Deleting Songs From Smart Playlist?

There is no delete option in smart playlists.

A possible work around is to make a regular playlist called "For deletion", or whatever you like.

Then if you are listening to a track on a smart play list that you don't like, right click and select Add to Playlist - chose your "for deletion" playlist.

Then at the end of your session you can go to your "for deletion" playlist and delete the tracks.

All you can do is change your smart playlist so that "match only checked items" is unchecked, and uncheck the songs you don't want in the playlist.

Perhaps I should point out that my suggestion assumed that you wanted to remove the undesired tracks from your library rather than simply remove them from the smart playlist. I you just don't want them on the smart playlist go with Katria's suggestion.

Katrina,

Shouldn't "change your smart playlist so that "match only checked items" is unchecked" read "change your smart playlist so that "match only checked items" is checked"?

Yes, thanks. Too many checks going on!

There is no delete option in smart playlists.

Hmmm?
This does work on Mac iTunes.

You could use the rating parameter set so that if you give a track only one star it's not showing in the smart playlist, or you could for eg. use the genre parameter as well, or add a word to the comment field that excludes that track from your smart playlist, something like this:

Match all the following rules:
genre is rock
genre is pop
rating is not (1 star) / genre is not (crap) / comment doesn't include ('crap')

This doesn't delete anything from the library, just excludes them from the playlist. You could use for eg. the word 'delete' in the comment field and later search all of them in the whole library and delete them if that's what you want.

Is this anything you're after? Does it work the same way on Windows?

Chris CA

Delete has never worked for me but all my smart playlists have live updating on. I now realise that you can delete from smart playlists if live updating is unchecked.

Match all the following rules:
genre is rock
genre is pop
rating is not (1 star) / genre is not (crap) / comment doesn't include ('crap')

Actually this won't work because a song cannot be two different genre. Nothing will be in the above playlist.

Right, I stand corrected. The idea works still though, just use the rating or comment field. If you want several genres you could make smart playlists for them separately and then one "collecting" them ("playlist is 'punk'" and "playlist is 'rock'" etc)

I now realise that you can delete from smart playlists if live updating is unchecked.

Again, hmmm...
I have Live updating checked and it works.

Correct.
Option delete a song in the smart playlist (with live updating ticked) will ask if you want to delete from the library.
Delete (no OPtion) with Live updating not ticked will simply ask if you want to remove from the playlist.