Show me your iPod. Dig that sucker out if you have to.
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How do you download and manage your music on this? I wish I still had my old iTunes library sometimes
It’s been a minute but if I’m not mistaken and things haven’t changed, you should be able to see your connected iPod in Finder on Mac and move music to it that way. Not sure about Windows.
If you don’t care for the iPod OS, you can flash something like Rockbox onto it which allows for easy drag and drop transfers.