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Music to your iPhone
- Thread starter Sitch
- Start date
Download iTunes (if you don't have it already), set up your iPhone to sync with it (which you should do anyway in order to back up and manage the content on your phone), then you can sync any music you have on iTunes to your phone as you choose.
- Thread starter
- #3
Yeah, but don't you have to pay to download songs from Itunes?
Superphil
Dismember
not if it's music you already have on your computer
You can't use an iphone without downloading itunes anyway.
After that, all you have to do is put the CD into the computer.
Or a CD.
Yes, but if you already have music on CDs you can just upload them to your iTunes for free. Where's your music at the moment?
Superphil
Dismember
He did say "get music from my Laptop to my iPhone" so I assumed he had already ripped the CDs, or downloaded it from elsewhere.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
The iTunes way is certainly the simplest.
As an alternative if you don't keep your current music library in iTunes is to use a Cloud service such as Dropbox or Sugarsync (my personal preference!), both of which offer free space in a cloud.
Sugarsync is really good, especially if you say want to sync your stuff with a computer at work, or multiple devices as well as your laptop and iPhone. I've paid for this service, but you do get 5GB free to start with. They have a free app for the iPhone.
Click this link to try it out: SUGARSYNC
All my stuff is Apple, but I think Sugarsync is a lot better than iCloud to be honest and a lot more functional. Got to say I think iCloud is rubbish compared to MobileMe. I know many complained about MM, but it was a damn sight more useful than iCloud!
As an alternative if you don't keep your current music library in iTunes is to use a Cloud service such as Dropbox or Sugarsync (my personal preference!), both of which offer free space in a cloud.
Sugarsync is really good, especially if you say want to sync your stuff with a computer at work, or multiple devices as well as your laptop and iPhone. I've paid for this service, but you do get 5GB free to start with. They have a free app for the iPhone.
Click this link to try it out: SUGARSYNC
All my stuff is Apple, but I think Sugarsync is a lot better than iCloud to be honest and a lot more functional. Got to say I think iCloud is rubbish compared to MobileMe. I know many complained about MM, but it was a damn sight more useful than iCloud!
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Manx Shearwater
New member
There will be a directory on your laptop (once iTunes is installed) called summat like My Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Automatically Download to iTunes.
Open two windows explorers, one on the directory above, the other on any mp3s on your laptop that you want on your iPhone. Cut and paste them (don't drag and drop) from the one directory to the other, and once they have been copied into the directory I've named above they will apper in iTunes under Music. From there you can drag them onto any iPhone/iPod/iPad device you have plugged into iTunes.
Job done.
Open two windows explorers, one on the directory above, the other on any mp3s on your laptop that you want on your iPhone. Cut and paste them (don't drag and drop) from the one directory to the other, and once they have been copied into the directory I've named above they will apper in iTunes under Music. From there you can drag them onto any iPhone/iPod/iPad device you have plugged into iTunes.
Job done.