Itunes was never the easiest of apps to use, I gave up on it years ago. I want to copy non Apple sourced Music from a windows laptop to my IPhone. What is the simplest way of doing this?
Apple Music and Apple Devices, both from the MS Store, are possibly replacing iTunes. Install them both, open up Apple Music. Get to the thing with sidebar actions and hit enter, then enter on import, or I think you can use ctrl-o. It brings up a standard Windows open dialogue. You can supposedly add entire folders, but I can't figure out how to get that to work, so I just go into a folder and select all files, it will figure out they're part of an album.
Next, open Apple Devices and get your phone connected. Now here's the issue, and I can't figure out how to send them feedback about it. You get to the place for syncing music, and you get a list of what you've added in Apple Music, with checkboxes. The problem is, it doesn't read what's in the list with either NVDA or Narrator, I don't have Jaws so can't try it. It just says "checkbox" for everything.
So if you want to sync everything, no problem, just check all the boxes. I wanted to add my entire albums directory, which is huge, so I wouldn't be syncing everything. But I figured that way I could just add and remove stuff from the phone as necessary. But obviously I can't, since it's not reading the contents of the list, so I don't know what I'm checking and unchecking.
iTunes still works, if you want to use that you need to not have Apple Music installed. But when I say it "works", I can't really figure out how to move around in it and get to the part where you pick what to sync either. But as long as you have only iTunes installed, it should let you do stuff. Otherwise it will want everything in Apple Music. I think you'd have to do stuff through Apple Music then which would probably mean syncing with Apple Devices. I couldn't figure out how to get iTunes to show me music anyway, it seemed to be stuck on podcasts and such when Apple Music was installed.
I feel like Music and devices are probably more accessible, other than the list box not working, which is pretty bad I'll grant you. But I mean, as long as you just added only what you wanted to sync, and removed old stuff and added new stuff in Apple Music and resynced, it could work I think. I just wish there was somewhere obvious to give them feedback, because I'd really like the list box to work properly,so I can just have everything. Then I'd just uncheck some of the old stuff and check some new stuff, and there you go.
While you can use the Apple Music and Apple devices apps to manually move music over to your iPhone, there is another way.
However, it requires that you have an Apple Music subscription, which you don’t state in your original post.
However, if you have an Apple Music subscription, go into the settings of both your iPhone and of the music app on your Windows PC, and check the box for “iCloud Music Library”.
Now, any music you import to the music program on your PC will synchronize over to your iPhone through iCloud.
However, be warned that it won’t synchronize lossless files, all of your iCloud music library tracks that you play on your phone are 256 KBPS AAC.
If you don’t know what any of that means, disregard.
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Apple Music and Apple Devices, maybe.
Apple Music and Apple Devices, both from the MS Store, are possibly replacing iTunes. Install them both, open up Apple Music. Get to the thing with sidebar actions and hit enter, then enter on import, or I think you can use ctrl-o. It brings up a standard Windows open dialogue. You can supposedly add entire folders, but I can't figure out how to get that to work, so I just go into a folder and select all files, it will figure out they're part of an album.
Next, open Apple Devices and get your phone connected. Now here's the issue, and I can't figure out how to send them feedback about it. You get to the place for syncing music, and you get a list of what you've added in Apple Music, with checkboxes. The problem is, it doesn't read what's in the list with either NVDA or Narrator, I don't have Jaws so can't try it. It just says "checkbox" for everything.
So if you want to sync everything, no problem, just check all the boxes. I wanted to add my entire albums directory, which is huge, so I wouldn't be syncing everything. But I figured that way I could just add and remove stuff from the phone as necessary. But obviously I can't, since it's not reading the contents of the list, so I don't know what I'm checking and unchecking.
iTunes still works, if you want to use that you need to not have Apple Music installed. But when I say it "works", I can't really figure out how to move around in it and get to the part where you pick what to sync either. But as long as you have only iTunes installed, it should let you do stuff. Otherwise it will want everything in Apple Music. I think you'd have to do stuff through Apple Music then which would probably mean syncing with Apple Devices. I couldn't figure out how to get iTunes to show me music anyway, it seemed to be stuck on podcasts and such when Apple Music was installed.
I feel like Music and devices are probably more accessible, other than the list box not working, which is pretty bad I'll grant you. But I mean, as long as you just added only what you wanted to sync, and removed old stuff and added new stuff in Apple Music and resynced, it could work I think. I just wish there was somewhere obvious to give them feedback, because I'd really like the list box to work properly,so I can just have everything. Then I'd just uncheck some of the old stuff and check some new stuff, and there you go.
Feedback to Apple
I would guess that you can give Apple feedback on your experiences with these apps by sending it to:
accessibility@apple.com
I don't think that e-mail is just for iOS and Mac issues.
--Pete
iCloud Music Library
While you can use the Apple Music and Apple devices apps to manually move music over to your iPhone, there is another way.
However, it requires that you have an Apple Music subscription, which you don’t state in your original post.
However, if you have an Apple Music subscription, go into the settings of both your iPhone and of the music app on your Windows PC, and check the box for “iCloud Music Library”.
Now, any music you import to the music program on your PC will synchronize over to your iPhone through iCloud.
However, be warned that it won’t synchronize lossless files, all of your iCloud music library tracks that you play on your phone are 256 KBPS AAC.
If you don’t know what any of that means, disregard.
WALTR PRO
Hi Brian
Have you considered WALTR PRO?
https://softorino.com/waltr/
Like you, I gave up on iTunes a long time ago.
I have WALTR 2 and I assure you, transferring music from Windows 10 PC to an iPhone couldn't be any easier.