Any way to avoid ''Use itunes to restore"?

My grandaughter asked me to load some music on her eyepod. But it reads "Use itunes to  restore". Is there any way I can bypass the restore and add more music? Thank you.

The ring volume is seperate from the iPod or 3rd party apps volume. You can have these at seperate levels. As a test, I made sure the ringer volume is at 100%. I started playing a song and lowered the iPod volume to 50%. I stopped the song and checked the ringer volume which remained at 100%.
There is no lock setting for this. If you adjust the volume when not using the iPod or when not playing a 3rd party app, it will adjust the ringer volume.

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