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Deleting All Songs of a Certain Genre from my hard drive

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Is there a way to delete all songs of a certain genre from my hard drive?  I'm using Itunes, but I don't want to just delete it from the Itunes library, I want to delete all country music from my computer, and there are too many to do one by one.  Does anyone know of a method, or utilty, or batch program that will do this?  Any suggestions are appreciated.
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Question Asked By: CTSLA
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I just tried it with a few songs, and it didn't work as it worked for you.  When I delete the song within Itunes, it's still in it's original location on the hard drive and it plays fine.  It even puts itself back into the Itunes list when I play it from Windows Explorer.

When I delete a song, I get prompted with "Are you sure you want to remnove the  selected song from your Itunes library?  And that's it - I get no mention of being able to send it to the recycle bin, nor do I see an option in preferences to turn that feature on.

But I did just realize that the songs I tried deleting were not in my Itunes folder, but in a separate directory on the hard drive.  When I deleted a song in the Itunes directory, it did prompt for the recycle bin, and it did remove the file from my hard drive.  So I guess I need to move all my music files into the directory designated in the Itunes preferences, and that will give me the ability to delete from within Itunes.

Thank you all for your help.

 
 
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