Can Ping be disabled on iTunes?
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llewis (
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September 26th, 2010
I haven’t updated my iTunes because I do not want Ping. Does anyone know if I can either not download that part of it, or if I can disable it once it’s loaded?
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Ping is built into iTunes & cannot be removed by way of settings/preferences. But if you feel comfortable with using Terminal, you can remove the Ping elements from iTunes with these commands.
This will remove the drop down button/menu that appears next to each track.
defaults write com.apple.itunes hide-ping-dropdown -bool YES
This will remove Ping from the sidebar.
defaults write com.apple.iTunes disablePingSidebar 1
Yeah.. Open up the Terminal in Applications/Utilities and type and hit Return. Restart iTunes and the buttons should be gone.
defaults write com.apple.iTunes hide-ping-dropdown -bool TRUE
And for good measure run this too:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes disablePingSidebar 1
That should pretty much hide Ping from you.
Edit :: And what rpm said.
Here is the Windows equivalent to the Mac OS answers above:
32-bit
“C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt hide-ping-dropdown 1
“C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt show-store-link-arrows 1
“C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt disablePingSidebar 1
64-bit
“C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt hide-ping-dropdown 1
“C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt show-store-link-arrows 1
“C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt disablePingSidebar 1
I copied that from this discussion
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2593347&tstart=0
They also say you can simply disable the iTunes store in Parental Controls.
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