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daimoni · May 22, 2003, 07:42 PM

I know I can create a custom genre, but how do I delete a genre once it has been added to the genre list. I imagine it must get added to some kind of conf file/database somewhere... I just don't know where.

Any ideas?

Stratus Fear · May 22, 2003, 07:44 PM

No clue...might it be in the preference file?

I'm not sure why you want to delete it anyway, it's not like it's using a lot of hard disk space or anything...

daimoni · May 22, 2003, 07:50 PM

Originally posted by Stratus Fear:
No clue...might it be in the preference file?

I'm not sure why you want to delete it anyway, it's not like it's using a lot of hard disk space or anything...

I'm just one of those weirdos who likes to be in control of the information that is displayed.

There are a lot of default genre's that I will never use. I don't like clutter, nor living with genre's that I don't like and/or don't even begin to describe the music that I listen to.

In other words, if I'm able to add something to a database, I should be able to delete it. Not too much to ask, I say.

"Just living with it" is a cop out.

Stratus Fear · May 22, 2003, 07:52 PM

Originally posted by daimoni:
I'm just one of those weirdos who likes to be in control of the information that is displayed.

There are a lot of default genre's that I will never use. I don't like clutter, nor living with genre's that I don't like and/or don't even begin to describe the music that I listen to.

In other words, if I'm able to add something to a database, I should be able to delete it. Not too much to ask, I say.

"Just living with it" is a cop out.

I understand where you're coming from. Somebody here probably has an idea for you...

madra · May 23, 2003, 08:10 AM

i agree with you. most of my tunes fall into about 3 or 4 categories i've coined myself... however and for example, if i go to set a tune's category to "rock'n'roll" [which i use to cover everything from rock to metal] i can either try to wrestle with that huge unwieldy genres pop-up... or rely on itunes pre-emptive spelling. so, i type the 'r' and itunes suggests 'religious' ...then type the 'o' and itunes plumps for "Rock" ... i have to type "rock<apostrophe>" before itunes gets that i want to use my own category. the same with my "punk & alternative" category where itunes first attempts to choose "Pop" and then "Punk", again forcing me to type "punk &" before it gets the message.

being able to delete superfluous genres would save a helluva lot of time.

and while on the subject of itunes pre-emptive typing... jeeezus h christ on a bike! do i hate applications that insist on 'Capitalising The First Letter Of Every Word I Type'!!! whoever invented this so-called 'helpful feature' which seems to be spreading like a virus across more and more applications should be taken out and shot.

it's not a hassle for me to hold down shift and type a capital if i want one. it *is* a f**kin hassle to have to go back over each word in a song/band/album title, select the first letter and then replace it with a lower case version because some 'handy-holdy' application thought it would 'helpy-welpy' me to type like a big grown-up. christ! even microsoft turd lets you turn auto-capitalisation off!

daimoni · May 23, 2003, 08:18 AM

Madra - where the funk have you been all of these months?

Welcome back, dude.

madra · May 23, 2003, 08:28 AM

Madra - where the funk have you been all of these months?

och. around and about. dinnae get in here much these days. i think maybe i've finally got to grips with this whole OS X thing... or maybe i'm just all ranted out!

Spheric Harlot · May 23, 2003, 11:59 AM

Originally posted by madra:
och. around and about. dinnae get in here much these days. i think maybe i've finally got to grips with this whole OS X thing... or maybe i'm just all ranted out!

Seeing that familiar old sig this afternoon brought a big grin to my face, despite being at work.

Welcome back, y'old rogue.

<on-topic>
iTunes 3 would build its genre list from all available songs and delete genres once they were no longer present in id3 tags, AFAIK.

iT4 doesn't?

Oh, and the auto-completion substituting caps drives me batshit, too.

-s*

Arkham_c · May 23, 2003, 12:09 PM

The default genres are in this file:

/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localized.rsrc

It's a data file despite the name (the data is in the data fork). You can edit it with something like HexEdit or BBEdit. I don't know if there are any ramifications to changing the length of the file, so make a backup before you tinker with it.

dfiler · May 23, 2003, 01:30 PM

If I recall correctly from iTunes 3, only default genres remain in the list if no songs exist in that genre. Possible soultion: Browse by genre, select all, get info, and re-genre-fy.

tooki · May 23, 2003, 02:16 PM

Come on, Daimoni, with over 5000 posts to your name, you should know to POST IN THE CORRECT FORUM!

tooki