iTunes Question / Scenario

[dakrisht]

Hi everyone, I have two questions regarding iTunes and syncing up data (music + photos) with an iOS device (iPhone 4S > 5)

Currently - I "Manually Manage" music in my iTunes library. Syncing was just a pain in the rear and it's so much easier for me to Drag playlists into the iPhone as well as albums, tracks into the device as well. I have well over 100+ playlists and 20GB of music on my 4S.

1) When I get my new device - What's the best way to get all my playlists + music to the new iPhone 5? I really would hate to manually have to create playlist again. Is my only option to manually drag playlists from the Playlists column on the machine into the device?

Photos

I have 5,500 photos which I backup manually using Image Capture into a local folder on my desktop. I don't use iPhoto since I'm not a big fan of the program.

1) How do I get my 2,000 items in Camera Roll on the 4S to the new 5 -and- how do I get the remaining photos in Photo Library to the 5's photo library.

Thanks in advance

 

[dakrisht]

Great insight, thanks for the help. Figured this one out myself.

No way to transfer Playlists manually from Device > Device.

Have to manually Export each playlist into a Folder, then Import each Playlist into iTunes Library, then Sync up new iPhone 5 with iTunes library to get the playlist.

So STUPID that iTunes doesn't let you Export/Import multiple playlists at once.