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There used to be an option in the Preferences panel to Hide Genre when browsing, which changed the layout of the “browse” (Ctrl+B) panel to just 2 parts – artist and album. In iTunes 8 however, it proves to a little more tricky.

If you’re using a Mac, here’s how you fix it.

Thanks to Ocram’s Blog, we now have a solution:

1. Close iTunes
2. Open the iTunes Application Data folder*:
   • In XP: “C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes”.
   • In Vista: “C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes”.
3. Backup the “iTunesPrefs.xml” file by creating a copy named “iTunesPrefs.xml.backup” or similar.
4. Open the iTunesPrefs.xml file in a text editor (eg *)
5. Scroll down to the following line: <key>User Preferences</key>. Below this line is this line: <dict>. Immediately below this line, paste in the following:
   

   <key>show-genre-when-browsing</key>
   <data>
   AA==
   </data>

6. Save the file, and restart iTunes.
7. Enjoy Genre-less browsing!

See posts with the “iTunesPrefs.xml” tag to see what else you can do with this!