iTunes Genre Editor

This program allows you to edit the genre art that iTunes displays in Genre View, as well as add art for your own genres.

Genre View has evolved through various versions of iTunes. In the latest version as of this writing, v12.2.2, Genre view displays the genres in a sidebar to the left of the window, with the music at the right. In older versions, genre view looked similar to the current Album View, with each genre having a big square which you could double-click to see the associated music (see here).

iTunes 12.2 Genre View iTunes 12 Genre View

Please note that this program modifies iTunes files. Use at your own risk. I am not responsible for any damage, crashes, and/or errors that may result from your use of the program.

This program was designed to be used under Mac OS X 10.10.5 and iTunes 12.2.2. Using older versions of OS X or iTunes is not recommended. After updating to a newer version of OS X or iTunes, please wait for an update to this program to be released before using. Thanks!

Download here. Note: Beta release.

This Flickr group has a good number of possible genre art. If you have made some of your own, consider adding it to the group, or send it to me and I will host it on this page.

You can find the source code on Github. Send me a pull request if you make any changes, so I can incorporate them in!

Sometimes you don't understand because of the language, say the fella comes from America and he talks too fast. That's my fault and I apologize, that's a kind of trivial difficulty, relatively. Next kind of not understanding is because we perhaps use new words. Again, my job. Then there's a kind of saying you don't understand it meaning, 'I don't believe it, it's too crazy, it's the kind of thing I'm just not going to accept.' This kind, I hope you'll come along with me, and you'll have to accept it, because it's the way nature works. If you want to know the way nature works, we looked at it carefully, and that's the way it looks. You don't like it? Go somewhere else! To another universe, where the rules are simpler, philosophically more pleasing, more psychologically easy. I can't help it, okay?

Richard Feynman, QED: Photons - Corpuscles of Light (Sir Douglas Robb Lectures, 1979)