On Jun 24, 2009, at 09:18, Simon Cavendish wrote: Hi Simon and Victor,
If you manage the contents of your iPod or iPhone automatically or semi-automatically by syncing with playlists, then the way to have tracks that are in your iTunes Library not appear on your iPod is to uncheck the selection entries in the Songs table for a library or playlist by using the contextual menu, or to simply not have the track be selected in any playlist that you have checked for the iPod to sync to. There are three ways to manage content (that is not a podcast) on an iPod: 1. Automatic sync -- everything in your iTunes library gets synced to your iPod. If your library is larger than the capacity of your iPod, obviously not everything will fit, but you don't get to determine what goes on the iPod and what doesn't. If selections are unchecked (because you used the context menu VO-Shift-M in the songs table to choose "Uncheck selection") they will not be transferred, nor will they be burned to disc, archived with the "Back up to disc" option of the "Library" submenu of the File menu, etc. 2. Semi-automatic sync -- sync only items that appear in the playlists you've checked for syncing. Again, unchecked selections in these playlists will not be transferred. 3. Manual mode -- drag and drop tracks or playlists onto your iPod to manage content; with iTunes 8 you can replace drag and drop with copy (Command-C) and past (Command-V). With either automatic or semi-automatic sync mode, you can only delete items on your iPod by controlling the contents of your library or synced playlists or by unchecking boxes for items in your library or synced playlists. If you expand your iPod device with VO-backslash (users without English input keyboards can use VO-H twice to bring up the Command menu and choose "Toggle disclosure triangle" after interacting with their iPod device in the sources table) you can arrow down to view your music, movies, tv shows, audiobooks, etc. on your iPod, but these libraries will be grayed out if you sync your iPod. If you manually manage your iPod you can delete entries in these libraries just as you can from the corresponding iTunes libraries on your computer. This makes sense, because if you're syncing content your control is through the sync, and you don't separately delete items. If you copy and paste a track onto your iPod and you have it set to sync checked playlists, it will be changed to manual sync mode, and you will be able to delete tracks directly from the iPod. The box for "Manually manage music and videos" will get checked on your device summary page. I've only tried moving a few audiobooks over with copy and paste to switch to "Manually manage . . ." mode. (Select the tracks in the songs table for your iTunes Audiobooks library, copy with Command-C, tab or use your VO-arrow keys to move to the sources table, go to your iPod and interact, then paste with Command-V. In general checking and unchecking selections is not as good a way to manage synced content as using a smart playlist, because it's easy to lose track of which items you have checked or unchecked. A good case for checking and unchecking selections might be when you've set up a playlist of party music, but have "seasonal items" like Christmas music or special songs for someone's birthday. Then you would uncheck entries that aren't always in use, but which you don't want to remove from the playlist. HTH Cheers, Esther > > I don't think so and that is why I sink from selected playlists which > I edit before sinking, leaving my music library intact. Best Wishes, > Simon > On 24 Jun 2009, at 06:27, Victor Tsaran wrote: > >> >> Hello all, >> It may not be a strictly Mac-related question, so feel free to send >> me >> away. <grin> >> I was trying hard to figure out if there is a way to delete some >> content >> from IPod without having to delete it from the ITunes library. Anyone >> knows i there is a way? >> >> Thx, >> Victor >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
