Removing unwanted songs

I just got a 5th generation and (stupidly) agreed to transferring all the songs on my computer. But there's actually a lot of stuff (embarrassing 80s hits) that I don't want and which are wasting space - how do I delete them?

Uncheck the boxes on itunes of all the songs that you dont want. Then plug your ipod to your computer, go to the edit menu and click on preferances. Click on the ipod tab and then the music tab. You should see an option saying "Only update checked songs" check this option and then update your ipod. all the songs you dont want should be gone.
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From what I've understood on other discussion boards, if the little check isn't marked next to a song in your iTunes library, it won't be updated to your iPod. But that doesn't seem to be true for my iPod. It seems like no matter what songs I un-check in hopes of never hearing on my iPod they always end up in my playlist.
I'm sharing my iTunes with my aunt, who has a new shuffle (I just got an 80g) so she ended up with all my songs, and I have all my songs, AND her songs. We have very different tastes in music, so we're both curious as to how to change the playlists on our new toys.
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The updating checked items option doesn't work if you have the iPod set to manual.
See here for how to load songs onto a shuffle.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/7.0/en/799.html
Seems like you need to create playlists for your Aunt's music and load only those to the shuffle.
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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.

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You may want to make sure that your preference for showing iTunes in the Cloud purchases is turned off:
Downloading past purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
Make sure that you have "Show iTunes in the Cloud Purchases" enabled in your iTunes preferences by going to iTunes > Preferences in the Store tab and clicking OK.
Take care, and thanks for visiting the Apple Support Communities.
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