You can either swipe left on an artist/album name on the iPad in the music app, 
or use Senuti to extract all the music from the iPad before deleting all the 
music in the Settings app > General > Usage > Music (swipe left) to delete.

You could also copy the entire iTunes folder from the PC to the Music folder in 
the home directory of a new user on a Mac, then open iTunes and see if the mp3s 
are available there.

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On 26 Mar 2015, at 22:05, Phil Ward <[email protected]> wrote:

All,

A friend of mine has a 16G iPad 2 with a problem: it's full (mostly I think 
with photos and music). Now, of course this normally wouldn't be a problem; 
we'd simply connect the iPad to "parent" iTunes account, edit the data and 
sync. There's a snag however, well more than one...

First, the iTues account to which the iPad syncs is installed on an old and 
unreliable Windows laptop that doesn't always behave itself. It's not really 
certain what will happen when the iPad and Windows machine are connected.

Second, after one past episode of misbehaviour all the music stored in the 
Windows iTunes app was deleted.

Third the music stored on the iPad is wanted (or at least some of it is), but 
if the iPad is connected to the Windows machine an automatic sync will delete 
it (because the iPad will "see" an empty iTunes library).

It's possible I know to delete photos locally on the iPad but as far as I'm 
aware it's not possible to delete music locally, and too much music is I think 
the main problem.

So what's the best strategy here (the iPad is on iOS 6.x and can't update 
'cause it doesn't have any free memory)? All suggestions gratefully received. 
The aim is to free some space on the iPad (while not losing the music), 
re-populate the Windows iTunes library with the music (and delete what's not 
wanted), re-sync the iPad, and update it to iOS 8.

Thanks
Phil

PS. The strategy that begins, "dump the old Windows laptop and get a MacBook" 
is one I'm already working on :-)

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