When did iPhones become so hard to use with iTunes? This is just pathetic how over the years simple tasks become impossible to do with newer technology.
I appreciate this so much, man. I've hated iTunes almost throughout its entire existence but sadly, there isn't a better alternative (without having to pay for it). And Apple knows it.
Great tutorial. Anything else I looked up online didn't really show you how to do it but then eventually just got to "use this app..." that they were sponsoring. Great job thank you.
Unfortunately there’s a reason for that, this why you have “android crypto-miners” among androids 😢 but Apple wanting you to do all this shit is sad((((
So so true! My company (in their infinite wisdom) decided to give me an iPhone 14. I love the device, sort of, but trying to figure out how to play mp3s is literally impossible. I just don't get it. Even this tutorial didn't work. I downloaded and installed the Windows 11 client of iTunes. And guess what? No "sync" button. You got to be kidding me. forgetaboutit! So, I have to travel with two cellular devices.
You are a God Send! I have been trying to do this for months! It shouldn't be this hard! Thank you so much for solving this for me! I have spent good money on building my music collection over the pass 50 years, and some of the songs you can no longer find today! It simply pure pleasure to have this music physically on my phone, where I don't have to worry about a connection, and listen to my music all over the world! Thank you so much for this video!
Fantastic! Thank you. May I suggest a summary page where stepwise instructions are provided so that we don't need to watch the entire video again while implementing them. Thank you!
Hi Aaron, I've been syncing my music just like you've shown for a long time now and have never had any issues until yesterday 10-Apr-2024. After I performed the sync, some songs would appear on my iPhone but not play. When I would select them to play, I get an message that says "This song is not currently available in your country or region". After resetting my Apple Music App, now none of the songs are able to be played. Has anyone else reached out to you about this or have you encountered it? Thanks
Great video I’ve been struggling trying to keep my music on my iPhone for years and this is the smartest way I’ve seen yet. Keep up the good work, buddy.
My man…you are speaking my language. I do similar things like you. Been dealing with iTunes BS for many years. I’ve got a handle on it now but it’s annoying AF. Now some of my wife’s music won’t play in her phone. Very troubling. I downloaded music from cds and other mp3s. I don’t stream from music services unless I got a strong signal.
Yep, I had the same problem with Apple Music, I have a massive classic movie score and classic pop 50 to 90s , dance, Soul, Rock. I went through the whole miserable experience. I feel Apple is controlling my music collection and how it is delivered. Playing me like a Stradivarius. I am angry that Apple can manipulate there customers who are loyal for years. Excellent video many thanks for sharing your thoughts 👍
I'm having the same issue...I canceled my Apple Music subscription, now all of my playlists are gone, even though they were created before the subscription and with my own music. I have been on support with 3 different people, to no avail. I have tried and tried to sync, does not work. I do have the music on my phone, but not the playlists.
@@myreview-aaronfischer What method...plugging the phone to the computer with lightning cable? Yeah, that does not work. I still have not figured out how to sync, it is stuck on step 2.
Hallelujah! Congratulations for making a clear presentation of the way to transfer between PC and iPhone. It is made purposely difficult, especially with the version offered by Microsoft store, being different and inadequate compared to the one download it online from the Apple site. Thanks very much. I’m going to save this for reference.
I'm planning to buy the iPhone SE 4 in the near future and never had an Apple product before. It always has been a pain to manage files in these devices everytime I had the opportunity to test. But thank you so much for this info. You just saved us 4 days of trial and error. Maybe more 😬
how do I make Apple Music display the playlist on my iPhone like iTunes use to. I want to add more loose songs into my iPhone but when I plug in the iPhone into the computer it only shows my iPhone but doest not display the playlist. Any help would do. Wish I could just run iTunes on this updated laptop.
Good video. Thanks. ... I have an iPod touch with about 10GB of my own music which I downloaded onto it myself. I've just purchased an iPhone 15 and I want to transfer all on my music from my iPod to my iPhone. ... Also, I like your idea about transferring ringtones . I want my old ringtone from my Galaxy S5 but I don't know how to put it on my new iPhone.
You can download music into files from Google Drive etc and play it through another music app but the cost a few quid. I found that when I highlighted a song in iTunes then select all to tranfer them to my phone they all turn up with the same artist and album as the first one I selected, you have to transfer them an album at a time.
And what about music that i made myself? I downloaded the song via an email i send to myself but it only pops up in “files”, the “local files” folder in spotify is still empty?? Can you please help me with that?
Thanks for doing this! I have a PC and I have I Apple ITunes installed on my PC. I also have my Iphone connected by a lightning cable to my PC and the Apple IPhone is showing up as a drive. I imported my mp3 files into ITunes, but you lost me on Syncing since I have a PC. What do I go to on my PC to sync?
It works just like I showed in the video. You MUST have the iTunes from the Apple site and NOT the Microsoft store or you will have issues. You phone will show up in the iTunes sidebar.
Thanks man! I had all the songs I wanted on my iPhone and after downgrading macOS Sonoma to macOS Ventura, which I had to erase my hard drive to do, I tried to transfer the songs to my Mac and somehow everything got deleted from my iPhone. Then it was trying to use iCloud which I didn't want. Fortunately I had a backup of my music library on another drive which was a few months old and not current but close enough. I'll have to find songs I missed and add them back. Thanks for your helpful video! 👍
It simply won’t work without a cable. You might get the music but all of the covers and information will be jumbled. This is the ONLY method that works.
First time I got my iPhone years ago in think I got it in 1999-2000 I have been doing this I don’t use iTunes I use programs transfer music fast and easy
ok. I should know this I have Apple Music and of course Sync Library has to be on. If I turn it off it says I will lose all of that that I had downloaded.. also I have my own music files in iTunes and want to sync them to my iPhone but I try to and it says will not sync unless you turn off sync library not sure what to do? better option or work around?
Ok, here's my dilemma. The music playlist I want to put on my iPhone15 is in my old Macbook's (El Capitan OS 10.11.6) iTunes. I have a cable that connects my iPhone to the Macbook but my iPhone doesn't appear in the Library sidebar of the Macbook's iTunes making it impossible to drag and drop the playlist as I was able to on my iPhone 6s. Any suggestions?
Aaron, first, thank you for producing this useful and clear video. Just one question. Will these instructions be applicable to an iPod as well as an iPhone? I have a Samsung phone and a PC computer, plus a new 7th generation iPod. Thanks for your help.
I don't think you can without syncing it with iTunes. That is my I made teh video. I tired all kinds of ways to doo it and nothing worked. That was the ONLY way.
@@myreview-aaronfischerwhat if i own all the music already? im currently using an iphone 6 as an mp3/iPod, but i want to upgrade to hi-fi soon and dont want to loose all my stuff and i really like itunes interface
Do you happen to know if you can still keep your Apple Music subscription for new music that you want to stream with this awesome process you figured out? Thanks!
I’m a little late to this video but when I’m at the stage of syncing the music it says I need to disable cloud music library to do this. Not sure what this means
Is there a way to get the music from my phone onto the iTunes? I’ve downloaded allot of stuff from my old pc (ringtones, songs) to the iTunes. I no longer have my old pc or those files, other than on my current phone. After 4 years its time for a new phone so looking for a way to transfer it.
Also very important that Aaron did not mention is that, when using iTunes/music apple app you have to go to setting and select not to copy the music to your hard drive. When I was adding music from a folder, iTunes was creating a duplicate in its library taking double space on my hard drive.
I’m attempting to deal with the issue of region restrictions that have been applied to music i’ve transferred this way after converting them from physical media i own. I have NEVER subscribed to apple music or icloud synced my music.
@@myreview-aaronfischer You did not answer my question. Is it possible to make lists between the existing music in apple music and the music I upload to my library? And if so, can it be shared with other users?
I don't know. That isn't what my video was about. I highly doubt you can share your library with other people. Now, I do know if you bought music and have music the playlists can a mix a mix of actual music and cloud music.
Thank you Aaron for this. I am sure there so many of us as we buy and own our CDs and it is sad that we couldnt even use the iCloud to store them. I have problem which is that I accidentally deleted a recording in my Mac and now the only copy (I don't have a hardcopy) left is in the iPhone. Is there a way to transfer Own Musice from iPhone back to Mac
I am so mad at APPLE! my new computer only has Music App - no iTunes to manage my playlists and transfer my own music to my iphone - what a burn! Your video gave me hope of a viable workaround. Thank you!!
Thank you for your video! It was really helpful. We just got a new car that doesn’t have a CD player and has apple play, so i learned through your video how to get our music onto our phone to play for the kids in the car. 🎉
@@myreview-aaronfischer i use play-counts, the reason for that: i have smart-playlists. for example i make playlists with songs that played less than an X-count. that's just an example if you have a big library and songs are getting forgotten...
Thank you very much. I have had a cell phone since 1985 and a Mac since 1988. Hard to believe it's come to this. I have watched your nice video twice and read every comment/question. Am I to understand that you must have cover art to transfer the mp3 audio to my new iphone 13 mini? I have no cover art for any of the 30 or so of my favorite CD's I transferred to mp3's for mobile use. Please help.
You do not NEED cover art to transfer them. Once you transfer they just won’t have the art. Or they will insert something that isn’t correct. It’s a mess. It is best to your own art but not necessary to transfer it.
Have new airbook pro and signed in - purchased items downloaded but not my playlists nor cd ripped music. If i import my itunes library will i have duplicate items. Original itunes was windows - new one will be macos will it work. Do you have video which can help please.
You should still have access to all items purchased through iTunes on a windows computer. You had to setup an Apple account to purchase music. If your Mac is logged in with the same account you will still access to all that music. If it’s music YOU added to iTunes (not purchased) then it will not transfer.
So, can’t I have my music on my Mac (or NAS), basically in my Apple Music library, and then download it from there as I please to my iPhone when I want something to play offline away from the house? (I can stream it from my Mac to my phone, but I have to be in the same house.)
Exactly, I just got the iPhone 14 & connected it to my Windows 10 computer & when I go to the files in my phone it will only show the photo files. Nothing else. Cant download the music, which I wanted for a ringtone. Could there be any way to email it to yourself & download on the phone that way? There doesn’t seem to be any options to download to your music files.
This is pretty much what we had to do back in the days before icloud with iPods. I would manually add them and not auto sync my whole library since I have over 200gb of music so yeah that would take up my whole phones memory lol ohh the good old days of headaches when you would need to turn off sync which literally makes you fresh reset your phone so you can’t sync nowhere else but that computer you originally used. I think you have up to 5 devices you can use to sync up. It’s really confusing at first but once you get it, it’s pretty cool.
How do you do this with older versions of macOS? My Mac will only run up to High Sierra and High Sierra will not mount my iPhone with a most current operating system, neither in iTunes or the Finder? Solutions?
This does not work for me. It has in the past, but most times when I do this it says the music is syncing but no new music moves to the phone. Also when I have done it in the past, full albums wont download. The artwork is there, but there will be maybe four tracks. Its totally frustrating. Then sometimes the sync will take some albums by an artist, but not all the albums....Help!!!
I never heard of syncing music to iPhone without the cable. The way you just did it is the way I have always done it. Did you sync it wirelessly before?
It's funny you mention James Horner, because I was just on a wild goose hunt looking for his Commando OST, doesn't appear to exist digitally and I had to pay a little more than I wanted for a physical copy and was just in the process of trying to find a better way to add my music to my iPhone. I had been going through the clunky way of adding them to VLC (select iphone icon from itunes via the desktop app and going to file sharing and selecting VLC)
this is my problem....all my music and playlists that i purchased through iTunes did NOT transfer to my iPhone when i was transferring music i had on my Mac! UGH! 😩😫 I open my iTunes store app on my iphone and i see them all there under purchased, but i don;t know how to transfer them to my Music app playlists on my iPhone??? I know it's something super easy but I've tried the easy ways and the way that it should work plugging my phone to my Mac and opening iTunes , but i still don't know how to transfer them to my music app on phone! 😤😤😤😤
I used to have an iPod which I loved since "one and done" I never had to change it if/when I changed phones. But the battery is just about dead. So I want the music on my new iPhone. I'd like to add the album art, which I didn't do with my iPod. So please explain how I add album art? These are MP3s I converted from my CDs that I purchased. Great video, BTW. Oh forgot to mention I no longer have internet in my home so my PC is not connected to the internet.
All music currently on a flash drive. I’ll transfer music from the flash drive to my PC. Can I somehow download artwork to my flash drive? The flash drive will be connected to PC at the library which of course has WiFi.
You started with importing your James Horner scores from a thumbdrive. Where did you put them on that thumbdrive.....from itunes library?, from another PC?? I have tons of CD's I manually uploaded to my itunes account. I always encounter a problem getting these to my iphone.
Interesting bug with this right now is that individual albums don't work the first time around. I had a single album that I wanted to add this way and it was only keeping art for some of the songs. I had to select at least one or two more singles/albums in order to get the cover art to fully transfer over. Apple really needs to fix this.
This is how it has been done for years. It is how it has always been done. Why my phone won’t show in PC is what is stumping me. I wonder if Apple still “matches” the music from their servers with no subscription. I am trying to avoid this but I have a subscription. I guess I have to cancel to actually listen to my own CDs
Thanks for your video. I haven't used Itunes in a good while. Sometime ago I deleted a lot of music, and I updated to Monterey. So I got Music now. I tried to throw some mp3s from a harddrive in the music folder, assuming it would automatically add it to Apple Music. It doesn't. When I am in Apple Music and do file>import and select the music folder where I have the mp3 files and hit open, it does nothing. It does not add the mp3 files in Apple Music, not even when I drag them from finder into Apple music. what's going on???
I am sorry you are having this issues. I did not have that issue. I think the best thing would be to actually highlight the MP3s and not the folder itself. If that makes sense. I didn't just import my James Horner Folder. I highlighted each individual album. Let me know if that helps.
@@myreview-aaronfischer I tried it again. I have 3 mp3 files in my music folder. I can't drag them in, it doesn't do nothing. In Apple Music then I try, File>Import and select just one mp3 file, it's not doing anything. Very weird.
@@bozo7545 try this and see if it works: Open Finder, go to Music, open Music folder, open Media folder, open Automatically Add to Music folder and leave it open. Plug your external drive and navigate to the track(s) you want to copy and drag them to the Automatically Add to Music window. It should copy them, look for your tracks under Songs in Music or under Recently Added. Tip: In Music, under Preferences and under Files, make sure to check both Keep Music Folder Organised and Copy Files to Media Folder when adding to library. This is how I have been transferring my old iTunes library in an external drive to my new M1.
I am thinking about this, I have most of my music that I got from old CDs, Freegal library, Song of the Day podcast, etc. on the computer and transfer it to an old iPod Touch I bought refurbished. Now that I own an iPhone X, I wonder if this is a good idea in terms of storage space, (and keep the iPod as backup}. Will it slow my iPhone? Any ideas?
I still use iTunes (version 12.?.?) in 2024 on Mojave (Will/can not upgrade, have my reasons). I can’t get iTunes to recognize/synch with my iPhone 7 (iOS version 15.8.2). Does anybody has a workaround without the need to upgrade my OSX?
I have a similar issue, but I have one artist (The Tubes) where both albums are in MP3 and show up on my iMac, but it refuses to sync one of the albums. I will say that I haven’t tried to use the lightning cable yet, but that will happen this morning. Also, I have most of my album art, but about 6 months ago after an update, a bunch of it got scrambled. So I have a huge mess of album art on the wrong albums. It’s even mixed between music and audio books!! What a mess!! I’ll start with the lightning cable issue today and see what that fixes. Thanks for your help. I have my fingers crossed!!
My Dell PC has all my music, but I cannot get it all to my phone and I Pod. I have the orange circle exclamation point that says my cloud is unavailable. How does that work?
i have a pc and i imported my cd to itunes and cover art is not really important to me, but i cant use usb in my pc..is there a way i can import my cd to my phone? maybe if i create a mp3 version of my cd and import it to my sisters pc? her usb ports do work unlike mine
A few years ago, I tried to sync my computer and my phone had no idea that I was erasing everything on my phone and not everything on my phone was on the computer so I think I lost something. You kind of answered that here how o did that... now I gotta figure out how to get all the music on my wife's phone onto the computer so then I could put that on my phone.
Here is a BRAND NEW tutorial that is MUCH easier to follow: th-cam.com/video/OMOlmI05U9g/w-d-xo.html
Ok
When did iPhones become so hard to use with iTunes? This is just pathetic how over the years simple tasks become impossible to do with newer technology.
It’s not hard to use when it’s directly plugged in.
@@myreview-aaronfischer if it weren't for iOS, I could do it in two minutes with windows file explorer.
For real the shit use to b so easy with the iPods..
So easy w an android phone on windows
They need to be sued.
Don't stop teaching. You are more clear than any professor I ever had in school. Thank you so kindly.
Glad I could help you out!
FINALLY!!! This is what I've been looking for! I don't WANT everything on the cloud and HATE iTunes. Thank you!
I love when I can help someone out. I knew I wasn’t the ONLY one having that issue.
then why did you buy a sheepphone- I mean, an iphone
@@jux3283 maybe it was a gift??
@@myreview-aaronfischer haven’t gotten it to work yet but will try again soon. Bummer
I appreciate this so much, man. I've hated iTunes almost throughout its entire existence but sadly, there isn't a better alternative (without having to pay for it). And Apple knows it.
Great tutorial. Anything else I looked up online didn't really show you how to do it but then eventually just got to "use this app..." that they were sponsoring. Great job thank you.
This is where android shines. U download a song and it plays on ur media player. So easy.
I have contemplated going back to android because of this..LOL
@@myreview-aaronfischer i just bought a 2,200 dollar iphone only to realise that i have to cross heaven and earth to get it to play my music 😑
Unfortunately there’s a reason for that, this why you have “android crypto-miners” among androids 😢 but Apple wanting you to do all this shit is sad((((
So so true! My company (in their infinite wisdom) decided to give me an iPhone 14. I love the device, sort of, but trying to figure out how to play mp3s is literally impossible. I just don't get it. Even this tutorial didn't work. I downloaded and installed the Windows 11 client of iTunes. And guess what? No "sync" button. You got to be kidding me. forgetaboutit!
So, I have to travel with two cellular devices.
You just saved me so much time. Thank you, I wish I could buy you a coffee or something to show my appreciation!
You are a God Send! I have been trying to do this for months! It shouldn't be this hard! Thank you so much for solving this for me! I have spent good money on building my music collection over the pass 50 years, and some of the songs you can no longer find today! It simply pure pleasure to have this music physically on my phone, where I don't have to worry about a connection, and listen to my music all over the world! Thank you so much for this video!
I love when my videos can help someone out like this. You are 100% correct. It should not be this hard.
Fantastic! Thank you. May I suggest a summary page where stepwise instructions are provided so that we don't need to watch the entire video again while implementing them. Thank you!
Hi Aaron, I've been syncing my music just like you've shown for a long time now and have never had any issues until yesterday 10-Apr-2024. After I performed the sync, some songs would appear on my iPhone but not play. When I would select them to play, I get an message that says "This song is not currently available in your country or region". After resetting my Apple Music App, now none of the songs are able to be played. Has anyone else reached out to you about this or have you encountered it? Thanks
I have not had those issues.
Great video I’ve been struggling trying to keep my music on my iPhone for years and this is the smartest way I’ve seen yet. Keep up the good work, buddy.
Just a quick question... the insertion of artwork is not mandatory, right? I can do the sync without going after images, correct? Thank you!
Correct. It may put up random artwork if you don’t. But, it’s not necessary.
Great!@@myreview-aaronfischer Thanks for the lightning quick reply! All the best!
No problem.
I have my phone plugged into my computer but I dont see it show up as a connected device in the apple music app, help.
Same here
THANKS! Managed to download The Ecstatic by MOS DEF and some mixtapes I love which are not on streaming services.
Fantastic!! Glad I could help.
My man…you are speaking my language. I do similar things like you. Been dealing with iTunes BS for many years. I’ve got a handle on it now but it’s annoying AF. Now some of my wife’s music won’t play in her phone. Very troubling. I downloaded music from cds and other mp3s. I don’t stream from music services unless I got a strong signal.
Yep, I had the same problem with Apple Music, I have a massive classic movie score and classic pop 50 to 90s , dance, Soul, Rock. I went through the whole miserable experience. I feel Apple is controlling my music collection and how it is delivered. Playing me like a Stradivarius.
I am angry that Apple can manipulate there customers who are loyal for years.
Excellent video many thanks for sharing your thoughts 👍
Thanks for the story and feedback. They do like their own ecosystem.
I'm having the same issue...I canceled my Apple Music subscription, now all of my playlists are gone, even though they were created before the subscription and with my own music. I have been on support with 3 different people, to no avail. I have tried and tried to sync, does not work. I do have the music on my phone, but not the playlists.
This method will fix your issue.
@@myreview-aaronfischer What method...plugging the phone to the computer with lightning cable? Yeah, that does not work. I still have not figured out how to sync, it is stuck on step 2.
Hallelujah! Congratulations for making a clear presentation of the way to transfer between PC and iPhone. It is made purposely difficult, especially with the version offered by Microsoft store, being different and inadequate compared to the one download it online from the Apple site. Thanks very much. I’m going to save this for reference.
I have a Mac and it is purposely difficult as well. Why not have a normal File transfer from Files...? I dont get the Apple logic
The ending song for cammando is what I have been looking for ? Can I put that one song on my Apple playlist
I'm planning to buy the iPhone SE 4 in the near future and never had an Apple product before. It always has been a pain to manage files in these devices everytime I had the opportunity to test. But thank you so much for this info. You just saved us 4 days of trial and error. Maybe more 😬
how do I make Apple Music display the playlist on my iPhone like iTunes use to. I want to add more loose songs into my iPhone but when I plug in the iPhone into the computer it only shows my iPhone but doest not display the playlist. Any help would do. Wish I could just run iTunes on this updated laptop.
Would this work with a regular PC and a USB connection?
Not anymore.
this is why I still use an iPod Classic 160g...I got it all where I want it....apple knew what they were doing discontinuing it.
Yeah, I found a way though…LOL
What music app do you have on your PC? I’m using Windows Media Player and cannot get all of my own music to my iPhone which has a music app.
Thank you! I have been trying for a year to sort this out, being very stubborn because before I updated my iphone, I could just sync from my computer.
Glad it helped.
Good video. Thanks. ... I have an iPod touch with about 10GB of my own music which I downloaded onto it myself. I've just purchased an iPhone 15 and I want to transfer all on my music from my iPod to my iPhone. ... Also, I like your idea about transferring ringtones . I want my old ringtone from my Galaxy S5 but I don't know how to put it on my new iPhone.
You can download music into files from Google Drive etc and play it through another music app but the cost a few quid.
I found that when I highlighted a song in iTunes then select all to tranfer them to my phone they all turn up with the same artist and album as the first one I selected, you have to transfer them an album at a time.
And what about music that i made myself? I downloaded the song via an email i send to myself but it only pops up in “files”, the “local files” folder in spotify is still empty?? Can you please help me with that?
Thanks for doing this! I have a PC and I have I Apple ITunes installed on my PC. I also have my Iphone connected by a lightning cable to my PC and the Apple IPhone is showing up as a drive. I imported my mp3 files into ITunes, but you lost me on Syncing since I have a PC. What do I go to on my PC to sync?
It works just like I showed in the video. You MUST have the iTunes from the Apple site and NOT the Microsoft store or you will have issues.
You phone will show up in the iTunes sidebar.
@@myreview-aaronfischer Thanks! Figured it out with the Lord Jesus' help!
Thanks man! I had all the songs I wanted on my iPhone and after downgrading macOS Sonoma to macOS Ventura, which I had to erase my hard drive to do, I tried to transfer the songs to my Mac and somehow everything got deleted from my iPhone. Then it was trying to use iCloud which I didn't want. Fortunately I had a backup of my music library on another drive which was a few months old and not current but close enough. I'll have to find songs I missed and add them back. Thanks for your helpful video! 👍
What music app do you recommend for iPhone? I was looking for a free one without ads and that simply plays music without a place to buy music?
I use Apple Music. The free version. This video shows how to add your music to it. It's a nice interface. There are no music apps for the iphone.
My phones iPhone cable thing doesn’t work I use the pad to charge it. How do I do this wirelessly
It simply won’t work without a cable. You might get the music but all of the covers and information will be jumbled. This is the ONLY method that works.
@@myreview-aaronfischer I just downloaded a mp3 player app and sent the music to the phone
First time I got my iPhone years ago in think I got it in 1999-2000 I have been doing this I don’t use iTunes I use programs transfer music fast and easy
ok. I should know this I have Apple Music and of course Sync Library has to be on. If I turn it off it says I will lose all of that that I had downloaded.. also I have my own music files in iTunes and want to sync them to my iPhone but I try to and it says will not sync unless you turn off sync library not sure what to do? better option or work around?
Yeah, that’s odd. I have no idea.
Ok, here's my dilemma. The music playlist I want to put on my iPhone15 is in my old Macbook's (El Capitan OS 10.11.6) iTunes. I have a cable that connects my iPhone to the Macbook but my iPhone doesn't appear in the Library sidebar of the Macbook's iTunes making it impossible to drag and drop the playlist as I was able to on my iPhone 6s. Any suggestions?
I think the age between the 2 is too great.
Can I access MY imported music without a Apple Music subscription?
Absolutely. That is why I made the video. I don’t have a subscription myself.
Wait….did you not explain for the PC users?? Please help
I explained that in the video.
Would you need to do the same thing to get the physical MP3’s on to an iPad/
Yep.
Aaron, first, thank you for producing this useful and clear video. Just one question. Will these instructions be applicable to an iPod as well as an iPhone? I have a Samsung phone and a PC computer, plus a new 7th generation iPod. Thanks for your help.
I am not sure as I don't live in the Apple ecosystem entirely.
I had the same issue with missing cover art on my iPhone - a simple sign out and back in to my account remedied this
I have a mp3 file on my iPhone 14 max pro. How do you move it to Music? All in iPhone.
I don't think you can without syncing it with iTunes. That is my I made teh video. I tired all kinds of ways to doo it and nothing worked. That was the ONLY way.
Thank you for your video if I may suggest you might want to listen to John Barrie music scores
can you add itunes/music to an android hi-fi player?
You would have to convert the music first. After that? Yes.
@@myreview-aaronfischerwhat if i own all the music already? im currently using an iphone 6 as an mp3/iPod, but i want to upgrade to hi-fi soon and dont want to loose all my stuff and i really like itunes interface
When I import, nothing happens. the Mp3 files don't show up anywhere
I can’t help you if you import and they don’t show up. More than likely they are in a format that Apple does not support.
Do you happen to know if you can still keep your Apple Music subscription for new music that you want to stream with this awesome process you figured out? Thanks!
Yes you can.
Sir can you tell me what all you use to play your songs on your iPhone??
I use the Apple Music app.
@@myreview-aaronfischer thanks
I’m a little late to this video but when I’m at the stage of syncing the music it says I need to disable cloud music library to do this. Not sure what this means
That’s odd. As Apple doesn’t let you save music in the cloud.
Is there a way to get the music from my phone onto the iTunes? I’ve downloaded allot of stuff from my old pc (ringtones, songs) to the iTunes. I no longer have my old pc or those files, other than on my current phone. After 4 years its time for a new phone so looking for a way to transfer it.
Also very important that Aaron did not mention is that, when using iTunes/music apple app you have to go to setting and select not to copy the music to your hard drive. When I was adding music from a folder, iTunes was creating a duplicate in its library taking double space on my hard drive.
I added mine from my thumb drive and had no issues with duplicates.
I’m attempting to deal with the issue of region restrictions that have been applied to music i’ve transferred this way after converting them from physical media i own. I have NEVER subscribed to apple music or icloud synced my music.
Only video where you get accurate info. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Can I make a playlist between music from apple music and music that imports into the app?
You make the playlist in iTunes. Then when you transfer to the iPhone it shows up as a playlist in the music app.
@@myreview-aaronfischer You did not answer my question. Is it possible to make lists between the existing music in apple music and the music I upload to my library? And if so, can it be shared with other users?
I don't know. That isn't what my video was about. I highly doubt you can share your library with other people. Now, I do know if you bought music and have music the playlists can a mix a mix of actual music and cloud music.
Thank you Aaron for this. I am sure there so many of us as we buy and own our CDs and it is sad that we couldnt even use the iCloud to store them. I have problem which is that I accidentally deleted a recording in my Mac and now the only copy (I don't have a hardcopy) left is in the iPhone. Is there a way to transfer Own Musice from iPhone back to Mac
I have no idea. Never tried in reverse.
@@myreview-aaronfischer Thank you Aaron for taking time to reply
I am so mad at APPLE! my new computer only has Music App - no iTunes to manage my playlists and transfer my own music to my iphone - what a burn! Your video gave me hope of a viable workaround. Thank you!!
Thank you for your video! It was really helpful. We just got a new car that doesn’t have a CD player and has apple play, so i learned through your video how to get our music onto our phone to play for the kids in the car. 🎉
Fantastic! It’s exactly for people like you that made me want to create the video.
and how do your play-counts update from phone to mac and vice versa? check if it counts double after syncing again, even it was just played once.
I haven’t looked and don’t care but let me check and I will get back to you. I just wanted MY music.
@@myreview-aaronfischer i use play-counts, the reason for that: i have smart-playlists. for example i make playlists with songs that played less than an X-count. that's just an example if you have a big library and songs are getting forgotten...
Thank you very much. I have had a cell phone since 1985 and a Mac since 1988. Hard to believe it's come to this. I have watched your nice video twice and read every comment/question. Am I to understand that you must have cover art to transfer the mp3 audio to my new iphone 13 mini? I have no cover art for any of the 30 or so of my favorite CD's I transferred to mp3's for mobile use. Please help.
You do not NEED cover art to transfer them. Once you transfer they just won’t have the art. Or they will insert something that isn’t correct. It’s a mess. It is best to your own art but not necessary to transfer it.
Have new airbook pro and signed in - purchased items downloaded but not my playlists nor cd ripped music. If i import my itunes library will i have duplicate items. Original itunes was windows - new one will be macos will it work. Do you have video which can help please.
You should still have access to all items purchased through iTunes on a windows computer. You had to setup an Apple account to purchase music. If your Mac is logged in with the same account you will still access to all that music. If it’s music YOU added to iTunes (not purchased) then it will not transfer.
Thanks so to have same playlists anything not purchased wont import so will have to be added manually
So, can’t I have my music on my Mac (or NAS), basically in my Apple Music library, and then download it from there as I please to my iPhone when I want something to play offline away from the house? (I can stream it from my Mac to my phone, but I have to be in the same house.)
Well… it seems you explain how to do this later in the video. I think. It’s midnight and I’m not sure my brain is totally keeping up.
Exactly, I just got the iPhone 14 & connected it to my Windows 10 computer & when I go to the files in my phone it will only show the photo files. Nothing else. Cant download the music, which I wanted for a ringtone. Could there be any way to email it to yourself & download on the phone that way? There doesn’t seem to be any options to download to your music files.
You have to go through iTunes and not the version from the windows store. It has to be from the Apple website or there will be issues.
This is great but I don't own a Mac. I have a PC. How do you do this with a PC?
I hope to have that video uploaded today or tomorrow.
I still having gray dots in some albums, but thanks for your video!
When trying to manually sync, I get a message warning me that all the content on my phone will be deleted.
Is this the only way to set this up ?
I have never seen that message before.
This is pretty much what we had to do back in the days before icloud with iPods. I would manually add them and not auto sync my whole library since I have over 200gb of music so yeah that would take up my whole phones memory lol ohh the good old days of headaches when you would need to turn off sync which literally makes you fresh reset your phone so you can’t sync nowhere else but that computer you originally used. I think you have up to 5 devices you can use to sync up. It’s really confusing at first but once you get it, it’s pretty cool.
I download music from cd on music app , don’t show the iPhone & I can’t download iTunes from Apple, what recommend to do . Thank you & God bless
I was so excited when I finally found the James Horner song from the ending of Die Hard!
How do you do this with older versions of macOS? My Mac will only run up to High Sierra and High Sierra will not mount my iPhone with a most current operating system, neither in iTunes or the Finder? Solutions?
This does not work for me. It has in the past, but most times when I do this it says the music is syncing but no new music moves to the phone. Also when I have done it in the past, full albums wont download. The artwork is there, but there will be maybe four tracks. Its totally frustrating. Then sometimes the sync will take some albums by an artist, but not all the albums....Help!!!
What do I do if under music it says I have Cloud Music Library enabled? It won’t let me see any of the songs?
Cloud songs or physical songs? Mac or PC?
Can one just add or transfer new music without syncing ?
If you get it from Apple, yes. Not your own music though.
James Horner is the best! And thank you so much for this video. Was able to figure out what I needed to do, thanks to you.
I never heard of syncing music to iPhone without the cable. The way you just did it is the way I have always done it. Did you sync it wirelessly before?
Yes, and it’s supposed to work. But has had issues for the last 3 years.
It's funny you mention James Horner, because I was just on a wild goose hunt looking for his Commando OST, doesn't appear to exist digitally and I had to pay a little more than I wanted for a physical copy and was just in the process of trying to find a better way to add my music to my iPhone. I had been going through the clunky way of adding them to VLC (select iphone icon from itunes via the desktop app and going to file sharing and selecting VLC)
this is my problem....all my music and playlists that i purchased through iTunes did NOT transfer to my iPhone when i was transferring music i had on my Mac! UGH! 😩😫 I open my iTunes store app on my iphone and i see them all there under purchased, but i don;t know how to transfer them to my Music app playlists on my iPhone??? I know it's something super easy but I've tried the easy ways and the way that it should work plugging my phone to my Mac and opening iTunes , but i still don't know how to transfer them to my music app on phone! 😤😤😤😤
I used to have an iPod which I loved since "one and done" I never had to change it if/when I changed phones. But the battery is just about dead. So I want the music on my new iPhone. I'd like to add the album art, which I didn't do with my iPod. So please explain how I add album art? These are MP3s I converted from my CDs that I purchased. Great video, BTW. Oh forgot to mention I no longer have internet in my home so my PC is not connected to the internet.
Without he internet you can't add artwork.
All music currently on a flash drive. I’ll transfer music from the flash drive to my PC. Can I somehow download artwork to my flash drive? The flash drive will be connected to PC at the library which of course has WiFi.
What I’m asking is how to download the art work.
don't you get claustrophobic in your setup?
Nope.
Is it possible to do without a computer and only an Ipad?
I am not 100% sure. But it should. They all work pretty much the same. That’s assuming you can get those MP3 onto the iPad.
You started with importing your James Horner scores from a thumbdrive. Where did you put them on that thumbdrive.....from itunes library?, from another PC?? I have tons of CD's I manually uploaded to my itunes account. I always encounter a problem getting these to my iphone.
They were imported directly from the thumb drive itself. They were all the scores I ripped to MP3 files from CDs.
But I did have to imnprt them into iTunes before doing the transfer. Like I show in the video.
Interesting bug with this right now is that individual albums don't work the first time around. I had a single album that I wanted to add this way and it was only keeping art for some of the songs. I had to select at least one or two more singles/albums in order to get the cover art to fully transfer over. Apple really needs to fix this.
I think they do this to frustrate people into using their monthly service. I will never do that.
thank you so much, finally got this working thanks to your video
Glad it helped
Hi Aaron, Thank you very much for your tutoriol video. Very helpfull!👍
What happens if your computer doesn’t recognize the iPhone is there a way to still transfer your music to your iPhone
No, there isn’t. That’s probably due to an age issue with one of the devices.
then how do you transfer to imac ?
This is how it has been done for years. It is how it has always been done. Why my phone won’t show in PC is what is stumping me. I wonder if Apple still “matches” the music from their servers with no subscription. I am trying to avoid this but I have a subscription. I guess I have to cancel to actually listen to my own CDs
Thanks for your video. I haven't used Itunes in a good while. Sometime ago I deleted a lot of music, and I updated to Monterey. So I got Music now. I tried to throw some mp3s from a harddrive in the music folder, assuming it would automatically add it to Apple Music. It doesn't. When I am in Apple Music and do file>import and select the music folder where I have the mp3 files and hit open, it does nothing. It does not add the mp3 files in Apple Music, not even when I drag them from finder into Apple music. what's going on???
I am sorry you are having this issues. I did not have that issue. I think the best thing would be to actually highlight the MP3s and not the folder itself. If that makes sense. I didn't just import my James Horner Folder. I highlighted each individual album. Let me know if that helps.
@@myreview-aaronfischer I tried it again. I have 3 mp3 files in my music folder. I can't drag them in, it doesn't do nothing. In Apple Music then I try, File>Import and select just one mp3 file, it's not doing anything. Very weird.
I have this same issue as well :(
@@bozo7545 try this and see if it works:
Open Finder, go to Music, open Music folder, open Media folder, open Automatically Add to Music folder and leave it open.
Plug your external drive and navigate to the track(s) you want to copy and drag them to the Automatically Add to Music window. It should copy them, look for your tracks under Songs in Music or under Recently Added.
Tip: In Music, under Preferences and under Files, make sure to check both Keep Music Folder Organised and Copy Files to Media Folder when adding to library.
This is how I have been transferring my old iTunes library in an external drive to my new M1.
@@pippycrystal5786 I ended up figuring it out (just redownloaded the mp3 files) but thank you so much for the suggestion!
I am thinking about this, I have most of my music that I got from old CDs, Freegal library, Song of the Day podcast, etc. on the computer and transfer it to an old iPod Touch I bought refurbished. Now that I own an iPhone X, I wonder if this is a good idea in terms of storage space, (and keep the iPod as backup}. Will it slow my iPhone? Any ideas?
No. It won’t slow the phone down at all.
@@myreview-aaronfischer thanks, I don’t want to carry two devices all the time.
I still use iTunes (version 12.?.?) in 2024 on Mojave (Will/can not upgrade, have my reasons). I can’t get iTunes to recognize/synch with my iPhone 7 (iOS version 15.8.2). Does anybody has a workaround without the need to upgrade my OSX?
Not sure. Everything is now done through the Music app.
I have a similar issue, but I have one artist (The Tubes) where both albums are in MP3 and show up on my iMac, but it refuses to sync one of the albums. I will say that I haven’t tried to use the lightning cable yet, but that will happen this morning. Also, I have most of my album art, but about 6 months ago after an update, a bunch of it got scrambled. So I have a huge mess of album art on the wrong albums. It’s even mixed between music and audio books!! What a mess!! I’ll start with the lightning cable issue today and see what that fixes. Thanks for your help. I have my fingers crossed!!
You will have to manually fix the covers first. Then sync using lightening cable and you should be good. Let me know how it turns out.
How do you transfer music from iphone to an external hard drive?
My Dell PC has all my music, but I cannot get it all to my phone and I Pod. I have the orange circle exclamation point that says my cloud is unavailable. How does that work?
It has nothing to do with your cloud. My video is about mp3 files. Not cloud based files. So, I can't really help.
i have a pc and i imported my cd to itunes and cover art is not really important to me, but i cant use usb in my pc..is there a way i can import my cd to my phone? maybe if i create a mp3 version of my cd and import it to my sisters pc? her usb ports do work unlike mine
My method was using MP3 files so it should work.
@@myreview-aaronfischer oh thank you 🙏
I have an iPhone 4 with music from purchased cd’s how can I download to a current Mac?
Thank you. I've been trying to figure this out, this was super clear
You're welcome!
but if you have an active Apple Music subscription, syncing your own files unfortunately doesn't work..:-( right?
hey aaron, could this work in reverse? if you had downloaded music on your iphone that wasn't backed up anywhere could you get it onto your mac?
That’s a good question. Maybe one of my viewers could give it a try.
How do I get all the album covers to show up on my songs the 1st couple of songs will have the album cover but then the rest won’t how do I fix this
When you sync it, it should be fine.
@@myreview-aaronfischer I did sync everything but it still has some of the songs with no album covers
That’s odd. You can add the cover art for each song individually like I showed in the video.
A few years ago, I tried to sync my computer and my phone had no idea that I was erasing everything on my phone and not everything on my phone was on the computer so I think I lost something. You kind of answered that here how o did that... now I gotta figure out how to get all the music on my wife's phone onto the computer so then I could put that on my phone.
OK, being blind means voice commands are REQUIRED in order to select a particular album. Any suggestions?
Unfortunately, I have no experience in that arena. I wish I could help. Hopefully one of the viewers can help.
@@myreview-aaronfischer -- Thank you for your timely reply. I also hope one of the viewers can help! Fingers crossed.🙂
If I try to download one ripped cd to my iPhone will I lose all the music on my iPhone and end up with just one album? Thx