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iPod Requires Manual Sync to Stream Music from iPod to another Computer

That's plain silly. iPod requies you to be in Manual sync mode when you connect your iPod to another computer's iTunes and want to listen to your iPod through your computer speakers.

The way it should be is pretty obvious, people want to listen to their music on more than one computer because it's inevitable that people will need to charge their iPod all day while they are at work while jamming themselves into/around the zone.

There is NO workaround currently. What I ended up doing isn't really amazing but it works (until Apple reads my blog post and changes the functionality of course):

1. Go to MediaMonkey at www.mediamonkey.com
2. Download their Free MediaMonkey player
3. Install it, be sure to uncheck all the file associations
4. Now plug your iPod in and close out iTunes
5. Open MediaMonkey if it's not already open
6. Close out the annoying notices on your first start up and I recommend you disable the hints at start-up too
7. You can optionally add your music library into MediaMonkey but for work use, you just want your iPod so just close/cancel that prompt too
8. On the left folder tree, you can see your iPod listed with a MP3 Player icon next to it. Open it up and you can get at your iPod music library. I love shuffle mode so I:
   1. Go to the top menu and click "Play" then Select "Shuffle"
   2. While your iPod is selected, double click on any song, then hit next.
   3. You're in 'shuffle' mode pretty much now.

Hope this helps you! I've tested it out and it really does do the trick! I use it at work now to avoid this iTunes + iPod + Auto-Sync + Play problem.