How do I copy music onto my Apple iPhone from iTunes?

Dave, I'm new to the iPod world. My new iPhone is my first venture into iTunes and all that wonderful stuff. I've followed your directions, but my folder call iPhone Playlist will not accept selections from my playlist.

I've recorded songs off of CD's, and they go into my "party Shuffle" alright. But I get the black circle with the line through it, when I try to move them over to the iPhone Playlist.

What am I doing wrong.

Bert

I followed your exact instructions on this topic, yet when i click the sync button under the music tab, it says "The iPhone "Hunter's iPhone" cannot be synced. The required disc cannot be found."
(Also, the playlist i wanted was checked)

What in the world does that mean?!

Hi I tried doing the above ( putting music on my iPhone ) mine says iphone cant be synced the reqired disc space cant be found. This is so annoying I cant put videos on for the same reason. Please help.

i have a ipod.iwant to delete and add music on it.i dont have itunes stored on my computer and idont have itunes music library.idont even know how to add and delete.please help me.i am from liberia

Hi,
Recently I purchaged Iphone in Dubai and Iam using in India. Is it possible to copy songs into Iphone. If it is possible please send steps.

how can i copy contacts to iphone from my sim and third party software also thx

Hello,
I followed all your steps to copy music to my Iphone, but it says that either there is no defualt mail client or the current mail client can not fullfill the request, what do i have to do?
many thanks
sami

Thank you! Very very helpful.

Hi
I bought an unlocked iphone in Dubai. Is it safe to download itune software from apple website and sync with my mobile.Please advise

i have just got a unlocked iphone and need to put music on it from my existing itunes library , can you tell me how to do it please

Great tut..!!

Thanks a lot.. Thanks for pointing out the advantages as well :)

i follow your steps, works very well. but then my new download alway erase my old download, is there something wrong with my iphone?

Dave,
Thanks! Just got my iPhone, and you've been so very helpful. I have just one question: how can I transfer (small) files from my iTunes library to my ringtones. Can it be done?
Thanks again!

i have a iphone and i want to put music onto it but when i plug it into my computer it doesnt pop up into itunes. Can i get some help?

HI. Nice instructions. Better than the Apple site. Worked perfectly for me. Thanks, R.

Hi I tried to follow your steps above to download music to my iphone from itunes but when I plug my phone in I just get my Adobe photo shop and all my pictures come up from my iphone. How do I get the summary screen to come up?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Assaad, when your phone is plugged in launch iTunes and give it 30 seconds or so to notice that the phone is connected. Then you should automatically be taken to the summary screen and can proceed from there.

cannot put ne music on iphone like u said as it keeps saying timed out .....can u help with this would b greatful . thanx

Thanks Alot!!!

Hello,
my brother gave me his iphone and it is unlocked....and the problem is that everytime i try to sync music it says that it will erase all the current music that i already have on my phone...so what should i do??

You suggestion worked like a dream. Thanks a billion Dave taylor :)

thanks Dave, I followed all yr step in syncronizing music library to my iphone...it works, is there anyway to drop the songs checked instead of drag one by one ..cheers

Hi there, bought a new 8gb iphone, and see that some people are able to nlock their iphone, was wondering if you could show me how this is done??? many thanks

Very easy and straightforward directions! Thanks so much! =)

Hi, I have a big problem with my Iphone. When I want to put more music from my new computer, Itunes says it has to delete my whole playlist but I want to keep it. Can you help me ?

Hi, how to get music from limewire to iphone without erasing mine.
Thank you.

Hi Dave, 2 pts for you for the work around! Works great with my boss's iPhone. Can't wait to get home to set up my iPhone Sync Playlist! Thanks, Adam

I followed your exact instructions on this topic, yet when i click the sync button under the music tab, it says "The iPhone "Rimmy's iPhone" cannot be synced. The required disc cannot be found."
(Also, the playlist i wanted was checked)

What in the world does that mean?!

thank you!!!!!!!!!!!! i was trying to do this for hours!
:)

can you go to playlist.com and then copy music from there and put it on your Iphone

Dave,
I am very handicap with electronics. I got an 8gb iphone, and I have tried and tried to down load music from my itune library. I follow the information that you gave but every time I connect the darn thing only shows the camara and not the ipod. It never appears on the playlist.
Help, help, help.
Liz

Hi,
Recently I purchaged Iphone in Dubai and Iam using in India. Is it possible to copy songs into Iphone. If it is possible please send steps.3G 16GB

does it work please advise

okay like when i plug my iphone into the computer, that screen doesnt pop up..what do i do?

Tiffany, depending on how you have things configured, you might just need to plug in your phone, then launch iTunes, which should then see the phone. ;-)

hey dave,

how do i make the songs in itunes to be my ringones?!

greatly need ur help...pls.....

Hi there!
Well, my father just brought the new 3g iphone, so i tried to put some music in, but it didn't work. I search in google and tried lots of websites, but still it didn't work...Finally, i saw your website and tried it. Guess what!? it worked in the very first time i did..Thank you.

However, i wanted to put some videos(from youtube) in. How can i do that? and how to convert flv into itune?

dave...you rock !!!...i had just gotten the i phone and you've really helped me alot so...thanks :D

Thanks Dave - You Rule!

CAn do all this with an unupdated itunes?

thanks dave, so simple

Hello... i have bought a unlocked iphone, is it safe just 2 plug into MY COMPUTER & itunes
2 download songs from itunes? because some1 told me as soon as i plug a unlocked iphone in2 my computer it set all the original locks....''HELP''

Dave, you are such a star, I googled my question and there you were with the answer - I couldnt get my new iphone to synch the music and it was because the sync music wasnt clicked in the tab!!

Thanks again!

YaY! Thank you thank you!! I think I love you! :-)

Super helpful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're the greatest.....

hEy DAVE, THNX A MILLION....
UH SIMPLYYYY ROCKKKK...........
MUAHHHHH

I followed your exact instructions on this topic, yet when i click the sync button under the music tab, it says "Device" cannot be synced. The required disc cannot be found."
(Also, the playlist i wanted was checked)
same thing happen
few days before i did click on manualy manage music and videos then just drop songs it work but now it giving above message says " device" cannot be syced. The require disc cannot found."

while copy music manually it says "Device" cannot be synced. The required disc cannot be found."
after click that message another message says "Attemptig to copy to the disk~failed.The disk could nt be read from or written to."
could you plz help me in this concern!>?

while trying several time iphone to itune to copy music manually finally it says "iTunes could not connect to iPhone ~because an unknown error occurred [OxE8000035]"

i just got the new iphone. and i plugged it in my computer and i was on itunes. but i dont even have the option to synk my iphone. theres no button that has anything to do with an iphone. i just plug it in and nothing happens.

is very complicadet...i want to have music on my ipod ...but i don't know haw i can have...:
(( is very sad...and i don't understand...thX..bye

hi again.....!!!please just help me!!!i have a problem...i don't know haw i can put music,videos...and photos in my ipod....and i want to have..!!!:P...i don't understand...

My god... I've been reading the above comments. WHY IN THE WORLD YOU PEOPLE BUY A DAMN iPHONE WHEN YOU HAVE NO IDEA IN THE WORLD HOW TO USE A COMPUTER??? YOU GUYS DO REALIZE THAT YOU BOUGHT ONE OF THE MOST IN-DEPTH, CUSTOMIZABLE PHONES ON THE MARKET RIGHT??? I mean some of you don't know how to create a folder, some of you don't know how to find which folder you're even keeping your music in!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE JUST TELL ME WHY YOU BOUGHT THIS PHONE!!! I'd be more than happy to stop back in here a see some responses to this. I mean why the hell not just buy a regular phone, like a Motorola RAZR or Nokia 5230, and if you really want music just buy a cheap little mp3 player for $80. You could have saved yourself $300 or more. You obviously aren't going to be able to get all of the uses out of the iPhone. I'll be back for some responses to this. I really do look forward to them. And Dave, congrats to you for helping out the first person. That was a regular question that deserved an answer. iPhones are not like iPod's when it comes to syncing so good for you for taking the time and effort but for the love of GOD please do not encourage these other people who can't even locate which letter their drive is.

Peace,
BOB-E-O

Hi Dave;

I've followed your instructions and despite setting up a folder "iPhone Sync" and adding music from my iTunes pc library, the "sync" operation doesn't seem to have any effect i.e. the old music list (podcasts actually) on my iPhone doesn't reflect the new "iPhone sync" list.

Would really appreciate your help to get over this problem.

Many thanks,

Willie

Hi Dave;

I've followed your instructions and despite setting up a folder "iPhone Sync" and adding music from my iTunes pc library, the "sync" operation doesn't seem to have any effect i.e. the old music list (podcasts actually) on my iPhone doesn't reflect the new "iPhone sync" list.

Would really appreciate your help to get over this problem.

Many thanks,

Willie

Hello. Happy New Year! I was hoping you can help.
I have the latest version of iTunes with my 2nd gen iPhone. While I've downloaded purchased ITunes songs to my phone before, I can't today. I'm getting a message telling me, "The iPhone (and the name of my phone)cannot be synced. The required file cannot be found."

I did a diagnostics, but everything appears to be fine, with the exception of the Helper being disabled. (I disabled it in Startup through MSConfig- I think- awhile back.) Looked for it again to enable it, but couldn't find it.

Any ideas? Your feedback is appreciated.

Thanks much!

How do i copy videos into my apple iphone?

Ok i know you guys are on the topic of downloading music to iphones and i am about to make this conversation more excited.
can someone help me? i have an iphone (8gb) and i cant send out texts from my phone i kept getting an error message. i was told i need to go into message setting and change something in there but i dont have message setting on my phone. either i dont have it, have removed it or deleted it by mistake or i just dont know where in the phone to look for message setting.
can you help me?

Thank you for the step-by-step instructions. I was able to get my iPhone synced with my iTunes in no time. Extremely helpful!!

hello i have my iphone 3G when i try to sync to itune that showing unknown error that "the iphone can not be synced, the required device not found" can u help me to solve this?

My first problem is, when I connect my iphone to my mac or pc it only detects the camera on my iphone... it doesn't detect the ipod. Please help!

hey dave, great site and great info. it all worked, thnx!

Thanks Dave!!!! These step by step instructions with print screens made this process so easy to figure out! I'm definitely going to remember this website....

I wanted to sync my iphone with two libraries - because I have a laptop and a desktopcomputer. I works quite well with SwapTunes - google it!

Thanks heaps for this Dave, I have been trying to do this for about an hour without success then hit Google and found your site ... Ever so grateful

you are so amazing how do you know all of that stuff thanks to you i now have music on my iphone and my itouch thank you

The iPhone "Hunter's iPhone" cannot be synced. The required disc cannot be found ...

I'm having that issue too, can you please help me with that?

omg you're a hero, ty ty ty for saving my iphone from incineration!

many thanks dave it worked!!! much appreciated.......

The instructions were perfect, on the money. Thank you so much for the help. I do have a question about iphone and the fact that no matter what I do my itunes store will not open on a brand new mac and so far everything is working fine....
thanks again Dave.

I followed your instructions on how to get itunes music onto my iphone... It keeps telling me: Some of the items in the iTunes library were not copied to the iphone because they could not be found. WTF is this all about? Please help...

thanks so much!
i got me musix in me iPhone now!!
yey!
thanks so much!
dunno what was up...
but thanks so much :]

hi dave,

recently purchased iphone, I tried to transfer songs from my itunes but when connected doesnt show iphone on my itunes menu or display at all
only cues for the camera, what am I doing wrong?

how can download songs onto my iphone without delating the songs on the iphone.

There is a much easier way of adding songs and album or videos etc. Because the way described here means erasing and reinstalling your whole library or you may inadvertently replace your iphone playlist with just one song or album you wanted to add. Just follow these steps instead:

1. Once in Itunes and your iphone hopefully pops up in the left hand side column, click it to open your iphone summary. You should see "Options" as a sub category,below "Version". Just tick the "manually manage music and videos" tab.

2. A small window pops up asking to save changes to your iphone/itunes settings. Click Apply.

3. Go to your Main Music or Video Library.

4. Now just drag and drop any music or video you desire into your iphone by dropping it over the iphone icon in the left column of itunes.

Problem solved.

Apple really needs to change their whole philosophy on this. I personally own four computers that I use, in addition to my work computer, and I want to listen to my music on all of them.

In this day it is just silly to have lock your iPod/iPhone to a single iTunes library; just plain stupid.

Hi Dave Ive just bought an Iphone and when I try to download music from my pc to it I get an error saying that is not possible to copy the songs because the cannot be reproduced in this iphone
what can I do??

Worked perfectly!!! ... You are genius!!! Quickest cleanest way to transfer 4 gigs of nano files onto iPhone ... took 10 minutes tops! Thank you SO MUCH!

I am trying to put songs on my i phone via i tunes and cant get anything on it. i susspect this has something to do with an ! icon next to most of my tracks on i tunes the ones that don't have this will go on the way that you described
look forward to you help and thought andrew spence

hey bob-e-o
if you know everything why did you come to this site to begin with? you have made yourself look more idiotic than anyone on here

thanks alot finally got it sorted !! 1...

i'm trying to sync music too my ipod but it's telling me u can only sync with one iTunes library at a time. And its saying that i can erase and sync it will replace the contents to add music but i dont want to erase the music i have on my ipod...how can i get past that step so i can add more music without having to erasing my music?

Hi Dave,

You seem to know your stuff here so I have a question for you if you can help. So I have a playlist in itunes that I would like to copy to Iphone but when I go into the music section to do this and I check the box that says selected playlist to sync the folders of the playlists are shaded so I can't pick them to sync to iphone. Can you help pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?

Thanks,

Dawn

hi dave,
ya must be annoyed with all the questions
i've the same as many above.
bought an unlocked iphone in usa living in ireland. they put loads of apps on the phone. obviously they should have unsyncd phone before giving it to me.
it tells me if i want to put songs on it will erase whats already on it. or what exactly will i lose
thanks dave

thanks so much Dave, ur advice was great and v easy to follow.
God Bless xxx

I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO SYNC MUSIC FROM I TUNES AND GOING CRAZY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOU INFORMATION

Dave I have found an old ipod and I want to know how I can get and download some software onto my computer so that I can download some music.
Ken.

i let some one use my phone and gave them the pass code they changed it and don't remember the code now my phone says disabled go to iTunes but my computer wont sync

worked like a charm...thanks!

thanks you a lot

hi

pls suggest how i can tranfer my photos and songs to my apple i phone from my computer. i know nothing about this phone bought 2 weeks before dont no how to operate pls help.

there is anothre prob on the home scree
vodafone E

i dont no why this E is flashing on the top of home screen

pls reply help

Very clear concise instructions; saved me from pulling my hair out !

you are super help full and thanks

hey thank u very much that really helpful

Thank you! Very helpful, worked the very first time I tried after reading your tips.

Thanks Dave after many tantrums i googled your website and i am once again a very happy new iphone user after ages of trying to understand iphone directory, i can now listen to my music again

dave! man o man ! i did evereything u said above and for some reason when i go to the music tab i cannot check the iphone sync box .... why is this? and if i just press the sync button it says that it's going to erase what ever i have on my iphone to place the 10 songs i want ... i have 800 songs i dont want to loose them! i mean who cares if i loose them on the computer but the iphone...no no no! what do i do? and please answer this question , u never seem to answer more than one or two people .... thanks dude!

I purchase two movies how do i transfer from itunes to my iphone

I was completly stumped wit this , Coz i bought my iPhone yesterday . but now i know how to copy music ALOT OF THANKS AND RESPECT FOR ALL EFFORT ....

i had to reboot my computer where i had the itunes installed with all my music. my iphone
was sync with this itunes. now i cannot upload or download any song with out erasing everything.
is there a soloution to this.

Hi i tried your tips for downloading music on to iphone and it did not work Help

My 21-year-old wasn't available to help me. Thank you for helping me and being available to help so, so, so many others, too. You're awesome!

thank you thank you thank you--you made downloading music from iTunes to my new iPhone/iPod section very easy!
Linda

Thank you thank you thank you!

This was super helpful, thank you very very much!

Colin

Simple straight directions.............thank you, you are wonderful!!!!

Thank you very much. I was about to go crazy!!!!! trying to figure out how to put
my songs on my new iphone. Funny, but instructions didn't come with my new phone, you'd think as much as I paid, I'd at least get some sort of instructions to go by.

Anyway, thanks again!!!

Hi

I followed your advise to download songs from Itunes to my Iphone, but when I get to the point (At this point, you need to plug in your iPhone if you haven't already done so. It'll pop up the usual summary screen:), the pop up screen does not appear ?

Great article... I was so looking for this information... thx a bunch :)

Simple and easy. Thanks for this information.

bought iphone 3g and trying to sinc my 824 songs to it. works with my ipod 32, but not my iphone 32. About 600 songs are from cd;s and 200 from itunes. it only is transferring the itunes bought songs, although it works with my ipod 32 touch. help!

I have connected iphone cable to my PCs USB.But there is no message showing New Hardware Found and no display of Removable Drive my USBs are working perfectly can you sugget me Whats the problem...?

Thanks so much man, very detailed but yet very simple. much appreciated.

I have a iphone and it doesnt let me put music or videos. i did wat u said and it still wont work. i drag it and it wont show up

Many thanks!!! So easy. Spent so much time trying to figure this out!!

Can you please tell me the best way to transfer music from limewire to itunes, and then to my ipod and iphone. Thank in advance.

your instructions were perfect! thank you so very much :)

This is not (or at least, no longer) necessary. In iTunes, select your iPhone device and go to the Summary tab. Under Options, check the box for "Manually manage music and videos." You may then drag music from your iTunes library song list to your iPhone device listing in the left pane.

HOW DO I SYNC MUSIC FROM ITUNES?

After I plug in mt I phone but the itune still the same,did not pop up the usual summary screen,why?

Man it worked great, Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!

when my iphone is connected to the pc it shows only camera plz tell me how to tackle this

THANK YOU!!!

When I plug the phone into the computer, there is no summary screen with my phone. It is only listed as a device but nothing happens after that? Please help?

Rathish and Linda, what happens if you plug in your iPhone then launch iTunes? Does the app, after a few seconds, see the phone?

Thank YOU! Thank YOU! Thank YOU!

Terrific tips! Too bad they've made it so darn difficult.

ONE POINT: The last button is actually "Apply" now, not "Sync." Maybe it's because I'm using the new 3Gs?

thank you sooooooo much i can now listen to music on my iphon

Dave, thank you I bloody love you!

How do I get D Tunes on my iphone 3g S?
I'm trying to download movies. Thanks

Thanx man....got it workin now...wow

I followed your first few directions.., when i plug ,my iphone in the divice thing doesnt come up and it doesnt say my iphone. what do i do?

I was wondering how can I get $50 in one day and not from my parents?

I have done this over and over and over and I have about 120 songs and a 32GB GS iphone and no matter what I do it only adds 56 songs to my iphone. I don't know what I am doing wrong but I have tried everyway I can think of to get the other ones to go and it syncs up fine but still on the original 56 are there.

I jus got this iphone i tried to synced music
but it keep saying "the requried disc not found "
wat does this mean? and can you help me?

Dear Thanks .... Thanks alot for shair and help... MAY GOD BLESS YOU.....

Hey man thx alot that really helped

wow, thanks, so easy, you are the iphone king,
cheers for Dave

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I tried for the longest how to figure out how to put my itunes music from my computer onto my iphone. This really helped!

i don't know how to download music from my laptop to my apple i phone i don't know how to use my i tune also i am very helpless too when ever i put the usb cord and try when i copier paste it doesn't show pls help me

Worked perfectly! Thank you.

WOW man itz great. it worked.
i woz like regretting that i got iphone and u cant use ipod and by using ur idea it made me proud that i got ihone.

thnx dude

I tried this a million times but it asks me to apply and never sync. Guess I'm forced to spend more money at Apple Itunes!!!!!

Hi Dave,

I just got a new iphone 3GS and did what you said about syncing but everytime i plug my iphone into my computer the menu doesnt pop up. I dont know what I have to do? If you could help me in anyway i would appreciated it
thanx

Brad, you're stuck in the registration loop, it sounds like. Just go ahead and register and sign up for an iTunes account. It doesn't cost anything, that's just part of the configuration step. Then you should be good to go.

Kristina, if it doesn't pop up with iTunes, just launch the program manually and then give it 10-30 seconds to see your plugged-in iPod. Then you should be good to go too!

Thanks, Dave! This worked just swell!

I have an iphone 3g when I plug it into my new computer and try to put songs on it tells me that the phone is synced to another computer. How do I put songs on my phone from other computer without deleting my songs that are on there now.

Allen, what you should do is use something like the very latest version of Senuti or iPodCopy (see http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_to_get_songs_off_apple_iphone.html ) to get all the music off your iPhone, copy that into your iTunes library, then let the new computer wipe everything and start from scratch. THEN copy your music back on. Make sense?