Delete tracks using itunes is slow

When I try to remove tracks from my ipod touch using itunes, it takes like 15 seconds per track. I dug around and saw there was a fix for mac by deleting a program file. What about for windows 7?
Thanks
Mike

I solved the problem. It was my hard drive all along. It was USB powered, not self-powered, it was also going through a hub, and the simple fact that it's USB. All that made for a painfully slow device.
So the lesson here: never buy USB drives. They're pretty much extremely large FAT-32 flash drives. Or, don't buy USB drives that don't come with a power brick.
If anyone else ever has this problem, now you know.

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I have a Mac, Iphone and Ipad. I have problems deleting tracks from iTunes. The issue I have is that tracks keep coming back. The issue goes something like this:
I delete a track from iTunes. I sync with an IOS device. On sync, iTunes says there are purchased items on the IOS device not present in your library, do you want to import them? I select no, then iTunes imports the tracks anyway! Essentially the track I deleted from iTunes, gets imported back in from an IOS device, every time.
This means I face the situation of having to delete tracks from all 3 devices, to stop them coming back. Am I doing something wrong?

There is a way to do this, kindof. See my post here.
The best way to do this if you want to be able to continue updating the Apple TV with new content would be to buy an external hard disk and keep all your movies (and the secondary library itself) on that disk. Then, when you want to add movies to the Apple TV, you would just connect the external disk, open the secondary library in iTunes, and add the movie into iTunes. The setting here that you need to be aware of is the "Copy to iTunes Music folder when adding to library" setting in iTunes Preferences > Advanced General. So long as this setting is on, any movie file that you add to the secondary library will automatically be copied by iTunes to your external drive. Once you're done syncing the Apple TV, and you verify that the movie file did in fact get copied to the external disk, you can delete the copy from the hard drive in your computer.

How do I delete tracks in iTunes 11.0?

I used to be able to delete tracks in previous versions of iTunes.
iTunes 11.0 does not permit me to delete tracks either via keyboard interaction or via right-click menu.
I can navigate to the tracks that I want to remove and delete the source files, but then the track details remain in the playlists.

How are you trying to delete? Highlight the song in the library and press the delete key, that works for me. Alternatively right click on the song (ctrl - click if using a single button mouse) and choose Delete from the menu. To delete a song from a playlist hold down the option (⌥ ) key and press delete.

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I have just downloaded iTunes 9 and now I cannot seem to be able to delet tracks. The "delete" option has disappeared from the right click menu and is greyed out in the edit menu at the top. Would appreciate any help.
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I have re-installed iTunes and (after a couple of attempts) it seems to have sorted the problem out.

Delete Track from iTunes Library if in User Playlist

Hello
I want to delete [music] tracks from the main iTunes [10.7] library if they are in a user playlist.
I saw (on dougscripts.com) an approach where the database id was obtained from the track in the playlist and this was then used to delete from the main library. However, it does not seem to work:
delete (some track of thePlaylist whose database ID is (get database ID of deleteTrack))
returns error -1708 "... doesn't understand the delete message"
I think this is to do with a change to the way in which the main library is referenced, but if anyone can shed some light it would be much appreciated.
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I found out what is happening: the tracks are shared from iCloud - via iTunes Match - which renders them un-deletable by AppleScript!

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Hiya
I used to click delete in Itunes and it would remove the track from both Itunes and my hard drive.
However no it only deletes from Itunes, any way to get it back to how it was?
Cheers

I was having this problem and managed to find a solution.
I had to change my iTunes folder to the same folder that my music was actually located in.
In iTunes:
Edit -> Preferences... -> Advanced -> (iTunes Music Folder Location) Change..
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You transferred photos from your computer to your iPhone and then erased the photos from your computer?
If so, the iPhone is not designed or intended to be used as an external storage or backup storage device. Photos transferred from your computer are optimized for viewing on your iPhone as part of the iTunes sync/transfer process. The original resolution of these photos is reduced on your iPhone. If you delete photos from your computer that were transferred to your iPhone, the photos will be removed from your iPhone with the next sync. Photos transferred from your computer should remain on your computer.

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i synced my iphones to a new i tunes library and now i have three unwated songs how do i delete them?

"Ok- but what if I want to manually manage the songs and podcasts on my iPhone and somehow loose access to the computer which I used to put said songs and podcasts on the iPhone in the first place?"
The you would ned to use the backup copy of tht computer to put everything on the new computer.
" Is there a way in which I can manage/delete the content on the iPhone using my new computer without retoring it to factory settings and starting all over again?"
You do not have to restore it, but you cannot access the music at all from this other computer until you sync it, which will erase the content.
"And just to clarify: I don't have any problems with playing the content that remains on my iPhone, it's just the managing and deleting of this content."
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Unable to join tracks using itunes 11.1.5.5

Used to be able to select cd tracks and join them using the "option" drop-down. Now that drop-down only shows "get track names" & "submit CD track names". Any solutions known? Started about a week ago.

Molly Weasley wrote:
Just found it: you need to highlight the column on the farthest left before the "Join Tracks' Will show up.. That's the column to the left of name.
Huh? Are you sure?
You cannot highlight a column - if you click on a column, it sorts by that column. Also, the column to the left of the name is a tick-box column, which cannot be sorted or highlighted.
However, the column to the left of that, the one with the numbers in it, as shown in my screenshots, is the track number. If you have clicked on it, you will have reversed the track order and Join CD Tracks will not be available. Look:
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Unable to permanently delete songs using itunes.

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I was having the same problem. Very frustrating. I couldn't send the file to the recycle bin when removing the song from the Library.
I figured out my problem. My music files weren't in the location specified in my preferences under Advanced. My assumtion was that if you can add a song to the library, you should have the access to delete the file from the hard drive. However, in layman's terms, if the music is not in the specified location in the preferences, iTunes does not have control over the file. It will only control wheather it is in the Library or not.
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Purchase the software.
Is there a way to recover deleted photos from my iphone 4?
You have already found a way.
Someone put some work into developing a program so if the photos are important, purchase the software.

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ASSUMPTIONS: You're in iTunes on your computer, logged into your iCloud account.
Within iTunes, in the left-hand pane, select your Music library. Alll your tracks should appear in the right-hand pane. Those that are missing from your disk should be marked with an asterisk icon to the left of the track. Do the following...
...select all the missing/lost/deleted tracks (using the option button), and hit the delete button.
NOTE: when the delete dialog box comes up, make sure you do ***NOT*** click the "Delete from iCloud" selection!!!
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I've encountered problems similar to this. Here's how I've dealt with it.
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