iTunes question

Andrew Broughton

Andrew Broughton

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The only Apple product I own is the iPhone, and although I've google'd this question, it's not completely clear to me how to deal with this without having to use something OTHER than iTunes for my iPhone content management.

If I set up iTunes to not sync things (which did because I thought that would keep iTunes from deleting my music due to my music being on an external drive and not always connected to my computer), but I want to sync "one thing" - in this case, my iBooks, how do I do this without losing all my content on the iPhone?

Whenever I tried changing the sync settings for the iBooks, it warns me that all content (including music, videos, etc.) will be removed from my iPhone. Definitely don't want that.

I'm sure there's something simple I'm missing as this is a real annoyance that I can't change my sync settings for various content.
 
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Hi Andy,
for as inovative and user friendly as Itunes is,there are some things that can be frustrating at times.I don't have an -phone but I do have an I pod. I'm not sure why you think that letting I tunes sync things would delete your music. That's what I do and it saves everything ( music and pictures)that was there plus anything new you add.
 
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Hey Randy;

Well, it come up with this nice big warning when you turn on sync that it's going to delete everything on your iPhone, so I believe it. Rather not take the chance unless someone can guarantee me that it isn't or at least explain to me what scenarios it will delete my content.
 
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It came from my ripped CDs. I use iTunes to get my music and other content on my iPhone, I just set it so it doesn't automatically sync my music and doesn't try to organize my music for me. I had it set to sync at first and then when I changed computers it wiped my iPhone so I'm pretty leery about it all now.
Like I say, I want to switch various things from not sync'd to sync'd without losing any content.
 
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As long as all the music that you have on your iPhone is also on your PC and is showing up in your iTunes library there should be no issues at all. Even if all content got deleted from your iPhone when synching your iBooks, it should all still be on your PC and you can get it back on the phone with the next sync.

If your iBooks are on another PC and iTunes than your music, then it is a different story...

Marcus
 
Re: iTunes question

Marcus Baeumler said:
As long as all the music that you have on your iPhone is also on your PC and is showing up in your iTunes library there should be no issues at all. Even if all content got deleted from your iPhone when synching your iBooks, it should all still be on your PC and you can get it back on the phone with the next sync.

If your iBooks are on another PC and iTunes than your music, then it is a different story...

Marcus
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+1 - get your ITunes library right on the PC before you sync and you'll be all set. The phone pretty much needs to be considered a clean slate client. There are ways to retrieve your library from the phone if you've lost the PC copy, but there's no mechanism for bidirectional syncing.
 
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That blows that it's an all-or-nothing scenario. I'm not changing the sync settings for my music, yet it wants to delete all my music because I don't have my external drive connected? What a ridiculous piece of software. I did a TON of editing of the file information on my music on the iPhone and since I didn't have the music sync'd I'm pretty sure I'm going to lose that information if I let it delete and rebuild my music library.

Anyway, thanks for the info, guys.
 
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As long as you operate in the one single prescribed way that Apples deems proper, everything is fine. If you stray from their path, then their stuff is way more of a pain in the ass than any other product line out there. And that really is what I hate so much about their company.

I've unwittingly trashed the music and content library on my iPod more than once, and once when I had my iPhone because of the whole "sync/manually sync" issue. I prefer to manage my music, pictures, and other content myself. Often times there are things that I want on my computer that I don't want immediately copied to my phone or iPod every time I connect the USB cable. And you shouldn't have to sit and wait for 10GBs or more of music content to reload from your computer in order to update one or two ebooks.

Andrew, I'm sorry that I don't have a solution (other than to get rid of the iPhone).
 
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Andrew Broughton said:
That blows that it's an all-or-nothing scenario. I'm not changing the sync settings for my music, yet it wants to delete all my music because I don't have my external drive connected? What a ridiculous piece of software. I did a TON of editing of the file information on my music on the iPhone and since I didn't have the music sync'd I'm pretty sure I'm going to lose that information if I let it delete and rebuild my music library.

Anyway, thanks for the info, guys.
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I am in the same boat with a new iPod. I wanted to get an iPod touch, but then found out its next to impossible to use anything besides iTunes to manage my music, as they killed of disc mode on it. Unfortunately that means I investing in another iPod classic for now. :( I can't give up hooking my iPod up to my multiple computers and use it to add/copy/delete files off of it wherever/whenever I want.
 
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