How do I select all but a few artists to sync with my iPhone?
iTunes 11.0.5.5
iPhone 5
iOS 6.1.4
I have a large library of music in iTunes and I want to sync 98% of it to my iPhone, but not everything. If I have music from 100 different artists, how do I tell iTunes that it should sync 98 of them, but not the 2 I don't want?
When I connect my iPhone and select the Music tab, I see the option to either sync my "Entire music library" or "Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres". From here, I want to tell iTunes to "Select All" artists and then simply uncheck the couple I don't want. I've looked in the menus and I see Select All under Edit, but it's disabled. I've tried selecting one artist to give that area focus and then pressing ctrl+A. I've also tried shift-clicking artists to see if that would let me select a bunch at once. None of these things have worked.
Am I missing something? Or do I really have to tediously click on the hundreds of artists I want to sync just to avoid the few I don't want?
iPhone 5, iOS 6.1.4