Why Cant I Drag And Drop Music And Movies to My iPOD?

Why does Apple make this so hard? I dont want to sync, everytime I do I lose everything and I dont like keeping a separate folder with my tunes I like to listen to all the time and then I dont have the time to go through 50 gig of music to uncheck or check what I want on my ipod.... Why cant I just drag and drop to my Ipod? Why do I need itunes is there another way to get music and videos on my ipod other than itunes?

Also, I cant just look up what my ipod has on it all ready to delete some videos or music. It wants to sync up with my hard drive then it deletes everything.
Sorry but I am way confused on this. I was really used to my basic MP3 player where I have folders on my drive that I just drag and drop/delete as easy as that.

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    I used to be able to drop and drag inrto playlists. Now I get a message which says press + button to add, but there seems no way of doing it. I'm using windows 7

    Apple Support Communities updatesI’ve tried the control-I route and then tried to locate the file without success. What I get as a file location starts with //localhost/C:/Users. It may also be useful to know that most/all the missing files seem to have been copied from CDs. I can’t be sure if it’s all because the whole music file has nearly 9000 entries! The ones that still seem to work were copied from an external hard drive.
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                                    In some cases iTunes may be able to repair itself if you go through the same steps with Get Info but this time click Locate and browse to the lost track. It may then offer to attempt to automatically fix other broken links. Although it says something like "use the same location" it expects to find the tracks in the same artist & album layout that it generates, not all in one big folder.
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  • Why can't I drag and drop music from a folder on my PC into my iTunes window?

        Why can't I drag and drop music from a folder on my PC into my iTunes window?
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    Apple Application Support (iTunes 9 or later)
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    I had this problem on Windows 8.1.1 and iTunes 11.2.2.3
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  • Why cant i drag and drop movies into itunes?

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  • How do you drag and drop music into the latest version of ITunes?

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    You can choose what it searches and where

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  • Drag and drop music in iTunes not working

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    You need to make sure that your settings allow you to manually manage music. I believe it is a check box on the main settings page for your iPhone.

  • Drag and Drop music from itunes to iphone fail.

    When I attempt to drag and drop music from my itunes library to my iphone it no longer works.
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    You have to check the manually manage box in itunes:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535
    Here is a link to the manual as well:
    http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_UserGuide.pdf

  • Can't Drag and drop music into iphone

    Everytime i try to drag and drop music from my desktop onto the music area in itunes for my iphone ...it has this Black Cross-out sign it won't let me add any music to anywhere in itunes by dragging and dropping it...Before it let me do it!
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    It's already checked man (See Image Below)...Anything else to help?
    Image Below: This is what i get when i try to drag and drop

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