Interesting question Brian, and I have a variation. Is there any way of 
preventing iTunes starting up and from transferring tracks from sound files on, 
say, a usb thumb drive when the thumb drive is plugged into the USB port of my 
Mac Book Pro with latest operating system installed?  I want to listen to 
recordings without having the content transferred into my hard drive or to some 
server run by Apple in heavens knows where. 

Thank you,

Michael Hawkins
Sent from my iPhone

> On 26 Jul 2015, at 9:53 pm, Brian Risbey <risb...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I would like to transfer some non-iTunes tracks purchased online for 
> elsewhere, weren’t on iTunes ;-(.
> but how to do this.
> They are on my laptop, they show up in iTunes with the crossed-out-cloud icon.
> with the iPhone plugged in via usb and showing in iTunes I can’t click and 
> drag, can’t use add to phone, 
> manage music manually seems to have gone, probably as I work through the 
> cloud…
> 
> Can it be done?
> 
> Brian
> 
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