Songs not visible on computer

Using iTunes 6.0.1, I imported a couple of CDs to my new 30mb Video iPod on a Mac G4/500 using OS10.3.9. They show up on the iPod under "albums" and sometimes "artists", but the albums do not show up in iTunes on my computer at all! I have it set up so the iPod will mount like a hard drive thinking I can simply move things around with folders and so on as I have been doing on Macs for the last 18 years. When I open the iPod icon, however, there is nothing there that I recognize. Very strange. The playlist concept thing makes no sense to me since I have mostly CDs and tapes that I'm importing. I'd like to rename them as such (I've never purchaced a "playlist" in a store.) So does anyone know: 1.) how to get albums that are on an iPod to appear in iTunes and 2.) how to make the iPod behave like a simple hard drive (which it is) if it is possible? thanks in advance.
Mike12

Using iTunes 6.0.1, I imported a couple of CDs to my new 30mb Video iPod on a Mac G4/500 using OS10.3.9. They show up on the iPod under "albums" and sometimes "artists", but the albums do not show up in iTunes on my computer at all!
You first import into iTunes.
Then you use iTunes to sync them to the iPod.
In teh Source at the left side of iTUnes, make sure you have Library selected.
You do not need to have the iPod connected at all to use iTunes and import songs.
I have it set up so the iPod will mount like a hard drive thinking I can simply move things around with folders and so on as I have been doing on Macs for the last 18 years.[]/b]
You can. And it works just like a hard drive. But in order to play the songs files on the iPod hard drive, you have to let the iPod/iTunes manage the files.
If you want to drag the songs from your computer onto the iPod and play them, it won't work.
The iPod operating system has it's own way of importing/organizing the files.
The playlist concept thing makes no sense to me since I have mostly CDs and tapes that I'm importing.
It's very simple. All the songs are in the library.
A playlist is simply a file containing the names of the songs.
This allows you to use the same song file in many different playlists (Favorites, Most Played, 5 Stars, etc) without having the song duplicated.
how to get albums that are on an iPod to appear in iTunes
They need to be in iTunes in order to get them onto the iPod. Select Library in the Source panel.
how to make the iPod behave like a simple hard drive (which it is) if it is possible?
It is behaving as a simple hard drive. You are dragging files to it and they are going there. Connect it to another computer and drag the files off the iPod onto the computer.

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