I can't delete music off my ipod

Question

I am trying to manage my music on my ipod touch, 4th gen. I have it set up for manual management on my itunes and after i sync my ipod my music tab for my ipod in itunes is gray and i cannot select anything. I have tried looking online for a solution but nothing has been helpful yet. I do have an update pending, the 6.1.5 update, does this need to be installed before I can manage my music? itunes match is also not on. Is there anything I can do, short of reseting my ipod?

Answer 1

The options on the Music tab are used with the Sync option, so I guess that's why they're greyed out to you. (I've never tried Manual Mangement.)
Manual management is usually not the best way to manage your iPod. If the iPod ever needs Restoring, you will have to manually add everything back onto the iPod afterwards. If you lose the iPod, or when you need to replace it with a newer one, again, everything you have "set up" will need to be manually added onto the replacement iPod.
Have you thought about managing the iPod using Sync (there's no such thing as "manual sync") and Sync only ticked songs and videos? With those options, simply unticking a song in iTunes will remove it from the iPod but keep it in your Library. Changes to songs (corrections to typing errors, revised genres etc.) are made in iTunes and the next Sync will reflect those changes on the iPod. (With manual management, the change either needs to be made twice - on the iPod and in the Library, or it requires removing a song from the iPod, making the changes in the Library and then putting the song back onto the iPod.)
If your Library is too large for the iPod, then by using Smart Playlists it's possible to keep songs, albums and artists on the iPod all the time, but automatically remove other songs (that you want to hear less often for example) and only putting them back after a set period of time, thereby reducing the space required on the iPod.