Deleting songs from my iTunes library

Why do you want to delete purchased music? -- bad choices that I no longer want to clutter my library with.

select it in iTunes and press Delete. It'll ask to delete from the library and delete from the hard disk. Select Yes for both. -- I sure thought I did that and that the songs I deleted did not want to stay deleted. But I'll try it again and see what happens, thanks.

GM

Chris -- I'm home now and can try what you recommended in your message.

I select a song and press delete. But then you say it, "It'll ask to delete from the library and delete from the hard disk. Select Yes for both." -- Actually, iTunes doesn't ask either of these questions. It says, 'Do you want to move the selected songs to the trash or keep them in the iTunes music folder?' The following words are also in the pop-up message: 'Only files in the iTunes music folder will be moved to the trash.'

I hit yes (move to the trash) and think that I've deleted the song. But the songs I delete like this -- only the songs I've purchased from iTunes, not songs I've ripped from CDs and then deleted-- don't stay deleted. They reappear in iTunes.

So.

How do I delete songs from iTunes and keep them deleted?

Thanks

Greg

Thanks.

I'll try this at home tonight.

GM