How to Remove "Love" or Heart Icon in iTunes

I think everyone's overthinking this.

5 stars is too vague. What's the difference between 5 and 4? between 1 and 2? Is one star I really hate this, or is that no star? You know what you mean by 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, but there is no way to know if that's the same thing as my 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

So the heart means - essentially - I'm interested in more like this. With the Heart you can tell Apple something useful. With the stars you keep your own personal rating system that Apple doesn't have to guess about. Best of both worlds. How hard is that to understand?

The heart is a meaningless, redundant UI construct. What is the difference between rating a song 5 stars and rating it a heart? What does it mean if you rate a song 1 star, yet give it a heart?

> I think everyone's overthinking this. 5 stars is too vague. What's the difference between 5 and 4? between 1 and 2? Is one star I really hate this, or is that no star?

Perhaps you're not thinking hard enough? The difference between 5 stars and 4 is you like the song with 4 stars a bit less than the one with 4 stars. The difference between 1 star and 2 is you like the song with 2 stars a bit more than the one with 1 star. One star means you don't like it. No stars means you haven't rated it yet.

Apple could have just as easily included a preference along the lines of: "Play more songs that I have rated 1/2/3/4/5 stars or higher".

Perhaps you're not thinking hard enough? The difference between 5 stars and 4 is you like the song with 4 stars a bit less than the one with 4 stars. The difference between 1 star and 2 is you like the song with 2 stars a bit more than the one with 1 star. One star means you don't like it. No stars means you haven't rated it yet.

And there, my friends is a prefect example of...

You know what you mean by 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, but there is no way to know if that's the same thing as my 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

See, in my system, 0 stars means I hate it, not that I haven't rated it yet. 4 stars doesn't mean I like the song less that other other songs, but could mean I have multiple versions of the same song, sometimes even by the same artist, 5 star might be a preferred version of the that song...

Not saying your system is better or worse than mine, but my point is that it's idiosyncratic.

It's daunting to think about rating or "hearting" the 16,000 songs in my iTunes library. Indeed, I'm trying to think of one change made to iTunes in the past several years that I've found useful. More often than not, I'm trying to figure out how to turn off these new "features."

It's daunting to think about rating or "hearting" the 16,000 songs in my iTunes library

Then don't do it. It's not compulsory. It's not a requirement. New features get added to apps all the time. If they're of no interest to you, just don't use them.

Obviously, I'm well aware that I don't have to use the heart system. My point is that many of these features actually clutter up the interface and are not useful for many users (especially those who don't use the iTunes store).

Go to iTunes store, search for songs of concern, and then make sure they are not loved when played in iTunes store. Found this to be the problem after attempting to add songs to apple music from iTunes store by 'loving' them. This is not a work-around!

I have a couple of songs that show the heart (I probably accidentally turned it on). I seem to be able to make that heart filled in or not, but I haven't found how to eliminate it altogether for that song.

Unless you want to "unselected" the heart for that or whichever song, which you can do by:

a) On iTunes: right-click over the shaded heart and uncheck Love.

b) On MyMusic on iPhone, iPad etc.: tap on the shaded heart on the left side of the song to clear (unshade) the selection.

oops. sorry missed that bit.

I wish that new useful features would stop being defaulted as 'on', then we wouldn't have to spend the time researching how to turn them off.

Thanks for this,

Almost but not quite complete as it still shows on the info dialog

Could someone please tell me how to unfollow this thread which has lost sight of the OP question. Thanks.

Try clearing the tick by the 'Following' at the top of the page

Cheers. However I don't see "Following" at the top of page - or any threads come to that.

osx 10.10.4.

Cheers anyway.