How to manage music on new 7th gen ipod?

Just got a new 7th gen ipod and I'm trying to manage music on my MacBook Pro (2 years old).  All music seems to be greyed out on the ipod.  What's the reason?

The music is grayed out because your iPod is likely set up for automatic syncing with iTunes.  If you want to manually manage the iPod's contents, you'll need to enable the Manually manage music and videos option from under the iPod's Summary tab in iTunes.
B-rock

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