Whenever I have to reinstall iTunes, I also have to reapply the hacks that make it behave the way I like. Mostly for my own convenience, here is a list of the hacks I use.

To get rid of the Ping drop down menus next to artists and so forth, type this in Terminal:

To enable half stars in track and album ratings:

To restore the little store link arrows removed when Ping was introduced:

And to make the store link arrows filter the library rather than launch the store:

To permanently enable pretty list colors in the terminal, first enter this command:

Once in nano, add the following line to your profile:

If, like me, you like to use a dark background in terminal, also add this line. It’ll lighten up the unreadable blue used for directories: