Edit iPod Touch Playlists on iPod itself?

Is there a way to edit regular playlists on iPod Touch itself, without going through iTunes?

Whilst I can appreciate your need, I believe that it would complicate the touch's interface for the vast majority of users. After all, it's essentially a playback device and Apple's philosophy of managing playlists on the far more capable desktop iTunes is a wise one.
Having said that, it would be nice if Apple provided a public API to the touch's iTunes playlists so that third party programmers could provide exactly this functionality, although I can see some potential pitfalls regarding re-syncing such modified playlists back to iTunes without messing things up. For example, Touch DJ is an excellent DJ-ing program somewhat hampered by the fact that it cannot access an existing iTunes library - you have to load music files into the app's own program space in order to use them. This naturally takes up more space than it really ought to.
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juliaakatrinaa wrote:
I don't have ALL of my music from my iPod in my iTunes library
There is the root of the problem.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1351

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