How to clean out music library?

Have you emptied the recycle bin?

If you really want to reset everything in iTunes you will need to quit iTunes, remove the 'iTunes media folder' (which is the music & other files) and you will need to remove the 'iTunes Library.ITL' and the 'iTunes Library.xml'. These are the databases that store info about the file locations and play counts etc.

This may help explain about the files…

iTunes: What are the iTunes library files?

broncosfan7 wrote:

I go into the music/ itunes folder and delete every file in there

Don't.

Do not touch anything inside the iTunes folder. Let iTunes handle it.

Open iTunes, click Music and delete what you don't want.

Or if you wan to remove everything, quit iTunes and delete the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder.

Then open iTunes and the library will be blank.

Drew Reece wrote:

Have you emptied the recycle bin?

If you really want to reset everything in iTunes you will need to quit iTunes, remove the 'iTunes media folder' (which is the music & other files) and you will need to remove the 'iTunes Library.ITL' and the 'iTunes Library.xml'

Much easier to simply delete the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder.

Edit > Preferences > Store > Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases > Off

See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.

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