Ipod!

[Scarlett]

Please can someone clever give me easy step by step instructions on how I can remove some songs from my ipod? It is just about full now but there is a lot of rubbish on it.
Help!
Thankyou!

[tigersam258]

The easiest way would be to connect it up to a PC and it should be recognised as a new hard disk. You can then format the disk which will delete everything. You can then reload what you want onto it using ITunes.

[Scarlett]

I just want to be able to choose which songs to delete on my list, and click on something, and be able to get only the remaining songs on my ipod. There are HUNDREDS of posts on google all asking this and yet nobody seems to be able to explain it in a straightforward way! I want to keep the songs on itunes, but not on the ipod. I don't want to delete everything by mistake!!

[tigersam258]

Thats okay. You can delete them from the Ipod but they will stay on ITunes. You can then re-copy them to the Ipod.

[Scarlett]

What I am doing is ticking the ones I want to keep and then I will click on "synch only those checked" - and then I'll plus the ipod in. Do you think that is right?! Thanks for your help by the way!

[Scarlett]

Okay- that worked. However, my playlists are not on my ipod. They vanished when there became too many songs. Even though I have now scaled it down to half the songs, I still have nothing in my playlist menu on the ipod. Any idea how I can get them back on? x

[tigersam258]

if you havent backed up the Ipod and they are no longer on the Ipod then you will need to recreate them.

[souldriver]

Next to the song titles in itunes there are small 'check boxes' if you untick the songs you dont want then connect your ipod back to your pc, it will then re-sync the ipod and remove the unticked tracks.

[sqad617]

Soul driver is spot on. Delete what you do not want on your PC and then connect your ipod. What is on your PC will then be on your iPod, conversely, what is not on your PC will not be on your iPod.

[Scarlett]

Thanks. I am still confused as to how to get my playlists onto the ipod though. They are on itunes but do not appear on my ipod when plugged in.

[squirtle]

If you have put the songs into the playlist then you need to put a tick next to the relevant playlist and then sync the iPod.

[Scarlett]

squirtle- where should I put a tick? I can't see anywhere to put a click next to playlists!

[sqad617]

On the left of PC itunes page is a list with LIBRARY, under which is MUSIC, MOVIES, TV SHOWS etc. Click on MUSIC and all your library songs will come up. Left of each is a liitle square..tick the songs that you want and untick the songs that you don't. Now atttach your itunes player, wait until it says CONNECT and then bingo.

[Scarlett]

Yes, I did this, and I have all the songs on my ipod in alphabetical order. But they used to be organised in playlists on my ipod, and now they're not! ie- I could listen to a whole album. Now I can only listen to random songs. Any ideas?

[sqad617]

Gettin back to your PC, are your playlists organized i.e I presume you have songs in your playlists on yr PC?

[Scarlett]

Yes, on my itunes my songs are organised in playlists. Not all, but some. It used to be that my playlists would also be on my ipod, so I know it does work. But when I got too many songs on the ipod, the playlists vanished. Even though I have removed half the songs, I still don't have the playlists on my ipod.

[sqad617]

Sorry mate, cannot suggest anything else.

[squirtle]

when you connect your iPod it comes up on the left as your name or whatever you've called it so i just click on that, then when the main screen comes on with the different tabs at the top saying video / music/ podcasts...etc etc click on the music tab then put a tick next to select certain songs (as in not the box that says sync all songs) then scroll down in the box and put a tick next to relevant playlist then click on apply at the bottom right of the screen.

This is how i do it as i have my iPod to only sync manually selected songs/playlists and not automatically as i switch it on.

Does this make sense? And if you have done this and it doesn't work then i really don't know why it won't do it.

Hope this is of some use to you. Keep trying.

[Scarlett]

Thanks for helping me! I went to the Music tab and you have two choices:

All songs and playlists
or
Selected playlists

I want to have on my ipod, all the songs I have ticked, as well as a couple of playlists. Am I right in thinking that this only allows you to have EVERY song in your itunes as well as playlists, OR just playlists? Or am I missing something?!

[Scarlett]

HURRAH! Have sorted it- thank you so much for all your help! x x x