Songs appear in formerly empty playlist

I made a new playlist and selected it. Of course, it is empty. I searched for a song to add to this playlist and when I exited the search, over 3000 songs (not my entire library) appeared in this playlist. How do I get rid of them without having to move them all?
Thanks.

Just select them and press Delete.
It will remove them only from this playlist, not from iTunes.

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https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Search-for-Public-Playlists-that-Contain-Song-Artist/idi-p/144576
Add your kudos and comments there please!

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Okay, this is a weird one to try to explain, so please bear with me. On my iPod classic, I have a smart playlist I created called "Top 2000 Most Played Songs," which is, obviously, a playlist of the top 2000 most played songs on my iPod. Being a smart playlist, it always updates as play-counts change. When I look at this playlist in iTunes, it is all perfect and has all the right songs. When I look at this playlist on my iPod, it has about five or six songs at the bottom of the list that should not be there... i.e., they are songs that used to be in the top 2000 most played, but have since been pushed out by other songs. However, the playlist clearly only has 2000 songs on it, so there are five or six songs missing that are supposed to be there. However, the songs that are missing are not the most recent additions, because I have been able to find them in the playlist. So I don't know what is missing. I have tried copying to play order, and it still has those five or six songs at the end of the playlist. I don't want those songs on the playlist. Why is it doing this?

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I have also found mysterous new songs appear in my iTunes as living in iCloud. About 250 of them!
Sometimes they are a duplicate of songs I already have and sometimes they are songs I have never heard of, like Karina, Can't Find the Words. None of the new songs appeareing in iCloud are particularly good, or in my taste. I even have videos appearing in iCloud, like Kanye West Can't Tell Me Nothing.
Not what I usually listen to. Except for, that is, the songs that are now duplicated on iCloud, like Bad Romance by Lady Ga Ga. I'm not sure, but perhaps about half of the 250 songs on iCoud are duplicates of what I already have.
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I haven't used it for awhile but can't you simply
download the playlist without downloading the music?
I wish, but it doesn't seem to work that way. Senuti will let you download the music IN the playlist, but not just the playlist info. Same, AFAICT, with iPodRip.
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2. Restore from my iPod first (I'm Dad, mine is biggest!).
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4. Delete a few playlists she doesn't want and restore the playlists that (she wants but I don't want) from her iPod using Senuti.
5. Repeat for my daughter. She has a nano and not much music, so this will be much faster. Her tastes run to standard pop fare, no classical.
I think, when all is said and done, I will have one Music folder with all the actual MP3s, AACs, and the occasionall AIFF in it, and three libraries corresponding to the three iPods with Library subsets of the total Music folder.
Does that sound about right?
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Welcome to the Support Communities!
The information below may be able to answer your questions about how to delete items from a playlist on an iPod.
iPod Nano User Guide - Remove items from a playlist - page 23
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1624/en_US/ipod_nano_user_guide.pdf
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1 On the Home screen, tap Music > Playlists, then tap the playlist you want to edit.
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4 Tap Delete, or tap Cancel if you change your mind.
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I cretaed in ITunes 5 intelligent playlists - e.g.
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the song popped up, so i dragged it over and dropped it into the play list.
then i noticed that the play list only contained that song.
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