How to manually drag music from my itunes library to my ipod on mac?

Hi I have just purchased a mac, my itunes had previously been loaded onto my old PC and it was relatively easy for me to manually drag and drop my new purchases from my library into the sidebar which showed my Ipod and its playlists (I dont ike the automatic sync function as ive heard you can wipeout all your music this way). When I did this the synchonise 'wheel' would whir round on the ipod's screen and also as a little icon next to the playlist/folder I had dropped the song into. Now on my new mac all I seem to be able to do is autofill into my 'Music' folder on my Ipod but cannot drag new songs into particular playlists. It seems to view the ipod and my library as two seperate screens?? Did I not install it right? i presumed that logging into itunes and plugging in my ipod would be all I need to do. All my songs are there but I cannot interchange music from my library into my ipod playlists. Can anyone help?

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