.

 

But I live in Japan. I prefer Japanese for most things, but I don't want genres in iTunes that read ロック instead of Rock, and I don't like my music going missing all the time because of this.

 

You fellow posters could tell me to use something else and I often do. I use VLC (free) and Nightingale (free). Of course iTunes is much nicer, but it's nothing but a headache. Apple, I've invested over $30,000 in your products over the years. Is this how I am repayed?  By not even having the dignity of being allowed bilingualism?

Mac mini (Mid 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Nov 24, 2014 3:34 AM

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  • by bluetortilla,

    bluetortilla bluetortilla Nov 25, 2014 6:55 PM in response to bluetortilla
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    Nov 25, 2014 6:55 PM in response to bluetortilla

    Thanks for all the suggestions support community.

     

    WHEN will APPLE stop playing these cat and mouse games? Here's the answer, in case you're in need of apps in other languages other than the one you're forced to adopt by Central Control:

     

    (In Terminal)

    defaults write com.apple.iTunes AppleLanguages '("en-US")'

     

    Worked for me.