Is it okay to record my part of CD collection to iTunes, sync it with my IOS device, but then cannot recover them all from my IOS device?
Apple sells you IOS devices that work with Apple’s iTunes to have the music that you purchase from Apple as well as record from your CDs into the later, and then copy (it’s not really syncing) them to your IOS device. But when, like me, you lose your PC/Mac disc drive as well as your backup drive (massive UPS failure) you cannot recover them from your IOS device. The only thing you can recover (not using iTunes by the way) are photos and videos using Finder or Explorer. All the hard work I put into recording a ton of music from my CDs and making them into iTunes playlists is, for all practical purposes, lost (trapped in my iPhone/iPad). Same with contacts (none of the Apple’s communities instruction from doing it iPhone -> iCloud -> PC (don’t know about Mac) exporting a .vcf file to then imported to, Windows, Outlook for Windows, or simply Google have worked for me. The only solution is to purchase a 3rd party application to do what iTunes-iCloud should be capable of doing in the first place. So you guys at Apple development and marketing, either make the syncing of iTunes with IOS devices bidirectional for all (music, contacts, photos, etc.) or just remove the copy CDs or songs from them to iTunes, or make it to simply load purchased songs from Apple into your IOS device.
iPhone SE, iOS 16
