Help!! Askin about ITunes manual and auto manage!!

I was told by a friend that i could import my cd's, choose to manually update my library and not have to keep the albums (cd's) on my hard drive but yet still be able to have it in itunes and on my ipod, Is this true,,is it possible?? If so,,, some please explain!! -Thanks

You can do it but if you do you need to come up with some type of backup plan, Because when you have to restore the ipod due to some error/issue or you wipe the ipod blank (And the day will come) you will be screwed without backups on CD because you removed the files from the PC.
If you are wanting to do it due to limited harddrive space, you should think about buying a new internal harddrive or external harddrive.
That said, all you have to do (In iTUnes 7) is check "Manually manage songs" on the ipods summary page and hit "Apply" in the lower righthand corner. In this mode you manually drag songs (Or playlist) in iTUnes to the ipods name and drop it for it to be added to the ipod.
Once added to the ipod, Highlight the song in iTUnes library and hit the "Del" key on the keyboard

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