Originally Posted by
retrochcop I DO have the music on my computer. Are you telling me that I have to reload all that music in iTunes? That makes no sense.
It makes sense because iTunes has no way of knowing where your music is unless you tell it. In iTunes go to Preferences and click on the Advanced tab. Ensure that you have the media folder location pointing to where the music is on your hard drive. Also make sure you have "Automatically sync when this phone is connected" checked in Summery.
After your phone is plugged in to your PC, in iTunes click on the phone icon, and right under Summery under the Music heading ensure you have Sync Music enabled.
Our music library is
massive (years upon years of ripped music cd's). I actually have to pull out music I want from our library, move it to a special folder just for my phone's music, change the music format from flac to mp3, delete all the flac files and then have iTunes sync it all to my phone. I have 4,570 music files on my phone (and I'm still not done lol) so I know how time consuming it is... I've done it over a dozen times since January (I'm new to iPhone) trying to get it right and lost all my music on the phone several times in the process. No fun, but I think I've finally got it figured out!