I'm giving my iPod to someone, but they don't need all of the songs on it. So how do I get rid of all of em so that he can use it. Tricky part is that he is going to load his songs on my PC too, so I would have to create a playlist for him. Anyone know how to do it?
2007-02-26 14:23:06 · 6 answers · asked by ryan 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Music & Music Players
To delete the songs you should be able to just plug the old one into your computer. Then in iTunes, find the iPod and select all songs (Edit-->Select all) on the iPod and then clear them. Make sure you select the iPod and not the iTunes Library or all the songs you've loaded into iTunes will be removed. You should be able to find all those songs wherever you saved them at on your computer if you need to put them back into iTunes just in case you delete them. If you delete songs that you bought from the iTunes store, you can't re-download them into iTunes due to the encryption. That is why it's important to not delete your iTunes library and only the iPod library.
What do you mean he is going to load his songs on your PC? Do you mean after you give him the iPod he will put songs on the pod from his home computer and then bring them to your computer and load them? Transferring the songs from one iPod to another is a little bit more difficult and a bit more time consuming. It involves going into your iPod_Control folder in your iPod folder from My Computer.
2007-02-26 14:38:29 · answer #1 · answered by radioactive_babywipes 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are a few options you could choose:
Option 1: You could uncheck all the songs that he doesn't want so that they'd still be in your library, but they wouldn't sync to your iPod (there's an option on the main page that says "sync only checked items").
Option 2: Sync only certain playlists from your iPod (you can select them also on the main page, one of the tabs on top)
Option 3: Delete all the songs from iTunes he doesn't want (most time consuming). If you were going to do that, i'd suggest holding down ctrl the entire time so you could highlight more than one song at once, and only have to hit delete once as opposed to many times.
Good luck :)
2007-02-26 14:28:19 · answer #2 · answered by Someone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are two ways that I have found work. Number one is to set the ipod to default settings, and you do that right on your ipod, with the controls. The other way I have found is to delete all the songs of your itunes and then plug your ipod in, the songs will just delte themselves from the ipod
2007-02-26 14:48:15 · answer #3 · answered by coffeelover 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you could dod is create a User Account for him on your computer. Install iTunes in his profile and have him download all of his songs to this profile. When he connects the iPod while under his profile it will sync and transfer his songs and erase the rest.
2007-02-26 14:29:38 · answer #4 · answered by Kainoa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there is no track on your new iTunes they sure it is going to delete all your track. it is going to ask you in case you prefer to sync your iPod with the recent iTunes and in case you sync all of it your track on your iPod will delete to verify the iTunes.
2016-10-16 13:59:37 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just delete all the songs he doesn't want and connect your ipod. then, all the other songs will get deleted.
2007-02-26 14:26:26 · answer #6 · answered by youran_lee 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋