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I have this exact same problem on google music. They give you tons of free pop stuff and I HATE almost all of it. There's no way that I have discovered to remove it from your library either (at least from the phone's interface). This prevents me from shuffling all the songs in my library because 90% of them are shit pop songs I don't like.

Edit:

It appears you can remove songs one at a time. But you cannot remove entire albums Google has added to your library. see: http://imgur.com/a/CrsKN

It appears you CAN do this from the website.

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I just checked this because it seemed odd to me, and on my phone, I can go to My Library -> Songs -> 3 dot menu next to the song -> Delete.

With the web interface you can mass delete as well.

Edit: I also don't recall getting any free pop stuff, maybe it's related to having the

"Keep me up to date with news and offers from Google Play Music All Access"

option unchecked in my settings?

Thanks for the tip! It appears you have to remove them song by song. I was trying to do it per artist/album. Song by song is a huge pain in the ass. Especially when they've added literally dozens of albums to my library for free.

If you view the album where it gives you the tracklist of songs, you can delete them from there as well. Still more of a pain than deleting the whole album in one move, but easier than searching through every song in your library.

Edit since HN won't let me reply:

I see a "Remove from library" in your screenshot, which I assume does the same.(Edit 2: Didn't realize there were 2 images, so I'm wrong there) And I've never had anything appear in my library that I didn't add, so I cant really check, but you seem to be correct, since I have the same menu as I do in "Songs"

Edit again:

That looks like the menu I get when I hit the album's menu button, here's what I get when I hit the one next to the song while viewing the album:

http://imgur.com/OzkhnDn

but that isn't a Google-added one, so ymmv. (However the web interface lets you delete entire albums at once, so I'm not sure why you can't in the app.)

I don't have this option for the albums I didn't add myself. I think that may be only for albums you have added yourself. See the following link:

http://imgur.com/a/CrsKN

Go to my library->albums open one that you didn't add yourself and you will see that there is no option to remove it.

I have Google Music All Access and I've never experienced Google plopping songs/albums in my library that I didn't explicitly request.

How is this happening to you?

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. Only thing it does is suggest albums based on my listening habits or if it's new releases by artists in my library.

I am also a subscriber. It's just always been there in my library. tons of crap from kanye, john mayer, xzibit etc.. I think I've finally got most of it cleared out. It's taken me two hours to delete everything they added via the web interface.

Have you perhaps logged in with a Nexus device? I know that my Nexus 7 (2012) came with quite a bit of free media to promote the recent redo of Google Music, Google Play TV/Movies, etc.

yes. maybe that's it. I've had a galaxy nexus, a nexus 5, and two nexus 7s.

Wow, that's really weird to hear. Google's never done that to me.

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