What if I want to remove a song (or artists, or albums, etc) from my library but still want to keep them in a playlist?

I already know the answer to this, and the answer is really dispopointing. You can't. You have to remove the song/s from your library, which will remove them from all playlists. You then have to put them back in. I find this to be a massive oversight on apple's part. They obviously saw the value of being able to separate one's library from playlists, but then made the concept somewhat dysfunctional by not giving us the ability to remove songs from our library as we please... I can think of a few (time consuming) work arounds, but they're pretty annoying.

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Posted on Aug 2, 2023 02:46 PM

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Posted on Feb 16, 2024 04:10 PM

This upsets me because I love listening to music and it’s over 3,000 songs in my playlist. Deleting them from my library and having to re add them is irritating…all the songs are in an order to me that I remember and want them to be in😭.

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Aug 2, 2023 03:41 PM in response to musiclovesmoore

musiclovesmoore wrote:

I already know the answer to this, and the answer is really dispopointing. You can't. You have to remove the song/s from your library, which will remove them from all playlists. You then have to put them back in. I find this to be a massive oversight on apple's part. They obviously saw the value of being able to separate one's library from playlists, but then made the concept somewhat dysfunctional by not giving us the ability to remove songs from our library as we please... I can think of a few (time consuming) work arounds, but they're pretty annoying.

Songs in your playlist points back to the music library, it doesn't move it to the playlist.

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What if I want to remove a song (or artists, or albums, etc) from my library but still want to keep them in a playlist?

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