Deleting files in my iTunes

I would like to delete the music that I have in my "recently added" folder in iTunes without deleting the content from the playlists that I have moved the songs to. The only option I could find not only deleted the songs from my "recently added" folder but also from my playlists as well. Guess I am asking how to clear the recently added folder and leave the songs in my playlists.

Right now when I impost songs/audio the only place I can find them is in my Recently Added smartlist. I'll create a playlist and go to recently added and click/drag them to my new playlist. When I have a lot of different audio files in recently added it becomes difficult for me to identify the new audio that I just created a playlist for.
Lots of the audios don't come in in a sequence and they can be scattered throughout the recently added list. I realize there must be a better way for me to do this but not being very good at understanding this stuff it becomes a big challenge.
I also realized that when I say I am importing songs or audio I am actually importing audio lectures on eastern philosophy. I presume this is no different than importing a song. Correct?
Most of the audios I get are in MP3 format and they don't seem to present any problem. I also get WAV files and sometimes they are imported to iTunes with no problem. Other times the import just doesn't work.
John

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I am running mac 10.6.7
I have tried updating the software, operating system,
Then you should have Mac OS X 10.6.8

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i have a lot of music saved on my computer which i dont have in itunes. i dont listen to it and want to get rid of it to free up some space. is there any way of doing this without going through each individual folder?

This may help you.
First, you probably now know that there is a difference between deleting the music file from iTunes and completely deleting it. You should have gotten a message from iTunes asking if you want to send the file to the recycle bin. Choosing yes will delete the file from iTunes AND the directory. It will reside in the recycle bin until you empty it. This is the best way to manage your files if you really want them permanently deleted.
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If you can take a screenshot of what is in the Compilations Folder, it would help you later to manage it back to its original state.
If you select all your current Library song references (they're all good - right?) - either in total or in piece-part, right-click to "Get Info" and tick off the "Part of Compilation" box and set it to "Yes", iTunes "should" re-order those songs out of their respective directories and into the compilations directory - leaving any unwanted songs behind (or at least song files that are not referenced within iTunes). Confirm that these are files you no longer need.
You can then mass delete the full directories to remove the unwanted songs. After doing this, you would reverse the first procedure, turning the compilations selection back to "No". iTunes will re-re-order the songs back to individual Artist/Album directories, re-creating any needed folders as it progresses.
You should be able to test this out with just one Artist's songs. Pick an artist that you know has several to many "bad" songs in the sub-directory structure. Try a step-wise progression through the above process (looking at the results via Windows Explorer) and see what is happening. If it doesn't work right, you haven't changed that much of you data in the process. If it works, then select more and more groupings of songs and proceed en-mass.
Probably best to sort your main library by artist prior to doing any of this so you are sure to select all necessary songs.
If your songs are not organized that carefully, this may not work. Having iTunes organize your Library is essential to this process. Looking at my directory structure, and with the experiments I performed, it does work for me.
Have backups of your good song data somewhere prior to attempting this solo.
You should perform this process from the main Library, not a playlist.
Here is what I have in my Preferences (Advanced/General):
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I too have this same problem with deleting video podcasts. The problem doesn't happen all the time, but probably a majority of the time. It is quite annoying as many of the video podcasts I subscribe to are in HD format so it is rather frustrating to have to manually delete them from the iTunes folder after deleting them thru iTunes, but since they take up gigs of space it is necessary to go in and clean them out every once in a while.

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If I delete files completely from Itunes and my hard drive to save space, but want to keep the tracks on my ipod, how do I prevent them being from being deleted from the ipod when I reconnect it to Itunes?
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Connect you ipod to your computer and then in the ipod settings select to manually manage your ipod, then when you connect you ipod you just add new songs to your ipod yourself and songs you have removed off your hard drive will stay on you ipod. BEWARE if you restore your ipod you will lose the songs you have deleted off your hard drive
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Try deleting the file without iTunes running.
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Regards,
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Better yet, an Applescript that can be used as a folder action to watch the Downloads folder and:
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2) Open .zip and .rar archives, parse then unarchived folder for .mp3 files, add them to iTunes, append #album to track Comments, then delete original folder of .mp3s.
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Cannot Delete File - iTunes Hangs/Freezes

Hello,
I have an old file in my iTunes Library which I am trying to delete. Every time I select it however, I get the spinning ball and iTunes freezes. I have trashed the file from the hard drive but it is still showing up in the iTunes window and again, when I select it, it freezes. All other files play fine. Thoughts?

jrc362 wrote:
Anything else I can try?
this one: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=whackcurrenttrack.
edit:
if that doesn't work, all i can offer is this read: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=786224.
good luck !
JGG
edited by the Jolly Green Giant (where Green stands for environmentally friendly)

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