Managing a Big iTunes Library with many iPods, iPad

I have quite a large iTunes Library of about 800 GB (2 700 music albums in Apple Lossless). This is much larger than what one iPod Classic can take. So I change my selections manually once a while. Recently, I bought another iPod Classic and I will do so with an iPad Air soon. I want to have different albums selection for each device from my unique library.
I did not find any formal information how to manage this situation. When I will connect my new iPod Classic (without automatic sync), will I be invited to make new albums selection (that are different from those of my former iPod Classic) ? In clear, I have around 500 albums in Apple Lossless on my former iPod Classic. Let say I would like to have a completely different albums selection (of around 500 albums) from my large library on my new iPod Classic.
I hope that I have been comprehensible enough. This information is very important for me to pursue my goal of introducing new music to a lot of people.

Probably the easiest way would be to have two seperate playlists. One playlist be named something like "iPod 1" and the other would be "iPod 2". Each playlist would have a different set of 500 albums. Then you would only sync the iPod with it's appropriate playlist.

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