How to put my music on another iphone without erasing everything?
Here's the story. My family shares an itunes account, but we all have separate computers. I have put a ton of music onto my computer from old cds that I found, and my mom wants the songs too. I don't have the cds any more, but I have the songs existing on both my phone and the computer. Her iphone is set to manually manage music and stuff, but I can't seem to get around the erase and sync problem. We want the songs from the other computer to stay on her phone, and I would like to add songs that were not purchased in itunes onto her phone from the other computer but every time i plug her phone in to my computer, it asks me to erase her library and sync mine, which I do not want to do. Can anyone help?
This is why I use Android. Drag and drop, anywhere, any computer, any time.
"I can't seem to get around the erase and sync problem"
Even after you have synced? Once you let that happen, are you able to set for MM then? It shouldn't matter if your iPod gets erased once if you then have the music files on your computer to copy back to it.
" I would like to add songs that were not purchased in itunes onto her phone from the other computer but every time i plug her phone in to my computer, it asks me to erase her library and sync mine"
I'm confused - there are multiple devices and computers here. You're trying to put songs on Mom's phone, right? Mom's phone can be manually managed on one computer, but not the other right? And the songs you want are on the computer that insists on using sync - do I have that down?
If that's the case, why not just copy the song files from the "sync computer" to the "manually manage computer?" You can do that with a flash drive. Songs are just files.
"I have put a ton of music onto my computer from old cds"
I hope you remembered to back those songs up to CDR or DVD data disc or a flash drive. A CDR can hold something like 150 to 200 songs; a DVDR over 6x that. If your computer breaks down, all that can be lost if you haven't learned how to copy from your iPod. I see the same question posted by several different people every day - "got a new computer, lost all my music when the old one crashed".
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