How can I get songs off my Apple iPhone?I had my old Mac laptop, an iBook, stolen and now that I have a new one, I realize that I can't get the music off my Apple iPhone which is driving me crazy! Is there some way to sync the iPod music and video portion of my cellphone without having to start from scratch again? Now that I've been moving everything onto my Macbook Air (which I love!) I am facing the very same issue: when I plug my iPhone into my Air, it just wants to reformat it and start me over from scratch. Not good! However, all the standard utilities I tried couldn't see the iPhone, which was super frustrating until I bumped into the latest beta release of Senuti, a slick free application that lets you copy music from your iPod onto your computer, even if the two aren't paired. I downloaded 1.50.2b3 (beta 3 version of 1.50.2) and was thrilled and delighted that programmer Whitney Young has clearly been experimenting with just this capability. When I installed it and plugged in my iPhone, it worked great! First off, one of the terrific features of Mac OS X is that if you have an app that you downloaded from the net, the first thing you see is this:  Great feature! Click on "Open" and now you'll get to step through the first run configuration options. I don't make any changes other than to select the following:  Since it's your intention to also copy the music from your iPhone back into your iTunes library, you'll also want to select this option. Finally, the app's ready to run and when I plug in my Apple iPhone, here's all my music:  To copy everything, I just selected it all and clicked the green "Transfer" arrow. Now the transfer started: you see a tiny progress bar on the lower left, but if you click on the little "i" info icon, you get a more informative progress window:  after a while - depending on how much music and how many movies you have (here, notice, I'm copying the Harry Potter movie from my phone to my Macbook) - you'll finally see this:  Hurray! Copied. Sure enough, go into iTunes and:  That's the answer. In terms of grabbing your address book, SMS text, and related, I haven't yet found a solution for, but perhaps someone else can offer up a suggestion?
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Never miss another useful Q&A article again! Subscribe to AskDaveTaylor with Google Reader. If I could figure out how to get music onto my iPhone and manage it without having to use iTunes, I would be a very, very happy man. iTunes is one of the least usable and most commercially irritating computer applications I have ever had to face... it makes Internet Explorer 6 look like a saint. Any ideas on how a Mac user can use an iPhone without iTunes at all? SongBird has an iPod module, but it doesn't work with iPhone (yet) due to Apple's encryption and obfuscation efforts. Posted by: brett borders at March 5, 2008 1:26 PMThis worked great for songs, but how about photos? Posted by: IG at March 15, 2008 10:34 AMthis seems great, but help! when i plug in my iphone it doesn't seem to recognize it, and NOTHING pops up. please help Posted by: haley at April 13, 2008 9:58 PMexcellent. this is just what i had been looking for. will keep checking your page. good stuff. Posted by: eskimo at April 18, 2008 3:10 PMhi. thanks for all that but i have a similar problem :( senuti does not recognize my iphone. please help! thanks a ton. Posted by: sandeep makam at April 24, 2008 11:12 AMMake sure you get the *BETA* version of Senuti: the production download doesn't yet include this capability, from what I can tell. Posted by: Dave Taylor at April 24, 2008 11:26 AMI recently use Adobe to transfer my Iphone family pictures to Adobe and then I was able to delete them from my Iphone. At the time Adobe recognized my Iphone ( I was also using Itunes)but now I am unable to get Adobe to recognized my Iphone and cannot delete pictures from my Iphone. Any suggestions? Thanks for your useful columns. I like to take old pictures of from my IPhone and then add new ones. For it putting all your texts and address book on should be done automatically. Even if you've never synced before but just plugged it in for a charge it should back everything up. Posted by: jon beev at June 14, 2008 8:58 AMSenuti is OK on Mac. After installing the new version of Senuti it didnt ask where to transfer the files. When all my songs come up after plugging in my Iphone I click on the transfer button an nothing happens. What can I do?
i have a problem. Senuti turns off randomly when i start transfering my music. why is that? Posted by: john at August 22, 2008 2:14 PMawesome guide!! Posted by: adam at September 6, 2008 3:02 PMThank You. CopyTrans works fine to get music off the iPhone. Posted by: Steve K. at November 3, 2008 2:35 AMhow can i transfer music from my iphone to the laptop ? i have windows vista. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by: alex at December 1, 2008 7:17 PMhi dave, please help. i have an unlocked new iphone and i want to upload music from my laptop to the iphone. what software should i downlaod that will not go to Itunes, otherwise it will lock the phone :( thanks Posted by: Fatima at January 16, 2009 2:50 PMi also cant get the phone (unlocked) to read my sim card. I can use the phone though. So is there some way to get the Iphone to read the sim contacts and contents already on it? Posted by: me again at January 16, 2009 2:54 PMok swithced the phone today and all contacts have appeared. still need help to upload music and photos from my laptop to the unlocked iphone and vice versa without having to get locked using apple 'legit' softwares Posted by: me again at January 17, 2009 6:25 AMI don't have Internet I have iTunes 8 how do I add music to I have an iphone 3g and my computer just crashed ofcourse that means my itunes also. I am on a vista laptop now and can not get my music off my phone to the new itunes i set up. Please help! Posted by: madi at January 31, 2009 8:33 AMActually, Madi, there are a variety of solutions out there for your situation. Check out this writeup: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/review_ipodrobot_music_copying_utility_for_windows.html Hope that helps! Posted by: Dave Taylor at January 31, 2009 11:25 PMwell i went through my old laptop crashing and losing all my songs and what not...bought Senuti and it actually works... Posted by: Paulie at February 4, 2009 11:57 AMFor me the easiest and cheaper way is CopyTrans (http://www.copytrans.net). It works very fine and I didn't have any problem. Thanks DaveTaylor for your amazing website :-) Strawbie Posted by: Strawbie at March 20, 2009 9:22 AMTry Media Monkey on PC. It is free and works great. I've even used to fix a corrupt music db on my iPhone. Not to mention its the best app to organize all your tags in your music library. I don't work for them, I've just wasted lots of time and junked up my PC with crap before discovering MM. Give it a try! Posted by: Adam at March 26, 2009 9:32 AMhey dave , need help, i had on my iphone music and movies .then i joined itunes and my music and movies not on phone. still in library, what can i do???thanks Posted by: David at June 12, 2009 6:06 AMSenuti has problems with songs purchased on the iPhone. It doesn't even see them - any help on how to get to these songs? THE BEST APP EVER! Posted by: Anthony Grant at September 15, 2009 12:57 PMAmazing, worked really well!! Posted by: Poppy at September 27, 2009 5:57 PMSenuti is OK on Mac. Thank you for the link mate, you've saved me from loosing over 30gig of music and priceless photos! Posted by: Solda at November 6, 2009 6:29 PMI have something to say, now that you mention it, but ...
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