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From: John Varela on 2 Aug 2010 16:55
Is there any way to delete a Genre from iTunes? I have inadvertantly
created some dupes, and many of the existing default genres will
never be used by me. I'd like to get rid of them.

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John Varela
From: Gerry on 2 Aug 2010 17:11
In article <51W5y0sPNk52-pn2-hdBvFJOpLIh2(a)localhost>,
"John Varela" <newlamps(a)verizon.net> wrote:

> Is there any way to delete a Genre from iTunes? I have inadvertantly
> created some dupes, and many of the existing default genres will
> never be used by me. I'd like to get rid of them.

No, they are part of the iTunes app.

What do you mean by "inadvertantly [sic] created some dupes"?
From: Richard Maine on 2 Aug 2010 17:54
Gerry <everyday(a)sunrise.net> wrote:

> In article <51W5y0sPNk52-pn2-hdBvFJOpLIh2(a)localhost>,
> "John Varela" <newlamps(a)verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to delete a Genre from iTunes? I have inadvertantly
> > created some dupes, and many of the existing default genres will
> > never be used by me. I'd like to get rid of them.
>
> No, they are part of the iTunes app.
>
> What do you mean by "inadvertantly [sic] created some dupes"?

Well, the default list might be part of the iTunes app and there might
be no way to delete items from it. I'm not sure of that part (though I'd
be interested in the answer - if I was more confident of its accuracy,
because I'll never use most of them).

But you can create your own genres. Searching on "genre" in iTunes help
explicitly mentions how. Indeed, when I look at the list of available
genres for a song, "custom" is one of them, as the help suggests, and it
allows me to start typing in an arbitrary name. It seems fairly evident
to me that one could easily create duplicates that way. Darned if I'm
about to try the last step of hitting return and actually creating such
a duplicate, because then I'd end up in the same situation as the OP....
and if there really wasn't a way to fix it, then I'd be annoyed.

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Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience;
email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment.
domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: Erilar on 3 Aug 2010 17:49
Richard Maine <nospam(a)see.signature> wrote:
> Gerry <everyday(a)sunrise.net> wrote:
>
>> In article <51W5y0sPNk52-pn2-hdBvFJOpLIh2(a)localhost>,
>> "John Varela" <newlamps(a)verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any way to delete a Genre from iTunes? I have inadvertantly
>>> created some dupes, and many of the existing default genres will
>>> never be used by me. I'd like to get rid of them.
>>
>> No, they are part of the iTunes app.
>>
>> What do you mean by "inadvertantly [sic] created some dupes"?

I was wondering the same thing 8-)

>
> Well, the default list might be part of the iTunes app and there might
> be no way to delete items from it. I'm not sure of that part (though
> I'd
> be interested in the answer - if I was more confident of its accuracy,
> because I'll never use most of them).
>
> But you can create your own genres. Searching on "genre" in iTunes
> help
> explicitly mentions how. Indeed, when I look at the list of available
> genres for a song, "custom" is one of them, as the help suggests, and
> it
> allows me to start typing in an arbitrary name. It seems fairly
> evident
> to me that one could easily create duplicates that way. Darned if I'm
> about to try the last step of hitting return and actually creating
> such
> a duplicate, because then I'd end up in the same situation as the
> OP....
> and if there really wasn't a way to fix it, then I'd be annoyed.

I've been using genres as an extra classification choice since I learned
all the ways I can access my music on my iPod. "classical violin" vs
"classical flute", etc.

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Erilar, biblioholic medievalist
From: John Varela on 3 Aug 2010 21:21
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 21:54:20 UTC, nospam(a)see.signature (Richard
Maine) wrote:

> But you can create your own genres. Searching on "genre" in iTunes help
> explicitly mentions how. Indeed, when I look at the list of available
> genres for a song, "custom" is one of them, as the help suggests, and it
> allows me to start typing in an arbitrary name. It seems fairly evident
> to me that one could easily create duplicates that way. Darned if I'm
> about to try the last step of hitting return and actually creating such
> a duplicate, because then I'd end up in the same situation as the OP....
> and if there really wasn't a way to fix it, then I'd be annoyed.

Exactly. "Gilbert & Sullivan" and "Children's Music" are among the
genres that appear twice in my list.

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John Varela
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