Music view in iTunes

I would like to view the music that's on my iPod Classic (120GB) in the cover flow view from within iTunes, but I can't do so because the grid and cover flow options are grey-ed out. Why is that? Must I be stuck only viewing the music that's on my iPod in list view? Cover flow works fine for the iTunes library.

I don't think cover flow works looking at the iPod contents through iTunes.
Patrick

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