On 03 Nov 2005, at 18:00 , David Wilson wrote: > I'm teaching a class where I have students bringing in different > sound and music to play in class. When I plug their iPods in, > iTunes shows the iPod, but all their music is greyed out and > unplayable - is there some preference setting that's doing this? > this has happened on a mini and a 3rd or 4th gen iPod. > Set the iPod to Manual update in iTunes.