I can deffinately say that using playlists to sync music to your iPhone is an awesome feature! This is the only way that I use to get music and audiobooks onto my phone. It's such a time-saver, too.
Thanks, Air On May 28, 2013, at 10:51 PM, "Alan Lemly" <wale...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sandy, glad all your music is now there. The main benefit I find for > playlists is to restrict which music I sync to my iPhone through iTunes. I've > got too much music to sync all of it and iTunes allows you to specify which > playlists to sync. > > Some will say that the native iTunes AAC file format sounds better and takes > less space than mp3 but that's a personal preference issue and really only > applies when the songs are first being ripped. If you take a music file that > has already been compressed to an mp3 file format and then convert it to > another compressed format, you will suffer some loss in quality. I'm not sure > I'd be able to hear it but unless your mp3 files aren't working for you, I > wouldn't go to the trouble of converting them to something else. > > Alan Lemly > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Sandy Finley > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 8:02 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: MP3 files and iTunes > > Ok, now I have added the music through the Add Folders to Library feature; > they’re all there. Now what is it I’m doing with a play list? I don’t get > that part. > > Is there any virtue in converting the music from MP3 to some other file > extension? Thanks a lot. > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Alan Lemly > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 4:01 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: MP3 files and iTunes > > Sandy, I know at least one other person has already posted a reply but I'm > curious what actual steps you took when you copied the mp3 files into your > library. Did you do this through iTunes using the File, Add File to Library > or File, Add Folder to Library menu options? My understanding is that music > on your computer that you want to sync with your iDevice must be in your > iTunes library and must reside in the folder structure you've identified to > iTunes in its Edit, Preferences options. After you ensure that is the case, > using playlists to control what content is synced is the way I handle music > transfers. > > Alan Lemly > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Sandy Finley > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 5:27 AM > To: 'VIAPHONE' > Subject: MP3 files and iTunes > > I have some mp3 files that were given to me and I want to play them on my > phone. I have copied them into my music library. I have a couple of > questions. > > > All of the music is by one artist; it is all in one folder in the same manner > as the rest of the music files. And when I open an album file I see the > individuall tracks, eachof which has an MP3 extension. . On my phone I see > the artist but I don’t see all of the music. Some of the albums don’t show > up at all. I right clicked on the individual song titles thinking I’d find a > place to convert the file from MP3 but it’s not there. > > Is there a way to do what I want to do? 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