iTunes Tip: those arrows

Those arrows, those pesky arrows. You know the ones that appear next to every track in your library and the iTunes store?  And only serve the purpose of directing you to purchase things.  When they first appeared in iTunes you were left with the option to remove them.  And more recently, not so much.  Here are two useful commandline tricks to deal with them darn arrows.

Open up the Terminal app in Applications > Utilities.  Copy and paste, or type out the following:

This one will make it so clicking the arrow next to and artist name will bring up all tracks by that artist in your library (NOT in the iTunes Store!), clicking an arrow next to an album title will bring up that album (NOT the iTunes Store!):

defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES

And if you prefer, this one will make the arrows disappear entirely:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE

To undo the effect for either sipmly replace YES with NO, or FALSE with TRUE.