I can't play the songs bought On iTunes. It will skip them and shuffle to the sync songs from computer.

The player skips o ley the songs bought On iTunes and plays the oler ones. Do you know if i need to set something?
Tks.

"The songs are just grey and i cant press them or anything. There is also a small black lock icon at the bottom of my iTunes"
Grey text when you look at the content and lock symbol at the bottom of the screen simply shows that your iPod is set to automatically update. If you want to access your iPod directly, play it through your iTunes, connect it to a second computer etc. you just need to change the update method to manual in the iPod preferences. For more detail see this tutorial: Managing content manually on iPod
One thing to be aware of with manually updating is that the iPod also has to be manually ejected before the "Do Not Disconnect" message will go away. Safely disconnect iPod

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