Deleting songs, not playlists

I've read how to delete playlists but how do I delete individual songs?

Are you talking about a song in iTunes or on your iPod?
If it's iTunes, then simply select the song, and press "Delete" on your keyboard.
If it's with your iPod, then connect it to your computer, click on it's name, and the same goes for the iPod as I said above; select the song or songs, and press "Delete".
~~Kylene

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How do I delete songs in playlists? I have doubles/duplicates in some and would like to clean up my lists.

Select the song(s) and press Delete.

Tired of paying for Apple's continued failure. Give us option on phone (NOT thru itunes sync) to MANUALLY delete songs from playlists or the iphone altogether.

It happens every time I make iTunes music purchases: entire playlists get wiped out, and all I can sync onto the iPhone 5 is what I just purchased, UNLESS, YET AGAIN, I completely restore it to factory and rewrite everything all over.
So sad, Apple.
Yes, I have looked thru the forum threads yet again, and found no other working solution.
Yes, I tried backing up the phone 1st but still get stuck with (expletive) I wanted off the phone, and stuff I wanted on there, ISN'T there.
For whatever (insert expletive of choice) reason, it will NOT sync my old playlists.
For whatever (expletive) reason, if I check "manually manage music" under the Summary tab, then go over the music tab, something (expletive of choice) up in the software decides to uncheck the "Manually manage music" box under the Summary tab, and it just creates a zero-progress loop where I can't sync the old playlists, or even new ones I create, onto the iphone.
Worse, songs I tried to take off of it long ago seem to manifest the (expletive) right back onto the iphone out of nowhere, and unless I completely restore, LIKE I'M DOING AGAIN, there is no working option I have found that removes the song(s) I THOUGHT I GOT RID OF.
PLEASE, Apple, is it asking too much to create a music sync that WORKS CORRECTLY all the time?
It is ONLY ever the music that does this.
App syncing, photo syncing, all of that functions properly each and every time.
And yet, oh look, it won't accept any playlists off my AUTHORIZED computer.
GIVE US THE SIMPLE option on the next iPhone update so we can manually remove/delete unwanted songs from playlists on the iphone, or from the iphone altogether, WITHOUT needing to connect it to a computer thru a faulty iTunes software that obviously consistently fails to properly sync the correct music on and take off what we don't want.
This is the final time I'm making the mistake of iTunes Store purchases until a sensible fix is implemented that addresses this fail sync issue.
Again, WHY is it ONLY and only ever the music syncing that (expletive of choice to get the point across) fails, yet apps and photos and mail & phone contacts sync correctly every time?
Yes, I read in the forum threads and customer support responses what needs to be checked and/or unchecked, yet all too often some software fail decides to revert those selections right back to where they were if I click another tab and come back to it (no, it's not an administrator thing, I am the only authorized user on the computers in question).
I'm tired of the hassle of having to redo my music library all over again, restore the phone, and hope that once more it will have the correct songs I told it to sync and NOT have a bunch of crap I never checked for it to have on there in the first place.
FIX THIS PLEASE.

You're welcome.
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everytime i click on a song and press the delete button, itunes quits unexpectedly. I always relaunch it and no matter how much ways i try to delete a song or playlist, itunes always quits. the same goes for imovie and ical. i just recently installed ilife 08 so im guessing that is what caused this. can someone help me please.

Thank you both for your replies.
In addition to having to physically select and delete each and every song, I learned that you have to go up to the toolbar and select "eject". It's not a physical disconnect, but I guess that completes the removal process from the iPod's memory. It's the only thing that works.
I wish Apple's owner's manuals were updated to reflect this kind of stuff...now my iPod won't turn off unless I toggle it back and forth between Menu and Play. I will never buy another one, and will be looking for alternative MP3 players for two Christmas gifts I was going to buy for young 'uns.
Thanks again.

How to synchronize iPod without deleting songs not in library?

hello all,
I have a problem. I would like to synchronize my iPod to iTunes but I have some songs on my my iPod that are not present in library (Cd's that I have deleted from my library etc.) I am assuming that if I synchronize the two, then iTunes will delete any songs on the iPod that aren't present in the library. So I ask you, how do I get iTunes to only add songs present in the library and not delete songs on the iPod?
Regards,
Glen

Did you set your ipod to automatically synchronize?
This is from the 'Keyboard Shortcuts' in the Help menu:
iPod shortcuts
Prevent iPod from automatically updating when you connect it to your computer
Command-Option as you connect the iPod to your computer (hold the keys down until the iPod appears in the iTunes Source list)
Next, set your iPod to manually update or update selected playlists in the preferences.
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Delete song from playlist and library: only by Shift+Delete ? No right-click menu ?

Am I missing this function somewhere in the drop-down menu, when you right-click on a song from a playlist ?
I see only the "Delete" action, which only removes the song from the playlist, not from the library.
Same as pressing the Delete key on the keyboard.
Shouldn't there be both actions: "Delete From Playlist", and "Delete From Library" (the second one implies it is
also deleted from this playlist and from any other playlist).
And why is Shift-Delete not documented in the Help / Keyboard shortcuts ?

If you are deleting from a playlist and you want to delete for the library as well, you have to press shift and delete.

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Ever since I got my iPod, I've had problems with updating music to it, but mainly when trying to update with more than 100 songs. Recently, I updated to iTunes 5, as well as updating my iPod software. Now, it says that it's loading the new songs, but freezes in the middle, and when I disconnect, it has removed songs rather than uploading them. Anyone know what is the cause, and the solution to this problem?
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Ok, I got around the problem, here's what I Did:
Make iPod update manual
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go through your list of songs until the end
after thats done, include the play lists you want
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Is there a question here I missed?
If they were not downloaded, how did you listen to them?
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WHAT HAPPENED: Once the sync had finished, all (almost 4000) songs (and videos) had been wiped off my iPod (including any playlists) with the exception of less than thirty songs, all of which I'd noticed were songs I'd purchased on the iTunes store, a seemingly random selection though - some from a couple of months ago, some from a couple of years ago.
I closed down everything on my laptop and restarted both laptop, iTunes and iPod then plugged my iPod in to sync. My iTunes library on my laptop is fully intact, complete with playlists, and I'm able to play songs normally from there, however despite numerous attempts, they just won't sync onto my iPod. Interestingly, no apps were deleted from my iPod. There's plenty of room on my iPod now, and even when everything on my iTunes library is synced onto it, there's still around 3GB space, so it can't be an issue to do with lack of space. I have no idea why it's happened, and the settings are for everything on iTunes to be synced to my iPod (I checked again) so it's not an issue with selective items to sync only either.
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I've been struggling with this same problem for months. I haven't solved it but one thing I've learned along the way is that if the song is appearing as grey letters instead of black that means its only partially downloaded to the phone. If you go in and redownload it on your phone it should be selectable/uncheckable, etc. The problem I'm running into now is after I download, then delete said songs they just show up again.

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