Aug 28, 2015  It may happen that after updating iTunes some of your music files, videos or podcasts no longer appear in your library. This procedure explains how to clear your iTunes library and create a new one, by deleting two files from the iTunes folder. First close iTunes and then navigate to the iTunes folder: On Mac OS X: Click on Go Home.Navigate to Music iTunes. Delete Songs from iTunes via iPhone. You can delete songs on iTunes via iPhone, but when next you sync your iOS device via iTunes, all your deleted songs will be restored to your iPhone. Step 1: Open Music app on your iPhone. Step 2: Search for the song, artist or album you want to delete.

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You can also use command-option-shift-delete which gives you the option of moving the files to the trash..

Um, Opt-Delete gives you the option to move the files to the trash, so why the extra keys?

Not hiaving it in front of me, I have to ask: Will this work for iPhoto, too, substuting 'Album' for 'Playlist'?

The shortcut leary suggested also works in iPhoto but you don't need the shift in either (just command-option-delete).

How to share itunes library between users on same mac. How to share an iTunes library between Mac & Windows? Ask Question Asked 4 years ago. One SSD runs OS X and one SSD runs Windows. On the HDD i have my iTunes Library and Music Files. I want to use the same library on both OSs. Open your Mac iTunes folder & copy the iTunes Library.xml file to the desktop. This is going to be our working. Aug 05, 2013  How to share iTunes libraries between user accounts in OS X. You can change iTunes' default behavior to allow all accounts to use the same media folders. Dec 06, 2019  You can use Home Sharing to access your media library across computers that are on the same Wi-Fi network. And you can stream music, movies, and TV shows from one authorized computer to another.Just make sure that your computers are powered on, awake, and have the Music app or iTunes for Windows open. Sep 19, 2017  There is a folder in /Users directory named 'Shared' which can be opened by all users and where you can put your iTunes library to be shared among different users. Another option would be to use an external drive. You only have to copy the iTunes library to that folder.

'you don't need the shift in either (just command-option-delete).'
Thanks, this'll make it a lot easier on my hand!

Awesome hint! I've been wondering this for a long time..

For some reason, I've never used the simple Del key (Fwd-del, usu. under Help), but used Command-Delete (the backwards-delete, usu. at the right end of the numbers row) to delete a track from a playlist. When you want to delete from the entire library, just as this hint says, add the Option key. So, Opt-Del or Cmd-Opt-Delete perform the same function.
The Option key works this way in a large number of Apple/MacOSX apps.

This and other shortcuts are displayed in Help Viewer by invoking the Help->Keyboard Shortcuts menu in iTunes. Look for that menu item in other iApps, too.

This should have a powerful corollary: if you want to do some cleanup you can use a Smart Playlist to create a list of things you want to get rid of, such as things you never listen to, and then delete them from that playlist. Beauty.

How To Delete Entire Itunes Library

Doesn't seem to work for Smart Playlists. There is no 'clear' option for songs in a Smart Playlist, so the Option-Delete type thing doesn't work in there.
I want to delete all songs from my iPod Nano that are NOT in a playlist. I've successfully created a smart playlist that lists all songs that have not been assigned to a playlist, but cannot use the contents of that smart playlist as the template for deleting tracks from the iPod.
Any ideas?
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Either copy all the songs to an ordinary playlist, and delete them from there. Or, as I used to do before i learned the option-del, select all the songs and change artist to 'X'. Go to library and delete all songs by 'X'.
Neither of this solutions are very practical or nice, but they work.
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Bear in mind that if the tracks you want to delete are not in the iTunes library on disk -- I have my podcasts in ~/Music/iPodder/downloads, not under my iTunes library directory -- I couldn't get any keystroke combination to delete the file associated with the track.
I had to find and download this script:
http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=deleteselectedfiles
and put it into ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts -- and then it would allow me to select podcasts (again, associated to a file which was in ~/Music/iPodder/downloads, *not* in my iTunes library directory), pull down the script menu under iTunes, and then it deleted the actual files.

Delete Music From Itunes Library

Well, it was apple-backspace.
is has become apple-delete to remove a song from the non-library playlist.

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When you use this does it only delete the file from your iTunes or does it actually purge it from your computer so its no longer taking up space?