Comments on: Disable the iTunes Ping sidebar

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:38:17 +0000

Perfect – thanks for helping me de-clutter.

By: sandro

sandro — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:46:06 +0000

Edit:
Sorry, I thought that the
“defaults write com.apple.iTunes disablePingSidebar 1″
-command caused the additional checkbox, but actually it’s part of iTunes 10.1

By: sandro

sandro — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:42:45 +0000

the command causes an additional checkbox on the iTunes “Show-in-sidebar-settings”. You can turn off Ping by disabling the checkbox “Ping”

By: So lässt sich Ping in iTunes 10.1 abstellen | avatter

So lässt sich Ping in iTunes 10.1 abstellen | avatter — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:08:18 +0000

[...] das musikalische Social Network Ping zu deaktivieren. Zuvor war dies kaum möglich beziehungsweise nur versierten Nutzern, die keine Angst vor dem Mac-Terminal haben (defaults write com.apple.iTunes disablePingSidebar 1). [...]

By: Fulan

Fulan — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:04:27 +0000

Didn’t work for me, though the pull down script DID work.
SO effing obtrusive. What were they thinking?

By: Paulie Jay

Paulie Jay — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 01:53:14 +0000

Works fine.

By: Eric B

Eric B — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:09:13 +0000

For windows x64 you’ll want to change it to …

“C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt disablePingSidebar 1

By: Carolee

Carolee — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:13:22 +0000

Both this and the dropdown disable worked great for me.
Thanks very much.

I agree with Shadowcatcher.
How about making all of this garbage optional instead of just dragging us all down with it? What a concept.

By: shadowcatcher

shadowcatcher — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:14:02 +0000

thanks for these articles – PING has to be the
most invasive bs I have ever experienced since
I started using the personal computer in the 80s.

Apple devs and marketers should take note that
forcing anyone to accept social networking of any
kind is not the way to win any hearts and minds.

By: Alexander Matheson

Alexander Matheson — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:54:16 +0000

Seriously helpful, and much appreciated. Thanks!

By: browse

browse — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:55:12 +0000

Didn’t do anything for me.
15″ MacBook Pro, 3.06 GHz, 4GB RAM, 10.6.4, iTunes 10.0.1

By: LuciO

LuciO — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:09:16 +0000

Works perfect. Looks so much better.

By: Mick

Mick — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:54:04 +0000

Works perfectly.

Thanks

By: Jim Wickman

Jim Wickman — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:10:24 +0000

Sorry, doesn’t work.

My System: 15” MacBook Pro / 4 GB RAM /
2.53 ghz /OS 10.6.4 Snow Leopard / OmniWeb 5.10.1 / FireFox 3.6.10 / Safari 4.0.5 / Eudora 6.2.4 / iTunes 10.0.1

By: Disable the iTunes Ping button next to songs - OS X Daily

Disable the iTunes Ping button next to songs - OS X Daily — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:05:06 +0000

[...] can also disable the iTunes Ping sidebar if you want to further clean up the iTunes [...]