Ipod nano is messed up please help mee

Question

when i go to update my ipod and go to click on the songs in the ipod window, i cant.
when i try it with my shuffle, it works fine, i have to right click on my nano icon in the list on the list on the leftto update it. i cant even click on the music when im looking at the window with the songs on my ipod up
please help me
windows laptop   Windows XP  

Answer 1

If the iPod is set to automatically update, the songs are greyed out (because automatically updating means the songs in your library are the same ones on the iPod (for the most part)). Anything you would want to do with the song would have to be done in your iTunes library.
If you set the iPod to manually update, this is not the case, because the iPod and iTunes can have different songs.
Although there are ways to automatically update and have different songs, automatically updating is mainly for having the same, or similar libraries, on both your iPod and iTunes (so you can't access the songs on the iPod through the computer because they should be on the computer).
This is the way the transfer modes work. If the iPod is set to automatically update, the songs will be greyed out. Not much you can do.
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