did all that and it does not get to the phone. also the bloody thing won't let me delete a few things from the phone that I want to remove I guess to make that happen I have to do a hard reset. I get the impression apple has never heard of KISS?
Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 18:02 To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: music on the IPhone Hi Ray, First of all it is important that your music shows up in your iTunes music library. I think the easiest way to do this is that you put all your music together into one folder. Of course you can use subfolders for artist and album and, if you like, you can use Genre as well. For example, I prefer to have my music in the music folder which is a subfolder of the iTunes Media folder which in turn is a subfolder of the iTunes folder. If you are familiar with how folder paths work, in Windows 7 the default location is as follows (I am assuming your Windows user name is "Ray": C:\users\ray\music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Music I don't use Genre folders here since all the music in this folder is managed by iTunes and iTunes uses the associated ID3 tags to know which artist belongs to which genre, which song belongs to which artist and album etc. You can, however, make folders for "Alternative", "Classical", "Country", "Pop", "Rock" etc. if you wish. OK, so now in this folder I have folders for all the artists I have music from. If I have more than one CD by a particular artist I then have subfolders for each album and the songs are in these folders. For example, I have a subfolder in the above Music folder for artists such as Dire Straits, Eagles, Queen, Supertramp etc. In my Dire Straits folder I have further subfolder for the albums I have like "Brothers in Arms", Love Over Gold" etc. In my Eagles subfolder I have subfolders for "Greatest Hits", "When Hell Freezes Over" etc. I think you get the idea. OK, now to iTunes: Open iTunes and select "Add Folder to Library" from the File menu. A standard Open In Windows dialogue appears, browse to the Music folder by going to "My Music, then iTunes, then iTunes Media and then find Music. Tab to "Select" and activate it, this will add all the music you have in the Music folder including that in all subfolders to your iTunes music library. If you add more albums or songs you have to repeat this step. You can now check that you are in Music (if you use Windows Control+1 will do the trick" and I would highly recommend that you make sure the "Songs" radio button is checked and not "artists" or "Albums" or one of the other ones. This will allow you to enable the column browser. You can do this from the View menu or you can use Control+Shift+B for "Browser" to do so. If the column browser is active it allows you to nicely browse your music in iTunes by genre, artist and album. For example, if you select "Rock" from the drop-down list of genres and then tab a few times until you are in the songs list view, you see only the songs which belong to the genre Rock. If you select "Dire Straits" from the artist drop-down list you would only see all the songs by Dire Straits and if you select "Brothers in Arms" from the album drop-down iew only the 10 songs from that album would show. It works great, is super accessible with Jaws and a very nice way if you want to play music from iTunes. OK, now to the part of getting the music to your iPhone: Make sure your phone is connected to your computer with the USB cable. Find your phone in Devices and tab until you get to all the radio buttons like "Summary", "Info", "Apps", "Tones", "Music" etc. When you find the music radio button press the spacebar to check it. Now tab some more until you come to a checkbox which says "Sync Music" and make sure it is checked. Now tab 3 or 4 more times, 3 times will put you on a radio button which is read as "Sync entire music library" and if you want to sync everything you have in your music library then simply check it, tab a bunch of times until you get to "Apply" or "Sync" and press enter or the space bar. The sync will start and depending on how much music you have it could take a while. You can press F6 and it should take you to where you can check the progress of your sync, you may have to tab once after pressing F6. I have about 3,000 songs on my iPhone (about 20 Gb) and that takes I believe 20 or 25 minutes to sync over. If you have too much music and you only want a selection on your iPhone, then check the next radio button which is called "Sync selected playlists, artists and genres". After you check it you have drop-down list views for Playlists (if you have any), for "Genre", "Artist" and "Album. This allows you to, for example, sync all music from the genre "Rock", but I usually prefer to sync by artist. I tab until I get to where Jaws says "Artists Treeview" and here I can now use the down arrow to go through the listing of all artists and simply use the spacebar to check the ones I want. When I am done I tab to "Apply" or "Sync" and press enter and the sync starts. Note that sometimes it says "Apply" and sometimes "Sync", it doesn't matter what it says as long as you activate it. That's about it, it's a pretty simply and very accessible process, let me know if this works for you. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray T. Mahorney Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:19 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: music on the IPhone Some months ago I indicated that I could not get music to the phone. I could get it to the media folder but it did not transfer to the phone. What might I have been doing wrong? Also is it necessary to convert the MP3 files to M4A if so how does one make that happen? Or, am I just out in left field here? Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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