Unable to manually manage music on more than one computer

Recently i had some problems with my iphone so i decided to delete all the music and start over again, i enabled the manually manage music in my work pc and then drag and drop my songs into the iphone library, all happened fine, then when i got home i connected my iphone to my laptop and i noticed that the manually manage music are unchecked and my iphone´s library dont allow me to add or delete songs! do anyone knows what´s the problem? i have the same itunes version wich is the latest on both computers, this is the 11.1.3.8
I will appreciate any help!

If you have iTunes on your work computer, it IS possible, I'm just not sure if it's possible with a shuffle. :/ I don't have one.
What you'd do with a 'regular' iPod is turn it to manual, then you can access/play the music from iTunes.
You may want to check the shuffle forum to see if it's possible with that particular iPod.
Good luck!

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