I manually put music onto my iPod by dragging albums over from the library in iTunes. For some albums, I don't want all of the tracks to copy over to the iPod - for example, audio commentaries and dialog tracks. Short of deleting these tracks from my iTunes library, how can I prevent specific tracks from being copied over to the iPod when I place albums?
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I love the setting where you can only sync songs with the checkbox to one or more iOS devices.
Simple deselect the songs by plalist, genre, or as you find them and even if they are in a playlist or genius mix that would normally install the song on your device during a sync, iTunes will suppress those songs that are not check marked.
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Hmmm - this option is greyed out for me. Perhaps because I don't don't have "Sync Music" selected? (I just drag over stuff that I want.)– KatieKCommented Mar 26, 2012 at 5:31
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That's a great observation. I've honestly never tried that. You can have both sync music ( but select no playlists to sync ) and still retain your preferred method. Feel free to edit my answer to cover this case if you find it may help others.– bmike ♦Commented Mar 26, 2012 at 5:33
bmike's answer is correct; alternatively, you could select the album and hold ⌘ cmd while clicking the tracks you don't wish to copy. Then, drag the still-selected ones to the iPod.
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Nice bonus answer! I always forget about manually adding and this is a nice combination of selection tools and drag/drop.– bmike ♦Commented Mar 26, 2012 at 2:40