Why does my ipod not show up under my mac devices?

When I go under devices on the finder list my ipod does not show up. I have restarted my mac and reconnected the ipod to both usb ports and it still doesn't show up . It does however show up under itunes, which doesn't help as I want to manually sync music from ipod to mac? unless there is another way of syncing music to itunes without having my exsisting music in itunes mix with the music on the ipod ?

That is normal. the iPod does not appear in Finder.
The only way to sync music is via iTunes.

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