Playing ipod music on itunes?

My friend played his ipod touch music on my itunes. I just got an ipod classic and i can't seem to do that. Why?

Your iPod is probably set to sync music automatically from your library. If you want to play the iPod songs through iTunes, delete songs from the iPod, drag songs from iTunes, add playlists to the iPod etc. you need to change the update setting to "manually manage songs and videos". The song list on the iPod Classic will change from grey to black and everything will be directly accessible through iTunes:
Managing content manually on iPod and iPhone
Syncing Music to iPod
Something to remember about using an iPod Classic in manual mode is that the "Do Not Disconnect" message will remain on the display until you physically eject the device: Safely Disconnect IPod

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