Note: When you manage songs and video yourself, you must always eject iPod from iTunes before you disconnect it.
To add a song, video, or other item to iPod:
1In the iTunes Source pane, click Music or another Library item.
2Drag a song or other item to the iPod icon in the Source pane.
To remove a song, video, or other item from iPod:
1In iTunes, select iPod in the Source pane.
2Select a song or other item on iPod and press the Delete or Backspace key on your keyboard.
If you manually remove a song or other item from iPod, it is not deleted from your iTunes library.
To make a new playlist on iPod:
1In iTunes, select iPod in the Source pane, and then click the Add (+) button or choose File > New Playlist.
2Type a name for the playlist.
3Click an item, such as Music, in the Library list, and then drag songs or other items to the playlist.
To add songs to or remove songs from a playlist on iPod:
mDrag a song to a playlist on iPod to add the song. Select a song in a playlist and press the Delete key on your keyboard to delete the song.
Loading Podcasts onto iPod
The settings for loading podcasts onto iPod are unrelated to the settings for loading songs. Podcast update settings don’t affect song update settings, and vice versa. You can set iTunes to automatically sync all or selected podcasts, or you can load podcasts onto iPod manually.
To set iTunes to update the podcasts on iPod automatically:
1Select iPod in the iTunes Source pane and click the Podcasts tab.
2In the Podcasts pane, select “Sync … podcast episodes” and choose the number of episodes you want in the
3Click “All podcasts” or “Selected podcasts.” If you click “Selected podcasts,” also select the podcasts in the list that you want to sync.
4Click Apply.
When you set iTunes to sync iPod podcasts automatically, iPod is updated each time you connect it to your computer.
Note: If “Only sync checked items” is selected in the Summary pane, iTunes syncs only items that are checked in your Podcasts and other libraries.
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