How can I stop iTunes from synchronizing titles that are already on my iPod?

iTunes synchronizes the same titles every time although they have not been changed and are already on my iPod. Is there a way to stop this? It costs a lot of time to synchronize every time... I use iTunes 11, iPod Touch 3G.

Yep. Don't manually manage.

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