I just got a new iPhone 3GS and I need help synching up to my windows media player on my computer. Does anyone have any tips?
Go ahead and ask me how much I'm not enjoying iTunes. All of my music was organized in Windows Media Player. All in .mp3 format. ITunes only converted about half of it and uploaded it. The rest I'm having to upload from the original CDs - PITA! Plus having to reorganize everything all over again as to genre, put the compilations back together, some of the artwork won't pull up, etc. etc. It's taking forever to get my music back to how I want it.
PLUS, every time I add music to iTunes and sync my phone, the sync won't work, I have to de-select all music, re-sync which removes all music, then sync again to get it to put the new music back on the phone which takes a long time. And I mean that I have to do this EVERY TIME I add music to iTunes.
If anyone has a resource for using iTunes easier, please pass it along. It's the one thing I am not enjoying about the iPhone.
Laurie Foss
Austin, TX
Using iTunes is a known requirement to use an iPhone. This wasn't a secret.
How much music do you have (actual size)? Is it all mp3s <=320kbit?
Genre is super easy to fix. There's a field where you can enter it en mass Select multiple songs and choose the genre for all of them at once. There's also a field for compilations if I remember right. You can pick all the songs and put them in the same compilation at the same time too.
artwork doesn't pull up because they store artwork in different ways.
Yup, got all that. And I knew I would have to use iTunes. I just thought it would not be so quirky to use since it has such broad usage.
Thanks for the encouragement. I'll stick with it (what choice to I have, really?) and hope things get better.
I'm syncing and the whole sync fails. This is a known problem - I found the solution by searching this forum. The fix is to de-select music from the sync list, perform a sync (which removes all music from phone) then re-select the music to sync, and perform a sync.
Very tedious.