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iPhone 13 mini move it on over, rock it on over...

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heycal

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I bought an iPhone 13 mini and transferred everything from my iPhone 8. The only thing that didn't transfer was my music -- some 4000 personal songs (not purchased ones), about 30gb worth. The songs no longer seem to be on my Mac.

How can I best get all my songs from my old phone onto my new one?
 
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You would have to sync your new iPhone to where that music was previously, likely iTunes I’m guessing.
 
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Put the music into the Apple Music app on your computer, and then sync the music to your new phone.
 
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How did you get your music onto your old iPhone? That’s the same way you will need to get it on your new iPhone.

You can’t go iPhone to iPhone with music that was synced from another device like a Mac or PC.
 
The first question should be how you retrieve your Mac’s music library, then when you have that, sync again.

A software like iMazing may be able to restore the ripped songs from your old phone to the Mac on case you don’t have them in a backup.
 
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hg.wells said:
How did you get your music onto your old iPhone? That’s the same way you will need to get it on your new iPhone.

You can’t go iPhone to iPhone with music that was synced from another device like a Mac or PC.
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I guess I got them there from my Mac. The music is no longer there.
 
ericwn said:
The first question should be how you retrieve your Mac’s music library, then when you have that, sync again.

A software like iMazing may be able to restore the ripped songs from your old phone to the Mac on case you don’t have them in a backup.
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So if I can't retrieve on music library, I need some special software?

What about this Airtrans app? Anyone know about that?
 
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So if I can't retrieve on music library, I need some special software?

What about this Airtrans app? Anyone know about that?
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Yes if you cannot retrieve the music from the place where the master files should be located and came from in the first place, a special software might help. iTunes and Apple’s music app sync these local files only one way.
 
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You can’t go iPhone to iPhone with music that was synced from another device like a Mac or PC.
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Au contraire. When using Quick Start to set up my new iPhone from my old iPhone, everything was transferred to my new iPhone including over 4000 songs that were originally synced from my Mac.

OP must have some George Thorogood in his music collection. ??
 
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Oh interesting, I didn’t know that, looking at the site it says slightly different:

If you used iTunes Match to download previously matched or uploaded songs, albums, or playlists to your device, sync your device on a computer that has your content to recover media that wasn't purchased from the iTunes Store or isn't available through iTunes Match

Did you happen to have iTunes Match?
 
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Au contraire. When using Quick Start to set up my new iPhone from my old iPhone, everything was transferred to my new iPhone including over 4000 songs that were originally synced from my Mac.

OP must have some George Thorogood in his music collection. ??
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Well, it left my entire George Thorogood collection behind. Your transfer brought over your own collection, not songs purchased from iTunes?
 
Just managed to somehow delete 4000 of my personal songs from old phone... Perhaps by syncing my 134 purchased songs onto my old phones replacing them.

However, I think I located 30 gb of music on a segate external back up drive I forgot I had. Now just gotta figure out to get them onto my phone.
 
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heycal said:
Just managed to somehow delete 4000 of my personal songs from old phone... Perhaps by syncing my 134 purchased songs onto my old phones replacing them.

However, I think I located 30 gb of music on a segate external back up drive I forgot I had. Now just gotta figure out to get them onto my phone.
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You probably synced to a computer with an Apple Music or iTunes library that did no longer contain these songs. When you have ripped songs and remove them from the library on the computer and then sync these will be removed from the iPhone as well.

Get them back from the seagate into the music library and sync again.
 
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I'm sure gonna try!
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So... How might I do this? I've got 30 gb of music on the time machine thingy. And I've got an iPhone. How do I get music on time machine onto the phone?

(Also, is iTunes no more? Is it called just "music" or something?)
 
Restore your music folder from Time Machine. Once you have a local copy, drag the folder onto the Music App icon. Music will then import the music files and store a copy in its directory.

Connect your phone and open Finder. You should see the phone in the side bar. Click on the Music tab and you should have options to import all or some of your music.

Once you are done you can delete the folder you restored as you should have a local copy of the music in the music app’s directory.

If you remove songs from the music app, they will be deleted from your phone when it syncs again.
 
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Still need help! Still Old!
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Mount the drive. Go into iTunes on the computer, and select File, Import, and select the library you want to import, from the external drive. It *should* import all tracks at that point, and will take a while.

First, make sure that you have it setup to copy files to the local system, and keeps things organized. I've heard of people doing this, and erasing the source, only to find out the files weren't moved, they were only linked...
 
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