Call me old school, but I want my music files in folders, that I can organize, without iTunes

[theLemur]

iTunes is just the same? You put all your music in one folder, you point iTunes to that folder and it picks up all the music in that folder? In fact it's absolutely no different to Winamp!

Winamp doesn't take your files and create a big mess out of them. You just click on the songs you want to play and it loads them up in the playlists and... plays them. I think you're thinking of another application. Winamp was very basic.

 

[Bobby Corwen]

I already have a big hard drive - it's called dropbox

You don't understand the definition of the word constraint

My music isn't pirated, thanks for making that assumption

I already stated I can't stream them because I travel to areas without data coverage. Last year I spent 3 weeks in a town without even a power grid - the town was run on generators.

Dropbox isn't a harddrive. Its cloud based storage just like Apple Music is cloud based storage of music.

You still don't have a hard drive.

Why is dropbox a supposed "solution," but using Apple Music to store music files for later use offline to your device isn't? Even if you had enough internal drive space to use dropbox at will, you couldn't use it anyway because you don't have internet access, same limitation with offline Apple Music downloads, so why compare it?

If you go offline for so long you need an external drive, period.

Apple isn't gonna alienate millions of people with a file folder system just because you don't have enough space in your travel bag for a HD the size of a wallet.

You don't understand the definition of the phrase, "you're using it wrong."

 

[mrochester]

Winamp doesn't take your files and create a big mess out of them. You just click on the songs you want to play and it loads them up in the playlists and... plays them. I think you're thinking of another application. Winamp was very basic.

iTunes doesn't take your files and make a big mess out of them either?

I used to use WinAmp and it pointed towards exactly the same folder structure as iTunes does now. There's no difference between the two in the way you add media to the programme.

 

[TomShick]

I'm a pretty tech savvy person, but still, after all these years, I just don't "get" iTunes.

I want to be able to plug my phone into the computer, see it's drive contents, and drag and drop my music folders to a place of my choosing, and then open up a music player of a my choosing to play it.

I have a 100GB music and audio book library. I use a 64GB Macbook Air. I can't just load everyone on the computer and add it to some iTunes 'library' and then sync it with my phone. I need to selectively pick which folders I want.

Every time I try to put music on a phone it turns into some big sync/library/organizational duplicate files nightmare.

I just want to go back to basics. View all files and folders on the phone, pick a place that I like, move my files there, and be done.

Is this possible?

That would be nice. I would love that, Tech from apple can't even help with itune problems, Love my Mac, Hate Itunes

 

[andyp350]

That’s a really archaic and bad way to organise a music library. You don’t deserve to be an iPhone owner. Go and buy something more basic.

 

[TomShick]

I don't own an iphone or any cell phone, LOL Have no use for one, I don't even wear a watch, Why would I need an overpriced phone

 

[Shirasaki]

That’s a really archaic and bad way to organise a music library. You don’t deserve to be an iPhone owner. Go and buy something more basic.

Doesn't that seem to be a bit too much to deem the "right" to use an iPhone?

 

[tarsins]

I don't own an iphone or any cell phone, LOL Have no use for one, I don't even wear a watch, Why would I need an overpriced phone

So why did you revive a three year old thread in an iPhone forum?