Ok, here it is: I just upgraded iTunes today and now apparently all artists in my list have this biography and similar bands column kind of thing in the right side of the window. How do I get rid of it? Please.
Here goes a pic of it:
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
I know what you mean, I hate this column, too.
Can't understand why apple has no option added to disable this fu**ing column. I don't want to see the content and if there is an artist which hasn't any information for this column Apple shows an empty column which looks awful. This happens only when the Artists is available on iTunes. For Artitsts which are unknown for apple the column is missing.
Artist is available on iTunes, but has no information for the evil column
Artists is completely unknown for Apple, column is gone
Artist with the column 😟
However I found an Workaround, just make the window smaller than the column disappears.
I don't like this workaround. An option for disabling that column would be much better.
I suggest that you write apple and suggest that they add an option for that.
I know what you mean, I hate this column, too.
Can't understand why apple has no option added to disable this fu**ing column. I don't want to see the content and if there is an artist which hasn't any information for this column Apple shows an empty column which looks awful. This happens only when the Artists is available on iTunes. For Artitsts which are unknown for apple the column is missing.
Artist is available on iTunes, but has no information for the evil column
Artists is completely unknown for Apple, column is gone
Artist with the column 😟
However I found an Workaround, just make the window smaller than the column disappears.
I don't like this workaround. An option for disabling that column would be much better.
I suggest that you write apple and suggest that they add an option for that.
Yes! I've noticed that too.
Totally annoying there's no way to hide that. Another workaround I found in order to see the songs in an album split in two columns is to make the iTunes window bigger – at least I'm used to look at them this way, hehe.
But there's nothing much to do really. Let's hope they fix this.
Yet another bonehead move by Apple. Let's take a great program and wreck it, piece by piece, over the course of a decade.
That said, I have a solution to this problem. Depending on how much purchased music you have in your library, it may be tenable or it may not be worth it for you. To fix the issue, select a song that you have purchased from iTunes. Left-click with your mouse to find this option, or go to File > Create New Version > Create ACC Version. This will make a duplicate of your file and it will keep all of your metadata intact with one exception. The "kind" field will change from "Purchased AAC audio file" to "AAC audio file."
iTunes will no longer recognize this song as a purchase, and, once all of the purchased songs are eliminated from each artist's catalog within your library, the Columns of Stupidity and Shame (COSS) will disappear.
Restarts may be necessary.
If anyone has a more simple solution, I'd love to here it. But, right now, I have 460 songs to deal with.
Good luck, folks.
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Thanks- worked perfectly!
I'm not a big fan either. Plus, there is incorrect information in Brian Regan's biography. Brian Regan, the comedian didn't write for 102 Dalmations. That's a different Brian Regan. He even has a joke about that on one of his albums. Who writes these? How can we suggest corrections? It's weird.
Biography column thing?
