Ok, I finally figured this out.
It turns out that to make this work completely you have to turn off
ICloud settings in Itunes and then also in ICloud settings on the
device. If you do not turn off ICloud settings on the device then
Itunes detects those and still will not allow manual transfer of music
from the computer to the device.
Once I got them all turned off it now transfers beautifully.
Dan Beaver
On 5/5/2017 9:49 AM, Dan wrote:
Sieghard,
I apologize but synching music to my old Iphone 5 is just not working
for me.
I have followed your instructions several times and all I can get it
to do is synch from the phone to my laptop.
You indicated that there should be a checkbox for synching music to
the iphone. this checkbox never shows up on the screen for me. I
have even had my sighted wife watch the process and she says it
doesn't show up.
Any other ideas?
Thanks.
Dan Beaver
On 4/26/2017 3:28 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
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: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Dan
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 7:48 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
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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