How do I remove Liars tracks from iTunes without actually deleting them?

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It's embarassing when Liars songs come on at work. I know, I know, I should just delete them, but I'm a sentimentalist and might want to revisit those mp3s from that first album in a couple years.

so if I highlight then delete them, does ut just remove or delete forever?

― RED HOOK Noize pwns Bushwick Trust Fund Babies (mookie wilson), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link

It should ask you if you want to put them in the trash or just delete them. If you check "trash" they will go there and get deleted when you empty the trash. If you say "delete from iTunes", it gets taken out of the interface but remains in your iTunes Library (Mac HD/Users/your name/iTunes/iTunes Music folder).

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

just highlight them and delete them or drag them from the iTunes list. they'll stay on your hard drive until you delete them directly from there too

― ken taylrr never her (ken taylrr), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

highlight - delete. just removes from iTunes, not off your computer.

ctrl (apple) + Delete sends file to trash. you will get a dialoge box asking if that's what you want.

iTunes-Help works great too! probably quicker.

― biz, Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't think sleeve uses a mac...

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Just un-checkmark them. They will still appear in your iTunes but they won't play.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link

If it was a regular song, you could simply delete it, then iTunes would ask you if you also want to delete them permanently and you could say no, thereby keeping the files but removing them from your playlist.

However...these are Liars songs, so how can you trust such a prompt? iTunes could say it's not going to remove them, but remove them anyway. Further, it could hide them in your playlist despite the fact that they are still actually there, and then when you least expect it, "Mr. You're On Fire Mr." comes blasting out of your speakers right after Olivia Newton-John's "Suddenly."

You have started a chain reaction of dishonesty by adding Liars songs to your iTunes playlist in the first place. I don't know what to tell you.

― J. Alston, Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

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delete [] ppLiars;

ACCESS VIOLATION!

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

if ya got v.5 or above, you can go to track info, go to options, and check the little box that says skip when shuffling w/out actually removing it from itunes

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

OR you could get over it and listen to the liars, duh!

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link

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