As was the case with iPods, Apple is keen that those who use an iPhone buy music on the Apple Store. Otherwise it would not be explained why it is so complicated to upload music and videos to iPhone or iPad using iTunes, which is the official iPhone management program.
With iTunes, in fact, you can transfer music from PC to iPhone, but not vice versa and you must always use the same computer, limiting, for example, the possibility of being able to download the songs that are on a friend's iPhone to the PC
In addition, even uploading songs and videos to the iPhone is quite laborious, as it should not be such a basic and simple operation.
Let's see together how to use iTunes and the most comfortable alternatives that we can use to upload music and videos to iPhone without iTunes .
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1) Use iTunes
Basically, with iTunes, you need to use the synchronization function in order to bring music to your portable device.
After connecting the iPhone or iPad to the PC (via cable or wirelessly), we open iTunes and go to the Music section, so as to activate the option to synchronize and transfer all the songs indexed on iTunes on the device.
You don't have to press it right away, otherwise all the songs are deleted and replaced, on the iPhone memory, with those of the current library.
Instead, you have to choose what to include using the various crosses, checking only the playlists that contain the songs to be loaded, excluding everything else, including video clips and voice memos.
Using iTunes to do automatic synchronization is also highly discouraged because it will start by itself every time the iPhone is connected to the computer and, if poorly configured, all the songs found will be deleted.
Luckily on iTunes there is an option in the Summary menu that allows us, in addition to activating the connection via WiFi with the iPhone, to manually manage music and videos so that you can also upload individual songs as you would with a normal player MP3 .
This way you can transfer the songs by dragging them from the music list to the iPhone icon in iTunes.
2) Alternatives to iTunes
To load music on iPhone even more easily you can use programs other than iTunes (which must however remain installed because it guarantees communication between iPhone and PC), which treat the iPhone as if it were a normal memory to be filled manually with the computer's mp3 files .
One of them is MediaMonkey, free for Windows and Mac PCs.
Before using Mediamonkey, however, it is necessary to configure iTunes so that it does not automatically synchronize with the iPhone and, precisely:
- From the Edit menu, go to preferences (If you did not see the Edit menu, press the ALT key) and in the device section, activate the option " Prevent iPod, iPhone and iPad from synchronizing automatically ".
- From the Store tab, uncheck " Automatically download album art ".
- Connect the iPhone, select it from the row of buttons at the top, scroll down and deselect the " Automatically sync when iPhone is connected " option.
- Then click on the Music tab in the left pane and deselect " Synchronize music " if it is selected.
At this point you can open MediaMonkey and see the iPhone as a connected device in the main menu on the left.
Click on the " Auto-Sync " tab to choose the songs that are not selected for synchronization to be deleted from the iPhone.
In the Options you can choose how to import music, how to manage covers and other things.
Once the PC's music or video folders are imported into Mediamonkey, you can synchronize the iPhone automatically with auto-sync or select the songs, press on it with the right button and press on Send to .
In addition to MediaMonkey, if you don't like it or it doesn't work as you would like, there are also other alternative programs to iTunes to manage the iPhone from the PC to transfer music, photos, files and everything to the iPhone and also to copy the music from the iPhone to the PC.
These programs completely replace iTunes to insert music on the iPhone, so as not to fear that the synchronization will cause you to lose all the songs already loaded.
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3) Alternative methods for uploading music to iPhone
To transfer PC music to iPhone we still have two other alternative methods, intelligent and without using special programs.
With Dropbox
By subscribing to Dropbox we can have a 2 GB online space on which to upload the songs you want and play them through the same Dropbox app for iPhone.
Music is loaded from the computer by installing and using the Dropbox client which creates a folder on the desktop in which to insert mp3 files or other types; currently the Dropbox app supports music files in MP3, aiff, m4a and wav format.
On the application you can also mark which songs you want to keep on the iPhone memory for listening even offline, so as not to clog the internal memory of the iPhone in particular if we still have models with low memory (less than 64 GB).
With Google Play Music
Google Play Music is an excellent app to listen to music on the iPhone but also as a tool to keep the music we have on the PC synchronized on the Apple device.
To use it, simply download the extension for Google Chrome Google Play Music, open the Google Play Music web player, log in with our Google account and take us to the Menu -> Upload music path.
The limit is 50, 000 songs so we can really load tons of songs into this personal music cloud.
The music loaded in Music Manager can then be found on the iPhone in the Google Play Music application, free and without charge; the app is available for free from here -> Google Play Music (iOS).
By touching the button with the three dots in Google Music you can then download playlists and songs on the iPhone memory to be able to hear music even without an internet connection.
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