Here is a BRAND NEW tutorial that is MUCH easier to follow: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbN_n9B6lZu5aZs.html

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.

Don't stop teaching. You are more clear than any professor I ever had in school. Thank you so kindly.

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.

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! 👍

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.

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!

THANKS! Managed to download The Ecstatic by MOS DEF and some mixtapes I love which are not on streaming services.

FINALLY!!! This is what I've been looking for! I don't WANT everything on the cloud and HATE iTunes. Thank you!

This is where android shines. U download a song and it plays on ur media player. So easy.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I actually had the exact same tribulation. THANK YOU!!!!!

Thnx man, i needed this video, im gonna sync my music tomorrow, thank you so much

Thank you. I've been trying to figure this out, this was super clear

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.

Thank you so much for this helpful video! Worked perfectly.

Great explanation! TY 4 sharing!

Is there a way in the Apple Music app to be able to tell which albums you had uploaded to your phone and which albums came from Apple Music? As I could see it being tricky at keeping up with it. For example, if Apple Music has an album that is a terrible remaster. And so you upload a rip from a first release CD and upload that to Apple Music with album art. Would you be able to tell the difference between the two?

Hi Aaron, Thank you very much for your tutoriol video. Very helpfull!👍

Thank you so much. That was great help :)

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!

You are freakin AWESOME! Thank you!

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.

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. 🎉

It was very helpful, thank you!

this was so helpful! Thank uou!

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.

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.

Thanks for doing all of the work. I'm the same way. I'll spend days trying to find a way to do something that *can't* be done. It's a real pain. I'm a lifelong Apple guy, and I do love them, but every time I run into this proprietary roadblock that throws up a paywall, I'm so tempted to get a Sony Xperia 1III. But those green text message bubbles. Ghastly! Thanks also for pointing out that downloading iTunes from the Microsoft store doesn't work. I found that out long ago, but it was a headache to figure it out. I even used Winamp again because of the trouble. The only other thing I can say is I hope you ditch that white crew neck undershirt. It's pretty awful looking. Go with a deep v-neck if you must wear two shirts.

Extremely helpful! Thank you sir!

Worked pretty well thanks for the video!

Thank you! I will try again!!

wow thanks for info!

Thank you. I have been trying to download my music without success. This is spot on!!!

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 going to try this when i get home, thank you!

Excellent! Thanks

Thank you!!

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?

it works! thanks dude 🙌

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.

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 😬

The ending song for cammando is what I have been looking for ? Can I put that one song on my Apple playlist

You just saved me so much time. Thank you, I wish I could buy you a coffee or something to show my appreciation!

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!!

THANK YOU!

Thank you for your video if I may suggest you might want to listen to John Barrie music scores

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

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.

Just a quick question... the insertion of artwork is not mandatory, right? I can do the sync without going after images, correct? Thank you!

Thank you ! Have a good dayy

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.

thank you so much, finally got this working thanks to your video

I still having gray dots in some albums, but thanks for your video!

Thanks for the tips.

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.

This is a great video. It helps and I will try! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you.....! Worked like a charm!

thanks!

Thanks so much

nice man''

Can u tell me that can i add my download music in iphone to apple music without pc And another question can we do this in one phone and login in our itunes will we get all the songs again

you are a legend 🐐

I had the same issue with missing cover art on my iPhone - a simple sign out and back in to my account remedied this

Yep i have the same problem. The songs in my mac library, that weren't downloaded with cover art, doesn't shows up whenever i'm trying to sync them to my Iphone 12. I have a 2021, MacBook air, m1. I noticed that only the songs that have cover art, showed up, and was able to be synced to the iPhone. And i've got tons of songs, or complied mixtapes (mp3) that i wanted to transfer. But i'm not able to download them with cover art, because they are older songs. Most of the newer songs are downloaded with cover art. Plus i listen to the older school, like 90s and early 2000s. Why does Apple has to be such a pain in the ass? Something that should be so simple, is like a mountain to climb. I thought that if u were transferring from a Mac to an iPhone, it would have being easy as 1,2,3? But as it turns out, transferring music from a mac to an Android is easy. Apple is full of shite. I'm sorry, but i will be selling the iPhone 12, and go right back to Android. S21 or s22 should be just fine, no hassle.

How do you transfer music from iphone to an external hard drive?

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.

Question for Aaron, if you add music to your iPhone deos it also sync to iPad or will you have to also add to ipad manually with Mac and usb? Thanks

When I go to Import any mp3 file onto the music app on my mac nothing happens. I don’t know why because I used to be able to do it just fine but now for some reason it just doesn’t work.

Does this work if I’m trying to transfer Apple Music from one Apple ID to another? I’m really hoping that there is a way to do that

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.

What a great mic you have. Thank you very 😂.

thank youuu

Dear Aaron, what a performance!! Also found that when syncing you have to tick the manual box on the general screen. Changing album cover worked well thanks. But did not transfer to phone. Oh!!! hello!!! You have to delete the music and then resend to get all new album covers. There is something called 'Vinyl' out there which is really looking very appealing. A little heavy but what the hell it comes with its own album cover ! Many thanks for your posting it was SO helpful.

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!

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 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

Thanks, Aaron. I also spent several days dealing with Apple to try to transfer music from my Mac to my iPhone with nothing but frustration as results. They told me what I wanted to do could not be done with my new iPhone 15. Apple wants you to subscribe to Apple Music at $10/mo. But, even with that music you purchased will not be backed up to iCloud and you can't sync it with you iPhone.

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 have my phone plugged into my computer but I dont see it show up as a connected device in the apple music app, help.

Thank you for very little, highspeed players guide.

Will this process work the same with pulling music from OneDrive or do I have to put the music onto a SSD? I’ve been fighting with this for days. I’m running a 15 pro max.

I love your music library... It looks just like mine 😂

Can you help? For some reason ITunes won’t pick up my iPhone. I have the latest ITunes version and running iOS 17.4 but for some reason iTunes stopped recognizing my iPhone. I’m just like you I have over 70 gigs of music that I’ve downloaded and purchased on my own. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Hi Aaron. Thanks so much for the video. I’ve been moving music onto my iPhone like this for years, but recently the transfer has either not been working or the songs are greyed out on my phone, with an error message telling me the content isn’t available in my region. This is happening for music that I own as mp3s. Have you come across this problem or have any suggestions? It’s driving me wild. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

You can download every single song from ITunes. I do it all the time signal or not it’s on my phone.

I have an iPhone 4 with music from purchased cd’s how can I download to a current Mac?

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

Hello Aaron, thank you for your video I recently switched from High Sierra to Ventura as I’ve got a brand new Mac mini m2 But now I am struggling to transfer my files (songs) from my music library to my iPhone After calling Apple assistance for about 4 or 5 times I always get different and contradictory explanations With iTunes I used to transfer only songs one by one not the full album because I did not want to waste unused space on my iPhone With Music App it seems YOU CANNOT sync songs but album only. The Apple assistant told me the walk around was to create playlists and sync the playlist But if I create a playlist it loads on my phone but I cannot update my playlist very easily It was so simple before to drag and drop a song from my iTunes library to my iPhone and now it turns out to be my worst nightmare. Lately the Apple assistant told me they changed the rules with music because now people use streaming platforms to listen music rather than having their own file and because my library was on an external drive ( my Mac mini only has 256Gb HD), I could not sync my playlists unless the files are ok my iMac internal HD. This does not make sense at all. Please let me know if you have an idea on how to drag and drop songs only from Music to my iPhone Sorry if this has been ask before or if I was too long to explain. But I am so much frustrated.😢

What music format do you recommend to have songs in that you put on your phone? I've got a bunch of CD's that I've ripped into FLAC files. Should they be converted to AAC? Or ALAC? I generally like the first run of the CD the best. As they like to later do remasters that make them sound terrible. And on Apple Music, a lot of the music there are the remasters that sound terrible. And I'd much rather just replace those Apple Music albums with the files from the CD's I rip.

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?

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?

Krull Ride of the Firemares (and End Titles) is my favorite music of all time.

I would like to be able to transfer home movies. I copied all of them (about 90 or so from 8mm tape) to my desktop about 15 years ago using .avi, but I’m not sure what codecs I used for video nor sound and I didn’t know the difference then. Some of them are 30 seconds to two or three minute clips, and having them available on my iPad would be great, not only to have them easily and readily available, but it would also, allow me to use iMovie or something simple just to combine files. I really like your teaching style as someone has already said, and if you have had this requested already, then I do apologize. And I will go through your past videos and see, and if I find it, I’ll let you know. Thank you.

I have used this methode to transfer MP3 Audio book files. What you have to do is: Go to the album info and then select the tab options and there change the media type to audio books. The selection options are: Music, Podcasts, Audio book and spoken memo.

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?

Thank you so very much. This helped me quite a lot, but I am left with one other issue. Syncing music means you overwrite your iPhone using the music on your Mac or PC. But what do you do with the Music and recordings in AAC that are on your iPhone (since 2009). How on earth is it possible to get those on your Mac? And how to sync with older iPods an a Mac. With a pc it is easy. But why did Apple make that so difficult? I have several iPods stuffed with music that is mine, but because a windows pc crashed a long time ago I can’t do anything with it anymore. Not even with a modern Mac.

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!!!

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???

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.