Looking to turn your holiday music off, but don't want to spend an hour clicking and scrolling through your iTunes library?
If you have an extensive collection of holiday songs in your iTunes library like I do (750 and counting) and it's time to turn the cheer off, here's an easy way to do it.
Assuming you have the songs all listed as 'Holiday,' do a search in iTunes for 'holiday.'
That will bring up only those songs. Select all of the songs found, then hold the Command button and click in the check box of any song. This will deselect ALL of them. Clear the search and you have your total library back, with Bing, Nat and the MacKenzie Brothers taking a well-earned rest. No more 'Grandma got run over by a Reindeer' till next Christmas!
[crarko adds: Simple but effective. Judicious use of playlists can accomplish the same feat.]
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