Listening to itunes while ipod is not connected

ok, i used to be able to listen to my music on itunes wihtout my ipod connected. But now none of my music is there!! i can connect my ipod to it to listen, but i cannot copy the playlists over to the computer. I found a file with all my music in it but i had to add each one idividualy, and now i can't organize it, it won't let me create a new folder with music in it or move the songs .... i am sooo frusterated :s

iTunes doesn't support playing back from iPod. Did you delete you library files for some reason?

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