An additional suggestion. Before adding music to your library go into
preferences (control +,'comma') control tab to advance, tab over and uncheck
"copy to itunes media folder when adding to library" this makes duplicate
copies on a drive that might not be as large as your external drive. Also, I
would avoid checking "organize library". I learned the hard way that this
will litterally move music from their original location and place them in
the itunes media folder in folders unlike you originally had.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 1:28 PM
Subject: RE: Itunes and downloading music from hard drive to Iphone
Hi Dan,
You don't "download" but "add" music to the iTunes library. It doesn't
matter where your music is, but keep in mind that once you add a file or
folder with music files to the music library in iTunes, the music will not
longer play if you later move the files or folder to a different location.
Having said this, I recommend that even if you have your mnusic on an
external drive or in a particular location that you set up, that if you have
enough space on your hard drive you copy the music to the iTunes\iTunes
Media\Music folder. If you do a default install of iTunes you should have an
iTunes folder in your Music or My Music folder, in that folder is a iTunes
Media folder and in that you have your folders for all the different media
types like music, movies, tones etc.
Once you have it in that folder or, if you want to leave it where it is,
simply open iTunes, go to the File menu and select "Add folder to Library".
This opens a pretty standard Windows dialogue, browse to the folder where
your music is and then tab to Select and activate it. If you have multiple
locations you have to of course repeat this step, but if all your music is
in a single folder even if there are many subfolders and subfolders in those
subfolders it will all be added. Depending on how much music it is this
could take a few seconds or it could take maybe as long as 10, 20 or even 30
seconds. There should be a tritone once the import is complete.
At this point your music library is populated, think of the entires as
shortcuts to the actual music files, therefore, if you change the location
of a file or a folder the shortcut no longer works.
In order to transfer music to your iPhone you have to connect your phone, go
to the "iPhone" button and activate it. This will take you to the device
area of iTunes rather than the library area. Here you tab a few times and
you end up in a treeview which has "Summary" as the first item at the top.
Now you can down arrow to apps, music, movies, TV shows, tones and so on. Go
to Music, then tab and look for a checkbox called "Sync Music" and check it.
Tab a few more times and you now have the option to either select to "Sync
all music" if your entire collection fits on your iPhone or to "Sync
selected music". If you select the second option you can then tab some more
and you will find list views for genre, playlists, artist or album. If, for
example, you want to add by artist, go to that list view, arrow down the
list and each artist you want to add just press the spacebar to check it,
when you are done tab a bunch of times until you get to the "Apply" button
or you can go to the File menu, press "v" for Devices and select "Sync".
Regards,
Sieghard
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Dan
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 7:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Itunes and downloading music from hard drive to Iphone
HI,
I have quite a lot of music I have on my hard drive that I have ripped from
CDs I have bought.
How do I use Itunes to copy that from the hard drive to my Iphone? I
looked at Itunes but do not see an option to search the hard drive for
music.
Thanks.
Dan Beaver
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