itunes song will not delete and I can't edit the info

one huge problem following your instuctions word for word i opened finder found my music folder right clicked and there is no properties box.

Imac user

nightcleaner wrote:

one huge problem following your instuctions word for word i opened finder found my music folder right clicked and there is no properties box.

Properties is a WIndows thingy.

Right click - Get info.

Okay, I've tried absolutely every suggestion in this thread and nothing is working for me.

I'm in the main music library, not a playlist. I'm on a PC, not a mac so the disk ultity solution won't work for me.

I've tried deleting the files every which way I can think of. I've tried deleting them in both iTunes and Windows explorer. Every time I do, they always temporarily show up as being deleted from iTunes but then they just magically come right back the next time I restart iTunes or sync my iPhone.

I can delete all of my songs except for these five (which I legitimately purchased from the iTunes store).

I think it's a problem with permissions. I'm the administrator and yet I've tried editing the permission on the files. When I do, it shows that I have indeed edited the permission on the files giving all users (including myself) the right to delete these five annoying files that won't delete. But then as soon as I do that and then try deleting them in iTunes or via windows explorer (even if I empty the recycle bin, it doesn't matter) the files just pop right back up in iTunes and Windows Explorer and revert back to their original permission state.

Does anybody have any ideas of how I can delete these songs? They're not corrupted so far as I can tell, they play fine. I just really hate them.

I tried everything as mentioned. Didn't work. The pop-up window supposed to provide me the choice as itunes help says, doesn't even come up! The songs simply disappear but continue to remain on the hard drive!!

PC, Windows XP. Somebody needs to find a solution - may be one of the experts from Apple could help?

asadtan wrote:

PC, Windows XP.

You should post in the -> iTunes for Windows forum.

There is a bug in iTunes wherein it thinks that analyzing volume of a newly-added track should take priority over a delete request, when in fact the delete request should cancel the volume analyzing after delete confirmation.

So, if it's old music, there are two possibilities:

1. Permissions as discussed

2. Some rare MP3's I've seen seem to have read-only tags. I suspect they are not adhering correctly to the ID3 standard or something.

If it's newly-added, then it's perhaps analyzing volume still. This can take a fair bit of time when adding a long track on older hardware. In the iTunes window, to the left of the track position indication, there is a small button that looks like a mini Play button (why Play, I don't know). When you click on it, the display area changes cycles between every task iTunes is currently running - a player and an analyzer, and also any background tasks like file copying or analyzing volume or for gapless playback. On the right is a little X button you can click to cancel the task. Then the file is deletable. You could also just wait a few minutes. Restarting iTunes may or may not help, depending whether you manage to attempt deletion again before it automatically starts to analyze volume again.

The background task stuff in iTunes is quite nice, keeps a lot of things from being blocking tasks. Yet the place this would be MOST USEFUL for, bulk-editing tags, doesn't use it for some mysterious reason. So hope you don't want to change tracks or pause or something while tag editing.

This is it! For me it was the annoying Genius analyzing going on in the background that wouldn't let me delete songs from a Playlist. BUG!

Same problem, DELETE is shaded in Edit, read all of these comments (1) restarted iTunes (2) couldn't find Pollux, so just started different key combinations with the DELETE key. I'm running iTunes 9.2.1 in OS 10.4.11 on an old Mac G5. OPTION + DELETE worked! The two songs are out of iTunes and living in my Trash for the moment. Hope this helps. Cheers, Dan

This happened to me and here is what I did. Go to purchased and re-downlad them and then go to downloads,pause all and delta all songs downloading. It sounds stupid but it worked.

P.S. If songs are not in purchased go to your account and check hidden purchased, hope i helped.

Dan will you marry me? I tried everything other suggestion to delete songs from a genius (HA) playlist, and the simple option+DEL solution worked. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

On the Summary window, on the left side, scroll down until you see "options" and click the check mark manually manage music and videos and you will be able to delete and or add new stuff.

I hope this helps.

PS I sometimes forget to click this and after a while feel foolish and want to smack myself in the head for forgetting.

This is for pc as I own one

IT Worked!! Thank you velnyk!!!