Can't drag songs from itunes to playlists

new 4th generation ipod nano won't let me drag my music from itunes into playlists.  My old 4th generation would, what is going on?

As far as I know you cannot drag & play from computer to iPods.  Read the instructions in - Adding and Deleting Songs and playlists from your iPod and iPod Manuals

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    This is weird.
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    Since I can not edit my own post I'll have to reply to myself... Sorry for the "spam" on the forums.
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    Apparently the Finder and iTunes don't play well together [enough] to prevent several files of the same name from appearing - in most OS's I've played with (Linux and Windows, in addition to other Apple & Mac OS's over the years) there's a mechanism for handling this... Windows just adds a number to the end the of the second (and all future occurring) file(s) of the same name - as does most Linux builds I've used... Apparently the Finder in OS X just doesn't do anything - at all - when it discovers this "name error."
    What I had to do (I was copying my Christmas music - do you know how many "Jingle Bells.mp3" files you can have?!) was make many folders or manually rename EACH FILE one by one so that others could be copied in the same place since the file name would always be JUST THE SONG NAME and the extension (and I do tend to keep my files in higher bitrate MP3 format for easier shuffling from OS to OS as I tend to use (in case you've not noticed) many different ones at any given time).
    So, try avoiding any songs with the same title (or altering the title in iTunes somehow), or make separate folders to keep the same song name files from being created in the same place; and see if that doesn't clear this problem up for you - it did for me. ^_^
    And sorry for being so "wordy" on this post. ^_^;

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    neither my ipad or ipod are being recognized by itunes so i can't transfer songs from itunes playlists to the two devices. this is new, as far as a week ago i transferred music from the computer to the ipod. can anyone help?

    Hey lightc,
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    iPhone, iPad, or iPod not recognized in iTunes for Windows
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    Brett L 

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    When I try to drag songs from my iTunes Library to create a playlist, nothing happens. The title appears to move but it has a 'cancelled circle' icon superimposed on it and nothing happens to the Playlist. It almost looks as if the Playlist is 'greyed out'??

    I have had this as well, since updating itunes and it is a normal playlist. I have been able to add 2 but all the others I have tried come up with the cancelled circle and it is very frustrating as I used to be able to create playlists and drag whatever I wanted into them!

  • Cant drag songs from itunes to ipod

    i have it set on manage music manualy

    This is a rather obvious question but are you using the iPod in manual mode? If it's updating automatically you can't drag songs to it. Also automatic is the default mode so if you restored it with the Updater that's the option that would be switched on. Are you getting any error messages?
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    The iPod offers three ways to transfer music from your computer. You can select one of the following update modes from the iPod Preferences menu in iTunes (Preferences>iPod>Music tab):
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    3) Manually manage songs and playlists. You can also choose to transfer music to the iPod manually. This allows you to drag and drop individual songs and playlists from iTunes to the iPod.

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