How to ADD NEW music to itouch?

When you're on the screen that has the iPod's capacity and how much space is left, select "Manually manage music and videos".

It doesn't work that way. You're not going to be able to add anything else to your ipod without deleting whats already on it. The contents of your ipod have to be synced from your computer, not vice versa. If a song is on your ipod that is not on your computer, itunes will delete the song from your ipod when synced.

It's a safety measure to keep people from sharing songs. Otherwise I could sync my ipod to your itunes and load up my ipod with your songs AND my songs.

Not music bought on itunes.

Dr. (If you are a doctor...)

Aside from that whole conversation above, what you are doing will, sooner or later, lead to extra stress in your life. The iPod was never intended as the primary storage device for your music. At some point you will lose it all. How can I say that with a straight face? Because in the troubleshooting tree for every single iPod error is the step "restore the iPod". Once you get to that point, all the music on the iPod will be deleted. And at that point it is unlikely you will be able to do a backup as the iPod is not responding.

Once it is restored, it will look to your iTunes library to repopulate itself...only to find no music there. Then you are back here in a foul mood moaning about how evil iTunes is and that Steve Jobs should be in jail, and that nothing is going to bring back Jericho on CBS. (well, you get the picture)

I'm asking you to prevent all that (except maybe the Jericho bit. It's done. CBS won't bring it back again). Please, please, please make a backup of your music. I'd love to say keep it on your computer, but I know that's a losing argument. Maybe pick up a cheap external drive? I got a 500GB USB for well under a hundred. Chump change next to what we all paid for our Touches. At least, burn all that music to DVDs. There are some great apps out there that can help you get the music off the iPod so you can do this.

Anything so what when you are faced with the dread restore you will be able to easily reload the iPod. Without spending hours waiting for your optical drive to re-process all the albums. Please?

So thats how its works!! So much drama. My itunes libary just said its damaged and i lost about 2000 songs leave about 1000. It saved the libary(damaged) but with only 1000 songs left. Why and where has the music gone?

If it was only on your iPod,then sadly it has gone on a very long vacation. If it was on the computer, then you are lucky. Just do a quick search for it (for .mp3 or whatever format you are using) and add it back to your iTunes library.

HI, sorry but I dont know how to find all the previous music that disappeared. Most of the music was dowmloaded directly to itunes. Now that its lost half its song Iam not sure where to look. Do you have an idea of why this happens?