Do you know what happens when you leave most of your travel preparations until the last minute, and then you go out with a friend for tapas and G+Ts when you should be packing?
PANIC.
I was actually doing okay with my last-minute, frenetic preparations this morning, but then I hit a snag in the form of my iPhone. Previously, when I've downloaded music from my good old-fashioned CDs to iTunes on my computer, I've been able to synch all of the downloaded music to my iPhone by hitting the synch button. Today, not so much. As far as I can tell, since Apple's introduction of the mysterious iCloud, I've either lost the ability to synch downloaded music to my iPhone, or the method for doing so has been buried deeply in the inner workings of my computer.
This really isn't a big deal. I'm still leaving for New Orleans tomorrow, and I'll still be getting on a cruise in about 48 hours time, so this is really nothing more than a minor annoyance. But I'm frustrated because I bought a few new CDs specifically for this trip (go $5/$10 bargain bin), and now there doesn't seem to be a way to get them onto my iPhone. Given that I'm spending 11 days straight with my Mom, music may be a very essential way of maintaining my sanity.
Anyone out there ever encountered this and figured out a solution?
6 comments:
I found you can sync specific artists/genres today...
Under the tab for your phone on iTunes, click music and it asks to sync your entire library or selected playlists/artist/albums/genres and then you can chose who/what you sync.
It's the only way I know of and I found it after panicking a bit because the update process erased the music I had on mine.
Good luck, and enjoy your trip.
oh my gosh I've been having the same problem- I got so frustrated I pulled out an ancient iPod (I think from 2007?) and started using that at the gym instead of my phone...
if you only want to put on recently purchased music I guess you can just do it through the cloud.
Have an amazing vacation, you deserve it!
Sorry SD, I only just purchased my first IPOD so not sure how to fix that one. Hope you get sorted, and have a great trip.
Ummmmm, more details on the exact issue/error message it is giving you will help me (yes, I am kind of an Apple geek)
Quarter - Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately it doesn't work. iTunes seems to only be letting me transfer things that I bought from the iTunes store, and not anything that I've downloaded from a CD. Grrrr.
C - It is frustrating! Stupid Apple.
Sharron - No worries. I haven't actually used by iPhone to listen to music on the trip yet, so it really isn't that big a deal.
EMT GFP - It doesn't actually give me an error message. Instead, when I hit the synch button, it behaves as if it's synching things, but then it doesn't synch any of the music that I've downloaded from CDs. I think it's Apple's way of forcing people to buy all of their music from iTunes!
I know this is too late, but maybe for future reference? I seem to remember that there is an option like "synch to this computer/iCloud" that you can untick. Although I haven't tried it yet, I just got two new music CDs that I want on my phone, so I guess now is the time.
Hope you are having a wonderful time. New Orleans is on my list of places to see before I die.
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