Umm that is my point. When you want to quickly drag and drop files onto an iphone or ipod it has to sync first which for me and sounds as you takes awhile! You cant plug in play and immediately drag and drop.

I guess everyone is use to waiting and waiting for it to sync then transfer their media files as my initial post is getting downvoted?

If you don't want to sync, why not choose Manually Manage Music?

I didnt have to make any settings change when I plugged in any non apple device into various PCs. By default it was simple and what I was used to when transferring music.