Why is Delete greyed out in the Edit menu? (track selected in regular playlist)

Hi, I have also just upgraded to itunes 10.4 and my delete function on the edit menu is also grey. I can't delete individual songs or playlists that way. I tried the delete button on the keyboard when I saw your message and that does work however.

Actually I should thank you, if I hadn't seen your post, I wouldn't have thought of using the keyboard delete button.

Hiya, I have the same problem since itunes update to 10. please can you tell me where to find instructions for the keys i need to press to delete songs? i dont know which is 'cut' and 'cmd-x' thanks very much!

Hi Richard, thats great thank you! you have explained it all so well, I will try that!

Hmm. I came to realise iTune Match had downgraded 38 of my tracks, which I'd ripped from my own CDs long ago, with 256kbps versions. I do have backup for the tracks, so I'd like to delete these 38 tracks (I've made a Smart playlist of them), deleting them from iCloud too; then with Match turned off, recover my originals (Add to Library) from an old Mac.

Can't do it! As Richard Tench said at the top, from 27 July 2011, Edit > Delete is permanently grayed out if you have opted for iT Match. And for me on iTunes 10.6.3 (Lion 10.7.4), that's not all: Edit > Cut and Cmd-x both just produce the Bonk sound. My Macbook keyboard has no Del key either.

But all the above are only true with Match active. Store > Turn Off iTunes Match will ungrey Edit > Delete (& fn-bksp etc I imagine). So I would then be able to delete the tracks locally. But of course, if you turn off iT Match you can delete all you like locally, but they will still exist in iCloud, and if I turn on iT Match again, the lower-grade 256kbps ones will come down from the clouds to replace my CD-ripped ones again! Won't they?

Is that right? Is there any way to exclude these 38 tracks (out of ~6500) from iTunes Match so I can keep my better quality CD-ripped ones? (Other than using Alt-Launch & creating a separate iTunes fileset for the 38 tracks - as you might have guessed, some of them fall right in the middle of albums.) Help!

dw32

Thanks for that Richard. Yes, my results are different. Now it seems that once you accept a download from iTunes Match, that's it, you're stuck with it. Apple is gonna hang on to that DRM-free content in your iTM and will not let you change it. I suppose it could be argued that this is protecting all involved from legal challenges.

What you now have may be inferior to e.g. a 630kbps version it replaced when you accepted the download, but there's nothing you can do. You cannot delete it in your iTunes and you can't delete it from iCloud.

If you were to try force majeur, like deleting it in Finder then adding it back to iTunes from say your CD, iTunes Match would again replace it with their 256kbps version, as far as I can see.

Can anyone verify this? Would I be right in thinking that the only way out of this is to turn off iTunes Match completely?

dw32

dw32 wrote:

If you were to try force majeur, like deleting it in Finder then adding it back to iTunes from say your CD, iTunes Match would again replace it with their 256kbps version,

No.

iTunes Match does not download or replace anything on your computer unless you delete it from your library then download it from iTunes Match (click the down cloud button next to the song)..

"iTunes Match does not download or replace anything on your computer unless you delete it from your library..."

Yes Chris, Richard said the same above. Perhaps there's been an update to iTunes, because I think it's no longer true. I feel fairly sure my experience was that you do not need to delete the original before clicking the Download icon.

To me there seem to have been major changes to Match since it was first announced, I don't know what it was like in say November.