Check/uncheck items in iTunes

Simple ?, can't find the answer. How do you uncheck/check ALL items in your iTunes library? Thx.

Sorry, gave you Windows option by mistake. Hold down the Command key (⌘) and click on the check box beside any song in a list and the check marks will be toggled on or off: iTunes for Mac - Keyboard Shortcuts. One click will remove all the check marks in the boxes click again and all the boxes will be checked.

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How to check uncheck songs in itunes

how do I key stroke to check and uncheck songs in itunes

To check or uncheck all boxes on a Mac with one click, hold down the Command (cmd) key and click on one of the checkboxes with the mouse. You can use this in a library, a playlist or in search results.

Can you check/uncheck multiple songs in iTunes for syncing to iPod?

In a previous reply to this question, the answer given was that you can use Command apple key to uncheck or check groups of iTunes songs for syncing.
Actually this does not work.
Apple Commmand only gives you the possibility to check or uncheck the ENTIRE list of iTunes.. unless I am completely mad.
There must be a way to select say 5 songs from an album and check/uncheck them all at the same time. So that you can make a fresh selection of songs each time you sync to an iPhone or iPod
I simply cannot believe that iTunes is so dumb that this option is not available...
ie what one needs to be able to do is highlight x number of songs at a time and then check or uncheck them as you go through the iTunes list to make a fresh syncing selection
I hope this can be answered
best
MS

AHXtreme42 wrote:
Once you have all of the selected items, RIGHT CLICK (or alt click whatever) one of those highlighted items and select either CHECK or UNCHECK SELECTION.
This is EXACTLY the point at which I get stuck - what is the actual key command for Right Click - it is not Alt Click or any combination, and looking for his in the iTunes help does not yield a result.
Please give me that actual key stroke combination to effect this last operation: I have always been able to select multiple tracks in the way you describe with Shift - but how to actually CHECK and UNCHECK a selection.. once the tracks are selected
Would much appreciate the answer to this

ITunes & Playlists (unchecked items)

Here is the story.
- I have over 20,000 MP3s in my total library.
- I have many genres
- I rate songs to target portable playlists (rock, Irish, etc)
- I have two iPods (classic 30GB & Nano 4GB)
- I am planning to get the Touch 32GB
- My 30GB I take to work for all day music
- My Nano is in the car for audiobooks
- I have two airport express devices hooked up to speakers
- I have a computer in the family room which accesses the main systems which shares its playlists.
Here is the challenge:
I use checked items to manage what loads down to the iPods. I often get new music and don't want to have to constantly playlist it and try to work it into my main lists. I have been using the sync checked items since the ipods cannot hold the entire library.
I would like to have my itunes system play tunes in a shuffle regardless of their checked status. checked items, as itunes is designed, are to manage what gets synced, not shuffled. It would be great if a preference was set in itunes to toggle checked items in the shuffle - after all, it holds the entirety of the library. This is now coming to a head for me now with christmas. I want my itunes to play christmas shuffles, but do not want them to sync to the ipods.
I have read posts going back years about how to do this and that with checked items, but it really looks to me like a workaround for a simple feature addition to itunes. I don't look forward to creating specific itunes playlists for each ipod, especially with a third one on the way. If Apple wants to also own the playlist at home space, they need to give us a few more options about how to control what plays and what syncs since they are not the same uses.

I have exactly the same request for change. When a playlist is created, be it either static or dynamic, it can contain both selected and unselected items. What iTunes should do is just (have at least an option to) play all of the songs regardless of them being checked or unchecked. This seems quite a simple feature.
I (and so it seems the topic opener) use the checkmark for syncing purpose only.
I think a workaround can be as follows:
- Create a playlist, e.g. 'Do Not Sync', and let it contain all of your unselected songs
* unfortunately there is no way to filter/search for/sort on unselected items as far as I know, so this can be quite a hassle. Instead of making this playlist for all your songs, you may do it gradually for each playlist you create
- Create a normal playlist containing the desired songs
* this playlist can contain both selected and unselected items
- Select all in this playlist and invoke Check Selection
- Whenever you want to sync, first remember to open the playlist 'Do Not Sync'
- Select all and invoke Uncheck Selection
- Start the sync
All this hassle can quite easily be solved when iTunes would have an option to play songs regardless of them being selected or unselected.
Cheers,
Stoic
//Message was edited by: Stoic18
Correction on the statement "unfortunately there is no way to filter/search for/sort on unselected items". By using creative smart playlist it seems you actually can filter all your unselected items as mentioned @ http://www.macworld.com/article/134675/2008/07/checkuncheckitunes.html :
If you’d like to create a playlist that contains only unchecked songs in your iTunes library, do this.
Create a smart playlist that reads:
Playlist is Music
Make sure that Match Only Checked Items is enabled and close it. Give it the name All Checked.
Create a second smart playlist that reads:
Playlist is not All Checked
Genre is not Podcast
Playlist is not Movies
Playlist is not TV Shows
Playlist is not Audiobooks
Do not enable the Match Only Checked Items option and save this smart playlist as Unchecked. Now when you want to easily see what is and isn’t checked, visit these two playlists.
Message was edited by: Stoic18

I am trying to edit my music list and then sync it to my iPhone 5 so I don't run out of storage space. However, I see the check marks on the iTunes library but am unable to uncheck them? How do I manually edit what will be synced to my phone?

I am trying to edit my music list and then sync it to my iPhone 5 so I don't run out of storage space. However, I see the check marks on the iTunes library but am unable to uncheck them? How do I manually edit what will be synced to my phone? (the check marks are not bolded, does this mean they are not in my library but only on my phone?)

You uncheck the music in your iTunes library on your computer and along with sync only checked songs and videos selected under the Summary selection for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes, only checked songs in your iTunes library will be transferred to your iPhone or remain on your iPhone and the unchecked songs in your iTunes library that are currently on your iPhone will be removed when syncing.
Or make use of iTunes playlists and choose selected playlists, albums, artists under the Music selection for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes and select the playlists below that you want transferred to your iPhone.

Unable to check/uncheck older podcast episodes in iPod sync to iTunes 11.0

Hi,
I have a few podcasts in my iTunes where I have saved a large number of episodes. Now I have upgraded to the new version of iTunes I unable to check/uncheck older podcast episodes from iPod syncing - the finder window won't scroll to the bottom of the list, and just 'bounces' after scrolling past a certain number!
Not sure if this is a bug, or I'm overlooking something.
Thanks

I have the same problem. Scrolling does not work in the iPod podcast list panel, but it works in every other panel or window in iTunes...

In iTunes I'm having problems changing the "Media Kind" with a number of playlists in the OPTIONS menu from "music" to "audiobook". After going through the steps, the next time I check the items have reverted back to "music". What step am I missing?

In iTunes I'm having problems changing the "Media Kind" in the OPTIONS menu from "Music" to "Audiobook". After going through the steps, the next time I check, the items have reverted back to "Music". What must I do to save it as an "Audiobook"?

After more digging in the Support section here and some Google work, I turned off iTunes Match and lo and behold! I can change the media kind to Audiobook! So, it looks like iTunes Match locked the files up somehow and for some reason.
I went into iTunes Store > iTunes Match > "No, Thanks" to disable it on the local PC.

Checking or unchecking songs on itunes

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knows how to select/check or uncheck songs in itunes. When I sync my ipod, sometimes I only want to update certain songs, and going through and checking/unchecking all of the songs is literally impossible and too time consuming.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Jen

It's easier to manage your music using playlists instead of checking/uncheckng songs.
Create playlists and add/delete from those playlists.
Select the iPod in iTunes, click on the Music tab.
Tick Sync music and Sync selected playlists.

Hello, I wonder is there any additional charges applied after I removed my credit card info? I was being charged but i can't login to itunes couldn't check what items was being charged in this case. Anyone pls help, thanks.

Hello, I wonder is there any additional charges applied after I removed my credit card info? I was being charged but i can't login to itunes couldn't check what items was being charged in this case. Anyone pls help, thanks.

When the regular customer service reps fail, try one of these:Send an email to the team at "[email protected]". Include:
    Account number
    Full name
    Service address
    Best contact phone number and best time to call
    A description of the problem
One of their problem resolution specialists should contact you to follow up, usually by phone. They seem to be quite a bit sharper than the regular customer service reps.-OR-Use the feedback form at http://customer.xfinity.com/help-and-support/vp-contact-form.You might also try Twitter (https://twitter.com/ComcastCares/) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Xfinity).
Comcast sometimes responds to questions here in the forums, and sometimes they do not. When they do the typical response time is somewhere between a few hours and a few days.

I submitted my podcast and I got an email saying error, I checked with the feed validator and got this message: This feed does not validate. line 40, column 6: Undefined item element: itunes:order, how do sort this out, someone help me please.

I submitted my podcast and I got an email saying error, I checked with the feed validator and got this message: This feed does not validate. line 40, column 6: Undefined item element: itunes:order, how do sort this out, someone help me please.

Ignore it. 'itunes:order' is a recent addition which FeedValidator doesn't know about. If your podcast is rejected that is unlikely to be the reason. Of course as you haven't posted the feed URL nor the text of the error message I can't make any further comment.

ATV Not Syncing or Streaming Unchecked Items.....

I'm guessing that this just started since the latest software update, but maybe I'm just noticing it now.
I have tried the automatic sync and custom sync settings, but cannot get my unchecked items to appear on my ATV any more. They will not even stream when iTunes is open.
I am having NO other issues. I have an excellent connection. It syncs new content (checked of course). YouTube works great. No problems downloading HD rentals. Etc.
Any ideas? And yes, I have rebooted both my computer and ATV.

"Everything else that is checked will automatically be streamed to the AppleTV unless that is checked."
Huh? One of us is confused.
Think about it....if unchecked items will never show up on an Apple TV anyway, why do we need an option telling it not to show unchecked items?
And managing playlists over 30GB is far too difficult of a task. That's why iPods, in addition to playlists, give you the option to sync only checked items or all items checked or unchecked. Why shouldn't an ATV give us the same option?

Very elementary....what is the check box for in itunes?

Would someone please enlighten me on the functionality of the check boxes next to items in itunes? I check several songs I want to delete and then click Edit>Delete but only the ONE ITEM selected by the cursor is deleted. OK, so I know how to do shift-click to select a number of items then click Edit>Delete, but what in the dog-gone world is the check box for?!? when I search for help on "Check Box" no results are found. Also, if you like to show me how non intuitive I am by demonstrating how to find this solution in the Help menu, I would love to learn something from the exercise. Otherwise, I'm going to believe, beyond belief, that the itunes help is not very helpful!
Thanks, inspite of this insanely simple problem!
Alan

you can multiple select songs from your list by using the CTRL or SHIFT keys, and then you can right-click on the selected items and choose delete.
the check box is actually for auto-syncing; which means that if you have some songs checked in your library, then you connect your ipod, those checked songs will automatically update on your ipod, or transfered. (of course, thats only true if you have the auto-sync option selected, and not manual update).
another thing for the checked box; if you change anything to the song like ID tags, or artwork, .... they will automatically be changed and updated on that song on the ipod next time you plug it in.
i found out that this check box thing is useful if you wanna update your ipod ONLY with the new songs added recently to your library. this way, your ipod wont update all songs, it will only do the ones checked.
you can also right click on a bunch of songs and choose check selection, or uncheck selection.
hope i didnt forget anything, and i hope that helps.

Can't Un-Check Some Items

Hi,
Is this a bug:
I've upgraded to iTunes 7.0.1 and now I find that I can't un-check certain items (that I don't want downloaded to my iPod) by clicking the checkmark. If I select the item, right click then select "unckeck item" it will, in fact, uncheck.
Most items work fine by simply clicking on the checkmark... it's just a few that I have to do the right-click and menu thing to de-select.
What gives?
Compaq Presario R3000 Windows XP 1 GB RAM

Thanks man, you saved me from my work. You are correct, problem solved.

I can't get the "checked/unchecked" feature to work on my ipod touch

I have some songs that I'd rather not include in my normal shuffle. I have them unchecked in iTunes, but they still play in shuffle on my iPod touch. Any help?

Checking or not checking a song has very little to do with it's behaviour on your touch. You can teel iTunes that you don't want to sycn unchecked items but once they're on your Touch, they'll play in Shuffle. To stop them from playing in Shuffle, in iTunes, select the tracks you don't want Shuffled, Get Info>Options>Skip when shuffling.
Best of luck

Sync problem: Unchecked items stay on Touch!

When I sync, only checked items do sync, but unckecked items that were previously checked or items removed from checked playlist aren't deleted from the iPod Touch!
It's like it only goes one way! Checked items go in the iPod Touch, but changes that should remove items FROM the Touch stay there!
I use AutoSync because it's much easier than manual (for me, at least), and it used to work perfectly.
I can't pinpoint exactly when it started to go wrong on my iPod Touch, maybe it NEVER worked... How can I not be sure? Because I don't sync it often, I use my iPod classic a whole lot more for music, and only started recently putting more music & video on the Touch.
Now it really bothers me to have Christmas music on it that I can't seem to remove (soon it will be OK though...) ;o)
So, I use Auto-Sync, and checked "only sync checked items"... but it doesn't work!
I now upgraded to iTunes 9 and iPod Touch OS 3.1.1 and it's the same...
The weird thing is, under iPod Touch in the left pane, the changes I made in the playlist/videos and such are all reflected! I thought it had worked until I looked on the Touch...
iTunes left pane under "iPod Touch": No more Christmas music (but new music from the MBP), no more podcasts, different videos.
I turn on the Touch... No changes! :
The music that shouldn't be there IS, the podcasts are still there...
But it added the new content.
So why does the left pane reflect the changes and not the reality?
Why does the Touch not sync right?
I always thought the iPod (whatever it's type) while in auto-sync, would just take in what's on iTunes and copy it (or update it), and if one track wasn't on the iTunes playlist, you'd lose it (which, before, was scaring me)...
And it's not doing that properly?!
*This also happens in the pictures & app departments:
I removed some pics (unchecked some lists/events in iPhoto tab) but they ALL are on the Touch.
And when I unchecked an app in the apps tab, I got a popup window reminding me the app would be removed from the Touch if I synced, but it is still on the Touch.
Could someone please help me?
...P.S. I also notice syncing is taking forever... Which isn't new either.
Syncing takes about 2hrs for just 8G of content! (with very few changes in that content)

OK, this is WEIRD.
Before I posted the topic, I did a test : reset the iPod Touch, do another sync, check again...
It did NOT solve the problem, and the sync took just as long as the first one.
Well whaddayaknow?
Later in the evening, the unchecked items had disappeared from the Touch!!! (except the pictures... all iPhoto content is on the Touch... lucky I don't have a lot in there!).
Trying to remember what the heck I could've done in the meantime, the only thing I can remember is opening "music" and seeing the library being updated (or actualized?)... And going in the app store where a couple apps had to be updated.
...Could one of those things had done it?
The Touch went to sleep between a)11am when the problem was still there, after the sync and b) the evening when it was all good.
But I didn't do a reset or put it on "off".
So it's a mystery.
I know I'm not crazy, and I always am very careful to check everything before posting.
Now, if anyone has any idea about crazy syncing time... I'll post another thread for that. (8G of content on the Touch takes 2hrs to sync, while 60G of content on the Classic takes only 10 min!)
Thanks all anyways!

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