Need to selectively update Ipod - help

I'm trying to add new songs to my Ipod without deleting my old ones. I lost many of the originals when I reformatted my hard drive, so I don't want to replace the entire library on my Ipod with the Itunes library that's currently on my mac, but would like to be able to add some new songs.
Can anyone help?

How you delete songs depends on how you are syncing them to the nano. To check this, connect the iPod, go to preferences, go to the iPod tab and check which sync option is selected.
Manual Sync
To delete songs in manual sync is easy. Connect the ipod, wait for it to show in iTunes source list. Click the iPod in the source list, find the songs you wish to delete, hightlight them, right click them and go to clear, or highlight and hit the delete key on the keyboard.
Automatic Sync (all)
This is slightly more complicated. The easiest way is to connect the iPod, go to Preferences, iPod tab, and select "Upload checked songs only". Disconnect the iPod and go through the library in iTunes, unchecking the little boxes of songs that you do not wish to sync to the iPod. Then, reconnect the iPod and it wil only sync the checked songs. To add/delete at a later date, simply check/uncheck the songs.
Alternatively you can delete the songs from you iTunes library/computer by highlighting them in the iTunes library, right clicking, and going to clear.However, this method can be a bit risky as you then have no backup if something should go wrong on the iPod.
Automatic Sync (playlists)
To delete songs when set to automatically update selected songs and playlists, remove the songs from the playlist (highlight the playlist in iTunes, highlight the songs and go to clear or hit delete.) This does not delete the songs from your library as a whole, only from the playlists. Update the iPod and the cleared songs will be removed.
Add new songs to the playlist and update to get them back on the iPod.
Hope this helps
P.S. Next time, try to creae your own post instead of tagging onto someone elses. It lets more people see your problem, getting you help more quickly.Also,if you get a solution,it lets people who may have the same or a similar problem see what you did to solve yours.

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