How to add songs to my IPOD without iTunes and without "seeing" the IPOD as a device

I'm running Windows in a virtual machine. I have my IPOD mounted in my host os and have the directory shared to my virtual machine. Therefore my Windows instance sees the IPOD as a directory, not a device.

I can open the IPOD in Windows and browse the iTunes formatted library. However, for a ton of other reasons I won't get in to, I need to add songs to this directory (I think its called iPod_Control) manually without using iTunes. Is this possible? I don't think I can just drop a song file in one of the directories (named F00, F01, etc) and be good to go.

Is there a way around this?