Tip: How to disable Genius in iTunes 8
Here’s how to disable the new Genius sidebar in iTunes 8:
In iTunes 8, choose Turn Off Genius in the Store menu.
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PLEASE send instruction how to disable the Genius part of the iTunes upgrade.
I do NOT want Genius, I prefer making my own list of songs..and not being directly connected to the store.
I simply was updating my software, per the automatic notification…and got stuck with Genius.
There was no clear disconnect icon in the iTunes store.
Thanks for this. Pretty simple actually, but not obvious…
go to the itunes store menu at the top and then click on turn off genius
I too got stuck with genius and if that’s genius I
am Einstein. I like the surprises of “shuffle”
Great site,found you on Google
Kind Regards
Carole
I NEED HELP
How do I get the view with Gender/Artist/Album and all the songs on the bottum? iTunes 8 is driving me crazy!
Kev, do this in iTunes 8:
1. Select Music in the Library section on the left side of the window.
2. Click the center of the three view buttons in the upper-right corner of the window.
3. You should now see tab buttons for Albums/Artists/Genres/Composers
Thx for your fast help John Blackburn,
I’ve done what you told me, but this isn’t what I tried to have back. I’m looking for this “eye like button” which iTunes7 had on the bottom right, where the genius button is now. I don’t like the covers, it takes to long to load and is less convenient then a list. To me at least. And the List alone is just nonsense when u have a some what big library. Am I the only one with this problem? If I hadn’t just bought an iPhone, I would change back to 7.
I’ve found it out!
It was very simple:
Go to “View -> Show Browser”
Uff, so happy to have it back to the way I like it best!
Thanks for the tip.
The Genius is more of an irritant than help.
If music in your iTunes Library is NOT in the iTunes Store… most of mine… then you get error messages.
Or the suggestions hopelessly off…
Or it simply lists best sellers in the particular genre.
Sorry Genius, but if you keep telling me about Andrea Bocelli, then CLEARLY you’re no genius. And certainly lack taste.
I can’t find the “turn off genius” button in the itunes store on the store menu, I want to turn genius off and I have Itunes version 8.
I would LOVE to turn Genius off, as it keeps freezing iTunes, but my “Turn Genius Off” under the Store menu is grayed out and I cannot click it. How do I turn this thing off so I can listen to my music?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Mark,
On the bottom right of itunes, there should be an arrow that opens your Genius sidebar back up. Click on that so that the Genius sidebar is showing. Then try going to Store >> Turn Genius Off again. It should no longer be grayed out. I had the same problem and this worked for me.
If it’s grayed out, that might mean it’s currently updating. If so, click the X on the right side of the info pane at the top to stop the updating process, then choose Store > Turn Genius off.
THANK YOU, thank you, thank you. What a horrible addition. Ever since Genius popped up with my last update iTunes has been bogging down my computer. Anytime I want to listen to music off iTunes or plug in my iPod it just sends my compy into snail pace. A G5 Mac without many installed programs too. Not a shabby computer. It was so irritating!
Can the genius sidebar be manually updated? I’m trying to get a feel for it before I decide if I like it or not. I just bought a bunch of songs and can’t get Genius to work for it. Itunes keeps telling me to update Genius through the itunes store. I have no clue how to do this. Please help!
Thanks for this tip, I found your site through Google. The Genius “feature” is horrible and bogs everything down with it’s constant updating. I am so glad to finally have it turned off.
Click on Store in left sidebar
Select Store menu at the top of the Window
Select “Turn off Genius” menu item
i wish there was a way to just delete the OPTION of genius from my itunes
its so annoying it just BEING there. even if it is off…
it definitely ruins the fun of finding music in the first place.
Just a note for those trying to turn off iTunes Genius. You’ll have to wait for it to complete it’s first download of results before the Store –> Turn Off Genius option is available.
Genius was a pain, so grateful for this site able to disable at last thank you
Genius kept freezing itunes and then crashing itunesand then freezing my whole computer when itunes had to restart. thx for how to disable genius cause its wotrkin like a charm now
O.K. for months all fine, have not had a problem, but for the past 12 hours I have been trying to turn genius off, just having a Pat Metheny selection did not suit my needs,it would not suggest anything else, the spinning arrows have been turning for hours, and the turn off is greyed out whether the sidebar is on or off… I do have 12 gb of data in iTunes.
Any advice would be welcome, thank you.
Kelv.
thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Genius is an annoying wanna-be Pandora.
Genius actually worked well for a while, why does it now take forever to load Genius results?
I actually liked creating quick lists with Genius because it was easy and didn’t take very long, but now it is horrible!!
I had to disable the function!
Did I download something that I shouldn’t have or do I need to download an upgrade?
Also, what is Safari?
It looks like most of you guys are using a pc, and i know there are people who have a mac
okay… to disable/Enable Genuis:
——>On the top finder bar there are pull-down menus, File Edit Etc. click on the “Store” tab and about halfway down there is an option to “Turn on Genius/Turn off Genius” hope that helps you mac users!
Genius has been sending information to apple for about 5 minutes – does it do this every time u load up itunes? if so i am turning this off! Cool site, found you on google – annoying that I can’t turn off Genius until it has stopped synching!!!!!!!!!!! grr!
everytime i plug my i pod in to sync it up it says that the library doesnt go with my i pod how do i resolve this?any help would be great,the first time i plugged my i pod in it erased all my songs? thanks pete
I seriously could not hate Genius more! Thank you though for your comments – I about fainted when my turn off genius was grayed out, then learned the way way around it – I’m still waiting for it to update so I can get rid of it!
Whenever I open iTunes, Genius updates and then freezes the whole program when it gets 4/5 of the way. HELP!!!!
Stuart!
thanks man.
genius is horrible.
In the Mac version you find the switch to deactivate Genius in the top pop-down menu (not in the iTunes window) under “Store”.
stuart! thank you. everyone here was saying the “store menu,” and i couldn’t find it at all. thanks for the tip for mac! and yea, genius is terrible. it made my itunes freeze constantly