“Whats the easiest way to delete or remove a song from an iPod Touch?”
Unfortunately there is no way to delete songs from the iPod touch itself. To delete songs from your iPod touch you will need to do it through iTunes. If you don’t have iTunes yet you can download if from for free from Apple at http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/.
Note: To delete songs off your iPod touch or any other iPods you will need to set your iTunes settings to “Manual” mode. You can do that in iTunes by clicking your iPod under “Devices” on the left hand side and under the Summary tab make sure “Manually manage music and videos” is checked.
Open iTunes and plug in your iPod touch.
Under “Devices” click on the iPod touch icon. Then click the side ways triangle beside your iPod touch icon.
You can now see a list of different media categories such as Music, Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, and more. We want to delete songs from the iPod touch so select “Music” from the menu by clicking on it.
All your songs will be listed in the main content area. Click on the song you want to delete from your iPod touch and press the “Delete” key on your keyboard or “right click” on the song and scroll down to “Delete” to remove the song. To select multiple songs at once, hold down the “Ctrl” and click on each song. To select multiple songs in a row click on the first song to delete and hold down the “Shift” key and select the last song.
This method will only remove songs from your iPod and not your iTunes library.
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Hi.
I followed what you said about my ipod touch and itunes, but for some reason it didnt work. I mean, the music list would come up but they were gray looking (You know when you cant click a button it is showed as gray so you know) so I clicked it anyways and clicked “delete” on my computer but it still didnt work. My brother is a newby with ipods too and he told me to delete the songs from my itunes library but the way i synked my ipod was so that i had to chose individual songs and playlists. please help me
Hey!
I wanted to say thank you and that I found out what I was doing wrong. I didn’t have it on manually manage songs. I totally looked over that. Thank you again you were a big help and reduced a lot of stress on my part! thank you!
Glad this post helped, Kayla. Enjoy the iPod touch.
Thanks soo much for showing how to do it, other ppl were saying ‘go to itunes on ur computer ad delete the songs’ and i was like ‘waaa???’ nd then i saw this tutorial , thanks , it really helped !
thank you so much
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life saver
my friend put a few hundred songs on it and i wanted to delete alot i didnt like
after like deleting 20 one by one this helped me figure out how to do it all at once
thanks a ton
Thank you so much, i was going mad if i didn’t know how to delete the songs
Thanks again
Omg,thank you sooooo much!
When I click music nothing shows up. I’ve got it set to manage music manually, and there’s almost 5 gigs of music on the iPod. Any ideas?
i am having the same problem that Kayla had.
can you help!!!
never mind i figured it out!!!!
About what Kayla said , she could’nt select the song because it was “gray”. Thats exactly whats happening too mee.. And i know u said to set ur ipod settings to manual but i cannoott find were those settings are anywere, all i see is the “device” tab , under there is music, video and tv shows.. Im really confused
PLEASE HELP i HAVEEE to delete these songs :/
Hi – This is what I was going to do yesterday – I set it to manual mode…but it ERASED all of my apps (luckily they are all free so far). I really want to manage my music on my Ipod but I am afraid to check manual again in case it erases everything. HELP
thank you so much!
i did all of your steps and delelted all the songs i didn’t want anymore. but when i plug back in my ipod in the computor it still says i have the songs on my ipod….can anyone help me?
p.s. i am new at the ipodtouch and i just got it yesterday HELP ME!
Hi.
I followed what you said about my ipod touch and itunes, but for some reason it didnt work. I mean, the music list would come up but they were gray looking (You know when you cant click a button it is showed as gray so you know) so I clicked it anyways and clicked “delete” on my computer but it still didnt work. My brother is a newby with ipods too and he told me to delete the songs from my itunes library but the way i synked my ipod was so that i had to chose individual songs and playlists. please help me
Thx sooooooooooooo much it really helped me i was trying and sooo stressed out and i got it thxxxx soooooooo much u dont kno how much i appreciate it
hello there ,, its a nice way but there is a full program who can add, delete & even copy tracks i found it on this site http://www.myipodcity.com
its name is (ipod manager) … try it
wow, i followed the steps, and you pretty much saved me!
thanks(:
thank you its the only one that works u fixed it
I would just like to say thank you! I figured out how to delete the music. I had a bunch of those sample songs on my iPod from the first time I synced to my computer. I hate those! Well, thanks a billion!
thankyou so much!