Can't drag songs to iPod Touch

Sometimes when I try to drag songs or albums to my ipod I'm not able to drag them. It acts as if I'm trying to rename the file. Drag just doesn't work. I have to restart iTunes to get is to work properly again. Am I doing something wrong?

Probably, if you set your iTunes to automatically manage music on you iPod, you won't be able to drag files manually into the iPod. To see your settings, click on your iPod's name, on the left bar, then choose "manually manage music and video" if you want to be able to drag files onto the touch

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