Displaying songs already on my ipod

I recently purchased my ipod nano and a friend put some songs on for me. I'd like to review that list of songs now so I can delete some if I want to. How do I display what is already on it so I can do that? When I click on any of the playlists in the source area nothing comes up.

Well if you set the Nano to manually update, you can then delete selected songs from it. Likewise you will also have to manually add stuff onto the iPod. If you switch to auto updating, songs on the iPod that are NOT in iTunes will get deleted.
Managing content manually on iPod
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61148
If you prefer auto updating, then you want to move those songs from the iPod into iTunes using a third party application, then delete the ones you do not like...
Copying from iPod to Computer threads...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=776996&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=805256&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=797432

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