Peter Binder Today's guide is dedicated to all novice users who have not yet fully grasped Apple's iProducts, have no experience with iTunes and do not yet know how to upload music to their device using playlists.
When I bought my first Apple product, the iPhone 3G, less than two years ago, I had no experience with iTunes. It took me a long time to figure out how to upload music to my iPhone so that it would display properly in the iPod app.
At that time, I didn't know any websites dedicated to Apple products, so I had no choice but to try, try and try. Finally, like every other user, I figured out how to solve this problem. But it took me some time and cost some of my nerves. To save you the trouble of doing it by trial and error, here's a how-to guide.
We will need:
- iDevice
- iTunes
- music stored on your computer.
Approach:
1. Connecting the device
Connect your device to your computer. If iTunes didn't start automatically, start it manually.
2. Creating a playlist
Now you need to create a playlist or list of music that you want to upload to your iPhone/iPod/iPad/Apple TV. To create a playlist, click the + icon in the lower left corner and the playlist is created. You can also create it using the menu file/create playlist (shortcut command+N on Mac).
3. Transfer of music
Name the created playlist appropriately. Then open your music folder on your computer. Now all you have to do is drag and drop your chosen music albums into the created playlist in iTunes.
4. Editing albums in the playlist
I would like to point out to new users that it is important to have the individual albums correctly named and numbered (as you can see in the image below). It can then happen that they are not displayed properly on your iPod or, for example, four albums from completely different artists are mixed together, which can spoil the impression when listening to your favorite music.
To name individual albums, right click on a song in the playlist and select "Get info" and then the "Info" tab. Red circles highlight fields that should be filled in correctly.
Using the same procedure, it is possible to edit entire albums at once (after marking all the songs in the album).
5. Synchronization
After editing the albums in the playlist, we are ready to sync iTunes with your device. Click on your device in the "Devices" list in iTunes. Then click on the Music tab. Check Sync Music. Now we have two options to choose from, one is "Entire music library" which means you will download all the music from your iTunes library to your device and the second option we will use now is "Selected playlists, artists, albums and genres". In the list of playlists, we select the one we created. And we click the Sync button.
6. Done
After syncing is complete, you can disconnect your device and look at your iPod. Here you will see the albums you have recorded.
I hope the tutorial helped you and saved you a lot of trouble. If you have any suggestions for other iTunes related tutorials, feel free to leave a comment below the article.
I do it almost the same, only in point #3 I don't open the music folder, but in iTunes I click on Music at the top left and then I just drag the selected albums into the created playlist...
In point 2 at the end of the first line, you lost ... even to the Apple TV 1G !!!
With such a professional server, I see it as a school error or ignorance of Apple products.
You wrote it correctly, however, the correction of the stimulus in the article is not correct. When one writes Apple TV today, one thinks of the cheap second-generation model sold today, which doesn't even have disk storage, so we can't cram anything from iTunes there. The author should have completed the first generation Apple TV, which has a hard drive and iTunes can send music, photos, podcasts, and audiobooks to it. In addition, you can get user-defined Internet radios in iTunes, which I don't think is possible in the iPhone, iPad or Pod.
I'm a newbie, this way is obviously the most efficient, so thanks.
OT.: I praise the author for the choice of performers :), what do you think about the new resto?!
Thanks :). It's an excellent album, just like everything that was released this year under Ty-Nikdy.
I don't see why to make the playlist .. I drag straight to the iPhone/iPod and I think it's also a more convenient and maybe even easier way..
I use it myself, but it has its pros and cons. The playlist is automatically synchronized according to the user's taste. If you make a playlist, you don't have to make it in iZarizeni and you can see it there. When you drag and drop a playlist in iZarizeni, I haven't figured out how to drag it back to iTunes, so it disappears during restore ;(
But both have their advantages and disadvantages, for example, I switched to this one because I don't have all the serials in iTunes that I have on my iPhone (I don't have much disk space) and when there is automatic synchronization, it wants to delete them when I click them ... (and don't oppose VLC :) it didn't exist in those days and I didn't know the last player ;)) I know my stupidity ;)
Apple is about how it suits you, so every way is "right" and I like that about it :)
but yeah, when I think about it, it definitely has its advantages :)
When it comes to editing the names of individual songs or adding album covers, I highly recommend the TuneUp application, which will take care of everything. For about 30 USD, it's a great app and it really works almost perfectly (it didn't just find me some Metallica concert that wasn't even officially released).
Thanks, I'll try. I personally use Media Rage, it also costs a few dollars and can do a lot of things :) but sometimes I have problems finding artists and albums in those free databases on the net ;(
don't you Dan, can you add the lyrics too? I would quite appreciate it once in a while. Thanks
Martin, he can't do lyrics. It finds what, where what, youtube videos, information about the band, its concerts in the area, but not the lyrics yet.
I tested the free version yesterday and it's great... thanks for the tip on a useful program
why make playlists?...all you have to do is drag all the music into "Music", where you can easily work with it and also synchronize it (for example, individual bands or even albums) and then possibly create playlists and synchronize them individually....I am for example, he only started creating playlists when I ran out of space on my iPod and had to start choosing which music to sync :-)
So everyone is used to doing things differently. I think that it is better to gradually add the help of a playlist for editing the name. Besides, I don't use the library in iTunes much, that's why the guide is directed to the file like this. In addition, I assume that the user's version has an expanded collection of albums and it would take up a lot of space when synchronizing the library :).
Why make playlists? For example, I don't have to tick each individual album for synchronization, I just drag it to the playlist and iTunes knows that I want to synchronize everything in it to the iDevice... In my opinion, it's definitely faster and more convenient :-) in addition, I can see what I actually have in the playlist at any time , even if I don't have a wired iDevice…
Getlyrical is an excellent free app for lyrics
Great article :)
We would like more articles like this from the MAC environment :)
Thanks a lot :). We will try to.
iTunes taught me to tidy up with a sponge :) playlists are a useful thing, once you learn to control itunes you won't want anything else, but + adds to that of course if it's on a mac.
I might have some tips regarding "covers", after all, it looks better in itunes and iphone/ipod. .)
PLEASE, GIVE ME AN ADVICE ! ! !
I have a new laptop and I don't even have Tunes and he doesn't know how to get it there. I also have Tunes on my old computer. and according to this guide, I would like to put music on my Phone 3G. Thank you very much for the advice...I'm an amateur!!! :(
iTunes is available directly on the Apple website - link: http://www.apple.com/itunes/ ;)
thank you very much! and how do i download it? that i Tunes 10 for Mac + PC? :(
I have an iPod shuffle and I don't have Devices in iTunes. Can you advise me how to get music with iTunes (I have already created playlists to my iPod?
Díky
You don't even see your connected iPod Shuffle in the left column?
good day! I create a playlist and I can't do anything else. i installed itunes 10 and nothing… don't know why? thank you... :,-(
I would like to know how to make a folder in iTunes where I will have the entire episode of the series (approx. 13 episodes), the series has a joke, so I want to have advice, do you know how??
I also do it with playlists. I create a new one for each series. Or, for example, for one new series. This works for me because I only sync the parts I want. I separate the names of the series by writing the name of the album, e.g. 3rd series, etc.
hello, I just want to ask because I don't have it there on the devides:D what about it?
Damn, I've been getting angry with this for a long time...!And the problem is that I don't have devices there…………help!
Hello. I do it exactly according to your instructions, and not a single song appears on my iPhone, it says: the library is updating, it may take a while, and after a few seconds: no content, you can download music from iTunes. before I had an iPhone it worked normally. I've tried all the guides and still nothing. I have selected a good device, the music is transferred to music and to the playlist, the synchronization is set as it should be, it even shows me in iTunes that there are 3 gigs of music on the PC, but when I look on the iPhone, there is nothing there... I am really desperate … thanks for the help
Try reinstalling iTunes and restoring iOS on the iPhone. That might help.
and how exactly is it done, because I'm a complete moron... some detailed instructions...
Try google, you will find a lot there. Otherwise, just press the restore button in iTunes after connecting the iPhone.
I tried it didn't help..
Thank you very much, it really helped… I was annoyed with this for a long time and I don't have to anymore… :)
Hi, I have such a problem.
I would like to put some writing on my iPhone, but I don't know how to buy them from itnues (I think it doesn't work in cr, but I don't know - I like it :D), so I wanted to throw in my own (non-original - downloaded, e.g. from beemp3), but at the final step - synchronization - after creating a playlist, etc. - it always gives me an error that not a single song could be recorded, because nothing could be found about it.
Nevis, please, what about it?
I'm quite unhappy, because I'd just like to have a couple of notebooks there and it's not possible :( ...or at least advise some other way to get the notebooks there.
thank you so much ;)
AHi, I probably have the same problem as Matěj, in addition, DEVICES does not appear in the left iTunes bar, so I cannot synchronize it at all. Don't I have it downloaded the wrong way?
thank you Vera
Thank you, it helped me a lot :))
Good day..
The instructions helped a lot.. I just have a small problem when I drag music to a playlist, itunes doesn't respond at all and nothing happens.. I have a new playlist and so on. but as soon as I start copying something, it doesn't even work :( :D
You helped me a lot, I'm terribly anti-talented, I would still need to know how to put photos and movies, etc. in general, everything goes there, huh? Thanks a lot
Great tutorial, it helped. Thanks :-)
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at the last step when I have to click on SYNC. Unfortunately, I don't have this icon there, but instead there is Revert and Apply. Can you advise me what I am doing wrong.
Díky
Already solved
Caute, I want to ask for advice. I have several iPods and when I add them to iTunes, it tells me that they are registered in another library and that I want to synchronize and erase the disk. I would just like to add some music without deleting anything in the iPod. Thanks for your advice :)
Hello, I'm also a newbie and tried this procedure. It's very good, but I had a problem and I don't know what to do with it. In point 5. Synchronization, you write that I should click on my device and then select the music tab. But I don't see the cards there at all. You have tabs there: Summary, Info, Apps, Ringtones, Music, Movies and so on, and I don't have them there at all. I only have 2 tabs there, Settings and Contents. Please advise me how to solve this. Thank you
I'm already nervous....I guess it works according to your advice...and thank you for it...but when he even showed me that I had music in the device, he wrote me an addendum saying that the songs aren't actually there, that they weren't found...and it doesn't play anything
please help =))) I don't understand it at all =(
Yeeeeeeeeeeeee :))) I was looking for instructions all the time and none of them helped :( But this one helped :)) thank you very very very much :P :D :))) finally I can listen :))
How do you do the 5 kroook?.. I can't do it at all... when I click on the iPod... then the logins appear there... and when I want the password... it says something there... and won't let me go any further... :( please advise
Okay, I have such a problem, I got an iPhone 3G=8G for my birthday. and I can't play music.
when we read it all, when I click on iTunes - it says: Unable to connect to the iTunes Store, to access the iTunes Store you must be connected to WIFI OR A MOBILE SITE,,,,
but it's always abnormal that I have to be connected to the Internet when I just want to put MUSIC INTO -iPhone 3G.|8g
I've barely had it for 1 day
can someone advise me? yes, and I can't even create the folder as in point 1-2
I have an ipad 2 and it doesn't work for me at all, I also have tunes but it doesn't work at all, nothing is loaded on my ipad when I disconnect it
HELP!!!
I'm asking for advice, I got an ipod shuffle, I'm happy with it, but I have absolutely no idea what to do, I downloaded itunes, I follow the instructions exactly, but I just can't get the songs into the ipod, I don't have a DEVICES menu!! sorry, I've been messing with it since 20 p.m., it's 1:09 a.m. and I'm already quite angry....I even reinstalled the whole thing, I'm going through it all the time, but I don't even see a mention of ipod, sync, or anything like that, really I'm at a loss, please help - Thank you!!!
I have exactly the same problem. I don't have a 'Devices' menu so I can't continue.
And do you have an iPod plugged into your computer?
It helped me a lot, but I couldn't bear it at all
does sync with itunes work even after jailbreak? Thank you
and how do i delete the music i don't want anymore ??? :/
Hello, I have a question. At the moment, my laptop in which I have ITunes with music is not working and I am not sure if I will survive the dub before I can upload music to mp3 again.:D Is there any other way to get music to the iPod? :) thanks a lot for your reply :)
Hello, I want to ask if it is possible to upload songs from other sites than iTunes, is it possible???
I understand that this is probably a stupid question, but do you pay for those songs or not? :)
Hello, such a stupid question... I guess I have to have an Apple ID if I want to sync My iPhone 4S with my computer... right? and another question .. I tried to register once before but it asked for my card number so I better close it .. so I wanted to ask if I will also pay something for registration or if it is only when I buy something in the AppStore or download music directly from iTunes…?
hi, it's only if you're going to buy something paid :)
I had the same problem, I went to the operator at the branch and he skipped it and I didn't have to fill in anything or even pay ;)
I would like to ask, I have an iPhone 4S but I don't want to buy all the songs via iTunes... to listen to them for a month and then throw them away. so I would like to ask if it is possible to put non-original music on the iPhone .. it worked for me in iTunes so far .. but the problem is that I will receive the iPhone in a few days and I want to be ready for it .. ;) Thanks
Thank you very much!! :) I finally managed to do it :D
You are awesome dude
Thanks so much for the informative guide, I would have screwed up without you
Stephen
I did it yesterday, but I'm at the end of D, I created a playlist "without a name" and when I want to sync, I don't have a choice, does anyone know?://
I have the same problem :((
I have a Samsung Galaxy S Plus. Girlfriend IPhone 4S. And I have to say that the IPhone sucks.
But thanks for the guide.
Hello..Thank you very much for the tutorial on how to put music on my iPhone..I recently bought an S4 and for God's sake I couldn't figure out how to put music there,,This excellent tutorial helped me a lot and finally I have music there..Thanks a lot. .super thing this tutorial " Thumb Up " :o)
I'm sorry, but I don't have any DEVICES there…
Hello... I did everything according to the instructions and I even thought it was working for me, but when I created another playlist and synced it to my phone, suddenly the old playlist disappeared and I only had the new one on my phone... don't you know Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
how to upload music to iphone 4s or 5 ????
hello. please, I also have a problem that I put about 3 songs on my iPhone 200GS and after about a month they all remained in the i-phone in the music folder and I can't open it... could you help me. thx
I did it like that, my new selected music was uploaded there, but all the old ones were deleted, great:-)) is it possible to make it so that only new music can be added? I don't understand why it has to be done like this via a playlist, until I had a PC, it was enough to just grab it and move it to the iPhone, now I have a macbook and it has to be done like this more complicated... or am I doing something wrong somewhere?
great tutorial with iPhone5, it works beautifully, thanks
why do you connect iphone to pc usb?
I have an iPhone 5, but I just can't follow the instructions. When I connect the phone to the computer, iTunes does not respond at all, I tried to download it, but I can't put it together. I'm already at a loss. Does anyone know what I'm doing?
Thank you so much for the tutorial, it's great! I was desperate and now I am completely happy and satisfied! :-)
Hello, I have a question, if I want to set a song as a ringtone, is it possible??
Great :) thanks a lot
Now just drag and drop your chosen music
albums to the created playlist in iTunes... And I can't do that... :( can anyone help?
So no... it worked... ;-D
cau, I have music loaded in iTunes, a playlist has been created, but as soon as I sync, the music won't load into my mobile, don't you know what to do with it?? :-)
hi i used to be able to do it now i have some other itunes and it doesn't work anymore :/(
Thank you, I used to make it unnecessarily complicated and it made a mess. Thank you :)
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