Manually Manage

1. Set to manually manage.

1. When you first get the iPod, load as many songs as possible into iTunes and load them into iPod.
2. Set iTunes to manually manage the iPod.
3. Optional: Make a smart playlist that will list new items since last iPod update
4. While auto-syncing requires no effort on your part, before long there’ll be something on the iPod that gets deleted during the sync process (because it got deleted in iTunes).