Hi Alan, Apple has made it very easy to delete single songs, entire albums or the music from an entire artist from your device. All you have to do is open the Music app, select your view, e.g. Songs, Albums, Artist etc. then find what you want to delete and flick down or app with a single finger. Voiceover will say "Delete", then double tap once anywhere and the item is gone.
Apple has implemented the Action Rotor feature here just like in the Mail app, so when you flick up or down you change the rotor from Default to Delete and once delete is selected a single finger double tap will do the trick. After this the rotor automatically goes back to the default behavior which means if you double tap on another song, it would play that song or, if it's an artist or album, it would open it. Prevent iPod's, iPhones and iPads from syncing automatically" in Edit, Settings and the Device tab of iTunes Checking this or not has no effect on what is being synced. What this does is simply prevent any iDevice from starting a sync when it is connected to the computer which is the default behavior. There is another option when you have your iPhone or other iDevice connected, it is under the Summary tab (which is the default tab) and it is called "Open iTunes when this Device is connected. If you deselect this, automatic syncing for that particular device will be disabled, but if you only have one iDevice then that is the same as if you select the option under Preferences, Device tab to prevent automatic syncing of all iDevices. Below is the official explanation from Apple along with the link: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH1764?viewlocale=en_US If you've set up automatic syncing, iTunes syncs your device by default whenever you connect your iPod, iPhone, or iPad to your computer. If you don't want iTunes to sync your device without being prompted, you can change this setting. You can prevent unprompted syncing for any specific iPod, iPhone, or iPad; or for all iPod, iPhone, or iPad devices you connect to your computer. To prevent unprompted syncing for a specific iPod, iPhone, or iPad: 1. Connect your iPod, iPhone, or iPad to your computer. 2. In iTunes, select your device (below Devices). 3. Click Summary, and then deselect "Open iTunes when this Device is connected." To prevent unprompted syncing for all iPod, iPhone, and iPad devices: 1. In iTunes, choose iTunes > Preferences. 2. Click Devices. 3. Select "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically." If this checkbox is selected, any connected iPod, iPhone, or iPad won't sync without being prompted. To sync your iPod, iPhone, or iPad when unprompted syncing is disabled, connect your iPod, iPhone, or iPad to your computer, and then choose File > Sync "Device Name" in iTunes, or click your device (below Devices) and then click Sync. OK, back to a bit more info from myself: What is actually being synced will be determined by whether you check "Sync entire music library" or "Sync Selected artists, playlists and genres" which can be found after you connect your device, click on it in iTunes (or select it from the sidebar if you have it enabled) and check the Music button/tab. If you now tab through the selections you find these options. The "Sync selected artists, playlists and genres" also allows you to select alubums even though albums are not mentioned. For Shannon it sounds like the proper selection would be the second one. once that is checked, you can tab to where you get a treeview of your playlists, artists, genres and albums and you can now arrow through these lists and check anything you like. Assume you have 3 Dire Straits albums, "Dire Straits", "Love over Gold" and "Brothers in Arms", you could check Dire Straits in the artists treeview and it would then sync all 3 albums. If you only want "Love over Gold" and "Brothers in Arms" to sync, then make sure you uncheck Dire Straits in the artists treeview, tab to the album treeview and find those 2 albums and check them. This method to sync a selection of your music is very flexible. You mentioned, Alan, that you prefer to manage your music instead of a turnkey solution, well, basically you are doing that if you use this method. This is no different than using Windows Explorer and copying certain folders with albums or artists to a device like a VictorReader Stream except that it is in fact more powerful and more efficient. Instead of having to copy each folder, you just go through these treeviews, check everything you want and then tab to "Apply" and press it to start the syncing process. This is also completely accessible, you can tab back and forth between these different treeviews for playlists, artists, genres and albums, you can arrow nicely through the names listed in each and check or uncheck items using the spacebar (all the checkboxes speak properly). If you add more music to your library down the road and want to sync it to your device, all you have to do is find it in the artists or albums treeview and check it, then sync. If you buy it from iTunes and have automatic downloads for music enabled on your iDevice in Settings, iTunes and App Stores, then it will download to your iDevice automatically. If your iDevice is extremely full already you may want to make sure that you turn off automatic downloads for music so that you can manage it completely by yourself using iTunes. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shannon Dyer Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 7:03 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Deleting items from music app This is an excellent explanation. Thank you very, very much. Shannon On Jul 6, 2013, at 9:31 PM, "Alan Lemly" <wale...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Shannon. I'm not an expert on this and I've always found the > control iTunes exerts over iDevices more than a little offputting. But > then I've always preferred managing my own music and files manually as > opposed to a turnkey system that does it for me. > > I gather that what you can do to manually delete music from your iPod > might be controlled by how the music was placed there from iTunes. If > iTunes is set up to automatically sync your music, I think this can > affect what can be deleted from the device itself. I thought the > article at the below link was pretty good at explaining some of this: > > http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/removing-songs-from > -a-man > ually-managed-ipod/ > > If I were trying to remove a large number of tracks from an iDevice, I > think I would first go into iTunes, set it up to not allow automatic > syncing with iDevices. This is found under Edit, Preferences, and then > under the Devices tab in the dialog that opens. Then, I would set up a > playlist containing just the tracks I wanted to sync or maybe multiple > playlists depending on your situation. Then, I would attach your iPod > and while focus is on it within iTunes, select the music button and > mark the playlists you want to sync between the computer and the iPod. > After you execute the sync button, your iPod should contain the music you want. > > I hope this makes sense and is accurate. It has worked for me in > getting my iPhone set up but I've not used this approach to delete > tracks off my iPhone. Hopefully, someone more knowledgeable than me > can correct any mistakes I might have made. > > Good luck. > > Alan Lemly > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Shannon Dyer > Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 7:33 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Deleting items from music app > > Hi, all. > > I'm trying to clear out a bunch of music from an IPod touch. I thought > I could do command A in Itunes and then command delete to get rid of > what was selected. The selecting part works just fine, but it doesn't > seem to want to delete from the IPod. It just sits there, but the > amount of stuff on the pod doesn't change. > > If anyone knows how to remedy this, I would be very grateful. > > Shannon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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