Cool Tip for iTunes: Terminal Hack

I like the iTunes Store, but I don't want my music collection to be inextricably linked to it, especially considering only about 5% of it comes from the store, so when Apple added the grey arrows that link directly to the iTunes Music Store with iTunes 4.5 I immediately disabled them.



iTunes 7.0 made them less noticable, allowing them to show only on the currently playing song, but I was still bothered by them.

But, this neat little hack makes them useful. Rather than linking to the iTunes Store, you can use the link as another way to browse your own collection. However, hitting option along with the link goes back to the old behavior. To make this work, Open Terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES.

And if for some reason this doesn't work for you, you can change it back by putting NO instead of YES.