Scrapping tracks and was wondering...

DJ Life & Community General Discussion
1

Scrapping tracks and was wondering…

Finally began sifting through my tracks in iTunes, creating a playlist for the ones I’m scrapping. It’s much more than I expected (somewhere in the 500 mark). Is there an easy to delete these from my computer in one fell swoop? Aside from iTunes, I’d be deleting them from my music folder on my desktop and Rekordbox. Any suggestions are much appreciated. Thanks!

2

Select all the somgs in the playlist, and then hit delete or back space. iTunes will the ask if you want to remove them from your library, or completely from the computer. Click move to recycle bin, or move to trash (depending on what platform you are using), and you should find that they disappear. Hope this helps.

3

Sweet. And this applies to Rekordbox, as well?

4

In what way mate? Do you mean will it remove them from rekordbox, or do you mean does the same process apply?

5

I mean if they’ll also be removed in Rekordbox.

You called me “mate.” Cool. :thumbsup:

6

Unfortunately, I’m not sure, as I haven’t done this process I’m afraid. I would say probably not though, as you have to tell rekordbox what tracks to add, so i am guessing you will have to it what to delete as well.

7

when working in an iTunes playlist, I don’t think is the case. It will just delete the file from the playlist that was made.

I don’t use Rekordbox very often, but if you can see the playlist you created in Rekordbox, it may have an option to delete from Rekordbox + Delete file from HDD. I know Traktor has this option.

8

Sorry, my bad.

9

Friendly bunch us English lot :slight_smile:

10

no biggie. :sunglasses:

11

If you are on a mac idupe can remove from playlists.

Open it and just ignore the entire dupe scanning process and jump straight down to “ditto but also move media file to trash”.

Whatever is (un)checked in the playlist will be removed.

disclaimer run a test on a small sample first

12

Guess I’m gonna have to delete the tracks from iTunes AND my music folder. Just gonna remove all the tracks from Rekordbox and add them back in later. :rage:

13

You can delete songs from your main iTunes library and then it will ask you if you want to delete the local file as well.

14

I think this is only if the music file is in the actual iTunes folder. My tracks aren’t; they’re in a separate folder. Maybe I’m confused. Time will tell.

15

if you use option + command + delete, it will let you delete the file off your hard drive even if u are in a playlist - super handy!!

16

ohh word??? i didn’t know about this. i will give it a try when I get home. this will come in really handy.

thanks!

17

I had the same problem that you did, with iTunes, but not with Rekordbox.

I had a lot (A LOT)of different folders that I stored my tracks, but not within iTunes library, according to import date. So, each day had its folders, since I analyze according to import dates. But I had to delete tracks from iTunes and from the folders too. It was easy to do with a few tracks, but when I switched hard drives, I had to delete thousands of tracks and it became too hard.

What I did (kind of cumbersome work though):

  • Created a lot of playlists according to each genre and ratings - in case of some bug on the itunes library.
  • Imported every song to the iTunes media folder. It took sometime because of the amount of the songs.
  • Deleted the original folders. It kinda broke my heart, because of the organization I had was lost, but it’s ok.
  • On iTunes, changed the genre tag on the songs I wanted to delete (inside playlists) to xDeletex00 (or anything like that)
  • On the Music view, order all my songs on the genre column, and BAM, delete it.

20 gb of bad song selection gone! (i still have my backups though!)

18

Thanks for sharing this :slight_smile:

19

option + command + delete didn’t work for me. :cry:

20

actually, sorry, i think they changed it to…
option + delete (mac)

or

shift + backspace (pc)

does that work for ya?