Deleting playlists
I've just bought a Touch to replace my old iPod. It has a much lower capacity so I have to eliminate a lot of music from my library.
In my old, existing library all the music has always been organized only in playlists, I've never loaded cd's directly in, or put in any music that was not in a playlist - I just created playlists from music already stored on my hard drive, and loaded the playlists onto the old video ipod. The old iPod is dead and gone, but I've put a lot of time into creating playlists so I like to keep most of them.
Now, for the new iPod, I thought that by deleting the playlists I would also then delete those songs from the library. But I see that is not the case. Even though I delete playlists, the total number of songs in the library stays the same. How can I find the songs that are no longer in playlists (I have about 60 playlists) and delete them from the library?
Thanks
When you use the Selected playlists option lists of playlists, artists, albums, and genres will appear below. Make your selections there.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12159
Additionally, the iPod User's manual shows how to delete it from the iPod itself (on page 26):
iPod (6th Generation) User's Guide
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