Comment 2 for bug 479732

@Micah, did you do anything special to get Banshee to recognize your iPod? Banshee + Ubuntu 9.10 + iPod support is generally not a winning combination right now. Just to reproduce this bug, I had to kill Nautilus, plug my iPod in, start Banshee, then restart Nautilus. If your iPod "just works" in Banshee right now, that's a bit of a miracle itself. :)

I think I know what you mean when you say "looks like it copies." From my tests, Banshee seems to add all of the songs from the playlist that you drag (Banshee shows the "adding" progress bar), but it doesn't actually create the playlist entry in the iPod's database. Basically dragging and dropping a playlist to your iPod adds the songs from the playlist, but it doesn't actually add the playlist.

If that's the issue you're having, then I think it's safe to confirm this. I was pretty sure I remembered seeing this bug in Banshee's Bugzilla tracking system, but I just skimmed through all bugs with the words iPod, playlist, or drag in the title and I couldn't find anything.