In short, my advice is to subscribe to iTunesU feeds as podcasts. In other words, take the url to the feed and subscribe to it as a podcast and NOT by simply choosing 'subscribe' when in iTunesU. The files will show up in your podcast list and not under the iTunesU category. In addition, as you copy them to your iPod, the files will be considered podcast files and as a consequence can be deleted whenever you wish (which is not so easy for iTunesU files, in case you have a 4th generation iPod or older).
If you do not know the iTunesU feed URL, you can figure it out by temporarily subscribing through iTunesU. Interrupt the download and go to the course in your iTunesU collection. Right-click the course and choose Copy iTunesU URL. This will copy the URL to your clipboard so that you can delete the iTunesU course and continue to the iTunes Menu Advanced | Subscribe to podcast... and then paste into the text field, followed by OK.
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Thanks for you interest in this subject, but can you explain more on how to get the URL, i can't find the subscirbe button, under "library" in itunes there's no itunes u ... :/
In order to get to this point, you will have to enter the iTunes Store. In the Store you can select iTunesU and search courses to your heart's content. When you look at one of them specific, you will have a subscribe button.
So it is from the store that you subscribe. Only when you have one or more subscriptions to iTunesU courses, iTunes will add an iTunesU section right under the podcast section.
Thanks for this - I have converted the iTunes U files on my computer to podcasts, so I can add and delete them easily; however, I am still unable to remove the iTunes U files that were already on my iPod Touch.
iTunes will not let me change the file type from iTunes U, and I cannot locate the sound files other than through iTunes. The sync option doesn't seem to do anything either. I don't want to reset the iPod, because it has loads of music on it that I cannot copy onto iTunes.
Any ideas?
Yeah, that is the problem: how to get rid of the files that are already there and which iTunes won't let you recategorize. And you do not want to reset, as that will mess up the pod completely.
I see two options here. One is to synchronize. I know you have already tried it, but it must work. Subscribe anew to the iTunesU feeds from which you have legacy content on your pod. Carefully select the files that are on the pod and set them to be unplayed / unwatched (set the content to unplayed / unwatched also on your iPod Touch if you can). Then set your iTunes to synchronize with pod and remove played / watched content. Change the content to played / watched on pod and synchronize. iTunes should remove it - I see no reason why it would not.
The other option is to use the file system method. If necessary, make sure you have the same iTunesU content on PC so that you can study the exact size of its files. Then open the pod in the file system of the Operating System open the (hidden) folder \iPod_Control\Music and patiently study the files that sit there and ferret the iTunes files out by date and size. Delete them and eject the pod.
The scary part is the resetting. What you will want now, is what is technically termed a 'soft' reset. One that maintains the files on the pod (your music you are attached to) and the personalized settings, but rearranges the pointers. WHat I advice you to do, is to perform no reset unless you have to. Just ignore those iTunes\U files that the pod 'thinks' are still on the device - they are no longer there, you know it, you deleted them yourself. You are just looking at the pointers, the indexes. If you are lucky, the pod loses them all by itself, if not, it will at some moment in time give you some indicator you have to do a soft reset - mostly this is a freeze, or a blank screen. If you cannot simply turn on and off the pod, do the long push on, simultaneously, menu and center. The pod will reset, but only softly. After this, all is well.
From now on, only subscribe to iTunesU by catching the feed URL and subscribe to it as a podcast.
good luck, let me know how you fare
guys, i can delete the itunesu files. im just too busy for long ex´lanations now that i hope you can manage to do it with a poor explanation. it fallows:
first you go to you ipod driver on your computer. im my case is drive E:
then you open it and search for 'mp3'. in my case - win 7 - i just have to type it in a box in the top of the window.
then, after some seconds, all mp3 files you have on you ipod will appear.
now you select the option on the top which allows one to organize the files by the author's name. in my case is 'paul h. fry'. you can check the author's name on your ipod itself
you select all of them and then you delete them with joy on our hearts
anne please reformulate my explanation, for it works and i have no time now to organize my thoughts
hope i help
Matheus
I found another method: using Winamp from Windows PC, do a search for all "iTunes U" files and then delete them. Pretty easy but will not work from MacOS because winamp not available there
Try swiping the lecture image with your finger. A delete box appears.
for swiping you need to have iPod Touch. The previous Nano's do not have a delete option
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