Syncing Apple Devices NGC

[Kiwi_Roy]

Hi,
    I have hundreds of tunes on my Iphone, I would like to copy them to my Mac so I can fill up my Wife's Ipod mini.
I am unable to see the tunes on the iphone.

I read up about syncing but it seems based on Apple Store

What's the secret to uploading?

I just upgraded the mac to OSX Snow Leopard

Thanks

Roy

[ITSec]

Roy, you have a small problem. Snow Leopard is no longer supported, so getting help from anywhere other than the massive pipeline of the InterWebs is gonna be an issue.

The 'officially' supported tool for this is iTunes. You will need to download whatever version of iTunes is currently the most recent for Snow Leopard, let it recognize the iPhone device, and set up synchronization there.

If your music is in NON-APPLE format (in other words, not AAC or other proprietary formats), you have a bit more working room. A number of other great tools (some free, some paid) can be used instead of iTunes. Many prefer them (including me).

[Kiwi_Roy]

That's the problem, when I plug the phone in I photo starts up but Itunes doesn't. If I start I-tunes I don't see the phone.

I like my Mac but the way it handles pictures and music sucks big time.

[elvisboy77]

The very first thing to do is update your OS on the Mac and your iOS on the phone.

If it still doesn't work try switching cables and also USB ports.

After that go check out Apple.com support, it is pretty good.

[Aaron D.]

In iTunes, can you find the phone? Is the phone where you bought the music, or the computer?

I think buying on the phone these days your music is in iCloud, but if youbuy on the computer you still have it on the computer.

[ponti_33609]

FWIW - Our iPhones contained music from various sources over time.  As someone mentioned there is some decent software that can pull the music off these phones.

I used a product called SharePod.  Some versions are free.  It dumped all the music off of our phones and from there you can load them all into iTunes for syncing if for some reason iTunes isn't finding them.

[fotoguzzi]

skip Mavericks and upgrade your mac to Yosemite..
Snow Leopard should be able to see the phone in itunes tho, try plugging in after itunes is open and wait some time.. problem might be the phone OS is newer than SL and so it is not recognized.
once it shows up in itunes choose the drop down menu "file>devices>transfer purchases from iphone

[Kiwi_Roy]

Guys, I may have screwed up, about 18 months ago I contacted an apple support call in and they convinced me to upgrade the OS, Some software arrived in the mail and I filed it in the drawer, I assumed it was this Snow Leopard as it was an unopened package.

Foto, is Yosemite the latest software, can I just upgrade over the top of what I have now
OS X 10.4.10 and OS X Leopard 10.5.1 that came with the machine and OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3 I just loaded

BTW I think the phone is 7.1.2 (11D257) thats what it says under Version, the phone says it's up to date

I must confess the music was given to me by a friend who synced my phone to his Mac

Thanks
Roy

[Wayne Orwig]

Can't you just put your music and photos on a memory card and put that in the phone?

[Bill Havins]

Can't you just put your music and photos on a memory card and put that in the phone?

 

Wayne, go to your room.  You're just being mean. 

Roy.  Here's a solution that might work if your iPhone is a 5 or newer:  http://www.bestbuy.com/site/sandisk-ixpand-64gb-usb-2-0-lightning-flash-drive-silver-black/1466007.p?id=1219498404480&skuId=1466007

[fotoguzzi]

yes yosemite is latest OS and you should be able to upgrade right from the apple site, it takes 20-30 minutes. things have changes and I'm not too happy with the new OS but the SnowL was unsupported  and I couldn't use some other programs like Garmin update.
it's no longer called iphoto, just photos now and sorting pics is not as friendly as before. Itunes is still called that but changes were made there too.
my iphone has version 8.4 so I'm not sure you do have the latest OS on your phone (unless it's an iphone 4?)
you'll probably have to re-sync to your mac or somehow unsync from the friends mac.

[Aaron D.]

If you got the music from a friend, the DRM may prevent youputting it on another device..

[Kiwi_Roy]

I went back to the store where I bought the computer, I was told that pre 2007 Macs will not run the latest software.
I think I bought this in 2005, I wonder if Snow Leopard is too modern for it also, it certainly doesn't run well.

[ITSec]

I went back to the store where I bought the computer, I was told that pre 2007 Macs will not run the latest software.
I think I bought this in 2005, I wonder if Snow Leopard is too modern for it also, it certainly doesn't run well.

Snow Leopard is the last version of OS-X to run on 32-bit devices, including older Macs (I have a Mac Mini in this category, likely same age as yours). My Mac Mini is now very happily running a version of Linux (also not current, but much newer and more functional than Snow Leopard). However, installing Linux on this generation of Mac Minis is not for the faint of heart, since the BIOS is a middle step between older-style and new-style technologies, and it can cause some headaches.

[canuguzzi]

Really simple.

Do this:

First establish if you are still friends with the person that sync'd your phone to their MAC.

1, If yes, good deal, skip to #3
2. If no, consider a bribe, maybe a stockinged thigh booted something or else force.
3. Ask them to burn a DVD with the music they should have since they got it when they sync'd your phone to their MAC. This should be very easy for them to do and not take much time. Alternatively, they can burn it to a memory stick or portable HD. Ask them to convert the music to MP3s which they can also do relatively easy.
4. Copy the music to your MAC and then worry about getting the phone sync't to that.

Now you'll have all your music and in a format iTunes can use but so can anything else. More than that, you'll have a copy of all your music in some form not susceptible to the meanderings of what the OS might decide to do.

DVDs go through the mail really fast. If you have a lot of songs, a thumb drive works better, get one that can hold all the music. They make connectors so you can use them with your MAC.

This takes minutes not hours and then you can play around with the MAC and OS software when you get around to it.

[Chuck in Indiana]

Shirley, Kent will be along to straighten out all this mac stuff shortly.. 

[rboe]

If you have an Apple iTunes account and you bought your tunes off of iTunes then all you have to do (at least today with the latest OS and iTunes version - minimum, iTunes upgrade) is register your laptop with Apple via iTunes. They know what music you have bought and you can install that music directly from Apple iTunes. No need to sync the iPod.

Now if you have a bunch of music NOT purchased from iTunes then you need to plug in the iPod and copy said music over. (Import it). Then you can plug in your wife's iPod and sync it with your laptop. I think you are allowed four devices to be registered so you need to de-register old devices if you are at your limit.

Not sure if that will work with your old OS, but I think it should. But the idea of physically saving music files bought off of iTunes is very much old school now. Apple maintains a data base of the titles you've purchases (just don't die, unlike vinyl, apparently you can not will your music to your kids that you bought off of iTunes - more of a lease than a purchase). You register your devices to access this database. Makes things pretty easy.