deleting tunes from ipod.

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Ipod and itunes help needed!

I have about 500 songs on my ipod nano.

My son borrowed it a few times for running and put about 6 of his own songs on which are good for him for running.

Now he has a new ipod of his own and even if I sync mine on the computer... I cant get rid of his tunes playing at random on my ipod.

They dont appear in itunes on the PC.. I deleted his list of "Tom running"

But they play on my ipod. How can I get rid of them?

I thought syncing puts what is on the PC onto the ipod........and as they are not on my pc.. why are they still on the ipod? :shrug:

Wouldnt mind so much but they are about 3x the volume of my songs and gives me a heart attack when they come on!!!
 
iTunes is the worst bit of software known to man! :gag:

I don't use an ipod but Jan uses a touch version.. I'm no expert Janice, but I don't think just deleting tunes from iTunes will remove them from the ipod unless you sync after you've removed them?
 
CT said:
iTunes is the worst bit of software known to man! :gag:

I don't use an ipod but Jan uses a touch version.. I'm no expert Janice, but I don't think just deleting tunes from iTunes will remove them from the ipod unless you sync after you've removed them?
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I did :| might just use something else as the volume leveller doesnt work anyway. I used to use Musicmatch jukebox and it worked very well at volume levelling.
 
Is it possible he's added his stuff from another PC - another version of iTunes?
 
CT said:
Is it possible he's added his stuff from another PC - another version of iTunes?
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Ooh did tn think of that.... good thinking CT
yes it would certainly have been from his laptop not my PC
perhaps i will use drag and drop and have a look inside the ipod
 
Well, as I dont keep my music in just itunes.. but I keep all the files in a folder entitled Janice's Music.... I have deleted all from itunes and my ipod.

Then I am reimporting everything from Janice's music and hopefully that should do it. :thumbs:
 
LOL. Probably the best thing Janice - which I hesitated to suggest. :D
 
A big hammer is the only way to get sense out of itunes

i have 2 ipods and the iphone.........itunes is making my hair turn grey!
 
i hate itunes too
somehow i managed to lose all the music i have from the mighty floyd off my ipod and itunes, and i still dont know how that happened
 
matty said:
i hate itunes too
somehow i managed to lose all the music i have from the mighty floyd off my ipod and itunes, and i still dont know how that happened
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Its a bit of a scarey thought that. My boys just let their music get put into somewhere that itunes tells them and that is what I think is dangerous.
As they are linked they could be deleted I think.

Defo a good idea to actually STORE the mp3 files as a separate folder and import from there into itunes when you put new ones in.

Itunes can do its worst but my yellow folder on my d drive is full of my music whatever happens. :thumbs:

(says the woman who has just asked the question cos she doesnt know itunes fully!!) :D
 
i have my music scattered, its on my ipod, external drive, laptop and Mac, and i have a HDD at woth with 10gb of music on too, the laptop has the most uptodate stuff, as i cant use the mac to transfer as my ipod was windows formated, while mrs matt has a mac formatted one. Interestingly the music on the mac includes all my 'bought off itunes' stuff, which has vanished off my laptop
 
If you just deleted his playlist "toms running" then thats all that gets deleted. The songs still stay in your library. You need to delete them individually from the library.
 
The sister in law is in the same situation with her IPod, she uploaded songs onto a new computer and the ipod deleted them, somthing to do with copyright ??????:thinking::bonk:

Anyway from 7 Sunday morning too 13.00 Sunday afternoon syncing and downloading here 500 tunes vid and clips etc, and this was costing her extra cash to do it :eek:




regards Mark.
 
i bought all the ****ing songs its deleted though!
 
Did you authorise your account to the new machine?
 
Hi Janice - this might work..
  1. do a search for all .mp3 files (and/or other formats if you have those too)
  2. copy all found files to another location but remove the ones you don't want (preferably copy to an external drive)
  3. ensure you have found ALL your music files in all formats
  4. run point 3 again
  5. If you are sure you have completed step 4 at least twice, proceed to step 6
  6. Launch iTunes
  7. Select ALL music - Ctrl-A
  8. Delete music in iTunes
  9. If you are absolutely 100% certain you carried out step 4 successfully, proceed to step 10
  10. Sync your iPod to iTunes (this will remove all music from the iPod)
  11. Add folder where you copied all your music to, to iTunes
  12. Sync iPod
.... at your own risk though... :)
 
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uncheck the automatically sync ipod when connected option or check the manual sync option cant remember what its labelled as, this will stop the ipod deleting stuff at will but will also mean you can find the song in the ipod select it and press delete :)

I find manually managing the music is alot better for me as i run two itunes libraries, a laptop and my desktop so this way the ipod doesnt delete stuff and i can delete stuff when i want to
 
yeah i authorized it on the other machine, its just the devils pant drippings.
 
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