How do I get rid of all the extra artist information in iTunes 12?

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How do I get rid of all the extra artist information in iTunes 12?

When viewing my music by artist there is now a bunch of annoying extra information by some of them - biography, influences, etc... Bob Marley, U2, and Dave Matthews to name a few. For those artists it narrows the album view from two columns to one, and cuts off the name of the album. Seriously annoying! Is there any way to get rid of all that extra information?

HP desktop, Windows 7 - 64 bit (all updates), iTunes 12.2.0

iPhone 4, iOS 7.1.2

Posted on Jul 6, 2015 4:13 PM

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turingtest2

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Jul 6, 2015 6:45 PM in response to Slouch71

Not at present. 😐

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hhgttg27

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Jul 6, 2015 6:47 PM in response to turingtest2

None of this information appears, however, if you disable Apple Music.

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turingtest2

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Jul 6, 2015 6:57 PM in response to hhgttg27

Might be OK if you've never enabled it, but it appears to be cached if you have.

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Jul 6, 2015 7:19 PM in response to turingtest2

hhgttg27 and turngtest2 thanks for the responses. I don't ever remember enabling Apple Music before, and when I clicked on the option it is asking me to sign up for a 3 month trial. I don't use iTunes match, iCloud, or Genius either. Pretty frustrating to lose the cleaner layout.

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hhgttg27

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Jul 6, 2015 7:25 PM in response to turingtest2

As Charlie Brown would say, "Good Grief"!

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hhgttg27

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Jul 6, 2015 7:42 PM in response to Slouch71

I've discovered that I do have this info for a very small subset of artists in my library - some (but not all) of those for which I have iTunes Store purchases. So not as simple as enabled/disabled. I do have all the configuration options that allow interaction between my library and Apple's servers turned off.

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Jul 6, 2015 7:57 PM in response to hhgttg27

I think that I am finding out the same thing. Almost all of my music is ripped from my cd collection, but I have downloaded a few songs here and there from the iTunes Store. Those seem to be the artists that are displaying the extra information. Seems like Apple has forced this on us without an option of turning it off.

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