How to manually manage music and videos in iTunes 11?

So, i havent found a proper way of doing this either, however if you are desperate, here is a painfully convoluted way of accomplishing what you desire:

First, load up the tracks you wanna drag over, if its just an album then load that up and hit play.

Then, Go the your ipod on the top right,

Finally, click the "up next" button (next to your currently playing song **you should play the song right before the ones you want to transfer) and drag the songs you want from there.. (this can be done from a playlist, etc...)

Not sure what the F apple was thinking making manual music managment impossible or at least not obvious.

This whole update p*sses me off to no end, probably gonna downgrade until they fix these issues.

Anyone REALLY like the fact they moved everything around? H3LL NO. i like the new features, just dont make it harder to do everything! LESS IS NOT MORE. Soon we will just be pressing one button to play, pause, skip, sync, jackoff, etc... depending on our moods?

I would like a proper answer to your question. From Apple. Maybe a reason for all this nonsense while their at it.

EDIT:

This issue seems to only arise when you are pulling your tracks from a playlist.

This is indeed an issue and needs to be fixed. Especially if you are like me and do all your playlist editing on itunes and then want to simply drag a playlist over to your ipod/phone

Ok, I figured it out.

For anyone who hates the new layout or wants to be able to drag playlists to your iPod/Phone, this should at least help some of you:

Press CMD/CTRL + S

You're welcome.

-S

CMD/CTRL + S does what? Doesn't do anything for me.

try alt+cmd+s if you are on mac, should open up the old sidebar

Perfect. Thanks Sam!

Hey thanks for that. works a treat. I'm working on a podcast for the blind using voice over and a mac and could not get the new layout to work. This should work fine. Again, thanks.

I can just hide the side bar. is this someware in apple's docs or do we have to hunt an dpeck like I'm used to doing by now. *grins*

.... or just go to the View menu and select "Show Sidebar".

Thank you

The EASIEST way to "Manually Manage Music And Video" on iTunes 11 is to click and drag the video or audio to the right. As soon as you drag audio or video to the right, a tray of all deivces and playlist will pull out. Just like the old version of iTunes had a column on left, now its on the right.

Anyway as soon as you drag your content to the right, you will see your iPhone, iPod etc., just drop it on the device...

That's it !!!

Enjoy!

Z

Thanks Sam! This was frustrating me to no end. I should have been smart enough to figure it out on my own...but I wasn't! Thanks for the help!

I think I have iTunes 11 and if I do I was SOO confused also buuuut after some perseverance I found out the following: If you hover over the song you want to add you'll see an arrow pop up at the right of the song title, hover over this arrow, click "add to" then click "...iPhone". Simples (apparently!). Hope this helps!

Thank you IanTM. I am pretty glad to see that sidebar. Very user-friendly to hide that away, Apple.