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Much easier way to do it
Authored by: Stereo on Mar 25, '03 09:52:52AM

Open iTunes, create a new playlist. Drag all the files you want to sort to that playlist. To make sorting easier, you can give the songs you don't want to keep a one star rating, which you can do by ctrl-clicking on the iTunes icon in the dock. If you sort the playlist by rating, all the unwanted songs will be grouped at the top. Select the songs you don't want.

Now here's the interesting part. Press alt-delete to delete the song not only from the playlist, but also from your library. iTunes will display a dialog asking whether you want to remove these items.

Once that is done, you can choose Consolidate Library from the Advanced menu to copy all the files the library contains to your iTunes Music folder. You can then delete the folder containing all the songs you had dragged to the playlist, and the playlist itself.



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