Playlist Created by User Auto Sync Fear

160g classic. i set up the computer and did auto-sync. afterward, i wanted to clean up the library, so i disabled auto-sync. i have since created a playlist on the ipod and put music to it. now i want to auto-sync the ipod, but am afraid that if i do, i will lose the playlist. it states that all information will be erased. does this include the playlist i created? all the documents i find are about the smart playlists, but not about the ones created by the user. please help. i would like to return to auto-sync, but not have wasted hours putting my playlist together. thanks!

If you return to auto-sync, the playlist will be removed from the iPod but the songs in the playlist will not be removed from the iPod as long as they are in your iTunes library.
To preserve the playlist, what you might do before changing back to auto-sync is to add the new playlist to the On The Go (OTG) playlist -- highlight your playlist's name and press the center button until it flashes. Check to see that your playlist was added to the OTG playlist. You might want to go into the OTG playlist and save it. When you return to auto-sync, the saved OTG playlist should be copied into your iTunes library, at which point you can simply re-name the playlist. There is a bit of unknown here -- normally when you're starting out in auto-sync mode and you create an OTG playlist, the OTG list is copied into iTunes on your next sync. But since your iPod is currently in manual mode, +the OTG playlist may get erased even though you've taken the extra step of saving it on the iPod+.
Another option may be to connect your iPod to iTunes and leave it in manual mode. Then hightlight all the songs in your playlist and copy them and paste the data into a spreadsheet (like Excel). That way you at least have a list to manually re-create the playlist if the above suggestion fails.

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