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Macworld with some useful terminal commands to customize the new iTunes 8. Remove genre when browsing, disable iTunes store links, play songs while converting or importing and load complete previews of songs before playing networked tracks. If you’re missing these preferences in the new iTunes, this article will set you up.

With the new iTunes 8 Apple has disabled the preference to remove iTunes store links from each and every song in your iTunes library. This is seriously annoying, insofar as I’m living in South Korea and these little arrows lead me to a blank page informing me that the iTunes music store is unavailable in [...]

And as every child knows, having a story read to you provides a gentle transition into sleep (and drowns out the nightly feral cat congregation outside your apartment window). iTunes Timer will stop iTunes from ruining your rest.

MacWorld has a neat tip on how to search your iTunes library by rating. Just type in ‘***’ to see all your songs with three or more stars, or ‘Pink Floyd ***’ to see only highly rated Floyd songs.

It isn’t often that iTunes isn’t running on my Mac. Music is the lubricant of my life, and doubtlessly I’m not alone in this. Here is the best way to quickly bring iTunes to the front, hide it if that’s where it currently is, or launch it otherwise.