HT1535 Is there a way to delete all songs, music videos, tones, and TV shows from my iPad?

I can't figure out how to delete songs and videos and such manually on my computer while the iPad is synced. Some of my songs and videos copied on my iPad twice and one set of the songs and videos doesn't play at all. But, I can only delete the set that can actually play. I want to delete all my songs and videos and re-sync everything.

Most music can be redownloaded but movies cannot.
There is no need to re-download anything.
Close iTunes.
Delete or move the iTunesLibrary.itl and iTunesLibrary.xml files from the iTunes folder.
Launch iTunes and create a new library.

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