Apple releases U2 album removal tool

Re:Apple releases U2 album removal tool by gnarbarian on Monday September 15, 2014 @02:53PM (#8320664)

Thanks for the tip! It appears you have to remove them song by song. I was trying to do it per artist/album. Song by song is a huge pain in the ass. Especially when they've added literally dozens of albums to my library for free.

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Re:Apple releases U2 album removal tool by Tiksi on Monday September 15, 2014 @03:06PM (#8320764)

If you view the album where it gives you the tracklist of songs, you can delete them from there as well. Still more of a pain than deleting the whole album in one move, but easier than searching through every song in your library.

Edit since HN won't let me reply:

I see a "Remove from library" in your screenshot, which I assume does the same.(Edit 2: Didn't realize there were 2 images, so I'm wrong there) And I've never had anything appear in my library that I didn't add, so I cant really check, but you seem to be correct, since I have the same menu as I do in "Songs"

Edit again:

That looks like the menu I get when I hit the album's menu button, here's what I get when I hit the one next to the song while viewing the album:

http://imgur.com/OzkhnDn

but that isn't a Google-added one, so ymmv. (However the web interface lets you delete entire albums at once, so I'm not sure why you can't in the app.)

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Re:Apple releases U2 album removal tool by gnarbarian on Monday September 15, 2014 @03:20PM (#8320862)

I don't have this option for the albums I didn't add myself. I think that may be only for albums you have added yourself. See the following link:

http://imgur.com/a/CrsKN

Go to my library->albums open one that you didn't add yourself and you will see that there is no option to remove it.

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