Hi Alan; Siegard's posts keep this list going and they are better than most tech support articles.
Anthony Sent from my iPad On Jul 7, 2013, at 2:16 PM, "Alan Lemly" <[email protected]> wrote: > Sieghard, thanks for the clarification of my misinformation. Your post as > usual is excellent and I'll be saving it for future reference. The Apple > Support link you provided was for the Mac iTunes so here's the link for the > Windows iTunes: > > http://support.apple.com/kb/PH1677 > > I'll add that these support articles are for iTunes 10, not the current > version 11, but I assume they are still applicable. > > Alan Lemly > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 12:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Managing your music manually in iTunes, was: Deleting items from > music app > > Hi Alan, > > Apple has made it very easy to delete single songs, entire albums or the > music from an entire artist from your device. All you have to do is open the > Music app, select your view, e.g. Songs, Albums, Artist etc. then find what > you want to delete and flick down or app with a single finger. Voiceover > will say "Delete", then double tap once anywhere and the item is gone. > > Apple has implemented the Action Rotor feature here just like in the Mail > app, so when you flick up or down you change the rotor from Default to > Delete and once delete is selected a single finger double tap will do the > trick. After this the rotor automatically goes back to the default behavior > which means if you double tap on another song, it would play that song or, > if it's an artist or album, it would open it. > > Prevent iPod's, iPhones and iPads from syncing automatically" in Edit, > Settings and the Device tab of iTunes > Checking this or not has no effect on what is being synced. What this does > is simply prevent any iDevice from starting a sync when it is connected to > the computer which is the default behavior. > There is another option when you have your iPhone or other iDevice > connected, it is under the Summary tab (which is the default tab) and it is > called "Open iTunes when this Device is connected. If you deselect this, > automatic syncing for that particular device will be disabled, but if you > only have one iDevice then that is the same as if you select the option > under Preferences, Device tab to prevent automatic syncing of all iDevices. > Below is the official explanation from Apple along with the link: > > http://support.apple.com/kb/PH1764?viewlocale=en_US > > If you've set up automatic syncing, iTunes syncs your device by default > whenever you connect your iPod, iPhone, or iPad to your computer. > If you don't want iTunes to sync your device without being prompted, you can > change this setting. > > You can prevent unprompted syncing for any specific iPod, iPhone, or iPad; > or for all iPod, iPhone, or iPad devices you connect to your computer. > > To prevent unprompted syncing for a specific iPod, iPhone, or iPad: > 1. Connect your iPod, iPhone, or iPad to your computer. > 2. In iTunes, select your device (below Devices). > 3. Click Summary, and then deselect "Open iTunes when this Device is > connected." > > To prevent unprompted syncing for all iPod, iPhone, and iPad devices: > 1. In iTunes, choose iTunes > Preferences. > 2. Click Devices. > 3. Select "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically." > > If this checkbox is selected, any connected iPod, iPhone, or iPad won't sync > without being prompted. > To sync your iPod, iPhone, or iPad when unprompted syncing is disabled, > connect your iPod, iPhone, or iPad to your computer, and then choose File > > Sync "Device Name" in iTunes, or click your device (below Devices) and then > click Sync. > > OK, back to a bit more info from myself: > > What is actually being synced will be determined by whether you check "Sync > entire music library" or "Sync Selected artists, playlists and genres" which > can be found after you connect your device, click on it in iTunes (or select > it from the sidebar if you have it enabled) and check the Music button/tab. > If you now tab through the selections you find these options. The "Sync > selected artists, playlists and genres" also allows you to select alubums > even though albums are not mentioned. > > For Shannon it sounds like the proper selection would be the second one. > once that is checked, you can tab to where you get a treeview of your > playlists, artists, genres and albums and you can now arrow through these > lists and check anything you like. Assume you have 3 Dire Straits albums, > "Dire Straits", "Love over Gold" and "Brothers in Arms", you could check > Dire Straits in the artists treeview and it would then sync all 3 albums. If > you only want "Love over Gold" and "Brothers in Arms" to sync, then make > sure you uncheck Dire Straits in the artists treeview, tab to the album > treeview and find those 2 albums and check them. > > This method to sync a selection of your music is very flexible. You > mentioned, Alan, that you prefer to manage your music instead of a turnkey > solution, well, basically you are doing that if you use this method. This is > no different than using Windows Explorer and copying certain folders with > albums or artists to a device like a VictorReader Stream except that it is > in fact more powerful and more efficient. Instead of having to copy each > folder, you just go through these treeviews, check everything you want and > then tab to "Apply" and press it to start the syncing process. > This is also completely accessible, you can tab back and forth between these > different treeviews for playlists, artists, genres and albums, you can arrow > nicely through the names listed in each and check or uncheck items using the > spacebar (all the checkboxes speak properly). > If you add more music to your library down the road and want to sync it to > your device, all you have to do is find it in the artists or albums treeview > and check it, then sync. If you buy it from iTunes and have automatic > downloads for music enabled on your iDevice in Settings, iTunes and App > Stores, then it will download to your iDevice automatically. If your iDevice > is extremely full already you may want to make sure that you turn off > automatic downloads for music so that you can manage it completely by > yourself using iTunes. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Shannon Dyer > Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 7:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Deleting items from music app > > This is an excellent explanation. Thank you very, very much. > > Shannon > On Jul 6, 2013, at 9:31 PM, "Alan Lemly" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, Shannon. I'm not an expert on this and I've always found the >> control iTunes exerts over iDevices more than a little offputting. But >> then I've always preferred managing my own music and files manually as >> opposed to a turnkey system that does it for me. >> >> I gather that what you can do to manually delete music from your iPod >> might be controlled by how the music was placed there from iTunes. If >> iTunes is set up to automatically sync your music, I think this can >> affect what can be deleted from the device itself. I thought the >> article at the below link was pretty good at explaining some of this: >> >> http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/removing-songs-from >> -a-man >> ually-managed-ipod/ >> >> If I were trying to remove a large number of tracks from an iDevice, I >> think I would first go into iTunes, set it up to not allow automatic >> syncing with iDevices. This is found under Edit, Preferences, and then >> under the Devices tab in the dialog that opens. Then, I would set up a >> playlist containing just the tracks I wanted to sync or maybe multiple >> playlists depending on your situation. Then, I would attach your iPod >> and while focus is on it within iTunes, select the music button and >> mark the playlists you want to sync between the computer and the iPod. >> After you execute the sync button, your iPod should contain the music you > want. >> >> I hope this makes sense and is accurate. It has worked for me in >> getting my iPhone set up but I've not used this approach to delete >> tracks off my iPhone. Hopefully, someone more knowledgeable than me >> can correct any mistakes I might have made. >> >> Good luck. >> >> Alan Lemly >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Shannon Dyer >> Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 7:33 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Deleting items from music app >> >> Hi, all. >> >> I'm trying to clear out a bunch of music from an IPod touch. I thought >> I could do command A in Itunes and then command delete to get rid of >> what was selected. The selecting part works just fine, but it doesn't >> seem to want to delete from the IPod. It just sits there, but the >> amount of stuff on the pod doesn't change. >> >> If anyone knows how to remedy this, I would be very grateful. >> >> Shannon >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >> Google Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> 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/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> 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/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > 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/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > 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/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > 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/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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