My daughters iPhone 5s...I want it GONE!!!!!!!

[projectman]

I have been using iOS for a couple years (company phone is an iPhone) and I have lost my cool many times with iTunes. It is slow and somewhat unintuitive when it comes to some of the things I like to do. However, necessity being the mother of invention (or something like that), I have figured out some workarounds including 3rd party device apps to help me with this...and I am reasonably settled on the matter. To the OP... Make sure you have configured iTunes to the MP3 default for music and then make sure whatever movies you try to send over to the device are either MP4 or a format recognized by a 3rd party app on the device (such as Azul) and then utilize iTunes to move it all to the device. Once I figured out that it can work and then how to make it work for me I have lost my cool much less often. Good luck.

 

[JeffDenver]

Ok ok...Due to a total brain fart and lack of Fatherly Will-Power I gave in and got her a 5s...I never saw one until she had it home from BB. Now don't get me wrong it is a beautiful device BUT THAT'S WHERE IT ENDS FOR ME!!! I cant for the life of me figure out how to get her songs and movies on there?

You basically have to use iTunes as a file manager for Apple devices. It was a pain for me too.

Supposedly iOS7 allows drag and drop, but I don't know how to use it.

 

[JeffDenver]

Install iTunes, sync stuff. It may be annoying but it is hardly difficult. In terms of movie files they should be MP4 format. If you hate cables you can sync via iTunes over WIFI.

I know many Android folk hate on iTunes. But is an easy way to allow people who are not used to technology to access their stuff. It is easy to manage everything from the same place.

I actually find it to be incredibly unintuitive.

What I find strange these days is people moving that much media. I have everything in some cloud service. I recently changed from an iPhone to a Moto X and I didn?t have to connect anything to get anything.

You must not need to access your music in areas with a bad (or no) signal, or in buildings. If I was in that situation I would totally rely on Cloud storage as well.

 

[machzk]

I actually find it to be incredibly unintuitive.


You must not need to access your music in areas with a bad (or no) signal, or in buildings. If I was in that situation I would totally rely on Cloud storage as well.

I don't usually have many reasons to use iTunes, but when I have to, I don't see what the fuss is about. Complaints about it seems like an exaggeration to me.

Regarding my media files, I use Spotify, previously Google Play. The songs can be synced. I do not have media on my devices that cannot be downloaded or synced from the cloud.

Sent from my Moto X...

 

[vtpmt81]

Ok ok...Due to a total brain fart and lack of Fatherly Will-Power I gave in and got her a 5s...I never saw one until she had it home from BB. Now don't get me wrong it is a beautiful device BUT THAT'S WHERE IT ENDS FOR ME!!! I cant for the life of me figure out how to get her songs and movies on there? I took a half a day off and still cant figure it out? LOL...with my N5 or Android tablets its pretty cut and dry for me. The pc drag and drop or open google drive and it works so flawlessly...Not on the iPhone its almost like its on LOCK DOWN!!! On the Iphone Google drive doesn't recognize the file type..I tried to load the files on iTunes? No dice, wrong file type...Anyone know a site for Dummies to walk-through how to get songs and movies on the Iphone? Now I remember why I love my Android N5. Thanks.

There is some really good advice on here.

The songs are pretty easy - install iTunes and then drag and drop the mp3s into iTunes and it will convert them to AAC.

Movies are a bit trickier. If it is a supported movie file, then you can go to iTunes and add the file to your iTunes library via the Video tab. If not then you have to convert the file using 3rd party software like Handbrake or download a 3rd party app that will play the movie/sync the movie to be played by the app via iTunes (this sounds harder than it really is).

 

[JohnnyBroccoli]

Oh really?
Try it when your computers run Linux, then and see how easy it is.

That is not the issue for the OP but thanks.

 

[GrooveRite]

I find Apples ecosystem unnecessarily cumbersome because of itunes for my use. I would love to ask you Apple users how to do something other than what the OP asked but I don't want to hijack his thread.

 

[Shilohcane]

iTunes on a PC is a hard quirky UI over the years. I had uploaded all my CD to my PC using iTune. When Apple switched to OTA updates I moved to the Cloud and they deleted all my personal music. . It also deleted some not all of the songs that I paid for from iTunes when I had a iPod Nano. Apple wanted me to pay them $25 a year to store my personal music in the cloud so I switched back to the PC for iTune back up and started uploading my CD again. Now all my personal music that I uploaded is gone from my PC and any music I paid iTunes for that is on a old iPod Nano is gone. Apple deleted it from my PC during some iTunes update. I still have my iTune songs I paid for that was sold for the iPhone 4 on my PC.

I hate Apple and they will never get one penny of my money again.

 

[xchange]

Kinda off topic but what do iPhone users use if they want to load and play lossless music file types like flac?

 

[xceeder]

Ok ok...Due to a total brain fart and lack of Fatherly Will-Power I gave in and got her a 5s...I never saw one until she had it home from BB. Now don't get me wrong it is a beautiful device BUT THAT'S WHERE IT ENDS FOR ME!!! I cant for the life of me figure out how to get her songs and movies on there? I took a half a day off and still cant figure it out? LOL...with my N5 or Android tablets its pretty cut and dry for me. The pc drag and drop or open google drive and it works so flawlessly...Not on the iPhone its almost like its on LOCK DOWN!!! On the Iphone Google drive doesn't recognize the file type..I tried to load the files on iTunes? No dice, wrong file type...Anyone know a site for Dummies to walk-through how to get songs and movies on the Iphone? Now I remember why I love my Android N5. Thanks.

My mum has an iPhone and she wanted me to put songs on so I got the songs on her laptop and then used iTunes to sync them to the phone...

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[xceeder]

Hundreds of millions of iPhone users can read the phone's instruction manual to sync media content.

OP would rather spend half a day doing the wrong thing, then blame Apple.

Just remember this is 'Android Central' not the place for iPhone users....

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[MADDROID1]

I just came to Android this month from having an iPhone 4S for four years. My home computer is a PC, not Apple. The reason I switched was that I felt like I was constantly refereeing a fight between the PC and the iPhone.

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[jrb363]

So you supposedly use Android but you can't figure out how to get songs on an iPhone? Wow?

 

[muddy211]

Hey Mod...can you delete my original post since all it seems to be doing is feeding the TROLLS on this forum? Thanks...

 

[Closingracer]

Kinda off topic but what do iPhone users use if they want to load and play lossless music file types like flac?

Apple lossless and wav

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[B. Diddy]

So you supposedly use Android but you can't figure out how to get songs on an iPhone? Wow?

Perhaps you could point the OP to a good clear tutorial or manual, or explain it yourself.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Ok ok...Due to a total brain fart and lack of Fatherly Will-Power I gave in and got her a 5s...I never saw one until she had it home from BB. Now don't get me wrong it is a beautiful device BUT THAT'S WHERE IT ENDS FOR ME!!! I cant for the life of me figure out how to get her songs and movies on there? I took a half a day off and still cant figure it out? LOL...with my N5 or Android tablets its pretty cut and dry for me. The pc drag and drop or open google drive and it works so flawlessly...Not on the iPhone its almost like its on LOCK DOWN!!! On the Iphone Google drive doesn't recognize the file type..I tried to load the files on iTunes? No dice, wrong file type...Anyone know a site for Dummies to walk-through how to get songs and movies on the Iphone? Now I remember why I love my Android N5. Thanks.

Have you had any luck getting some of the files to go through?

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[Jerry Hildenbrand]

Just remember this is 'Android Central' not the place for iPhone users....

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I use an iPhone 5S sometimes. Can I stay?

So you supposedly use Android but you can't figure out how to get songs on an iPhone? Wow, how big of an ***** are you?

Please stop. This is your warning.

Say what you want to say, but say it in a civil manner. Disagreements are usually a good thing, but being mean never is.

Thank you No hard feelings, because this was my first impression, too. But see below.

Hey Mod...can you delete my original post since all it seems to be doing is feeding the ******* TROLLS on this forum? Thanks...

Nope. But I can remind everyone of the rules they agreed to. In short, be friendly — it won't kill you.

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OP — I feel your pain. iTunes can be very easy if you go all in to it. Once you decide to selectively sync stuff, have more than one account or more than one device, or step off the Apple reservation (as in Google Drive) it can be frustrating. I'll suggest you head to iMore | The #1 site for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and all things Apple! and read their itunes tutorials if you don't find the help you're looking for in the manual or at Apple support.

 

[bembol]

ITunes by far is the worst piece of garbage ever published,I wouldn't wish it on my enemies.

I don't get it what's the problem it's a software that organizes and syncs your library. If one wants to make things difficult there's an option to Manually drag-and-drop.

I wish Apple made iTunes available for android. I love the all I have to do is plug in my iPad Air.

 

[xceeder]

I use an iPhone 5S sometimes. Can I stay?



Please stop. This is your warning.

Say what you want to say, but say it in a civil manner. Disagreements are usually a good thing, but being mean never is.

Thank you No hard feelings, because this was my first impression, too. But see below.



Nope. But I can remind everyone of the rules they agreed to. In short, be friendly ? it won't kill you.

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OP ? I feel your pain. iTunes can be very easy if you go all in to it. Once you decide to selectively sync stuff, have more than one account or more than one device, or step off the Apple reservation (as in Google Drive) it can be frustrating. I'll suggest you head to iMore | The #1 site for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and all things Apple! and read their itunes tutorials if you don't find the help you're looking for in the manual or at Apple support.

Well you are a mod but if I had my way I'd say no you can't stay I don't see the point in iPhone users using a site which is dedicated to Android and then as soon as someone uses Android as a preferable choice of OS in a topic then they get sarcastic and stupid comments.....

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