Deleting songs from 5th gen. Nano

Is it possible to delete a song or 2 from the 5th gen nano without resetting to factory settings?

Hello JoeCoasty,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
How you delete music from your iPod depends on how you have it set up to sync with iTunes, whether that be automatically or manually. Either way, see this Apple support document for more assistance.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1855?viewlocale=en_us
B-rock

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Remove the photo from the folder that you linked to when you set the preference "synchronize photos from" and update the iPod. For example, if the iPod is getting the pictures from the folder "My Pictures," remove or delete them from My Pictures.
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IPod Nano 5th Gen... Deleting Songs from iPod while connected to iTunes

Hello,
There are some songs on my iPod Nano that I want to delete from the iPod but still keep in Library...
When I connect my iPod to my Mac, all of the songs show up that are on my iPod but I am unable to click the song and delete it from my iPod.
All of the songs are not bold like when I look at them in my library.
I can't click on any of the songs... when I hold the control button and click my mouse the only thing that pops up is a menu that features:
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Reset Play Count
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Apply Sort Field
Can anyone help me????
Thank you very much!

If you want to delete songs from iTunes and keep them on the iPod you need to change the update option of your iPod to "manually manage music and videos" (this setting isn't available for 1st and 2nd generation iPod shuffles, you can't delete from iTunes and keep the songs on the these). The content of iTunes and the iPod are not syncronised in this mode so the two can be different, you can get details here:
Managing content manually on iPod and iPhone
iPod - Syncing Music
One major word of caution. If you delete songs or videos from your computer and have no back up other than the iPod you will risk losing them permanently if your iPod fails or you find you have to restore it to solve a problem. You should consider investing in an additional internal or external hard drive to store/back up your music. Alternatively at the very least back up anything you can't replace such as iTunes downloads to CD or DVD or an external drive:
How to back up your media in iTunes
Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive
Something else to be aware of when using an iPod Nano in manual mode is that the "Do Not Disconnect" message will remain on the display until you physically eject the device: Safely Disconnect IPod

Is it possible to delete a song from 5th generation Ipod?

Hi All
Is it possible to delete a song from 5th generation Ipod, if so, how can this be done?

Connect your iPod Nano to your computer. Go into iTunes & click on Music or your playlist under "Devices."
Delete the songs from iTunes. Once deleting is done, eject your iPod Nano.
Check out the following thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2276586

How to delete songs from iPod touch 5th generation

How do I delete songs from an iPod Touch 5th genration. We tried many other forums with the swiping method, but when we tried it, a picture of a cloud with a red arrow appeared after tapping the delete button appeared and the song remained.

Go to Settings>iTunes and App Store and turn off Show All. That way only downloaded songs will show in the Music app.

Thoroughly angry and frustrated. I've run out of room and need to make more to add more songs. Once and for all, how do I, if I even CAN, delete music from my iPod Nano WITHOUT losing them from iTunes?

Thoroughly angry and frustrated. I've run out of room and need to make more to add more songs. Once and for all, how do I, if I even CAN, delete music from my iPod Nano WITHOUT losing them from iTunes?

You should take the time to familiarize yourself with the documentation that is available. You can "uncheck" a song in iTunes, and then do a manual update.

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And after multiple re-syncs, without those songs checked, these ghost songs keep appearing.
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Are you loading songs using automatic syncing? It sounds like it, but I'm not sure. Using the checkboxes next to songs is not the appropriate way to remove songs.
Select the iPod in iTunes. There is a row of buttons going across, near the top, starting with Summary. Click on Music next to Summary. This is iPod's Music screen, where you tell iTunes how to sync songs to the iPod.
Check the box for Sync Music, if it's not already checked. Since you want to select what does and does not go on the iPod, you can choose to sync Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres. Below that, select the playlists, artists, albums, and/or genres you want on the iPod.
If you want to make this simple, you can try this approach for setting this up. Create a new playlist in your iTunes library. You can call it "iPod Songs" (or whatever you want). To this playlist, add ALL of the songs you want on the iPod.
Back on the iPod's Music screen, select "iPod Songs" under Playlists; you can select other things if desired. When you click Apply, all of the songs in your selection, including the "iPod Songs" playlist, sync to the iPod. Going forward, when you want to remove songs from the iPod or add songs to the iPod, just update that playlist in iTunes. The next time you connect the iPod (or click the Sync button), the same changes are automatically synced to the iPod.
That should solve your problem with deleting songs. Just maintain the playlist in iTunes, and iTunes maintains the iPod automatically. You can, of course, maintain more than one playlist in iTunes, and sync them all to the iPod (up to the capacity limit of the iPod). Be sure to checkmark all of those songs you unchecked in your iTunes music library.
Note that there are other buttons next to Summary and Music. Those are for setting up automatic syncing for those other types of iTunes content.
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There are several methods of deleting songs from the iPod and/or iTunes, and the method you choose depends on the settings you have selected for your iPod.
If you have the iPod set to automatically transfer songs, and you no longer want a copy of those songs on either the iPod or in iTunes, simply delete the songs in iTunes. Highlight the songs you no longer want then right click and select "clear", or from the edit menu select "clear". Next time you connect the iPod, the songs will be deleted from there also.
Only do this if you no longer want the songs on both the iPod and your computer.
You can also use the "only update checked songs" method in the iPod options (right click on the iPod in the source list in iTunes and select options, then select "only update checked songs"). With this preference checked, you can remove the check mark from the songs in iTunes that you no longer want on the iPod. The next time you connect the iPod, those unchecked songs will be removed from the iPod whilst still being retained in iTunes. You can check and uncheck songs as you change your mind about what songs you want to put on the iPod.
If you have the iPod set to manually manage your songs, and you want to delete the song from the iPod only, then select the iPod in the source list of iTunes, or click on the "music" option underneath it to show all your songs. Highlight the song(s) you no longer want on the iPod, right click and select "clear", or use the edit menu as previously mentioned.
This method only deletes the songs from the iPod, so if you no longer want the song in iTunes also, you'll need to delete it from there separately using the method above.
If you are using iTunes version 7 or later, all these settings can be found in the summary screen.
If you want to delete everything from the iPod and completely erase the hard drive and start from scratch, then you can restore the iPod to factory settings.
Only do this if you have the songs in your iTunes library, or a back up somewhere other than the iPod itself.
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Deleting song from nano

How do I delete song from my nano?
I'm even willing to do a complete 'system re-boot, if necessary.

To remove songs from your nano (automatic transfer mode) you should go to you library uncheck the boxes at the side of the songs you want to get rid of, then connect your ipod and it will update without these songs. If you are on manual transfer mode, connect your ipod, wait for it to register in itunes, then click on "Your Ipod" find the songs you dont want, right click and go to clear.
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I recently got a 5th gen nano (only prior iPod was a 1st gen shuffle) and was excited to put video on it. I found that, due to limited remaining disk space on my laptop, I have to delete files in order to have enough space to handle a movie download from the iTunes store. Apparently the file is saved to the laptop's disk and then transfered to the nano. Is there a way to direct the download directly to the nano? Thanks!

Simple answer, no.
You need to either buy a bigger hard drive or add another hard drive to your computer. If you delete the videos from iTunes and sync the nano to iTunes you will lose the videos on the nano.
Here download the manual for the nano:
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Surprisingly the manual is well written.

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