iTunes help

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Rob1878

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Is iTunes the easiest and best way to transfer music from your PC to your iPhone? I don't find it the most user friendly software and can often be a frustrating experience for me. Any help from an iTunes expert would be most helpful. Thanks in advance.
 
keynes

keynes

Multiverse Poster
If your music is stored on iTunes it is a matter of synchronising it. You also can get a lot of support on the apple forum for iTunes for specific errors you may encounter
 
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LFFPicard

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The best advice I can give you is....
As soon as you have installed iTunes and before you plug your phone in, got into the preferences and I forget exactly which tab but there is an option about auto sync phone when detected.. UNTICK this.

I have found on more than one occasion that if you phone has more than iTunes when you plug it in and it auto syncs iTunes has a habit of wiping your phone and replacing it with what is in it's library, therefore wiping any new purchases you made on your phone. The sync over wifi and auto download new purchases on iTunes relies on you having it open all the time to be told to download new purchases.

Usually, with auto sync now turned off I tend to do the following.

Plug phone in
Goto File -> Devices -> iPhone -> Transfer purchases form this device (This will put all new purchases from your phone onto iTunes)
Check what I want to have on my phone
Sync

This will ensure I put all new purchases onto iTunes before I sync up, preventing the issue of having my phone wiped in favour of the iTunes library.

Hope this helps!
 
Androcles

Androcles

Rising Star
LFFPicard said:
The best advice I can give you is....
As soon as you have installed iTunes and before you plug your phone in, got into the preferences and I forget exactly which tab but there is an option about auto sync phone when detected.. UNTICK this.

I have found on more than one occasion that if you phone has more than iTunes when you plug it in and it auto syncs iTunes has a habit of wiping your phone and replacing it with what is in it's library, therefore wiping any new purchases you made on your phone. The sync over wifi and auto download new purchases on iTunes relies on you having it open all the time to be told to download new purchases.

Usually, with auto sync now turned off I tend to do the following.

Plug phone in
Goto File -> Devices -> iPhone -> Transfer purchases form this device (This will put all new purchases from your phone onto iTunes)
Check what I want to have on my phone
Sync

This will ensure I put all new purchases onto iTunes before I sync up, preventing the issue of having my phone wiped in favour of the iTunes library.

Hope this helps!
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This happens to other things with iTunes too, including photos videos and I've even had it delete contacts, I absolutely hate Apples software, it's the worst software I've ever used on a smart phone.
 
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LFFPicard

Godlike
When I get time I may also write a quick techdoc for people on here about moving iTunes to a new computer as it tends to be a pain and can easily loose your whole library.
 
Pagey

Pagey

Bright Spark
LFFPicard said:
When I get time I may also write a quick techdoc for people on here about moving iTunes to a new computer as it tends to be a pain and can easily loose your whole library.
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Once you know what you're doing it's the easiest thing to do. :)
 
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