Trouble Creating New Playlists and Adding Music to iPhone 3GS

Just bought an iPhone 3GS and was manually adding songs to it the way I have with other iPods. No problems. Then, suddenly it wouldn't let me manually add any more songs. It's not a space issue since it's a 16 GB and I only put on about 1 GB of music.
Now, I can create new Playlists in iTunes, but I can't add any songs to them. I also tried adding songs to my old iPod, but that was a no-go as well. Every song I try to add just bounces back into iTunes. Any idea on what may have caused this?

Just re-installed the software and restarted my computer. It appears to be working again, for now.

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Hello timmyboylad,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
As a first step for troubleshooting this issue where you're unable to create a new playlist, please update your iPhone to iOS 8.3.
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