IPhone :: Sync To A New Computer But Not Lose Songs?
Apr 27, 2012
I'd like to sync my iPhone to a new mac. I was syncing it on my old desktop which is gone now, and it was updating the music by syncing it to a playlist. I don't want to plug it in and lose all the songs because I'm now syncing to a different library. Is there a way to plug my iPhone in to a new computer with a new library under a new iTunes store account, and be able to add songs from that new computer/account without losing the ones that are synced to the phone right now? Can an iPhone have two different providers assigned to it? I'd like to have one US provider and one Canada provider, so that when I cross the border I can turn one network on and one network off, depending on which country I'm in each week.
I deleted songs in my iphone on the music app but when I sync with the computer the songs disappear. How can I delete songs on my phone but keep them in iTunes?
I recently purchased an iphone 4s, and shortly after, my son dowloaded a virus on my computer, and I had to a factory reset (for the 3rd time in 6 months). Now all of my playlists are stuck on my iphone. I have all of the music files backed up, but I really don't want to have to create all of my playlists AGAIN. I read a post online that said that if you create a playlist on the iphone, it will sync back to itunes, so I copied all of my existing playlists on the iphone again, so that they would now be 'new' playlists.
The problem is, when I start the sync to itunes, I get the message that says if I sync with the computer, all files on the iphone will be replaced with files from itunes. Right now, my itunes is empty. If I go through with the sync, am I going to lose everything on the iphone, or will it copy all of the 'new' playlists from the iphone into itunes? I guess it's not the end of the world if I have to recreate the whole library, but it took me about 12 hrs to do it last time, so I really don't want to have to go that route if I don't have to!
i have an iPhone with all my music on it and apps etc. The problem i have my computer crashed and i lost everything on my computer. I restored it to factory and i just got iTunes.
My question is, if i sync to what "essentially" is a new computer will i loose everything on my iPhone? (music) In have a 8GB 3G that is j/b on 3.1.2,
Is there any way to sync and avoid loosing my music?
I am so tired of Apple screwing up my iPhone either with iOS or iTunes updates. This time I updated iTunes to 10.6.1, synced my iPhone, then I got a call and I notice that the ringtone wasn't the one I had set up as the default. I started checking and all my ringtones and music playlists were gone.
Info: MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1), 2011 15", 2.3 GHz i7, 8GB RAM
How do I delete songs off my Iphone4 from a previous computer. I got a Mac so a new iTunes account and i have songs on my iPhone even when I delete all the ones off iTunes
I have my iPhone synced with my home computer and I play the songs on my work computer. No transfering, just plug in and play on iTunes. Here is where I am having issues, when I start playing a playlist, if the song is not checked it will skip it (or in the case of some playlists none are checked and it will only play the one I double click). How can I check other songs to be played? Although I click the little box to get a check mark while at work - they never appear.
My original computer died, and I don't have a phyical back up of my data. If I try to sync the device to a new computer will I lose everything currently on my phone? If so, is there a way around this?
I just brought my new iPhone 4 home, and started syncing it. To my chagrin, I realized that I have more music than the 16GB can fit. So, I unchecked all of the tracks that I don't really listen to. Unfortunately, I can't figure out where to tell the phone to only sync the tracks that are selected. I remember this used to be pretty easy.
a few songs won't sync to my iPhone, I can play them in iTunes, and if i go to select artists to sync it recognises them, but if i sync whole library they just don't go on. How do I fix it?
When I try to sync my phone to iTunes I get a message that pops up that says "songs not found" even though they are all useable in iTunes. When I called apple they said it was a hardware issue but since I dont believe in paying extra for support
I have an iPhone 4. When syncing my music, I only upload certain playlists. Recentley, when syncing my music, it shows that all the music is added on the memory space bar at the bottom screen, but once the sync is done, it goes back to where it started (ex: before sync: 2.4GB, during sync: 6.4GB, after sync: 2.4GB. This has never been a problem with any of my old iPhones or my iPod nanos and touches.
I recently went through my itunes and deleted all of the songs and readded them to itunes after moving my song file locations. I then plugged in my iphone to sync to my re-done itunes. All of the music synced to the iphone except for when I went to some new playlists many of the songs did not appear in the playlist even though they were in the master list of songs. I have tries turn my iphone off and on and re-syncing the iphone many times. All of the songs are checked on itunes, my iphone is set to sync all checked items and I have my iphone set to sync all playlists on my itunes. Is there any way I can get the rest of the songs to show up in the playlists?
ps. It's an iPhone 4s and is less than a week old. I also have an ipad 2 but I'm afriad to sync pss. Most of my song files aren't from itunes and rather were downloaded onto a different computer as mp3s off of cds and were transffered to my new computer a while ago. They worked on my iPhone and itunes until i recently moved all of my songs to a file within my "music" file (for organization purposes)
I recently had a library on a desktop computer and I moved all those songs from that library onto my new macbook, then got more songs afterwards.
Everytime I try to sync my songs onto my iPhone, I get an error message that says "iTunes could not copy "(song name)" to the iPhone because the file could not be read or written." and then it stops syncing completely, so the rest of the songs after that don't get put on my iPhone.
I have had it for a year and half and all of the sudden in the last 2-3 months it stopped synching certain random songs. I checked the file formats, etc. and all songs are checked to sync. I have about 5,800 that should sync and 150 or so are not syncing at all. Totally annoying. Yes, I have all of the simple checks.
I recently switched from a PC to a Mac and I could never get my iTunes to sync over so I ended up having to manually drag in all of my music and recreate all of my playlists. This evening I bought a new album so I wanted to sync it to my iPhone, and I knew I'd basically have to erase everything and start fresh with regards to the music on my phone. I selected to sync selected playlists, I selected the ones I want, it warned me that everything would be erased yada yada, I went forward with it and I went through the sync, but now in all of the playlists on my phone either all of the songs are missing or a select few are there, but never all of the songs. Somehow everything is on my phone because all of the songs and artists are there under those tabs. When I view what's on my phone in iTunes it shows everything that's supposed to be there and all of the songs show up in the playlists.
After syncing some songs are not on my iphone. They are in my iTunes library and with my phone plugged in it shows that the songs are on the phone but they are not visible in my playlist.
Ok, so I have had the 4S for some time now, and I am really beginning to be frustrated with the fact I can't sync all of my music. It's almost as if anything I purchased prior to getting the 4s (had 3GS prior) will not transfer over. I have tried syncing all music, removing everything, restoring, and nothing works. iTunes allows me to play the music, and it syncs fine with my iPod with no issues. No matter what I try about 200 of the 500 songs I am trying to sync are actually on my iPohone, yet all of them are on the iPod just fine. I have plenty of room on the iPhone, and I receive no errors (even reset warnings just in case it was something I previously shut off) when trying to sync to indicate they won't be there. In fact the "Capacity" bar shows the space it should take up, then after I sync and go back the space is cut in half.
I have went into Itunes and clicked on music and unchecked a bunch of songs I don't want to sync, I also went to the device and music tab and checked selected playlists artists, albums, and genres and scrolled down to albums and unchecked the ones I don't want synced, then I clicked sync in Itunes, but after the songs are still on the device why is this? They don't seem to be removed from the Iphone.
