IPod Deleting Music Files

How does one delete music files from the iPod?

Or make sure syncing is set to only sync checked items and then uncheck the songs in your library you don't want in the iPod.
Or sync only specific playlists and make sure the songs you don't want are not in any of the playlists you are syncing.
Or switch to manual updating and manually delete them from the iPod...
Managing content manually on iPod
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61148
Patrick

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If you manually manage your music, you can do what you want. Check the "Manually manage music" box on the summary page in iTunes when the iPod is connected. Keep in mind that , should you ever need to restore your iPod, you may find that you'll need to re-rip all of your CDs. You may want to consider buying an external hard drive (I just picked up a terabyte drive for less than $150) and move your iTunes library there.
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Solved! Music was in Itunes folder but not in Media folder within that. It doesn't seem like a very user friendly system so far!

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Thx Allan, it was successful!!!!

HT1660 when deleting music files from iTunes and you select Keep File, where is that file stored and how it is retireved?

when deleting music files from iTunes and you select Keep File, where is that file stored and how it is retrieved?

The file is just left where it was when it was connected to the library. Typically:
<User>/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/<Artist>/<Album>/## <Name>.<Ext>
If you want to add it back just drag it into iTunes. If you want to cull the files you kept previously add the entire iTunes Media folder back into iTunes (or use one of Doug's scripts that has the same effect), then delete (and don't keep) the recent additions.
Note that warning/prompt is only issued when the files you are removing are located inside the designated iTunes Media folder.
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I like to save my music in either Apple Lossless or MP3 (320kb) formats. Unfortunately, when I go to save these onto my ipod mini the files are too large and take up too much space. Id like to try and mimic the software that comes with an ipod shuffle where it can take any file, compress it and copy it to my ipod mini without creating duplicates in my itunes.
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Ive looked at some of the automator actions and im a bit confused with the difference of
- delete original selected tracks -OR-
-delete files of the original selected tracks
that are options with the "convert tracks" or "copy tracks to ipod" actions

For the record, these 3rd party actions are not part of a default Automator installation. They're available for download here.
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And that, as far as I can tell, is the reasoning behind the two seemingly redundant check boxes in these actions.

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I need to get rid of the music I have saved in the "My Music" file on my hard drive. What would happen if I deleted all the music in that file when I connect my iPod to my computer??? How will it effect my iTunes and iPod??? Thanks!!!

Connect your iPod, if you are updating automatically you will get a message that your iPod is linked to a different library and asking if you want to link to this one and replace all your songs etc, press *No*. Pressing "Yes" will irretrievably remove all songs from your iPod. Your iPod should appear in the iTunes source list (it does on a Mac) from where you can change the update setting to manual.
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My story goes thus:
Put movie on iPod hard drive to get it to my laptop (from desktop at home.)
Can watch movie on computer using iPod as an external hard drive. all good, but the iPod can't play it.
So I take the movie off the iPod and onto my Laptop, and use iTunes to put it onto the iPod.
Now the iPod will play the movie but if I go through "my computer" to the iPod, I can't see the files on there. what if I want to watch it at a friends house? Or on my own laptop. I don't want an iPod copy and a hard drive copy on my player, that halves the memory!
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I don't want 2 or 3 copies of a movie, it takes up too much space.
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A: 1 copy on the hard drive to play through Itunes,
B: a Second on the iPod to play round a friends house (or on my own Laptop, negating the need for "A") as a hard drive file, and
C: a Final 3rd copy also on the iPod for it to play itself, which it hides from "My computer"
If I could just get access to "C" through My computer I wouldn't need the first two (it's not a sync problem like someone suggested)
Why have apple made this so impossible?
My last MP3 player, you just copy and pasted the file. It was more like portable hard drive/memory that could also play the MP3 files that were on it.

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