Cannot delete music from iMovie Music Library

Using "reveal in finder" and deleting from the Original Media pop up folder will delete the song from the iMovie library. It will not delete it from the iTunes library. If you want to delete it from the iTunes library open iTunes and delete it from there.

-- Rich

Hmmm. What you describe cannot be possible. When a clip is deleted from the Original Media pop-up folder that appears when you do a "reveal in finder", that will delete it from the iMovie library.

How did you determine that it was not deleted? What steps did you take?

-- Rich

You must delete the songs from your iTunes library in order to remove them from the iMovie audio pane. Open iTunes and delete them from there. However, if you delete them from your iTunes library the songs will be lost permanently and you would need to repurchase them if you want to play them again. I recommend just leaving the songs alone -- unless you really don't want them.

-- Rich

I suppose that it is a concession that one must make for the convenience of being able to reference your iTunes library from within iMovie. It would be quite complicated to have only some individual songs referenced and not others. (DRM protected songs are not referenced, but that involves copyrights.) Easiest way would be to drag the song out of your iTunes library into a finder folder, and then delete it from your iTunes library. Then it wouldn't be displayed. You could always drag it back in again from the finder folder. All that being said, why not just leave the songs where they are? They don't take up any space. But that's your preference, of course.

-- Rich

Also, can you describe the steps that you took to delete the file?

-- Rich

The songs displayed in the audio pane are not in the iMovie library. They are in the iTunes library and iMovie refers to them.

-- Rich