Delete Songs on iTunes by Date Added
Apple's iTunes is a great way to listen to and organize your music. You can view songs with a host of associated information. Any information that you can view in the library about your music is also a criterion by which you can sort the music. Sorting your music by different criteria makes it easy to edit the associated information or delete songs. One useful way to sort your music is by the date that you added it.
Instructions
1. Show the "Date Added" column. The date you added songs to your iTunes library may not be visible. Click the "View" dropdown menu. Then select the "View Options" choice from the dropdown. This will pop up a menu that allows you to select what sorting options you want available in your iTunes library. Tick the box next to "Date Added" and click "OK". The "Date Added" sorting field should now be available in your library.
2. Click the "Date Added" field. This sorts both from oldest to newest or newest to oldest. If the arrow is pointing up, then your songs are listed in the order in which they were added. If the arrow is pointing down, then your songs are displayed in the reverse order. Sort your songs by whichever is more convenient for the songs you wish to delete.
3. Find the date or dates of the songs that you wish to delete. Highlight all of the songs that you wish to delete from iTunes. You can delete multiple songs two ways. To select a large number of songs in a row, click the first song you wish to delete, hold down the shift key, and click the last song you wish to delete. To delete a large number of tracks not next to each other, click on tracks while holding the control button (in Windows) or the command button (in OS X).
4. Press the delete key. Deleting songs from iTunes is as simple as pressing the delete key on your computer. You will be prompted once to make sure you want to delete the songs, and again to make sure you want to delete the associated file on your hard drive.
