How do I remove the free U2 album from my iTunes library?

Well yeah, I don't much like being forced to have songs I'm not interested in on my iTunes and they'll play when I have my music on shuffle..

I'm done. This place is full of trolls.

brionyrisch wrote:

I was wondering if anyone can help. I have hidden the album and on my phone I've turned off 'Show All Music' but I still can't get rid of two of the songs?

That's because you downloaded them, delete them if you do not want them.

Don't download them again (playing them downloads)

Nah I didn't and it won't let me. No option there when I try to swipe for the delete option

Do you not know how to delete a track?

Where do you want to delete the track from, a Mac or an IOS device? or (God Forbid) some kind of Winbox.

brionyrisch wrote:

Nah I didn't and it won't let me. No option there when I try to swipe for the delete option

Didn't what

You need to explain what you are trying to say?

I have deleted them from itunes on my windows(so they're hidden tracks according to my account)

and on my phone I had to switch off 'show all music' to get rid of the album but two of the songs will not go

Sorry, that was: I didn't download them and it won't let me delete these two songs

Please tell me how to delete ALL! I've deleted most of them except 2 songs!! CALIFORNIA and CEDARDARWOOD road!!

What you have to do is download those two songs that are annoying you and once you have downloaded them swipe to delete, took me ages to figure it out because swiping didn't work, that was because the download glitched on my iphone, so to sort it you download it then delete it, but only the songs that still appear on your list when you hide music that aren't on your phone.

Step 1: Turn on "Show All Music"

Step 2: Find The Two songs
Step 3: Download Them
Step 4: Delete them
Step 5: Turn off "Show All Music"

Step 6: Celebrate

Legend! There will be lots of step 6

Here's what worked for me: I hid the album in iTunes on my computer... then logged out of iTunes and signed back in from my iPhone (under Settings)... then rebooted the phone. U2 goes bye bye.

"Do you not know how to delete a track?

You can't delete a track which is not fully downloaded. Attempting to do so by swiping causes the track to start downloading and playing, which is what has frustrated many people, myself included. I never stayed on the track long enough for it to finish downloading, so it remained apparently impossible to delete.

The way I got rid of the U2 album was to go into my iTunes account on my mac and hide it, then on my iPhone log out of my AppleID in Settings > iTunes & App Store, then log back in. Thanks to barbados-slim for that tip. This method avoids the need to turn off 'Show All Music'.

Now if only I could make the Artists icon not be a silhouette of Bono.

mrphosphorous wrote:

"Do you not know how to delete a track?

You can't delete a track which is not fully downloaded. Attempting to do so by swiping causes the track to start downloading and playing, which is what has frustrated many people, myself included. I never stayed on the track long enough for it to finish downloading, so it remained apparently impossible to delete.

That is different from my experience, if I start to play a track it downloads regardless of whether I listen to the whole track or not. I have never had a partially downloaded track (except one that is still downloading) so I'll take your word on that. Thanks.