Drag and drop music in iTunes not working

Hi all,
I am having problems dragging and dropping music in iTunes from my media library to my iPhone music library. The only possible way to import music is to sync playlists (which I hate doing). Does anybody else have this problem?
Thanks!

You need to make sure that your settings allow you to manually manage music. I believe it is a check box on the main settings page for your iPhone.

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I took the tick out of "Share my library on my local network"
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Closed iTunes/
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I went back into Edit, Preferences, Sharing and put the tick back and clicked OK.
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Let's start over... tell us exactly what has been done.

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