Ipod icon in source list

Can I keep the ipod icon in the itunes source list - so that I can click on it and see details of my ipod library etc? when the ipod isn't connected to my computer? I could do this with my ipod shuffle, but with my nano it disappears when I disconnect.
Roy32

The list of songs iTunes displays when you click on an iPod shuffle in the source list are those songs iTunes has decided to transfer to the shuffle; you can tell the shuffle's actual contents by ignoring any entries which have a gray dot. This display will be updated when the iPod shuffle is connected to that copy of iTunes, but iTunes won't update it if songs on the shuffle are erased in other ways, such as by restoring it on another computer. The list is drawn from the iTunes records and not from the iPod shuffle's contents.
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