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Using iPhone with two computers

Home PC - MacBook Pro
Work PC - Windows
both running iTunes 7.7

My music is on my home Mac and I manually create playlists, add music etc.

With my 3G Nano, I can connect and listen to songs on my iPod from my work PC. I can't seem to do this with my iPhone - my PC sees the iPhone but all of the music is greyed out and cannot be selected.

Is it a limitation of the iPhone that I cannot use it with two computers in this way, or is it a configuration issue?

I would prefer not to have to buy a set of external speakers just to use my iPhone to play music at work.

thanks
Shane

MacBook Pro 17" HD 2.2 Ghz, Mac OS X (10.5.2), AirPort Extreme gigabit, iPhone 3G 16 GB black

Posted on Jul 16, 2008 3:39 PM

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Damon M.

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Posted on Jul 16, 2008 4:26 PM

Hi 96mustang,

One thing that might help out.

The iphone manually manage is not like the ipod manually manage.

The iphone, you can only manually manage from one computer.
It does not support disk mode like the other ipods.
So, when you connect it to a second computer, you can see the music, but it is grayed out.
If you try to set it to manually manage on the second computer, itunes will try to sync and erase the music existing on the iphone.

Hope this helps.

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Jan 10, 2009 1:30 AM in response to 96mustang

I found a slick solution that enables one iPhone to be controlled via two seperate computers---

http://tinyurl.com/iTunes-iPhone-fix

I wouldn't recommend people copy those two files over from one computer to the other.

Seth

Jan 13, 2009 7:44 PM in response to 96mustang

Having gotten an iPhone for Christmas, I found out this sad situation after going back to work on Monday. I have been using my iPod with iTunes for music at work for years. Not having this capability it brutal.

I filled out the iPhone feedback and I'm asking you all to do it as well. I'm no programmer but I seriously doubt that this is a difficult fix for Apple. Please, just take two minutes and let them know that this is something that we need.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Thanks.

Ps. I tried TouchCopy and while it may play music from the iPhone, it's no iTunes. The playback was very choppy and became unlistenable. Let's get this fixed the right way.

Using iPhone with two computers