How to remove songs from itunes library without deleting the songs from ipod shuffle when i hook it up to pc?
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By default, your itunes library is a mirror image of your iPod...so when you hook it up to your pc, it automatically updates...so to keep the songs on your iPod,  turn off automatic updating...it will make sure that when you hook up your iPod, the library wont update, and the songs on your ipod will stay the same...but,the only way to put songs on your iPod is to update the iPod again...which will delete the songs automatically...
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When you plug your iPod into the computer with the white cable iTunes should pop up.\nWhen you download your songs off of limewire,\nOn the top tabs they say search,monitor, and library.\nWhat you want to click when your song downloads are done.\nYou click on the library tab.\nAnd at the bottom of the screen is a EXPLORE button.\nWhat this should do is open a folder including your song files that you have recently downloaded.\nWhen you have the songs you want in that folder\nOpen those audio files up with iTunes\nWhen all your songs that was from the folder before is on iTunes\nThere should be a little mini Ipod icon.\nright click and there should be an option where it says \nUPDATE\nwhen you click that button.\nYour iPod screen comes up as\nDO NOT DISCONNECT.\nwait for your Ipod to finish updating all your songs.\n\n=D\nhope this helps.\n\n\nTo delete those songs.\nSimply open up iTunes\nand right click on the files you want to delete and hit clear or delete,\n\nYou can either do this step before you update your iPod.\nOr\nafter you delete the songs you dont like.\nUpdate your Ipod afterwards\n\n\n\nAnd there you go!
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Well, you should disable the Limewire player from playing the songs. You can do this in the preferences menu.\nThen all you have to do is to click the downloaded song and it will be added to your iTunes library.
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If you "uncheck" the songs you don't want to listen to in the main library, they shouldn't play or show up in a downloaded mix on your IPOD.
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you can convert it\n\nthe saved song will be saved in \n&#92;Documents and Settings&#92;<username>&#92;My Documents&#92;My Music&#92;iTunes&#92;iTunes Music&#92;\nand you can get it out of there ;)\n\nand also you can save songs from an ipod ..\ncheck the "show hidden files" option, the songs will be name like "XYDE.mp3" .. just drag the song in an mp3 player like itunes or winamp .. and it`ll show you the title
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sounds like you have some missing links. you'll need to reformat your player. you should have gotten instructions with the player, if not goto ipod support web page (you'll have to hold the play button while powering it on to get to a menu or something). once its reformated it'll be good as new. keep in mind reformating the player will erase all songs on it.
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1. Connect the iPod to your PC. If iTunes starts syncing (ie erasing) your music automatically, hit the X in the upper right hand corner of iTunes display, to the left of the search box, to stop it.\n\n2. In Control Panel, Portable Media Devices, double-click your iPod.\n\n3. In the Tools menu -> Options, in the View Tab, check “Show hidden files and folders.”\n\n4. Navigate to the Music folder. On my 2nd gen ‘pod, the full path is\nPortable Media Devices&#92;GINA’S IPOD (F:)&#92;iPod_Control&#92;Musi...\n\n5. Select all the music folders, and drag and drop them into a folder on your hard drive, or directly into iTunes.
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u gonna go to ur iTunes and click the "File" button which is on the top right and click add file to library.then u connect ur iPod wif the PC and finally u ll haf ur songs on the iPod =]
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You put the free iTunes software from Apple on your computer (Mac or Windows).  Then you either buy songs from the iTunes Music Store, download them from another site, or put your own CDs in your computer and import them to iTunes.  Now you have a library of songs in iTunes.  Finally, you plug your iPod into your computer, and you can copy the songs from your iTunes library to your iPod.
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you have to use iTunes with iPods.\n\ntry restarting the computer, or if that fails uninstall itunes and reinstall it.
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uncheck them! You will still see them but they won't play.\nThrow them all into a folder.\n\nor my 13 year old son just said that you can delete them from your playlist but opt to keep the files , not move them to the trash. iTunes 7.0.2
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"Restart the pc in safe mode (tap F8 when rebooting-right before the windows logo comes up) and then login and delete it that way. Simple." <--Guy before me\n\n\n...then go under the start menu and click Run. Type in "C:&#92;Program Files." Oce you're in, locate the iTunes folder. Right click it, go on PROPERTIES, then go on the SECURITY tab. Go to the ADVANCED tab, and change the ownership of that folder to your account's name.\n\nSee, when you wrest ownership of that file from the system or another program, it's yours. You can do whatever you want to it no matter what the system things.\n\nEven delete it.
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not if you upgrade the itunes  it wont.  The songs should be fine either way,  you will just have to re import them.
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Check this out ... Extract from\nhttp://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=159372&start=0&tstart=0\nOption 1:\nAssuming you're moving files legally between your own computers, check out iPodAgent at http://www.ipodsoft.com/\n________________________________\nOption 2:\nThe manual way around this problem is to use the iPod in its alter ego - that of portable computer disk drive. Successfully tested under iTunes for Windows 4.2, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7; Windows XP Home.\n\n- Start with the iPod disconnected from the computer - DON'T CONNECT IPOD YET\n- open iTunes\n- open iTunes Preferences - this blocks iTunes from seeing an iPod connection; leave the preferences window up and running\n- connect the iPod to the computer, wait about 15 seconds before continuing\n- open 'My Computer'\n- Tools menu, Folder Options, View tab, enable 'show hidden files /folders'\n- open iPod icon in My Computer\n- open iPod_Control folder\n- you should see a folder named Music\n- drag this folder to somewhere on your computer hard drive\n- after the copy completes, right-click the new Music folder on your hard drive and select 'Properties'\n- clear the checkmark next to 'Hidden'\n- Close that explorer window\n- eject iPod from System tray "Safely Remove Hardware" icon. This icon looks like a small gray rectangle with a green arrow floating above it. It's only there when a removable device (like the iPod in this case) is attached to the computer. Right-click & select 'Safely remove..', then click 'Stop' in the next window, OK in the next window, and then Close to complete the ejection.\n- disconnect the iPod from the computer\n\n- go back to iTunes, cancel the preferences window\n- File menu &#92; Add folder to Library &#92; find that Music folder copied over from the iPod\n\nYour iTunes library should be back in action! But wait - there's more!!\n\nLong time forum regular Otto42 has a java script/program that can also retrieve the playlists themselves from the iPod as well. Here are his instructions and a link to the most recent thread discussing this tricky process:\n\n] This is really useful when you're pulling all the songs off of an iPod to put them back into iTunes, because you lost your library or anything along those lines. Come up with your own reason for using it.\n\n] Download this program:\nhttp://otto.homedns.org:8888/iTunes/iPodGetXML.zip \n(If you can't download it, try again later. The connection goes up and down a lot.)\n\n] Now, put the iPod into Disk Mode or otherwise access the iPod as a drive. Make sure you can see hidden files, then go to the drive and the iPod_Control folder and find the iTunesDB file. Copy it to your PC.\n\n] Put the copied iTunesDB file in the same directory as this program, then run the program. It'll read the iTunesDB, get all the playlists, and create an XML file for each one. Now just import those XML files into iTunes to recreate the playlists.\n\n] Notes:\n- The songs in playlist must already be in the iTunes library. If any one of them isn't there, iTunes throws up an error when you try to import the XML file.\n- The song names, artist names, and album names in the library all must be identical as to what the iPod has. If you just copied all the music off the iPod and into iTunes, this will be the case, so it's generally not a big deal. but you'll get an error if it can't find the song in the iTunes library, so it's something to keep in mind.\n- It probably won't be able to cope with unusual characters in song names. Sorry, not worth my time to fix. Dealing with unicode is way annoying.\n- Smart Playlists get changed into regular playlists. It's *possible* for me to add the smart playlist stuff in there, but it'll take a while to work it all out.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nOriginal thread for Otto42's playlist recovery: http:
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Good question.\n\nI think it depends on your settings in iTunes Preferences. If you are just playing a song on iTunes, without the program creating a copy of the original to the iTunes music folder, and you delete the original, you will lose the song. Check your settings to see if you are automatically creating duplicate audio files when you import.\n\nGood luck!
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i tunes can search for duplicate songs and eliminate them
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Delete the songs from your playlist, connect your iPOD, then if it doesn't automatically update itself, do it manually.