How to Transfer music and voice memos from iphone 5 to mac mini

[mary86004]

I erased and reinstalled mojave on my mac mini. I backed up my itunes folder but did not export playlists. I thought they'd be in the itunes folder but were not. I realized that I hadn't snyced my iphone itunes to mac mini itunes in a year. All of my playlists are in there! I am so relieved. So worse comes to worst, I can look at the iphone and see what's on the playlists and recreate them on my mac mini. Is there a way to transfer the playlists and voice memos from iphone to mac mini? If I sync, it will erase my playlists. Is there a way around this? I did a quick internet search and it seems like I could buy 3rd party software. If this is the only option, does anyone recommend one. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[mary86004]

I think I answered my own question. I was able to connect my iphone to mac mini and export playlists, one at time, to my mac mini desktop then imported them into itunes. I already had all the songs in there so it made playlists itunes. I found out how to do it here https://www.technipages.com/copy-playlist-ios-to-itunes-on-computer