ppw729

Q: How to transfer music from my iTunes library to my iPhone 6s

I just got a new 6s and want to transfer all 670 songs in my iTunes Library to the phone.  When I select

Sync music, then

Entire music library

only about 280 songs are on my phone and most of them are songs I have purchased (not songs I have downloaded into the iTunes library from CDs).

I tried dragging and dropping but this does not work.

How can I get all the songs onto my phone?

iPhone 6s

Posted on Jan 3, 2016 11:28 AM

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Q: How to transfer music from my iTunes library to my iPhone 6s

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  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jan 3, 2016 1:34 PM in response to ppw729
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    Jan 3, 2016 1:34 PM in response to ppw729

    Are the songs that did not transfer unchecked? Do they play in your library?

     

    tt2

  • by ppw729,

    ppw729 ppw729 Jan 3, 2016 2:00 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Jan 3, 2016 2:00 PM in response to turingtest2

    They are all checked.  And, I just realized that some of them do not play in my iTunes library anymore -- does that mean I need to add them in again from the CDs?  Or. will iTunes no longer accept music from CDs that I have purchased?

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jan 3, 2016 2:17 PM in response to ppw729
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    Jan 3, 2016 2:17 PM in response to ppw729

    What is wrong them in iTunes? Do they show with an exclamation mark if you try to play them? If the files are still on your computer but have been moved then I may be able to help reconnect them to iTunes.

     

    tt2

  • by ppw729,

    ppw729 ppw729 Jan 3, 2016 3:42 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Jan 3, 2016 3:42 PM in response to turingtest2

    Some of them have an exclamation point beside them and some do not.  For both, when I try and play them, I get a dialogue box that says "The song could not be used because the original song could not be found:."

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    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jan 3, 2016 3:49 PM in response to ppw729
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    Jan 3, 2016 3:49 PM in response to ppw729

    The "missing file" error happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, one of its parent folders, or the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout, or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.

     

    Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to Get Info, then click No when asked to try to locate the track. (Due to a bug in iTunes 12 you currently have to say No twice!) Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, a folder renamed, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions. If the difference between the two paths is an additional Music folder in one path then this is a layout issue. I can explain further if that is the case. If everything is where it is supposed to be try Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows.

     

    In some cases iTunes may be able to repair itself if you go through the same steps with Get Info but this time click Locate and browse to the lost track. It may then offer to attempt to automatically fix other broken links. Although it says something like "use the same location" I think it expects to find the tracks in the same artist & album layout they were in previously, with one systematic change to the path.

     

    If another application like Windows Media Player has moved/renamed the files then the chances are that subtle differences in naming strategies will make it hard to restore the media to the precise path that iTunes is expecting. In such cases, as long as the missing files can be found somewhere, you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes. See this post for an explanation of how it works.

     

    If you want me to try to provide specific advice please post back the following details:

    1. The location of the media folder under Edit > Preferences > Advanced
    2. The location of a sample missing track shown under Get Info > File > Location that begins file://localhost/
    3. The true path to the file whose details you gave in 2.

     

     

    tt2