I can't delete music from icloud

Hi, Is it possible for music to be backed up in icloud without itunes match enabled? This seems to be my problem. I don't have itunes match enabled but have music occupying the cloud and i can't delete it.

j_red wrote:

Hi, Is it possible for music to be backed up in icloud without itunes match enabled? This seems to be my problem. I don't have itunes match enabled but have music occupying the cloud and i can't delete it.

What you are most likely seeing is your iTunes Store purchases. Apple also has a store service they call iTunes in the Cloud which allows you to redownload your purchases from directly within iTunes or in the Music app on an iOS device. This service is not the same as iTunes Match. You may hide your store purchases: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4919

I was having the same problem with all of my music stored in i-cloud appearing on my phone. If you just go into setting on your device and go down to 'i-tunes and app store' in the first section titles 'show all' unselect music and this will get rid of the music you dont wish to see anymore

Thanks!

Hi,

Apologies, I realise this thread has been quiet for a while, but I'm having the exact same problem with iTunes Match as some of the previous posters. I want to delete everything from the cloud and start from scratch, but no matter what I try the tracks just keep reappearing. I've tried disabling holding the option key. I've tried deleting in small batches as I've seen suggested elsewhere. As far as I'm aware I've tried absolutely everything, but Match still tells me I have about 3000 tracks available in the cloud whenever I re-enable it.

Is there anything else at all that I can try?!

Any help would be greatly appreciated as this has been driving me crazy for days now!

Many thanks,

Daniel

Same thing is happening to me. Over 2500 songs in the cloud that can't be deleted. Tried turning off iTM, changing iTunes Library, etc. Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Michael Allbritton wrote:

In iTunes disable iTunes Match while holding down the Option key. Quit iTunes, wait a few seconds, then open it gain and enable the service.

This worked! Thank you so much.

This doesn't work for me. It continues to show up again in my hidden purchases.

Should you delete the songs, then click option disable? Nothing has been working for me. What are the steps you follow to delete songs? Thanks for any help.

"Want to delete a song from iTunes while you're in a playlist? Keep alt pressed"

**** my whole life was a lie

My wife accidentally sync'd music to her iPhone via iTunes while match was turned on.... I couldn't get the songs out of her iPhone even after fixing that. Here is what I did:

Turn match off the iOS device.

Settings->General->Usage->Music->Edit and delete. Kill Music app if its running, wait 30 seconds, and run.

Only music that should be there is your purchases from iTunes. Now turn match back on.

Incidentally, holding alt while deleting a song in iTunes seems to remove the iCloud copy maybe 50% of the time at best. I see them coming back into iTunes quite often after a re-sync. I keep a watch and always re-delete these, otherwise you end up with the same songs coming back again.. or worse, duplicates that don't get labeled as duplicates.

itunes is currently a bit of an inconsistent mess still. Hope it gets fixed with Yosemite. (I almost said that without laughing