CNET How to: Clean up iTunes using a Smart Playlist

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Learn how to create a playlist of iTunes media you never use and delete them from your computer in one step.

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if you're looking for some extra room on
your hard drive wanna be easiest places
the gym the fact is you're
iTunes library filled with music that
you never listen to not to mention old
podcast
TV shows movies and audiobooks in
today's how to an initially had to take
out the garbage
just a few quick steps didn't
dubbed
how you carve out all the right stuff of
feeding the media that you can't live
without
here's where smart playlist comes in
handy go to the File menu it's like new
smart playlist
if you're new to these smart playlist
automatically create a playlist based on
a set of rules
you can use in the cloud all the songs
from a particular artist all the albums
from the 80's
on this case all the music that you
never listen to
we're gonna make a smart playlist with
three rules
rule number one the media in this play
this will have been played less than two
times
rule number two any medium has been
skipped over more than five times
and room number three songs rated one or
two stars
because the probably won't be a lot of
things here that satisfy
all those requirements go to the top of
the window in change match
all to match any then hit OK
now you have a playlist filled with all
the bad ignored or frequently skid media
in your iTunes library
if you don't see much you can right
click on the player since like
added and adjust members the pole and
more media another trick is to right
click the column headers and add a
column for size
that you can sort by file size: and
delete the big stuff first
the problem is if you ever tried to
leave the song from
iTunes playlist you probably noticed
that it just delete the song from The
Playlist
and not from your computer smart
playlist the delete key is basically
useless
said he had no manual control over the
list unless of course
you know this trick this keyboard
shortcut comes to us from our friends
over Lifehacker
it turns out that you can delete iTunes
media from your computer directly from a
playlist by holding down the
option key on a Mac or pressing Delete
or Shift Delete
on Windows now I wouldn't new all the
media on this playlist without looking
to it first
there could be some important or
sentimental median they're worth holding
onto
really the place is just there to help
you get a handle on the dusty corners of
your iTunes library
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