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?

download steps

Hello,
many thanks for giving out such a wonderful and simple tutorial. I managed to do this quite easily and without any hassles because of your great tutorial. Thanks for putting this up.
Keep up the great work.

Varun

THANKS MAN I JUST TRIED IT AND IT WORKED!!!!!

Many thanks, you've helped me out of a pickle!

Hello Dave,
I having a very hard time downloading music to my Ipod nano, a message keeps coming up saying that(attempting to copy to the disk Julio's ipo failed unknown error has occured, what can I do, PLEASE HELP

thank you soo much!!! i was so confused when i got my iphone and you just made it that much clearer!! :D

i just tried doin that before i even came to this site, and when i did it started to erase all of my apps, i stopped it cause i have quite a few on there and i dont feel like downloading them again, any help?

Thanks,
This was very usal.
IPhone 3GS. (:

hi there dave i got a problem, i cant make a new playlist on my iphone whats wrong?????? I click file then the new playlist button is in a different color (grey) and it doesnt work.

thank u for these important and interesting informations

wiked! cheerse bud Top man!!

DEAR DAVE, IM SORRY BUT WOULDNT IT BE EASIER TO SIMPLY SELECT MANAGE MUSIC AND VIDEOS MANUALLY IN THE MAIN MENU OF YOUR IPHONE IN ITUNES RIGHT UNDER WHERE IT SAYS HOW YOUR MEMORY IS BEING USED IN YOUR IPHONE IF YOU JUST WANTED TO DRAG MUSIC AND VIDEOS DIRECTLY TO YOUR IPHONE.

-BROK LESNAR-

Hey Dave, I tried your approach but it still says it's going to clear my iphone and then copy the new songs. I have I have itunes on my computer and was able to copy all of those songs but my son has itunes on his computer and I want to copy some of those songs and that is where my problem begins. How can I copy these without losing my other songs.

Thanks, Steve

Dave,
I'm trying to get music onto my iphone and I've followed your directions, but my folder call fabmusic Playlist will not accept selections from my playlist. I get the black circle with the line through it, when I try to move them over to the iPhone Playlist. Some of the music was downloaded from other sites apart from itunes.

How do I copy all the music to iphone successfully.

Thanks

Ronnie D

hey there, i have a problem synchronising my musics to my iphone..everytime i sync it, there will be an error and it says "The iphone cannot be synced. An unknown error occurred (13001)" The funny thing is that when i sync it onto my brother computer, there wasnt a problem..i guess there is a problem with my itunes..can you please help me..thanks alot..

Dear Dave, I was on the verge of taking a sledgehammer to both my phone and my computer when I found you....I'm not an idiot but was having a lot of trouble getting my library onto my iphone. I read your instructions and was finished in about 10 minutes. Thanks soooo much!! I could kiss you on the mouth!

Thank you ever so much! Was really stumped!

Dave, thank you so much. I have an iPhone, just recently purchased and it is my first Apple product. Your instructions are spot on. Brownie points for the screenshots for those of us who understand better with visuals. Now that I know how to sync the music, I feel like an idiot because I should have figured it out on my own, it was so easy. Thanks again!

GThank a million , plain simple english and worked perfect, cheers really delighted as havent used itunes nor iphone til now. Recon you have saved me hours.

have a very merry xmas

Thank you for thanking the time to post the tutorial. Your instructions were great and easy to follow.

hi, i unlocked/jailbroke my iphone , but it doesnt seem to synchronize with itunes, i authorized the computer and all. is there any kind of software i need to use, your help is appreciated.
thanks

hi dave..
my iphone 2g 8gb version 3.0 has problem Syncing with my itunes.. do i have to download itunes again? do itunes, (like version 9 or version 8), have any problem in compatibility with any iphone?? your help is appreciated.. thanks..

thanyou so so so so so much, been trying to get music onto my iphone for weeks. thanks again

Thank you so much for your help.

New hard drive redownloaded iTunes all good sycing everything but music and video and books.

i have done everything that you have told me but i still dont have any songs on my iphone. itumes keep saying that iphone sync is complete and it's ok to disconnect but when i disconnect der is no songs in my iphone. can u pls e-mail me what the problem could be. is it because the sones may be licensed and cant be uploaded to iphone or is it the file type of the songs. what type of file does a song have to be for iphone. can it only be mp3. pls respond ASAP.

Thank you so much! You taught me how to get my music onto my iPhone. You'd think Apple would make it easier. I was really frustrated and you fixed my problem in under a minute. How do you fund the operation of this site? Do you rely on donations? If so let me know how to donate.

Thankyou SO much!!! I finally have music on my iPhone! Very clear and easy directions! Cannot thank you enough! :) Merry Christmas :D

thanks alot.
realised how easy it was and now i feel like a wanker.
cheers

I have an Iphone 16gb and cannot get the music to my phone from my computer and each time is Sync I loose anything that I have downloaed from itunes to the phone. The computer takes it to the library but it will not come back . Basicly it wipes all music and podcasts etc from the phone to the library... one eay sync? what am I doing wrong.. please help me...

Rod (Australia)

great !!!!!!!!!! thank you so much u r the best

appreciate it

THANK YOU - THANK YOU - THANK YOU its taking me days to figure this stuff out, now I can get on with the rest of my life !!! THANK YOU SO MUCH

Hey Dave,

Just wanted to tell you that it worked! I just got my iphone 3G for Christmas from my wonderful hubby, and I wanted music on it and couldn't figure it out.
You helped and now it works. Now my iphone can play music on top of doing everything else it does.

THANKS!

or, you can just do this:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535

Thanks heaps for info, my teenage son wasn't around to save me, but you did, cheers !!

Excellent! You are super! I always go where the talent is.

Thanks

You are AMAZING... after 2 hrs of that "I'm so close" "I know it can be done" feeling I finally got to your site and bam... it worked. The songs I had on my PC were very random & older.(Everything from Black Flag to Henry Mancini & everything in-between so I loved it. Needless to say- family went to bed while I layed on the couch, Ipod in my ears grinin ear to ear. Excellent tutorial & the pictures helped. I have 75 songs now ! Thanks so much - I don't even know if you realize how much help you are !

Dave i have an apple i phone which i no longer use as a phone no number and new free phone from work, but have a lot of music still on the iphone, can i still play the music with a docking system. and also still add music from itunes.

Dave for some reason I connect my iphone to the computer and it does not recognize, also itunes does not show my iphone at all in order to copy music to the iphone

Thank you, you are a genius.

Dave, you are my Knight in Shining Armor!
Thank you for your incredibly easy step by step instructions (the pictures really helped)! Now I can enjoy my favorite music everywhere!!!

i did that and before i had 250 songs and now i have nothing u suck

Dan, can you share more details about what happened? The music's still in iTunes, I presume? if so, why can't you sync your iPod? What happens when you try to do so?

Dave Please help me to add some music from my pc to my 8gb i phone.its like very Complicated issue for me, dave please help me soon.

Fantastic - thank you!

thank oyu hat was really easy & helpful!

hi ive done everything what dave has said to do but when very thing goes through it says sync compllete but i can not see the tones on my fone ive tried looking everywhere but no luck can u tell me where they will be if they are on the fone.thanks

Hi

We've just changed over from PCs to Mac, and very happy with the decision, however i can't drag and drop music from our shared iTunes library into a playlist to then transfer music from itunes library to iphone sync playlist i just created...PLEASE HELP i miss my music walking home!!

If you are looking for a way to copy music onto your iPhone without iTunes, try this out

http://www.iphone-without-itunes.com

It's really excellent!

John

all i can say it brilliant the screen shots and basic step language saved me from going totally bald and not haveing to sit with my very smug hubby who said i would never get the hang of my new iphone .................he is totally impressed with my tech knowledge ...he ! he ! i wont tell if you dont ;)

Hi Dave!!!!
I stumbled upon your site after hours of searching for help for my iphone. Thannk you so much for the information. It saved me a lot of money on purchasing "other" accessories to be able to download photos and music from my pc onto my iphone.

please dave i need your help, im new to the iPhone, im trying to get some music to my iPhone, i got it plugged into the computer but it just doesnt show up in the devices bit in iTunes...

=) please reply

Thankyou : )

I was ready to throw my iPhone up the wall, not to mention my lap top!

You are my god, You have made my day/night and through to the next morning!!! yes its taken me that long but is done....thxs

First off, thanks for the help.

I purchased a 16G 3S iphone and was able to transfer my entire itunes library of 1578 songs to it. My only concern is that those 1578 songs ate up 9.3 gigs. I plan on downloaded more songs (I usually add 5-10 a week) plus I'll be adding a bunch of apps. I will also be using the phone to take pictures/videos but do not plan on saving them on my phone but rather sending them to my PC and saving them there. Is the 16G big enough or should I have gotten the 32G?

Dave, I'm relatively new to itunes so you just saved me a ton of aggravation. Thanks! Craig

Dave, thank you SOOOO much! I'm not technologically inclined whatsoever...and you just saved me.

worked a treat! thanks

thanks some times i can be so dumb

Hi dave. I am a desperate man. My computer has had a bit of a breakdown and I think I am resigned to activating a full system restore to make it well again. Unfortunatelly I have some 900 odd songs in my iTunes library which are sitting somewhere on my hard drive. I have spoken to apple and they seem confident that I will be able to recover my PURCHASED items after a Format but that is only a third of my collection. Is there anyway or any software that will allow me to transfer everything back into my iTunes library from my iPod or iPhone. Thanks for listening

Why to rock the simplicity... Thanks!

thanks so much!!!!! i couldn't for the life of me figure out how to do that!

just click and drag from your itunes songs to the icon for the iphone on the sidebar of itunes (iphone must be plugged in. ) this will add songs.
if you want to delete songs one by one, open up the music subicon and you will see all the songs of the iphone in the intunes main window, double tap and select delete for the songs you want deleted.

I tried going through the steps you outline, in order to transfer music I purchased from itunes on my computer to my iphone, but I keep getting warnings that once I sync, I will be replacing all of my music on my iphone with the music in my itunes library. All I want to do is add music to my iphone (from itunes) not replace my existing music. Is there any way to do that?

Thnx for the help.Very Useful

Hi Dave, Many thanks, worked a treat. My 10 year old has informed me that I've gone from Daddy Doughnut to Daddy Cool. (She thinks I worked it out myself) Cheers

I just bought a song from itunes. How do I get it on a flash drive?

this did not work at all

i agree with jeff because i have a iphone too and mine is iphone 3GS and i really dont know much about computers but every other website on trying to do this has turned out in a dissaster and has lied and has coused viruses to my computer why do you do this to people you shouldnt lie and misslead people to cuase problems would you like to pay for my computer viruses and getting my computer fixed and buying me a new iphone because i really do need one i will sighn a law suite and it will not be pretty

ACE info..thanks :) x

hello dave..
please i just bought my iphone and wanna download music on it via itune but it says.. " the sim card inserted in this iphone does not appear to be supported" i already went to my sim carriers and they told me that its ok.. what will i do??

hi dave,

i have my iphone 3gs about one year (and have downloaded songs onto it, followed all of your inst. above worked like a treat) ... and during that time i did not turn on genius...today i made that mistake and it will now not allow me to hear my tunes which i did not buy from itunes 'e.g. the album 'spanish train' could not be found as the original could not be located, do i want to locate it?' i have had this album many years and do not have a file location for it , this is happening with many other songs too......HELP!!!!
how can i get rid of genius playlist tks

mary

Hey :)

When I get to the

;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' part, I've re done it over and over again, but the summary screen never comes up.

There is a very simple way to do this and I don't think it has been addressed. Follow these steps:

1> Open iTunes

2> Plug in iPhone

3> When the iPhone shows up under devices, Right click on it and go to "transfer purchases"

That is it.

Thanks man

thank you so much!!! you are a genius!!!!!

Hey, i was wondering as i bought my iphone from singapore and im using it in australia and the last time i updated my iphone it got stuffed and i was thinking if i click yes to = "the iphone "2g" is synced with another itunes library. Do you want to erase this iphone with the contents of this itunes library?" would it get stuffed as it is from a different country?

Dear Sir,

i have got iphone 2G 8GB from UK.I downloaded itunes from net on my computer but after that i am not able to get pictures in my iphone from my computer...so please tell me how can i get pictures from computer to my iphone..& also please tell me which is suitable version of itunes for iphone 2G 8GB...& how can i get my songs as ringtones???..& please tell me can I make a video from my iphone 2G??...please sir reply me as soon as possible...i willbe very thankful to u.

Gracias! I was really stuck, so thanks a lot for making it easy.

Thanks ,great help you made it really easy!!

Hi I am bougth iPhone but I don't know how to downlord Tamil songs and games please let me know

i purchased iphone3gs in dubai.i want download musi,videos.which type of videos can be played in it?please send it immediately.i am waiting....

Thank You so much, this was a great help!!

Dude, you rock! I've been trying to figure out how to sync my iphone with my itunes for weeks, every evening when I would get a few minutes, I would mess around with it. Nothing worked. I know it should be a no brainer, but it wasn't for me. Found your website, followed the instructions an voila! Awesome! I am so excited, now I can keep purchasing the music I love AND sync it to my iphone, Thank you!!

It's working....Thank you boss.

This was really helpful!!

:)
thankyouuu xx

These were the simplest instructions to follow & it made my life so much easier! Thanks

HI,

Ive clickedonto the music tab after plugging in my iphone, but its greyed out so I cant press/click anything, do I need to change a setting??

Hi I can not do it at all:( I try for 3 night it does not work :(when I pluf my iphone to computer its go to zipe file and transfer a picture. i can not do anythings el s:(

Hi Dave!
Before I stumbled upon this eye opening article I had already plugged in my iPhone and clicked sync, but I guess my phone didn't have enough space for all my songs so it put random ones onto my iPhone. Now I want to put songs I've selected to be on here that are my favorites, but when I plug it into my computer nothing happens, it doesn't start to sync or anything, and the page that woul say "maddies iPhone" isn't popping up. Please help!
Maddie

how can i copy videos into iphone2G using itunes
plz give me complete description
is dis possible

Thanx a ton mate..ur a superstar :)

hi dave, pls can u tell me how to tranfer music from my laptop to my iphone,when i connect iphone to itunes, it doesn;t show;s the music which i have in my laptop.i tranfer some of the music video's using photo;s option in the itunes but i cant trasfer music.i have 9.1.1iphone and 3.1.1 itunes,pls help.

WOW........... these instructions were so easy to follow your a genius thank you so much, now im 1 happy lady with great music on my iphone. Thanks again you rock!!!!!!! xxxx

thank you very much. very good

Thank u. thanks a lot... u hav solved my problem of 2 mnths

Thanks, Dave. It is very nice of you to help us "newbies" to iPhone.

Thanks so much - This really helped ! :)

thanks for the useful tut.

my god, why the hell doesn't the i phone have directions like this? i was going crazy and you made it so damn easy! i love you!

kk i did everything above ... i tryed waiting and also tryed plugging it in first then starting itunes..... ITS DOESNT WORK ... nothing pop-up just my picture stuff -_-

Dave-
i read your instructions for created a playlist in order to transfer songs from itunes into the iphone but have a question....
I have a couple thousand songs checked off in itunes that i want to put into the new "iphonesynch" playlist folder but how do i move just those checked songs into that folder without moving the unchecked ones too? there's got to be a way besides moving them one song at a time isnt there? Please tell me how.
thank you!

Hi there, have followed your instructions and created a playlist, managed to drag and drop songs all set to go plugged in iphone but no pop up screen appears to sync...what am i doing wrong arrrrrrgh its so frustrating. could really do with ur help please

I have a PC and I am running an old Iphone software version. 3.1.3 (7E18) on a 3G

I did not want to update to 4.0 version feeling this should not be necessary so I kept trying. Anyhoodle, my mistake may be very basic but I hope it helps some of you.

I was just trying to get music over to my phone. that's it. and stolen files from limewire. Could care less about syncing everything but I got multiple error messages at different sync stages: with yahoo contact not syncing or there 'not being an internet connection' or ‘photos cannot be updated because of missing folder’... all these error messages disrupting the sync before even getting to the music sync portion.

I kept syncing anyway (someone said it took them many tries). Well I finally realized my remedy. Here is what I did, beginning with taking the new music files and adding them to the itunes playlist which I was attempting to update to my iphone:

1. Drag new music files into itunes playlist
2. Go to music tab of itunes and click sync (bottom right).
3. After error message appears, check the playlist to which you just added new music files. (You may need to try the sync many times, even if you are getting the same error because you want to induce the result of 4. below)
4. Find the music file(s) you recently moved into that playlist. They should now be marked on the left side of the playlist, right next to the song name checkbox, with a small exclamation point or question mark, denoting an file error. Or perhaps Itunes cannot find it? Whatever
5. Double click on the music file that is demarked as such
6. A prompt will appear asking to find the file
7. Find the file, wherever you put it, and double click it.
8. The music file should start playing in itunes now, confirming the file was found
9. Now, click sync again in the music tab of itunes and it should sync the new files to your iphone

I followed the step by step procedure for adding songs to iphone as per Dave. Finally after sync, my old songs frm the iphone gets deleted. I m able to add music but my old songs will nt b there.. please help me to find a solution for this. I m using new iphone 32GB.

I was able to go through all your steps above and created my "iphone sync" playlist, sync'd, etc..but when I disconnected my iPhone and checked my "IPOD" I did not have any of the playlist songs on my phone. I connected my iPhone back into my PC and clicked on 'Music' and I do see my entire playlist. But I don't see it on my iPhone...what am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

Here is my problem; I like to be organized and I have material that I have that I put into itunes but it isnt in the proper location. I have a book but it is in the music section, cause it is an mp3 yet how do you put it in the books section?

Anita, did you plug in your iPod, then go to the iPod area in iTunes and double check that you have *that playlist* sync'ing with the device? Then do a sync?

Shawn, I'll work up a new article on that subject, but in a nutshell, choose the audio book track, then in File -> Get Info... choose the "Options" tab and you'll see a pull-down where you can specify music type. Choose "Audiobooks" and it vanishes into the confusing audio book area of iTunes and your iPod. :-)

Thanx. It was easy and simple...

My son just got the iphone3g. when he tried to sync and add music it is looking for microsoft 2000 premium, I do not have that file, is it something I need in order to put the music from itunes onto the phone? Or How do I put the music from Itunes onto the iphone? Lois

Lois that's very strange. Download and reinstall iTunes, see what happens? http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

How do you delete photos that where sinked from iTunes from an iPad?

Dave,
Thanks so much for your help. You are much better than the Apple technicians.

I had to do it a bit differently. I have a Mac OS X Version 10.4.11 and iTunes 9.2. When I plug in my iPhone 3GS under Devices in iTunes, my iPhone appears. Then below and a bit to the right the following appear: Music, Movies, TV Shows, Ringtones, and Voice Memos. In order to add my Playlists to my iPhone I have to drag the playlist to "Music." It will appear under "Ringtones" and above "Voice Memos." It will then automatically sync to my iPhone. I hope this helps others.

Excellent advice!! Simply written, simply explained, thanks David... if only instruction manuals could be written by someone like yourself!!!

Hi.. I just bought this apple iphone and wish to download some music.. please help. I tried to download from the phone itself but it keeps saying 'download' for a very long time but nothings comes out. Thnx

Hi,Julie! if you want to download music to your apple iphone, you should be aware of the conversion problems, because your iphone may not support certain format.Here is some reference for you : [url=http://www.videofileconverter.org/]convert avi to ipod[/url]...

Hi Dave

I'm stuck. I have a new Iphone 3gs. I can't get the music from itunes onto the iphone. When I look at the music folder (under the iphone) it shows the music, but it doesn't show up on the iphone!? At my wits end - could you possibly advise?
Regards

When coming to the music tab bit, I can't add new music without it saying it will replace all other music on my iPhone. Why? The way I normally add music won't work either, the music on my phone is coming up in grey writing and I can't do anything with it?
This problem has only just come about and I have never had a problem like this before. Please Help

Dave...

If I were not a happily married woman, I'd buy ya dinner. You just saved me from, yet another, 1 hour on hold waiting for Apple to fix the mess they made of my phone. Long story :)

Done. Got my music back on my Pod. Funny thing though, the Lovely Lady at Apple said it couldn't be done. Duh :)

I bought you that cup of coffee and stuck you in my Reader. I know it's cramped in there, but I bet you survive being squished a bit :)

Thank you so much Dave. I can't possibly go to the Gym in the morning without my Funk. I need the funk, gotta have the funk :)

Hi Dave, my son gave me his iphone. He deleted his songs but left the apps on. I created a playlist in my itunes as you suggested but when trying to sync I receive the message "the iphone is synched with another itunes library" Can you point me to the solution? Many thanks

i have tried your trick but when i conect my iphon to my pc it doesn't pop up in i-tunes. what shoud i do?

mine is not even showing sync,and its not even showing summary on the itune list so pls help me out

hi Dave,

how do i copy my contacts from the iphone before i restore it? phone is acting up by cutting out during
calls.

thanks,
mary

omgg you're an angel < 3!
thanks so much !

Hello Mr Dave

I was given a 3gb iphone last month and i put my t-mobile chip in. i tried to download some music from my PC and it asked me to upgrade which i click yes not knowing what it might do. now it has upgraded it to 4.2 and has block my phone. i have taken it every were trying to get it unlock but i'v been told 4.2 version software is not in yet. please please is there any thing you can do as i feel lost without it.

Many thanks
Rita

How can I get music not purchased from itunes, just copied from cds, etc. on my iphone. Will only sync purchased from itunes music.

THANK YOU,so much!!!!!!!

Hi Dave..im challeneged anyways in the electronics world..but when i try to copy music from i tunes on my pc ..and drag to the new folder..my computer won't let me do it.it will let me copy the tunes to the existing DJ on computer..but not to any folder..i think it has something to do with fact that im running a pc..not a mac? help???
thanks so much
Pat

Great guide, thanks!

hi how i copy song pc to iphone
thks

Hi Thanks heaps for the information. I have just recently purchased my first iphone and finding it not very user friendly. I got a tiny little booklet in the box and not much else.. without people like you i would have spent years trying to figure it all out!

Thanks a million

Hi Dave, I just bought the new ipod touch. I have itunes on my laptop but the music in my library is from limewire. The laptop that i have has 2 broken usb ports. is there a way that i can download my music on to my ipod? can I open my itunes account on my work computer and download from there? will my limewire music download? In otherwords will my current library open on a different computer? I am so confused with this whole process. thanks in advance for your help.

Thank you so much for this site. I bought an unlocked Iphone and could not figure out how to upload my bought CDs to the phone. With this page, I finally got it right. THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH. DH

thanks - intuitive it definitley aint!

Nice tutorial. Because its very convoluted to get music onto the iPod, it is not obvious. This tutorial helped me greatly.

not working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Dave! thank you! I did it! Tutorial for beginners helped too:-)

Dave: I have a problem. I was updating my iPhone software as suggested. Everything was going fine until I got an error message stating that the iPhone could not be restored due to an unknown error. Now my iPhone doesn't work. None of the buttons work now. There is only a picture of the end of an isb cable with an arrow pointing toward a cd that says iTunes. Please help!

is it possible to convert songs into ringtones pls let me now

Hi Dave. Your site has been a great discovery. I have been able to transfer photos and music to my iphone without calling my sister's IT genius boyfriend. Feel very proud of myself. Step by step instructions were very easy to follow and worked first time. Thank you so much for all your help. I will be back when I decide what else I want my phone to do.

When I drag the song from the library to the playlist I get an exclamation mark next to the song and it does not appear in the playlist. Please help.

Thanks a lot! Easy Easy Easy - Your explanation where like drinking water from the sink .... xoxo

THANK YOU SO MUCH !
BIG HELP =))

Awesome...I've been trying to transfer music to my iphone from itunes for the past two days. thanks for the help... more helpful than itunes, apple, etc...

Thanks for your help..... I was trying for hours but with this article I was done in just 5 mins.

Thanks so much for this article! One thing I'd suggest to make things simpler. Instead of dragging/dropping songs into the playlist, hold Ctrl and click all the songs you want added, then right click on the higlighted area and select "add to playlist". Select the playlist you want them added to and voila! SOOOOO much faster! This article made transferring a snap!

i hate them....... i dont know how to download songs.. i nned to know how to do it for a class...PLEASE HELP ME DAVE!!!!!!!!!!

I got this straight from Apple. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848

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 it says u need to upgrade to 9.2 or above but i have 10.1

Than you so much. I love you forever.

Fantastic ... thanks.

I can't see iPhone under Devices on the iTunes although it is plugged...

Thanks dude this was super helpful! Happy holidays!

Thank you! Perfect instructions! I now have music on my iphone!

Hi I was wondering I recently brought a iPhone 4 unlocked and I have only been able to get my apps I have paid fir but not my music it's really depressing when I go to put them on it freezes only on my phone as my iPod did Nuffing like this so I'm a lil confused I have tried turning computer off resetting my phone and for some reason it's not doing it for me the only thing it does do is try to back up files that ain't on here eg music I've never heard of. If any one can help it would be Awsum. I don't want to buy more when I've spent lots already and for me not to be able to back it up if that's going to happen it's a risk I ain't taking. Thanks for ur time hope I can get help with it

Thanks to your site It looks like I can finally add my music to my iphone. Thanks Dave

Thanks dude / lady...

You really helped me...

I did as you said. But after connecting my iphone to the computer, i cannot find my device.

What do you think is wrong ?
Pls help me

John

The phone says it's synched. Can't find where the files are. Itunes, no. Ipod no. Where should I be looking? Thaaaanks!

John and others who aren't finding their computer finding their device, try starting iTunes THEN plugging in the device. Try different USB ports, try a different cord too.

Joan, not sure what files you're looking for? When the iPhone syncs, it's synchronizing the files and copying them into the iTunes library. They're not going to show up on your Desktop or in Documents or My Documents as separate files.

Man, ur advice was damn helpful!!!
God bless.

thanks a lott man
this really helped! i finally clocked how to do all this :)
muchly appreciated !

okay i take it back
it deleted all my apps?
and didnt even put my playlist on?
what the hell?

Greetings! I followed all of your instructions above and get the following message:

Karen's iPhone is synced with another iTunes library. Erasing and syncing will erase the contents of this iPhone.

Ummmm......what does this mean in normal people language? I only have one library on iTunes as far as I can tell, unoless it is telling me that I have another library on another computer that I may have accessed previously. IF I continue and "erase" my iPhone, what will I actually lose? I have nothing downloaded as far as music is concerned, and my only iTunes downloads are podcasts.

Help?

Karen
Portland, Oregon

Thanks, I was able to sync my itunes with iPhone4. Very helpful. Much appreciated. I was lost and your instructions were awesome.

Thanks so much. You're instructions werer great and worked perfectly and my frustrations have melted away. Enjoy your day.

thanks for your help, it worked first time :-) yeah

thanks so much man it really helps!!!

Dave

I want to transfer a playlist from Itunes to my iphone without erasing everything on the iphone. I just want to add it. How do I do that?

thanks for your great instructions to sync my iphone4 with my itunes account- you made it all so easy when I had almost given up! thank you!

Too bad this doesn't not work for me. It will only let me select the entire library to be synched with my iphone which will wipe out all the music on my phone. I could see how your instructions could work for someone with a phone that worked correctly, but apparently mine is the only one in the world that doesn't. I hate apple.

Bad advice for a novice iphone user. it erased everything on my iphone except what was in that folder. that was not clear from your instructions

Dude, you rule! I did what you said and was able to get my music onto my iPhone. Cant thank you enough !!!
Scott

Very clear and easy to follow! Thanks for the help.
Any idea why the ringtone area won't show up in my Itunes bar?

I followed the steps and the songs still are not on my phone. Is there an iPod app or something? I thought the songs would download into iTunes. Please help and thank you.

great help thank you very much ive had my phone 15 months and now thanks to this have all my music on my phone well happy :)

thanks dave been online all day trying to get it to work and your way was to damn easy!!! thanks

Thank you, Dave--I'm embarrassed I couldn't figure that out myself!

Thanks bro! That was really helpful! I will definitely recommend your website!
Peace!...

You need to download the new itunes then go to edit, preferences then click apps and then apply then plug your iphone in and it should work hope this helps (:

100% correct, right on.
worked just fine.

Thank you

I just replaced my iPhone and after restoring it my music was gone! I panic, of course. I was heading to the gym and I cannot work out without my music... in any event I found you and you saved me! Looooove you! Thank you again.
Have a fabulous day. Calico

Mate..right on..worked perfectly :)

I just got my iPhone. I'm not real smart with computers and stuff, but you made it real easy for me. Thanks alot. Got it right the 1st time.

Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuu....sooooooooooooo much!!!
Helped me tons!!! :)

Your idea works for me...thanks

how do i get music onto itunes so that i can put it onto my iphone.....

Heather, two basic strategies: rip your music CDs (that is, insert them into your computer while iTunes is running and let iTunes make copies) or buy music from the iTunes Store.

Here's a new one I have not seen. Just bought a new v4 iPhone. I can sync music just fine to my iPod from several authorized computers (work and home), but I can ONLY add music to my iphone from HOME, not from work. Why in the world not? I'm stumped!

Thanks Dave!

okay i tried this and it did not work at alll . i dont know if itsv because i have the new newer version of the itunes but it wont let me drop anything into the folder that i created...

Dave, I am trying to put all my songs from itune playlist into my ipod, the problem is I lost folders in the data what should I do?

please respond asap

Please help, I have ipad and I put a password on it to secure it
now I can't remember the password and I need your help to remove or reset a new password

Thank You So Much!!!!! It Helped Alot!!!!!

Thanks for explaining this! I've been having trouble figuring out how to do this and I searched google which led to this article. (:

dude you are the best!

Thanks dude! it's working!

thanx, it worked for me

When connecting my iPhone, it reads camera connected, what am I doing wrong I've tried connecting iTunes both first or last. :( help

Thanks you clear instructions really saved me as I am about to travel to Antigua with the kids and I need to keep them quiet with the music.

Thanks again

Monique

hello dave ive got my new ipod but when i plug it in it does nothing it only charges and the sync ipod icon isnt white it wont let me click it whats going on what do i have to do?

Thank you so much for this, I just kept trying to sync it over and over again until i found your article. Very helpful, thank you.

Hi Dave, have a few questions:
1-Can I download 2 purchased songs I bought on Itunes to my Iphone with OUT

Thanks alot!
Susan

Thanks for the help I have been trying to get music on my Iphone since I purchased it a year ago and now I finally did it thanks to Dave!!

Hi, when I try to click on 'selected playlists, artists, albums and genres' in 'sync music' it won't let me. any ideas? many thanks

I have synced my IPhone playlist as you have suggested, but when I got to the iTunes button all I see are the downloads available for ITunes store. I am not seeing the playlist at all

thank you so much dave! i was getting so frustrated. this helped so much!

Dude - you rock. Got my iTunes to my brandy new iPhone 4 with your help.
Thanks!

hi i have an iphone 3g. i have transfered several cd music disks but the only place that i can transfer them to is the itunes dj. when i try to sync my phone the box down below says .42 gb for audio but when i click on all the boxes,the one that says automatically fill free space with songs it bumps it up to 1.82gb my concern is that my songs from my music will be replaced with just the cd music songs.
i just want to be able to transfer cd music on to my music and not lose any of my songs. please help me. thank you

Followed your instructions on transferring playlist from itunes library on pc to iphone and it worked perfect for me. Thanks for the help!

THANK YOU SO MUCH I DIDNT HAVE A CLUE WHERE TO START BUT IVE FOLLOWED YOUR STEP BY STEP TUTORIAL AND ITS WORKED THANK YOU :-)

Dave Taylor You Rock

Hi Dave,

Hope you can help.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,

Maxine

Hi,

Forgot to mention, I cant update my iPhone 4 either. It tells me that "session has timed out" It still has version 4.1 .... ive been at this forever!!!

Thanks

Maxine

when I plugged in my phone it did notconnect to itunes - when i manually click on itunes it says cancelling sync

Great instructions, easy to follow, worked perfectly! Thanks!

Hi, i've been updating my phone to version 4.3.3. I've followed your instructions and it works when i haven't update my phone yet. But after updating my phone i can't put songs into my iphone anymore. I've followed your instruction 1 more time but it says my iphone can't be synced, an unknown error occurred. What is the problem? Please help me! Thanks.

hi, i bought this apple4, 3days ago from italy and i cant donwload music on it,and keep showing itune but i try several time to donwload but nothing is working,please help me.!!!!!!!!

lol all the information is fake i wanna tell you the proper and easy way just don't put music hahahahahahahahahahah lol was just joking the information was really helpful

You are awesome, thank you so much!

Ive clicked onto the music tab after plugging in my iphone, but its greyed out so I cant press/click anything, do I need to change a setting??

hi dave i have an iphone 4...i followed ur instructions.... Ive clicked onto the music tab but its greyed out so I cant able to proceed....plz help me..................

It might be grayed out because you have it set to "automatically sync" or similar. Check the settings on the "Summary" tab (the checkboxes at the bottom of that screen)...

whenever i try to pass a playlist from laptop to i phone it trys to sync my apps even when i dont select any apps to sync, this wont happen as its not an i pad but its stopping the process, can you help?

Thanks SO much for your information and taking the time to provide to those who need this. It has been SO helpful in my journey with the new iphone 4!!! Best regards...

thanks....worked like a charm

I followed your instructions but when I go to the Sync music folder..it won't allow mme to click on or chose 'my iphone playlist'.

(posted originally in April)

Here's a new one I have not seen. Just bought a new v4 iPhone. I can sync music just fine to my iPod from several authorized computers (work and home), but I can ONLY add music to my iphone from HOME, not from work. Why in the world not? I'm stumped!

Thanks Dave!

Joel, I think you'll find that the sync that's happening on the other computers isn't a full data sync (otherwise you could add music on your work computer and it'd show up on your iPhone). iPhones pair with a single computer and that's the one that manages its content.

Thanks,
The steps provided worked well for us.

Thank you!

Hi-how do I change the computer that I want to sync my iPhone with?? My old computer is gone and I just figured out that my iPhone is not syncing with the new one!! Thanks for your help!

def works thanks!!!

Thank you Dave. I followed your instructions on how to download music to my Iphone and it worked.

This was very helpful! Thank you!

This was helpful, I was missing a couple of minor steps. I would like to know the answer to a previous question regarding the problem that everytime i try to sync music it says it will erase all the current music on my phone...what should i do. Thanks again

Warren, the message you're getting means that your iPhone was originally sync'd with another computer and is now paired with that computer, not your own. To fix that, you need to let it "restore" or initialize your phone. Problem is, it'll wipe everything off the device, so you want to try and get that data into the cloud first, which is why MobileMe (soon to be iCloud) is so beneficial.

This worked perfectly for me--thank you so much for posting it!!!
TR

From iTunes on my PC I could find no "Sync music" option (in fact, my screen looks quite different) but there is an "autofill from" selection box on the bottom left. After selecting "music" I was able to use the selection box to scroll to my playlist. Once it was pulled up I used an "autofill" button on the bottom right to upload the playlist. Don't know how common/uncommon a screen like mine may be but thought this might be some useful info.

That said, your tutorial gave me the information I needed to reach that point. Thank you. The rest was sort of intuitive.

Great instructions!! Worked like a charm for me!! Thanks a ton!

i transfered / downloaded a lot of my old CD's into Itunes library, but i cannot seem to get them (songs i downloaded, not purchased)moved to any other devices. It almost seems like ITUnes thinks they were illegally downloaded and will not let me move them from my library, i can play them, but not move them. just got Iphone4, cannot move them over, gives me a circle w/slash sysmbol when I try to drag them a song from the library onto my Iphone. HELP??

Sweet!

I am having so many of the same problems others are having. First, when I plug in my phone, it is seldom recognized in the column on the left. Over the weekend I did get it to recognize it (but it won't again now), and I had created a playlist as you suggested, but was unable to drag & drop to the iphone icon because of the black circle with a line through it. When itunes comes up, it is listed as itune1. My husband recently got a nano and started using itunes, and my library ended up on his itunes account. Now it seems we have 2 itunes accounts! Help! I am ready to take the gaspipe. Al I want to do is download my playlist!

Yikes! After an hour and a half, it finally recognized my iphone, but I still can't drag & drop my playlist to the iphone icon. I never got a Summary page to sync the music. Also, there are no apps showing in my library (although they are all on my husband's library (how did that happen?)). I am afraid to sync the music as it may wipe out all the apps I have on my phone now.

Thankyou so much, you're a superstar. I have to say apple don't make it easy do they? but you did. Thanks.

Thanks a lot.Its a very helpful information.

This was so helpful. Thank you for the information.

THANK YOU!! You have helped me solve an issue I've had since getting this phone in MArch. Any songs I bought on iTunes via my phone would sync to my computer, but things I bought on my computer would not synch to my phone. Now I have it all in both places. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!

Got through the steps fine, but a window pops up saying "are you sure you want to delete the apps from your iphone?" The first time I backed out and then followed your steps, it said it would delete my music from my iPhone. I'm just trying to add music from my computer to my iPhone... frustrating!

You are the best!!! This worked like a charm. Merci beaucoup!!!

Thanks a lot Dave.. this helped me a lot...

did exactly what you said and my iphone 4 just wiped a years worth of music from its memory :-/

Dave thanks for your postings, I found same issues listed but couldn't locate the answer. When I tired to put music files into my iphone folder,it displays an X. Next I tired left click next to song,the folders display except iphone is grayed out. Help, thank you

Thank you very helpful

kate

Thank you so much. It really simplified what seemed to be a heck of a task.

i have tried all you suggested but it seems not to work for me..my iphone4 is jailbroken and unlocked iphone and everytime i try to sync music or any app it says its going to clear everything on my iphone4? wha do you suggest?

Hey mna, You are number one. Thanks !!!

I am a new iPhone 4 user. I tried to follow your instructions by creating a playlist on my work computer and moving my music and podcasts into it. Then I tried to move it to my iPhone. iTunes tells me that my phone is synced to another computer and syncing to this one will erase everything on my iPhone and replace it with everything in this iTunes folder. But I get the same exact message when I try this on my home computer. I have no idea what computer it thinks it is synced with. All I want to do is put one group of podcasts onto my iPhone so I can listen when I am walking - but I don't want to erase my iPhone in the process. Can you help?

Sorry to say, Lara, you're going to have to pick one of your computers and let it wipe and reformat the phone, but it's very curious that it doesn't think *either* is your sync'd system. Note that if you have MobileMe (or iCloud, we're in a funny limbo state between the two) you should be able to back everything up before the process starts. In fact, you might want to check in with a "Genius" at the local Apple Store if you have one, just in case. Good luck and let us know what happens!

ive done everything and it will not allow me to choose a playlist it will only let me download all the music and i dont want all of it and im not gonna delete music bc its not only my itunes

this was very helpful, thanks!! So, i have a laptop and desktop with the same iTunes account in the same house & same room even. I have all of my downloaded music on the desktop and purchased music on my laptop. is there any way to get the music purchased from my laptop to desktop and then downloaded to iPhone? i hope your gonna give me the answer im looking for, but it sounds too good to be true!!Thanks again!

Hellow! I buy a second iPhone and I trouay to download (music,games...)and my problem is he whane my to give him the old I'd account ...it is any possibility to break the old account? Many thanks

Hi...I just bought a new laptop and downloaded iTunes...I want to keep the songs I have already on my phone. Can I transfer the music that is on my phone to my new computer? When I sync it, it tells me I have to erase my current content and just add the new songs I downloaded. Any help would be great!

Thanks - I have done all this and created my new folder, but can't get it to sync to the iphone. When I click on 'music', everything is greyed out and there is no option to 'sync new playlist'. If I click on 'sync music' it says are you sure and all existing music will be replaced...Please Help?

Many thanks

Worked for me! Thx!

Sync music to iTunes will be easily for this solution but here in my iphone icreate so many playlist, how to transfer them into iTunes library or backup iPhone playlists into my computer as music folder.

Wow I hate the iPhone. I played the good sport while my girlfriend was hunting for a smartphone and dutifully did my best to highlight the pros and cons of droids and iPhones. She chose the iPhone. That decision sucks. The phone itself, is great: resolution, construction, typepad recognition etc. What sucks is being handcuffed into the vertically integrated Apple fleecing house.
Baaaahhhhh! and Moooooo! - right into the slaughter house.

BRAVO AND THANKS THANKS THANKS! Instructions worked to the letter, very much appreciated Dave!

Thanks Dave, worked a treat!

Hello Dave

Great instructions however when I go to sync the phone its comes up with : No Content-you can download music from ITunes.
It doesnt save it on my iphone. Any ideas?
I am desperate to sort my music out on the phone for my holiday?
Thanks
Laurence

laurence, the first and obvious question is: do you actually have music in iTunes separate from your iPhone? That is, if you click on "Music" on the *very* top left of the iTunes app, does it show that you have anything on the computer? If not, you need to buy some from iTunes or rip a few CDs that you have already purchased. Once the music shows up in iTunes, you should be able to copy it onto your iPhone as long as there's space on the phone.

Hi Dave, I have a lot of music on my pc as well as 20+ albums purchased via iTunes library on my iPhone4! However, since sincing it for my first update (almost 1 year ago now) I only have a "fraction" of those albums and "none" of the music that is on my pc but, would love to have on my iPhone! Why does all the abums/music that I've purchased "not" appear on my iPhone4? I tried creating a playlist as per your directions (even nameing it as you suggested i.e. iPhone sync) then, highlighted and copied 60+ albums from my music library in iTunes to the new playlist (and I have a 16G iPhone e.g. should have plenty of space) and pasted into the new playlist! But, the playlist only showed 28 songs out of the 343 that I was attempting to copy/paste and then hopefully transfer to my iPhone! What am I doing wrong? Can you please help me? I look forward to your prompt and knowledgable advice. Thanks in advance… John aka; jaginoz
PS… I would appreciate any help on, how to transfer the music on my pc to iTunes and ultimately onto my iPhone? jg

Hello Dave
Thanks for the info. I have worked out what I was doing wrong.I had all the music unchecked so it would not sync with the phone.I have checked the music now and it saves it to the phone (phew) lol
Thanks for your help its a great site and much better than Apples instructions.
Best regards
Laurence

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I FINALLY have the songs from my computer library on my I-Phone! Your post is the first one that logically walked me through how to do it and I did it!

So, THANK YOU! :-D

we have apple i phone .we request u to guide how to load songs from i tunes from our pc

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,

Mushtaq

THANK YOU! WORKED PERFECTLY!! I HAD TO CLICK "APPLY" THOUGH NOT SYNC AT THE END. :)

thanku man...really thanx...it was really great for u to help...thanku

THANK YOU VERY MUCH THIS WAS REALLY HELPFUL

THANK YOU! Worked great!

Hi Dove ,
your words helped me, thank you very much, it was so great

I have no problem making the Iphone sync playlist and know how to access that music area where you can "sync selected playlists" and I use that function with my Ipod all the time. But when I plug in my Iphone and go to that area in Itunes, I can't make get the option of "sync only selected playlists". It is there but I can't select it.

HELP

this wiped all my other music from my library, now instead of the 7gig of music i had i only have 1.25gb that was the playlist i tried to add... What on earth happened??

thanks for your help it seemed impossible to copy my music to the I4 but with your guidance was as simple as 123 ,i wonder ?so much work has been done to bring us iphone 4 and such simple way to copy musics to it so complicated or unclear.i wonder .it seems 2 hands 1 is of a genius the other just pure ignorance or carelessness .such a paradox.thank you again for saving me from going back and forth ,apple should learn from you.in their help section instead of the fancy video they should copy & paste your guidance.thanks making lives easier guy.not apples.

cheers matey - worked a treat, my prob was that i had no tunes in the folder so phone wasnt picking it up. iphone wont show an empty folder in selected playlist. thanks again. great post.

AWESOME! Thanks so much! Setup is only slightly different with the latest version of iTunes for Windows but if you follow the basic steps you'll get it!

I recently bought an i-pod touch. I converted my media library to i-tunes and synched the tunes. When I try to synch other tunes from the library to my touch it deletes the existing content and replaces it with th enew tunes. So then I have to synch my whole library. Is there any way this can be changed so I can synch songs without having to synch my entire itunes library?

THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU HAVE HELPED ME SO MUCH AND I RESPECT HOW MUCH EFFORT YOU PUT IN THANK YOU!

how can i download in my iphone 3gs 32gb from computer.

I was so intimidated to try figuring this all out - but your instructions walked me though it really clearly! Thank you!! I usually give up and ask my husband to do these sorts of things for me but this is my phone and I need to learn how to use it!!

Thank you so very, very much!

Hi Dave,
I've followed your steps, and everything was moving along just fine... I clicked on the music tab, chose my playlist, however, I don't have to choice to sync... instead it says "revert" or "apply" and at this point I"m stuck? Any advice?
J

thanks you explain it better than apple,very easy'''''

Dave, you are a legend. I purchased music via my iPhone, transferred it onto my iTunes making the now obvious mistake that Transfer means TRANSFER so had lost all the music on my phone. My anxiety attack has stopped now thanks to you're excellent and very easy to follow steps around getting the music back onto my iPhone.
Thanks Dave

Thanks so much! that was so easy...the easiest directions I've found! Awesome

Sensational stuff Dave. From now on I won't have to ask my daughter how to work my iphone. I am not bad with most things but the itunes/iphone combination can do my head in at times.
Thanks Dave.

Whenever I plug the phone into my computer, it doesn't have a start screen, all it says is "iPhone" in big letters. I tried reinstalling iTunes, but the apple website is way too slow!

Hi,

I have an Ipod Nano 16gb and a Iphone 16gb as well. My Iphone won't let me transfer mp3 from my pc to Itunes. I can't even delete them nor edit songs info. It is all greyed out and I tried a lot of things but no success yet! Any ideas?
p.s.: Itunes with Ipod will let me drag and edit the mp3 with no problems and I'd like to do the same with Iphone.

Oh thanks darling :) may god bless you !

Hi Dave, I recently bought an iphone 4 but my Itunes is version 9.2.1 so it is saying that I have to upgrade it but my computer is Mac OS 10.4.11 and can not support the newer version of Itunes. Is it really impossible for me to sync the data(music, photos, contacts, etc.) in my computer to the iphone 4 without upgrading Itunes. Are there any other ways aside from Itunes? I have searched from the net & mostly the answers are for Windows OS computers.

awesome dued!!! thanks for sharing yo knowledge!!!

It's not working dave

omg! u rock the mic! got it...thank u thank u thank u!!!! love u! dancin with my iphone! sincerely, K

what is this man?
why dont know to put i will tell take the itunes take ring tones take your song from the directory put ctrl plus c and take to itunes and put ctrl plus v
try it the u say
goodnight
by prithiraj
u cant see me man

I did everything you've mentioned above but it does not work as it says that an unknown error has occurred (-54). what does that mean? by the way my Iphone (3GS) is unlocked. thanks in advance!!

havnt tried it yet...... im gonna see if its gona work...

I have an iPhone4 and when I plug it in It does not appear on the left side. What can i do?

Danielle Ezell

Thank you so much!!!!

thanks heaps, most helpful

My old laptop is dead and I just downloaded Itunes in my new laptop and imported a cd but it wont allow me to transfer the music to my iphone. Please help! I cannot get the new OS system because I dont want to lose all my music. Why does Apple make things so flippin difficult!!??

I recently bought an iphone 4s but my Itunes is version 9.2.1 so it is saying that I have to upgrade it but my computer is Mac OS 10.4.11 and can not support the newer version of Itunes. Is it really impossible for me to sync the data(music, photos, contacts, etc.) in my computer to the iphone 4 without upgrading Itunes. Are there any other ways aside from Itunes?

i just bought an unlocked iphone 4gs in lebanon and i want to put songs in it... how should i do it??

awesome - easy to understand and I did it - I have my music back - thanks man!!!

Thank you Dave!! All the other information from other folks was so confusing! Yours was so simple I thought theres no way this works. But it does and you really helped me I was so stressed! Thanks a million!

Thanks Dave, your step-by-step instructions and pics made it so simple... and even though things have changed slightly since your post, it still was easy.
Appreciated muchly :)

Thanks for this, useful tutorial.

Hi ! This was really useful, but when I plug my iPhone4s into my computer, the icon for the device does not pop up and therefore I cannot transfer my new playlist. Help !!

Thank you so much! I've had my phone since Feb and you're the first person who could actually help me.

I PURCHASED A APPLE IPHONE 4 IN SAUDI ARABIA STILL IAM USING IN INDIA BUT PROBLEM WAS THAT I CONNECT WITH COMPUTER TO DAWNLOAD BUT DAWNLOAD IS NOT ACCESS PLEASE SEND ME A USER GUIDE ON MY EMAIL ID PLZ...

Thank you! This is one of the only times I've ever Googled how to do something like this that it was clear and I didn't end up screaming the F word at the computer. Yay!

just choose autofill from ...and choose the playlist if the above doesnt work for you. it didnt for me until i tried this

Hi Dave:

I have a 3GS iphone and had the WiFi on and it updated my software to the iSO 5.0.1 and since then the phone is not working right. I think the last time I synced on iTunes I still had the iSO 4 software. Is there a way for me to check on iTunes to see what software was synced?

I need to restore the phone, but only want to do so if I can reinstall my last sync with the iSO 4 software so I do not lose all my info.

Any guidance is appreciated.

i have receive an iphone that was designed by Apple in California Assembled in China Model and i am trying to download songs from my computer to the itunes so i could download it to the ipod but its not going through. can you help me please cuz its driving me crazzzy......!!!

I always panic when I get to sites explaining stuff, concerning myself that it won't work.

This worked staright away thank to your straight forward instructions. Thank you so much

I'm new to the world of Apple products. I have tried a couple times to get songs from my Mac to my Iphone. I followed your directions and after I use the SYNC button I get questions about erasing my IPhone. And what does Revert mean? I find it confusing and I'm not sure what I should do. Eric

Hi Dave,

I followed ur instructions to sync my music from laptop to my iPhone, but when I pressed on the 'Music' tap, and followed by 'sync music', a warning appeared saying that if I sync, all my iphone contents will be erased. Thus, chicken out and dared not proceed further. Please explain what it meant by the term 'content'. Thank you so much.

Thanks for your awesome advice! You make things so easy to understand! Better than anyone!!!

Thanks just got the iphone 4s helps alot

awesome!! just got my first iPhone and these instructions are 100% accurate!! thanks :)

Hi Dave
Have a iPhone4s and I am having the same problem as described by Bert Dubois on August 19,2007

Your assistance would be greatly appreciated

Mike E

Thank you so much Dave! This is SUPER helpful :) :)

I have tried this but the music doesn't seem to be transferring back to my iphone from itunes, all it is doing is copying the music from the iphone without the music coming off the iphone. How can i put the music that had been taken off back onto it?

Thank you so much. That was so helpful. I took off some music from my iPhone and haven't been able to put more in, so have not had any of the Christmas music that I wanted this season. Finally today, I can now play it. Thanks again :) xxxxx

thank you Dave it was good help 4 me

Thanks so much for this. My daughter was given an iPhone 3G by her StepDad. Years ago he asked me if we could put all of his Beatles CDs on to my computer in order to get them onto this iPhone. I had already been using iTunes because My daughter had the iPod Shuffle but he and i could not get his iPhone to work. I told him to look into it and research it and I'd gladly hook it up again. Of course i wasn't going to go out of my way to do HIS research...lol. Now my girl has his old iPhone. I told her she should load up all of those Beatles tunes and walk around the house listening to them. she said, "no thanks"

Hi Dave,
Saw your tutorial..used it on my iphone..It worked great. My wife got a new iphone now, and I cant get her music files over to the "iphone sync" playlist...Not sure why.. Only a couple of songs show up all the time (allways the same songs)..I cant figure out what I am doing wrong. Can you help me?

Sincerely;
dave taylor fan
Billyb

Seems to be difficult to transfer due to Apple iTunes copyright protection? Can only transfer items bought on iTunes otherwise is says 'cannot sync'?

RodC, the digital rights management system in iTunes is definitely an issue, but it's also definitely not the case that any music you don't buy from iTunes cannot be sync'd. In fact, most of the music on my Mac / iPhone is from CDs I've ripped and it works fine. If you're seeing "cannot sync", it's for another reason.

I am having trouble getting music from a cd to my iphone 3. I am able of getting cds on my ipod but when I try to sync or manually drag the songs to iphone is shows a circle with a line slashed through it. I am able to get anything I purchase from ITunes on it with no problem. It is driving me nuts. Please help.

I have a toshiba laptop but it does not drag and drop what do i do? please help..

Thanks for the tips on how to move my music from itunes to my iphone!!! Worked like a charm and now I am enjoying my music!!!! Happy New Year

wow thanks alot this helped me so much..

Thank you so much. I followed your directions and all my albums transferred to my I Phone. Your instructions were simple to follow - much more than Apple Support

Hey :)
I don't have a mac, which I think is the problem.
"The usual summary screen" does not pop up for me, all I get is something that only imports songs and pictures from the iphone to the computer... And it looks nothing like yours.

What do I do? I managed to make the list and drag all the songs over, but there really is no way to get it onto the iPhone.

Feel free to email me this, seeing as there are alot of comments to keep track of.

Hi Dave,

New to the iPhone....

I followed your instructions correctly.However, when I go into the Music section on my iPhone 4s nothing is there. Please help....

Ahhh...maybe I have solved it...or I am a fool !

I dragged my new playlist(in the left hand column of iTunes) up to my devices and dropped it into my phone....and now the songs are going onto my iPhone :)

Did I miss something ?

Ha haha...I am so happy :) I now have my music on my iPhone to listen to in Beijing :)

Thanks Dave...really helpful :)

Dear Mr.Dave,
Now I can listen to music from iphone.Only because of your guidance I could download music from my laptop to iphone.Your instructions are crystal clear
May God Bless you
Happy new year
Thanks a lot
Sabu

Please don't call me any names, but how do you drag a music file from iTunes to a Playlist. You've assumed that is really easy but when I try to drag it, the new playlist doesn't highlight. Thank you in advance.

I have uploaded some music onto my main itunes library which plays fine but when I put certain songs into the iphone playlist they are greyed out and will n ot play. Then when I sync this playlist to my iphone these certain songs are not transferred over at all..any ideas why this is happening?

I accidentally transfered the music from my iphone to the computer, now it's not on my iphone, how do I put it back on the iphone?

Simple and it worked....thank you

Thank you Dave. I was getting so frustrated with trying to copy my music. The guy at Verizon had to reset my Iphone but he didn't copy my music back on to it and for the life of me I couldnt figure out how to transfer my songs! You Rock Dave!

BTW I grew up with a David Taylor in southern Georgia, that wouldn't happen to be you would it?

Thanks again,
Lee

Lee, glad my site's helpful. I didn't grow up in Georgia, though I really like the parts of the state I've experienced!

Hi Dave. Ive followed your instructions and ticked the "selected playlists, etc"...but my (very large) "Entire Music Library" has been wiped off my phone, including several playlists that took me hours to create:( How do I avoid this again??? As I regularly update my music collection. Cheers Mel

I just wanted to say thank you, I followed your directions made a couple of mistakes but have been able to make play lists and move them on to my iphone.
Thank you again.

MAAAAAN! You're a genius! Thanks a lot... Really usefull!

Store loaded ipod/itunes to iphone 4G. Now, I have no music on ipod. Tried to sync using instructions & says it is downloading the music and still no music on ipod.

Is there a way to do this without syncing? I
've got music on my work iTunes which I want on my phone, but don't want to sync my phone and lose what's already on it. This seems a pretty backwards way of doing things if you have to have a workaround.

When I do this procedure, at the end it says "an iphone can be synced with only one itunes library at a time. erasing and syncing replaces the contents of this iphone with the contents of this itunes library"

So if I erase and sync.. will it erase everything on my iphone.. all apps,contacts, all stuff?

Is there a way to just get the music on there without anything happening to the iphone?