Deleting songs in iTunes 11

Nope, not for me. I don't have a Smart Playlist. When I highlight a track and from the main menu, select edit, my options are only Select All, Select None, and Special Characters. Ctrl-click the options are Play "track", Get Info, Rating, and Show in iTunes store.

Hi Linda. It looks like this is driving you up the wall. You have my sympathy. This works for me:

1. Highlight the song you want to delete (either in songs, albums, Artists, Genres, Playlists)

2. press and hold ther arrow key (usually above the ctrl key). A + sign in a circle appears to the left of the song

3. While holding this key down, press the delete key on your key board.

This can be used to delete individual songs and playylist.

Really hope this does it for you

Hi Alan...

Thanks for your response. Does "arrow key" refer to the computer keyboard? Above my control key on my Mac keyboard, I have the shift key. Holding down the shift key while selectng a track does not act as you specified. I have the typical up/down/right/left arrow keys, but they don't act as you specified. I couldn't identify any other arrow keys.

--Linda

Okay, hello all .... This was my orginal post, can believe how many people have looked at it. But here are some Clarifing answers I have.

First, this is for MAC only, I have no idea how to use Itunes on Windows ..... that being said all of the keys and command given are for Mac's .....

Linda, I am not sure want the "arrow " key is .... but if you click on (highlight) a song in a playlist and hold down the "control" button while click the "delete" button it will ask one of 2 things ..... "do you want to remove this song from the playlist or/and (after) "would you like to move this song to the trash" (or something amongst that wording). So the first one is easy if you are just trying to remove it from a playlist; the second might be what you are looking to do like I was .... I wanted a song or album completly removed! .... so you can use the search bar in the top right corner; search anyway needed ... once found you can then either highlight it right there in the drop down menu and hit delete which show ask one of those questions again; or you can click on it and go to it directly select all the tracks and hold "control" while pushing delete; or holding the "control" key down (which acts like a right click on windows computers) and clicking your track pad or mouse (which acts like a right click on windows computers) scroll down to delete, or clicking "edit" in the top menu bar scrolling down and clicking delete.

*Now I really do not like the search bar and the drop down menu .... just think it is way to involved and should just be a simple seach! ..... but my menu drops down with a search field in all categories that the search finds. So if you are trying to completely delete a song and you click on the "playlist" or ther search field where the track is not actually stored ... it will not be deleted! (key here is the question asked by itune; remove from playlist or move to trash) Moving to trash is an actual delete!

* Also this might help you Linda, goto your "View" tab at the top and change your view, I like mine to look like the old style ... so I take off Column Browers, and click on Sidebar. This might be the issue you are having do to not really seeing the track the way you had previously load them. With this new Itunes update, apple was trying to make it more user friendly and APP-Like ... but for any of us that had alll our music on there before (from CD's) the new itunes just put them where ever and filed them according to the "New" user interface results .... which really had me mad for weeks, because I could not find what I was looking for!

That is all I have for now .... have fun, because we all know apple will change it soon! LOL

Hi Linda,

I had the same problem, it appears (well for me anyway) I can only delete a song from the main library not from playlists. In the new version if you go to the songs tab then find the song - command click the drop down box now has delete or use command delete.

Hope that helps, delayed response but just experienced the same problem!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzZwzZoBzTQ

You need to ensure you have "Manually manage music" ticked on the summary tab. Then apply the change and sync again. Once I did that, I highlighted the two songs I wanted to delete, right clicked and delete came up as an option! Yay!

Hope that helps!

Oh my word. I read so many posts and tried so many things. janedbarclay had the simple fix. thank you so much

Oh my word. I read so many posts and tried so many things. thank you so muchfor the simple fix!!!!🙂

I was having the same problems as Linda - Delete grayed out, key combinations not working, etc. Finally found something that worked:

Highlight the song, press Option + Delete.

Window comes up and you can decide to delete permantly (move to trash) or just delete from the current playlist.

Yea!

Nancy

Thank you so much. I finally figured the same thing out.

Very late in the day - but it's been bugging me too.

Discovered that highlighting the song in library, playlist etc. and clicking on alt brings up a + sign to the left of the title and clicking on the plus sign adds the option to delete to the list of options.

As previously said - 'Oh my word' - so many options!

Hi everyone i hate to say that you are wrong but

if u plug in your iphone or ipod go the the summary section and scroll down there you will see the option manually manage music and video click on that apply and now you can delete and song or video on ur iphone or ipod

Phikhanh wrote:

Hi everyone i hate to say that you are wrong

Then don't...

Because you would be wrong.

if u plug in your iphone or ipod go the the summary section

What does the iPhone/iPod have to do with this topic? (hint - nothing)

Told you that you were wrong.

From OccassionalPoster

Highlight the song, press Option + Delete.

Worked for me.

That's what frustrates me about Apple sometimes, completely lacks intuition. Who would think to click Option + Delete to do such a simple task as delete a song from your playlist??? Why not simply delete or a Delete option under Edit in the Menu bar?? Or "Control + Delete"? Or dragging them to the trash bin?? Tried all these first to no avail so ended up here. Get your act together Apple, you do so many other things so well!

Also, for Windows I found that selecting the song(s) and then holding done Shift key will give more options. Furthemore, to delete the selection you use Shift + Delete. I didn't see the Windows version for this problem, so I decided to post it just in case.