"On My Device" music view

Since upgrading to iTunes 12 on Yosemite I can't seem to manually manage music on my phone properly anymore ("Prevent iPods, iPhones and iPads from syncing automatically" is ticked in iTunes preferences).
When clicking on my phone and clicking on Music under "On My Device" I see all the tracks in a list view sorted by Title. I'd expect to be able to click on the bar at the top to sort by any of the other fields, but it does nothing (I want to sort by album so I can delete a whole one). Which brings me on to my second question - how do you delete files? I've tried right-clicking but there's no delete option and pressing delete but nothing happens.
Thanks,
Andy

Fixed it - as well as having the "Prevent iPods, iPhones and iPads from syncing automatically" option ticked, I also had to tick "Manually manage music and videos" and "Sync only checked songs and videos" on the summary page of the phone. Both sort and delete then worked as expected.

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