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flowagner
Dec 17, 2008, 03:29 PM
Hello!
My MacBook Pro is currently at the shop getting some issues fixed. Meanwhile I am on my old Windows PC (yuck...) and I need to get some new music onto my iPhone. Is this even possible to add music to the iPhone from another computer than the one it is synced with?
I add music on my iPhone manually... don't know if this helps.
Thanks!
Flo
oojosheoo
Dec 17, 2008, 03:49 PM
Hello!
My MacBook Pro is currently at the shop getting some issues fixed. Meanwhile I am on my old Windows PC (yuck...) and I need to get some new music onto my iPhone. Is this even possible to add music to the iPhone from another computer than the one it is synced with?
I add music on my iPhone manually... don't know if this helps.
Thanks!
Flo
You need itunes on the Windows computer. And the only way to grab music that i know of is reformatting your phone so it could be synced with the windows computer.
I wouldn't do it because once you get your mac back you will have to restore it again for it to sync with your iphone again.
I do believe there might be 3rd party software you might get a hold of.
good luck
Night Spring
Dec 17, 2008, 05:22 PM
You need itunes on the Windows computer. And the only way to grab music that i know of is reformatting your phone so it could be synced with the windows computer.
I don't think you have to restore your iphone to sync with another computer. You plug in your iphone to a computer it isn't synced with and iTunes asks you if you want to sync with the new computer, and if you say yes, it just deletes your music/videos and puts on the new ones.
I think a similar thing happens when you try to manually drag music onto a iPhone from a computer it isn't regularly synced with -- iTunes deletes whatever music is already on the iPhone and replaces with the ones you are dragging now. But it's been a while since I tried this so my memory could be wrong.
QuarterSwede
Dec 17, 2008, 05:51 PM
One option is to use a file sharing app like Air Sharing or Datacase to temporarily put music on your phone. I plan on doing this when I go to my parents for Christmas and will only have my wife's MB.
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