When you select a song in your iTunes library, a small drop-down menu appears that gives you access to the song, its album, and the artist in Apple's iTunes music store. For some this may help them complete albums and find music, but for others the direct commercial links may not be welcome and they might wish to remove the store links from their library.
To remove the menu you just need to open the Terminal application and run the following command:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes hide-ping-dropdown -bool TRUE
By disabling the menu, enabling the arrow links, and inverting their behavior you can restore the classic iTunes options to search your library for specific songs, artists, albums, and genres (click for larger view).
(Credit: Screenshot by Topher Kessler/CNET)
While doing this will remove the menu and its links to the iTunes store, the menu does have a beneficial side. When you are playing a song in iTunes such as that on a randomized playlist, you might often want to hear more songs from that particular album or artist. If you hold the Option key when clicking the store link menu, instead of searching the store iTunes will reference your library and bring up songs and albums you already own.
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