Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
I just upgraded my Macbook pro to Catalina, but I never would have done that if I realized there is no way to manually manage my music on my iPod classic. My computer recognizes my iPod, but does not give me the ability to manage playlists and songs. I do not want to sync. I want to manage manually. How can I do this with the new upgrade?
iPod Classic
This is honestly a huge oversight by Apple and a major frustration as a daily user of an iPod classic. I did however find a clumsy yet effective workaround.
Like is said this is a sloppy workaround but the only method I found to work. Inexplicably some albums give the option to add directly to my device when right clicking in the library, others only from a created playlist. All I know for sure is that I was able to add music to my iPod.
Hope this helps!
I agree.
Only just found this now but thank you! I also found at that point that I could drag the playlist to my old iPod nano
Agreed!
Agreed. It was only a matter of time before they shut that down. They will now come up with some magnetic pulse that destroys existing iPods.
I have same problem. Spent a couple hours with Apple support, who referred problem to Apple engineers, no help.
Can't Manage Music with Catalina/Music App
