How can I erase music in library/keep on ipod

My computer is much smaller than my ipod and I'd like to erase a lot in my music library but keep it on my ipod. When I right click on the ipod icon, I don't see a way to change the automatic updates setting. Somone told me that that is the way you can delete music but keep it on your ipod.

If you intend to go down this route, consider backing up your music first.
How to back up your media in iTunes.
Buegie's complete back up strategy.
The iPod is not reliable enough to use it as a long term storage device, and these forums are littered with posts from people who decided to use it as such and ended up losing all their music.

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3 things you need to transfer music from iPod to itunes: iPod, computer, iTunes.
step 1 connect your ipod to your computer via the white USB cable.
step 2 open My Computer, or just Computer from the start menu and look for the ipod drive. It should be in the (F:) drive. You will see the ipod logo in the listing of disk drives.
step 3 Now you should have a new folder called ipod_control. Open that folder up and you should see the following: Calendar, Contacts, ipod_control, notes, photos, ect. If you are trying to save all of your music then the ipod_control folder is the only one you need to worry about.
step 3 Open the ipod_control folder then open the music folder. Copy each one of those folders (should look similar to these: F00, F01 ...) onto your computer.
step 3 Open itunes and insert the new folder you created on your computer's desktop into: library ---> Music

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My C: drive was completely ersaed by accident and I lost all my music on it, but fortunately my iPOD still has all those music files. How can I restore them back to my Library on iTUNEs? Also is there a way to get "purchased music" back?
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Hi,
To recover music from the iPod do a search in Google "recover music from iPod" you will get the links.
To know if it is possible to get back the purchased music send a email to ITMS at http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore/ipod/
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Note: Always take a back up of all your data in the computer. Nothing is 100 % secure.

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Click on it.
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I really want to erase my music list on my iPad, but it syncs to my Apple ID account, and I can't also find a way to erase these songs from the account as well. I've never found a way to erase music on an apple device before, but now that I want to replace them I need to find one. Pls help srs bsnss

Welcome to the Apple community.
Generally you would swipe to the left and tap delete on the items you want to delete.
If you see a cloud icon next to the item, it means it's not actually on your device, so can't be deleted, but can be redownloaded. If you don't wish to see these items, Settings > music > show all music > off.

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Somebody can help me to erase music from the ipad???????

rbrylawski wrote:
You can't on your iPad. You can when you connect your iPad to your computer via iTunes. That's where you manage music, videos, pictures, etc.
As of iOS 5, you can indeed delete music directly from the iPad.

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If its to save room I wouldn't drag the files to the trash. That would get rid of them for good. I know you said you can't by computer, if your syncing with that computer, under music when it's connected, don't sync full library. Go through and select the certain songs you want. If its to delete just off your iPad because you don't have a comp read what ana posted.

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