Help! I formatted my computer now can't transfer songs

[denness544]

I recently had to format my computer and did not back up any of my itunes music library xml file. Now I have a fresh copy of iTunes installed and would like to connect my iPhone to transfer songs that I did not buy through iTunes to it but I can't.

What are my options? Is there a way to make this new iTunes copy authorize to work with my iPhone? I would rather not format my phone.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Alli]

Go into iTunes, click on Store and then click Authorize Computer.

 

[denness544]

I did that and I still can't transfer my music over to my iPhone. I am able to sync my apps but cannot touch any music or video files on my iPhone. I don't buy my music from iTunes.

 

[Alli]

Odd...what have you done to try to sync your music? I take it you have put checks in the appropriate boxes on the Music Tab inside your iPhone on iTunes?

 

[djbbox]

out of luck you should have backed up that library, the itunes i think wont save your library on the server only the apps; just get the songs again and add them to your library and sync

 

[flyingember]

you'll have to use a third party app such as ephpod to transfer the non-itunes songs off the device.

 

[denness544]

Actually, I have all my songs on a NAS. So losing the songs from my iphone is not a problem. I just want to be able to use this itunes to add more songs to my iphone but it just won't let me add anything.

 

[Alli]

What error message (if any) are you getting when you try to sync?